Faculty Positions in Life Sciences
Submitted by khansen on Fri, 09/28/2018 - 10:10The University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for up to five tenure-track positions in the Life Sciences with a potential start date of July 1, 2019.
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Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder has been named winner of the very first Milner Prize
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 07:42
Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley has been named winner of the very first Milner Prize by the Milner Centre for Evolution.
Faculty Position in Vertebrate Paleontology
Submitted by khansen on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 10:57The Department of Integrative Biology (IB) and the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) at the University of California, Berkeley invite applications for a full time tenure-track position in vertebrate paleontology at the Assistant Professor level. Potential start date is July 1, 2019.
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Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome’s ability to protect against disease
Submitted by mjalbe on Fri, 07/27/2018 - 13:30
New research coming out of Assistant Professor Britt Koskella's lab found that spraying tomatoes with microbes from healthy tomatoes protected them from disease-causing bacteria, but that fertilizing the tomatoes beforehand negated the protection, leading to an increase in the population of pathogenic microbes on the plants’ leaves. Read more...
How Stress Changes Your Brain: An Interview With Professor Daniela Kaufer
Submitted by mjalbe on Fri, 07/20/2018 - 14:13
What is stress? According to IB's Professor Daniela Kaufer, stress can be a healthy response to a perceived threat. But there is a fine line between feeling a small amount of stress, which can make your brain stronger, and going through traumatic events, a kind of stress that brings on conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The difference between the two has profoundly different long-term effects on the brain. Read more...
Podcast: A biology prof on growing up gay in rural Minnesota
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 07:46Noah Whiteman, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has always known how to survive. He moved to Sax-Zim, a rural area in Minnesota, when he was 11 and spent the next seven years learning to fish and hunt with his naturalist dad and hiding that he was gay. When a boy he’d been friends with started to bully him at every chance he got, Noah knew it was time to get out.
The Spring 2018 Newsletter is here!
Submitted by mjalbe on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 17:09
Rehabilitating lactate: from poison to cure
Submitted by ib_drupal on Thu, 05/24/2018 - 15:49Professor George Brooks has published a paper in in the journal Cell Metabolism which reviews the evolution of our understanding of the role lactate plays in metabolism, from a poison that causes muscle fatigue to an essential fuel that helps cells repair themselves after stress or injury.
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How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls and Keep Going
Submitted by rhkayen on Wed, 02/14/2018 - 07:45Anyone who’s tried to kill a cockroach knows that the ancient pests have some world-class evasive maneuvers. Or at least they appear to.
California’s Dry Regions are Hotspots of Plant Diversity
Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 13:01The first “big data” analysis of California’s native plants, using digitized information from more than 22 herbaria and botanical gardens around the state, provides some surprises about one of the most thoroughly studied and unique areas in the country.
For one, the state’s arid regions, including deserts such as Death Valley, are hotspots for originating new plant species and providing refuges for older plants that have disappeared elsewhere.