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 | | John M. Logsdon Jr., assistant professor in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Biological Sciences and the Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, has received a three-year, $347,340 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to study the evolution of sex and meiosis in fungi.
The study would be an important milestone in understanding sexual reproduction by providing the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution of genes needed for sex in eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are cells with nuclei, including those found in plants, animals and fungi. |
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 | | A University of Iowa, Department of Biological Sciences faculty member and member of the Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics will use a two-year, $1,973,449 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to research the answer. Debashish Bhattacharya, principal investigator, associate professor of biological sciences in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of the UI Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, will sequence, or map, the genome of a key, single-celled organism. |
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The University of Iowa Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB), under the direction of Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver/Emil Witschi Professor David Soll, has announced that it will provide a gift toward the Graduate Student Endowment in the Department of Biological Sciences of a minimum of $250,000 over the next five years. The endowment will help expand graduate student research within the department. | | | Full Article |
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| | University of Iowa Biologist, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ph.D., has received a grant from NIH to study "red tide". Red Tide is the ecologically and financially costly biological phenomenon that periodically kills millions of fish and shellfish along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. |
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The Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics has moved!! The Center is still in the Biology Building but has moved from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor. This move allows the Center to consolidate all equipment, including imagers, real-time PCR, sequencing and microarray equipment, into a single space. Samples for DNA sequencing can be dropped off in room 101 BB or 107 BB. | | | |
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| | University of Iowa Assistant Professor of Biology, John Logsdon, along with other UI researchers, made a discovery that earned them national attention earlier this year.
Logsdon and his colleagues found that a single-celled organism called Giardia, once thought to reproduce asexually, may actually have sex. Sexual reproduction has not been directly proven yet, but the UI researchers studied the DNA of Giardia and concluded that the organism has genes necessary for sexual reproduction.
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 | | View the Fall 2005 Departmental Newsletter either online or download a copy. This file is in PDF format and requires Acrobat Reader. (23 MB) |
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 | | View the October 2004 Departmental Newsletter either online or download a copy. This file is in .pdf format and requires Acrobat Reader. (23 MB) |
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The University of Iowa Herbarium, an important collection both historically and with respect to its representation of Iowa plant diversity, has recently been merged with the Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University. The combined collections contain approximately 640,000 specimens, and together have the largest and most complete holdings representing the flora of Iowa. The unified herbarium also contains important holdings of Midwestern flora. Please contact Lynn Clark (lgclark@iastate.edu), Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1020, for further information.
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The Offices of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics have moved to the
Department of Biological Sciences.
Biology faculty member Debashish Bhattacharya has assumed the leadership
of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics at the University of
Iowa. This is one of the largest interdisciplinary programs at the
University with over 50 faculty members and 40 graduate students. The
move to Biological Sciences is anticipated to forge strong ties between
the faculty here and in the College of Medicine and other participating
Colleges. Joining Debashish are Program Associate Anita Kafer and
Secretary Chloe Allgood. Offices are located on the 3rd floor of the
Biology Building (BB) at Jefferson and Dubuque Streets. | | | Full Article |
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