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Silman: Amazon Rainforest is Home to 16,000 Tree Species

by October 22, 2013
Amazon rainforest picture

An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian.  It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science.
Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow Read more »

“Bee” Impressed

by April 4, 2013

Bee impressed at ACC Meeting of the Minds
Wake Forest to showcase innovative student research from across the ACC —
By WILL FERGUSON Office of Communications and External Relations
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but this might not be the case for a honeybee. Just ask David Hale (’15), a sophomore Read more »

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 »