News Articles for 2019

Biological Sciences remembers alum Bill Phillips
2019-12-17

Bill identified first and foremost as a Boilermaker and became one of the Department's most enthusiastic and supportive alumni, which is how faculty, staff and students at Purdue will remember him.

Experiment in energy efficiency with Ross Reserve caretaker's cabin
2019-12-17

An experiment is underway in energy efficiency with caretaker's cabin.

Newly discovered retinal structure may enhance vision for some birds
2019-12-16

A newly discovered retinal structure in the eyes of certain kinds of songbirds might help the animals find and track insect prey more easily.

Biological Sciences faculty members honored as Showalter University Faculty Scholar and with early career Showalter Trust funding
2019-11-26

The Ralph W. & Grace M. Showalter Research Trust Fund recognizes the work of Associate Professor Perry Paschou and Assistant Professor Leifu Chang.

Could Anthrax Help Fight Bladder Cancer?
2019-11-13

Anthrax may soon help more people win the fight against bladder cancer, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says strikes about 72,000 Americans each year and kills about 16,000, and is one of the most expensive cancers to treat.

Risky business: Frogs’ mating calls also attract predators
2019-11-12

Frogs have been struggling a bit in recent years. Their populations around the world have been declining for decades, and the reasons for their loss come from many fronts. In the túngara frog — a tiny native of Middle, Central and South America — disease, predation and communication are intricately intertwined. Parasites are transmitted by midges, which find their way to frogs by “intercepting” their mating calls.

Dr. Abebe Fola, Postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Giovanna Carpi's lab, was recently awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Travel Award to attend the Malaria 2019 Keystone Symposium.
2019-10-30

Dr. Abebe Fola, Postdoctoral researcher in Carpi Lab, received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Travel Award to attend the 2019 Keystone Symposium in Ethiopia.

Purdue virus expert David Sanders comments on explosion at former Russian Bioweapons Lab.
2019-09-20

An interview with Professor David Sanders about the explosion at the Novosibirsk Vector virus laboratory on the BBC, The World Tonight.

Structure-based Control of the Rate Limitation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport
2019-09-19

A publication from the laboratory of Bill Cramer, on which grad student Jillian Ness is a senior author, has received special mention in the journal, FEBS (Federation of the European Biochemical Societies) Letters.

How do honeybees lead to a career in HPC?
2019-09-18

The Paths to HPC series, presented in collaboration with Women in HPC, showcases the women working in high-performance computing.

Kadlubowski, Tesmer earn nationally prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
2019-09-03

Two Purdue University students have earned the Goldwater Scholarship, the nation’s preeminent scholarship for undergraduates in mathematics, natural sciences or engineering.

Conservation and disease in tropical amphibians
2019-08-30

The fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has been associated with severe declines and extinctions of amphibians around the world.

Contemporary Approaches to Keeping Up With The Scientific Literature
2019-08-30

My article, an invited contribution, on contemporary approaches to keeping up with the literature, addresses teaching and research, review articles, social media, and critique of the scientific literature.

A novel role for CDK2 as a new approach for treating neutrophilic inflammation
2019-08-22

Neutrophils are the first cells recruited to an immune stimulus stemming from infection.

Collaborative effort by the Suter, Mattoo, and Huang labs provide new insights into filopodia formation
2019-08-20

The research was a collaborative effort by the Suter, Mattoo, and Huang labs at Purdue and was funded by multiple grants.

Discovery provides path to pathogen-targeted antibiotics
2019-08-15

"Take with food" is a common warning for people using antibiotics, but a discovery announced this week in the scientific journal Nature may create a path to more targeted drugs.