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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 community to begin to communicate openly about the ADBC solicitation including questions, ideas,...

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 and David, received an award for the second best graduate...

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 evolution Abstract: The appearance of jaws was a turning point in vertebrate evolution because it allowed primitive vertebrates to capture and process large,...

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 portion ($587,908 to the University of Colorado); PIs for MSU portion Douglas Schemske & Michael Thomashow, PI...

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 of the grant is: BiSciCol Tracker: Towards...

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 variation.” Funding is for $1.03 million for three years to study the soil...

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" category. Academics know the value of clear writing, and generally admire talented writers. Nicely done, Leigh.

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 to a news release of their results and...