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A new blog has been created to assist the biological collections community to discuss and share ideas about the National Science Foundation’s solicitation for “Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC).” The blog aims to “encourage the

David Stock and Brent Hawkins attended the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Austin, TX over the past weekend, where they presented a talk and a poster, respectively. Brent, an MA student co-advised by Alex Cruz

EBIO ranked 11th among the top 20 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programs in the nation by the National Research Council!

With coauthors Robert Cerny, Maria Cattell, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Marianne Bronner-Fraser, and Feiqiao Yu, Dan is the lead author on:Evidence for the prepattern/cooption model of vertebrate jaw evolutionAbstract: The appearance of jaws was a

William and Barbara receive two (yes two) grants:-Collaborative Research (Arabidopsis 2010): Ecological Genomics of Adaptation to the Environment (2010-2014).  $3,154,225 from the National Science Foundation. PI with W. Adams for CU-Boulder

More good news from the Guralnick Lab! Rob has just gotten the formal notification of a $1.8 Million award that partners CU, the University of Florida, the University of Hawaii, UC Berkeley and the Smithsonian. A fine set of collaborators!The title

Russ Monson has just received good news from the Terrestrial Carbon Processes program at the Department of Energy (DOE). They are funding his recent proposal, entitled “Carbon cycling dynamics in response to pine beetle infection and climate

Joey Hubbard and others (including Becca Safran) have a new paper in Trends in Genetics and they captured the cover. Joey chose the photos and made the collage. (The zebrafish is from the Stock lab)

This academic year Center For the American West hosted the 11th annual writing competition to award Thompson Awards for Western American  Writing. Leigh Cooper's submission entitled "Branding Day" won in the "Creative Nonfiction/Memoir"

After examining more than a million data points, Philip Taylor and Alan Townsend have discovered a global relationship between nitrates and organic carbon that is mediated by microbes. Their article is in the April 22 issue of Nature.Here is a link