One researcher thinks the drugs of the future might come from the past: botanical treatments long overlooked by Western medicine.  Read here about Cassandra Quave, who is the curator for the Emory herbarium, located in the Biology Department and an Associated Faculty member in Biology.

Congratulations to Ilya Nemenman who has been promoted to Full Professor!

Congratulations to Biology undergraduate and graduate students who are 2015-2016 Award Recipients:

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship
Ryan Sutherland (‘16C), Biology; Music (Spain)

Goldwater Scholarship
Joan Shang (‘17C), Biology [Honorable Mention]

NSF GRFP- Current and Former Emory Undergraduate Students
Tarik Acevedo (‘13C)

NSF GRFP- Current Emory Graduate Students
Kim Hoang

Bobby Jones Scholarship
Lucky Khambouneheuang (‘16C), Biology

Charles E. Shepard Scholarship
Madeleine Metz (‘15C), Biology; Classics

Sam Bredow Memorial Fund Award
Andrew Alter (‘17C), Biology; Political Science
Becca Sirota (‘18C), Biology

Sonny Carter Scholarship
Aman Manji (‘17C), Biology

Congratulations to Josh Maxwell! The Emory Biology Intro Lab Instructor Award for excellence in teaching was awarded to Dr. Josh Maxwell, a postdoctoral researcher in Mike Davis’ lab in Emory’s Health Sciences Research Building. Josh received perfect scores in his online student reviews this semester.

Mary Bushman is a fifth year PBEE (Population Biology, Ecology & Evolution) student in Jaap de Roode's lab working on the evolution of drug resistance in malaria. Her work has shown that drug-sensitive parasites can suppress resistant parasites in infections in African children, suggesting that sensitive parasites can impede the spread of drug resistance.  This work could potentially inform novel control strategies to curb the spread of resistance. Read more.

Read recent articles about some Biology faculty's research:

Research led by Steve L'Hernault establishes a connection between fertilization in nematodes and mammals. The conclusion provides new insights into the basic underpinnings of fertility that could eventually lead to oral contraceptives for men. Read more.

“Cells talk to nearby cells and compare notes before they make a move,” says Ilya Nemenman, a theoretical biophysicist at Emory University. Read more.

(Roger) "Deal says most plants have a kind of memory for stress. When experiencing water shortage, for example, plants close the holes in their leaves, called stomata, to reduce water loss from their tissues". Read more.

"In terms of vocal control, the bird brain appears as complicated and wonderful as the human brain," says biologist Samuel Sober, shown in his lab with a pair of zebra finches. Read more.

Dieter Jaeger recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative to explore questions about neural circuitry. He shares the $1.7 million award with Garrett Stanley, a neuroscientist in the Emory-Georgia Tech Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). Read more.

Read this article in Science featuring the work of Leiling Tao, a postdoctoral researcher in the de Roode lab.

Congratulations to Emory's Megan Cole (Biology) and Tim Read (Dept. of Human Genetics, SOM) for developing Biology's Intro Bio lab module on the whale shark genome.  Emory just released a story and video about it on E Science Commons.  http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2015/07/whale-shark-project-lets-students-dive.html