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- Equipment grants
- Input is sought on life sciences equipment that is needed and could be purchased on upcoming grants.
- Vacancy: Faculty appointment in infectious disease - the evolution & dynamics of pathogens
- We are seeking interactive, interdisciplinary candidates who are Mathematicians, Physicists, Statisticians, Climate Modelers or Biologists, to work across disciplines and identify novel insights and solutions to managing the disease burden.
- Beth Shapiro receives MacArthur Fellow award
- Beth Shapiro was one of 24 recipients of a $500,000 grant as part of the MacArthur Fellow award.
- Time Tree: the timescale of life
- TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life.
- Peter Hudson interviewed on emerging diseases
- Huck Institutes director, Peter Hudson, was interviewed by WPSU on emerging diseases and what's being done to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
- Melissa Rolls honored as Pew Scholar
- Melissa Rolls, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been selected as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
- Researchers Schuster and Webb on TIME's Top 100 Most Influential People
- Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller have ranked in the TIME Magazine Top 100 Most Influential People of 2008.
- Earth's earliest flowering plants
- Claude dePamphilis hosted the final Research Unplugged conversation of the spring season in the gallery of Penn State's Downtown Theatre discussing lessons from Earth’s oldest flowers.
- Huck students win poster contest
- Li-Lun Ho and Mankit Law were the winners of the 2009 Graduate Exhibition poster contest.
- SLEIC open house
- The ribbon has been cut and the new Social, Life, and Engineering sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) is ready to serve the PSU community.
- Naturally fluorescent molecules could help identify cancer
- Dr Heikal's research could provide a non-destructive way of looking at the health of a cell and providing early detection serious health problems.
- Dr. Peters to present at NIH lecture series
- Dr. Peters, Professor of Environmental Toxicology, has been selected to present at the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture series.
- Drug delivery via motor proteins
- Researchers are working to use motor proteins as a nanoscale delivery method for introducing drugs into cells.
- Bioinformatics programmer opening
- Dr. Claude dePamphilis' lab has an opening for a bioinformatics programmer.
- Stephen Benkovic honored
- Stephen J. Benkovic will be honored as the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science.
- Darwin honored with birthday celebration
- Thursday, February 12th marked the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. The celebration at Penn State included Darwin-themed presentations and a tea party.
- MSD instrument available
- A MSD instrument for simultaneous analyses of several cytokines, chemokines, and other markers is now available in 120 Noll Lab.
- Is plastic dangerous?
- Research conducted by Penn State molecular toxicology professor, Jeffrey Peters indicates concern for some types of plastic.
- Extinct Tasmanian Tiger's genes sequenced
- The research marks the first successful sequencing of genes from this carnivorous marsupial, which looked like a large tiger-striped dog and became extinct in 1936.
- Breast Cancer Research Fellowship Announcement
- Announcement from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) regarding the fiscal year 2009 offerings ($150 million appropriation).