Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin
I am pleased to inform you that Laurie Iten and Stephanie Gardner have each been
named as a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Posted on July 7, 2011 by admin
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University biologists identified a new way in which bacteria hijack healthy cells during infection, which could provide a target for new antibiotics. Zhao-Qing Luo, the associate professor of biological sciences who led the study, said the team discovered a new enzyme used by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila – which causes [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2011 by mcphail
Maureen McCann doesn’t believe in doing things by half measures. This is why she is focused on finding alternatives to our national dependence on oil and leads the charge for next-generation biofuels that more efficiently and economically turn plant biomass into liquid fuels for transportation. McCann thinks that research should have societal impacts in addition [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2011 by admin
Biology professor Laurie Iten likes to call BIOL 13500, her entry lab course, “Boot Camp for Biology Lab.
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Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin
Dr. Sael Lee, a postdoc researcher, with Associate Professor Daisuke Kihara received the Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2010).
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Posted on January 4, 2011 by admin
Liyun who was one of eighteen from fifty applicants award $40,000 in research funds from the Knights Templar Foundation.
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Posted on December 8, 2010 by admin
Biology Department honors 3 Alumni with the 2010 Biological Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award
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Posted on November 4, 2010 by admin
October the 8th, Sam Postlethwait drove to Nashville, TN to participate in the annual meeting of The International Society For Teaching and Learning. This is an organization that originated at Purdue University in the Fall of 1970.
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Posted on September 7, 2010 by admin
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on the human neurodegenerative disease, Friedreich ataxia.
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Posted on September 7, 2010 by admin
Andrew Mesecar, the Walther Professor in Cancer Structural Biology, has been named the first deputy director of the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research.
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