Top research stories of 2021
From developing a super sunscreen to monitoring brain injuries to tracking COVID-19 misinformation, Wright State faculty and students pursued important research endeavors in 2021.
If you are about learning by experience as you explore the science of living things, Wright State’s Department of Biological Sciences is the place for you! Complete your undergraduate degree in one of our eight academic programs, then step up to the Master of Science program in biological sciences. Check out our website to find out more.
Areas of Research
- Biodiversity surveys
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Biosensors for affective computing
- Cell biology
- Cellular and molecular physiology
- Chemosensitivity and effects of environmental temperature
- Citizen sensing related to disease spread
- Comparative physiology
- Conservation biology
- DNA bioinformatics
- Ecology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Evolution and Development
- Forensic DNA analysis
- Freshwater fish and gastropod assemblage
- High-throughput genetic analysis and network biology
- Host-microbe interactions
- Huntington's disease
- Integrative organismal physiology
- Learning progressions in education
- Literacy-based science teaching
- Lou Gehrig's disease proteins cytotoxicity
- Macroecology
- Mitochondria function and dysfunction
- Molecular ecology
- Neuromuscular Physiology
- Nuclear organization and gene expression
- Ornithology
- Parasitic insects
- Phylogenetic systematics and taxonomy
- Plant responses to herbivores and pathogens
- Plant-insect interactions
- Population genomics
- Protein aggregation in disease
- RNA granules
- RNA processing
- Scientific Practices
- Soil quality
- Speciation genetics
- Species distributions
- Stem cell biology and regeneration in flatworms
- Wetland ecology
- Yeast model and large scale genetic screening
