A study co-led by U.S. and Chinese researchers has made a discovery that puts the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination in the mid-Cretaceous period. Professor Emeritus David Dilcher was the U.S. co-author on the study.
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Jeffrey Palmer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Class of 1955 Professor of Biology, has been awarded the IU President's Medal for Excellence.
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A new imaging method invented at IU leads to a discovery about how bacteria use thin hair-like surface appendages called pili for 'natural transformation.'
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Associate Professor Irene Newton and Ph.D. students Audrey Parish and Delaney Miller talk with WTIU News about Indiana beekeeping.
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Professor Malcolm Winkler will investigate cell wall synthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae to find new vulnerabilities of bacterial pathogens.
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Professor Malcolm Winkler has coauthored the highly anticipated fourth edition of Bacterial Pathogenesis—A Molecular Approach.
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