Indiana University biologist Mengting Han has received a prestigious $2.38 million Avenir Award in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The five-year award will support Han’s research into how the spatial regulation of RNA localization and translation in neurons contributes to opioid use disorder.
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Professor David Kehoe, a member of the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected for the Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar Award to Spain in academic year 2026-2027. Dr. Kehoe will be joining the faculty at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, to assist in the development of their newly created Marine Biotechnology Program.
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Karlen Enid Correa Vélez, a postdoctoral research fellow in the van Kessel Lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) from the National Institutes of Health.
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Kayla Simanek, a postdoctoral fellow in the van Kessel lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, received the prestigious Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship.
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New research from Indiana University microbiologist Cristina Landeta and undergraduate student Rebecca Collins shows that giant viruses carry previously unrecognized tools that may reshape how infected cells regulate redox balance and membrane composition.
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Cristina Landeta, an IU assistant professor studying how bacteria build and maintain their cell envelopes, has received two grants—from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF)—to support her lab’s work on oxidative protein folding and its potential as a target for new antibiotics.
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Ten high school biology teachers spent a week immersed in cutting-edge research at Indiana University Bloomington this June through the Biology Summer Institute (BSI@IU), a professional development program hosted by the Department of Biology.
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A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the molecular mechanism behind one of the most powerful mechanical actions in all of biology, the reeling in of tiny surface fibers called type IV pili. Abigail Teipen is lead author of the study and a graduate student in the Biology department. Biology Professor Ankur Dalia is senior author.
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Indiana University biologist Armin Moczek is a co-author of a new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Moczek, professor and chair of the Department of Biology in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, contributed to the paper, “Rewiring of two conserved signaling hubs into one axis underlies convergent female-specific wing regression in insects.”
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