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Update: Grimberg 2012 TEDx Lecture

by January 28, 2013

From TED “Ideas Worth Spreading – riveting talks by remarkable people” [link]
Our own PhD. Biology graduate Brian Grimberg, now Assistant Professor of International Health at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, gave one of the 2012 TEDxCLE talks entitled “Buzzkill: How Malaria Has, and Is, Changing The World We Live Read more »

Faster Drug Discovery

by November 15, 2012

A Google search for drug discovery
Grants totaling $860,000 fund cutting-edge genetic sequencing
By ALICIA ROBERTS
Jason Gagliano, a biology graduate student, works in a Wake Forest lab.
It’s what scholars dream about: getting to work with the latest technology and leading researchers in the industry to develop a scientific breakthrough.
For Jason Gagliano, a Read more »

Honey Bee See . . . Honey Bee Do?

by September 12, 2012

PLOS (The Public Library of Science) is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization recently published an article focusing on the work of Reynolds Professor of Developmental Neuroscience Susan Fahrbach and graduate student researcher Scott Dobrin (PhD. 2011).  Fahrbach and her lab group have discovered that it is possible to train Read more »

Fruit Fly Research Combines Drosophila and Diabetes

by August 14, 2012

Dr. Eric Johnson’s research on Drosophila provides insight into human diabetes treatment. His laboratory’s findings were recently featured by the WFU News Service and the scientific journal Genetics.
Complexity doesn’t stem from having different genes or special nerve cells. The basic biophysical, biochemical makeup is the same. The difference in complexity Read more »

Wake Forest PhD Aaron Corcoran Featured by National Geographic

by June 15, 2012
Aaron Corcoran

Aaron Corcoran’s research on sonar jamming moths is featured in the new National Geographic Special “Untamed Americas”. The footage is featured in the episode on Deserts. It is airing Saturday, June 16, 9pm EST.
Link to the show page: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/untamed-americas/
Mexican Free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) migrate up to 1,000 miles (1609 kilometers) from Read more »