A study led by Professor David Kehoe and Sorbonne University's Frédéric Partensky explains a key part of a process that allows the widespread ocean bacterium Synechococcus to efficiently convert sunlight into oxygen.
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Courtney Ellison (Brun lab) has been named a 2019 recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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Assistant Professor Ankur Dalia is recipient of 2019 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
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Professor Dan Tracey (pictured) and graduate student Jeremy Davis are on a three-month excursion across the Caribbean to collect flies and wasps to research the evolutionary changes in Drosophila.
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Professor Jay Lennon has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology.
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Professor Roger Innes, graduate student Brian Rutter (pictured), and lab members have developed protocols for purifying and analyzing plant exosomes—providing plant scientists with new ideas about how plants communicate with microbes.
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