Bob Buckley, reporter for My Fox News Channel 8, talked with Dr. Miles Silman about the research he has been doing with Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) to reduce illegal gold mining and protect the Peruvian rain forest. We think of organisms out in the wild as just adornments – you…
A new study, led by Wake Forest University’s Dr. Regina Joice Cordy, is taking a step forward to better help people suffering from chronic malaria! The study sheds light on how a successful parasite can coexist in its host without killing it. . . . [W]e observe a series of changes in metabolic activity as…
A recent article by Alex Abrams features how the advanced microscopy facilities of Wake Forest Department of Biology are a strong resource for teaching and research. An important aspect of having such advanced facilities and training equally available to students and Faculty is interaction, engagement, and cross-mentorship. Dr. Floge’s cutting-edge research is part of WFU’s…
Family Weekend at Wake Forest kicked off last Friday with Undergraduate Research Day, sponsored by the URECA Center. It’s great to be able to welcome families and friends to campus with this student-centered event. Biology Professor Brian Tague roamed several levels of a very sunny ZSR Library with his camera and sent along photos that…
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…
The 33rd annual Perspectives in Biology Symposium will be hosted by the Department of Biology on November 10-11, 2017. Confirmed speakers are Julia Cooper of the National Cancer Institute, Robert Pringle of Princeton University, and Adam Summers of Friday Harbor Laboratory, University of Washington. Mark your calendars now, and look for updates in early September.
Reference: On Galápagos, Revealing the Blue-Footed Booby’s True Colors – By NATALIE ANGIER MARCH 6, 2017, NY Times Science Correspondent WFU Biology Professor and Researcher David J. Anderson was quoted in the New York Times Science edition on his work with the Blue-Footed Booby (albatross). Dr. Anderson and his undergraduate and graduate lab members have been…
The BBC recently featured Ph.D. candidate Nick Dowdy‘s work on moths in Central America. He has some very interesting scientific findings on the unique defensive behavior of a particular Ecuadorian moth. When threatened, it “uses an explosion of a sticky, wool-like material to defend itself.” This has never been seen before in a moth species. You can…
The Wake Forest University News Service recently published this news story written by Bonnie Davis on the research work of Dr. Matt Fuxjager. “Partners will actually coordinate or cooperate with how they fight depending on who they are fighting. They size up their opponent and decide whether they need to work together,” Fuxjager said. “In…
The documentary series “Now What” with Ryan Duffy, features the work of Max Messinger (BS 2013, MS 2015) and Professor Miles Silman in the Amazon. The piece follows Messinger’s work with drones in monitoring illicit gold mining in the Amazon and the scale of negative environmental impact these illegal activities have had. Messinger and Silman have worked…
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