The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Professor William K. Smith on the occasion of his retirement. Congratulations, Bill! Dr. Smith has published 243 peer-reviewed papers! This large body of work has shed light on the adaptive strategies employed by plants in response to…
The work of Professor of Biology, Dr. Gloria Muday, and her team consisting of WFU undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs is featured in an article by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. The article focuses on how climate change, in particular higher temperatures, is threatening the world’s food supply and how research taking place is making…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million grant to a team of Wake Forest researchers led by Dr. Gloria Muday. The research team also included Dr. James B. Pease, Assistant Professor of Biology, and a previous undergraduate student of Muday’s at Wake Forest: Dr. Mark A. Johnson (’93). This grant will help…
The National Science Foundation awarded $900,000 to an interdisciplinary group led by Dr. Gloria Muday examining how hormones affect growth and development of the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana, which is a genetic model used to provide insight into other plants. This collaborative grant brings together researchers in biology, computer science and mathematics who began working together…
Professor Gloria Muday, and students Bethany Pan, and Par Ranjbar recently won a national contest sponsored by the American Society of Plant Biologists to develop teaching tools that can be used in K-12 and college level biology which teaches about the effects of climate change, drought, and water deficit on plants. Their teaching tool is…
The WFU News Service recently published an article featuring the work of Dr. Gloria Muday and Beckman Award winner Kathleen DiNapoli. This article sheds light on their research into the genetics and physiology of heirloom tomatoes to locate ancestral genes that offer growth advantages. Pull quote: “The world population continues to grow despite our finite sources of agricultural…
Several news agencies have published stories recently about unique research conducted by Max Messinger and Miles Silman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Silman’s group is making use of “flying robots” to photograph and measure data from the forest canopy. Messinger is the local expert on how to turn these small multi-bladed helicopters into a…
Where Science meets Art, you will find Biologists! Biology professor Kathy Kron and the 11 students enrolled in her course Biology 105: Plants & People incorporate the study of plants and their stylized depiction in art. Students are given the chance to study excellent examples of artistic still life paintings and sculpture and compare to…
An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian. It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science. Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon, according…
Biology Professor, Miles Silman was featured by WUNC Public Radio science correspondent Justin Catanoso in his feature titled “How Is Climate Change Affecting Tropical Forests?” Silman is a pilot of sorts for the cause of preserving tropical forests. And he clings to such dark forms of hope in the face of climate change not experienced…
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