October 2011

Not once nor twice – but thrice!
Wright wins best poster

Three cheers to Jeremy Wright who received the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists’ 2011 Storer Award in Ichthyology for his poster, “Adaptive Significance of Venom Glands in the Tadpole Madtom (Noturus gyrinus).” 

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Research feature: Hidden soil fungus, now revealed, is in a class all its own

A type of fungus that's been lurking underground for millions of years, previously known to science only through its DNA, has been cultured, photographed, named and assigned a place on the tree of life.

Professor Timothy James and colleagues say it represents an entirely new class of fungi: the Archaeorhizomycetes.

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ED-QUEST REU first successful summer

ED-QUEST is a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program especially for first and second year college students from backgrounds underrepresented in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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EEBlog: grads post from around the world

You can read about U-M EEB graduate students' summer research experiences from around the world on the new EEBlog.

Cindy Bick blogged from the London Zoological Society, Rachel Cable from Gondar, Ethiopia, John Guittar from Yasuni Scientific Research Station, and Lucy Tran from Kibale National Park, Uganda. Fall blog posts are forthcoming from Qixin He from the International Research Training Center, Yaounde, Cameroon.

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NSF grants to digitize biological collections

Professor Timothy James and Rich Rabeler, assistant research scientist, have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation as part of an initiative to integrate and digitize information for biologists, policymakers and the general public.