Joshua Weitz

Researchers Show How New Viruses Evolve

(January 26, 2012) — In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers at Michigan State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations.
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Brendan Hunt

Dr. Brendan Hunt Receives VWR Postdoctoral Award

(January 12, 2012) — Dr. Brendan Hunt, a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Drs. Michael Goodisman and Soojin Yi, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 VWR Postdoctoral Award for Scientific Excellence. Supported by a generous gift from VWR, this award is given annually to a postdoc who has made a significant research contribution in the field of experimental biology.
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Rachel Lasley-Rasher

Lasley-Rasher Wins the Best Student Presentation Award

(December 13, 2011) — Biology graduate student Rachel Lasley-Rasher won the best student presentation award at the 2011 Western Society of Naturalists Meeting for her talk entitled: "Predation risk supresses mating success and offspring production in a marine copepod".
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Francesca Storici

Study Reveals How Cells Remove Bits of RNA from DNA Strands

(December 4, 2011) — When RNA ribonucleotides become embedded in genomic DNA, they can cause problems for cells, but not much is known about the fate of these ribonucleotides. A new study identifies two mechanisms cells use to recognize and remove ribonucleotides from DNA.
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Lipids

Mass Spectrometry Propels the Field of Lipidomics

(October 24, 2011) — In the "omics" world, lipids have long been in the shadows, while nucleic acids and proteins hogged the limelight. But now, this broad-ranging class of biomolecules is stepping into the spotlight as well. And mass spectrometry (MS) is the tool that is making it possible. Not only to identify lipids but also to address where lipids are-which tissues and where in those tissues, researchers are turning to mass spectrometric imaging, which converts spatial distributions of mass-to-charge ratios into pictures of the locations of different molecules.
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