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Inside three freezers in a Wright State University lab is the bottom of the ocean.
Prof. Yvonne Vadeboncoeur and her research team have been conducting field research in Lake Tanganyika in east Africa, a project that is funded through the US National Science Foundation. Visit the Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania project blog to learn more.
A lush thicket several feet high flanks a clearing on the forest floor. A marsh lies on the other side...
Zach was selected as the CoSM 2011 Top Scholars graduating seniors selected by the Dean's office. The Wright State Parents Association donates a book in each of their names, in their fields of study, to the Wright State Libraries' collections. This recognition program has been in existence since 1995.
Dr. Tosa has been nominated by her students for an excellence in teaching General Education award for her PHY106/7 classes.
Behzad Ghanbarian, a second-year ES Ph.D. student and his research director, Prof. Allen Hunt are organizing a symposium entitled "Complexity in Disordered Porous Media" at the EUROSOIL 2012 meeting in Italy from July 2-6. EUROSOIL is an international congress sponsored by the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS). Congratulations to Behzad and Prof. Hunt for their lead roles in organizing this symposium as part of the conference's Soil Hydrology theme.
Dr. Julian G. Cambronero was invited to present at a Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes held at the Davidson College, in Davidson, N.C., June 19-24. The biannual 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes will bring together experts and trainees from around the world to discuss the most recent advances in the field, with a view to better understand the biology and pathophysiology of neutrophils, macrophages, microglia,...
Dr. Michael Leffak's laboratory published in Nature Chemical Biology that probing trinucleotide repeat structures using engineered zinc-finger nucleases provides evidence that DNA hairpins form in vivo and are linked to replication-dependent genomic instability. Instability of (CTG)-(CAG) repeats in microsatellite DNA has been linked to numerous neurological diseases.
Dr. Julian G. Cambronero's laboratory has discovered that the enzyme phospholipase D2 (PLD2) binds directly to the small GTPase Rac2. This discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences represents the first report of a phospholipase enzyme harboring guanine nucleotide exchange (GEF) activity. Given that several human tumors exhibit elevated PLD2 levels this work suggest that this elevation may impact Rac2...
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