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HHMI Bulletin
May 2010 |
HHMI Investigator Sean Carroll Named Vice President for Science Education HHMI announced in April that Sean Carroll, an award-winning scientist, author, and educator, will become the Institute's vice president for science education.   |
Geotimes
March 2006
Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
Information Today
December 5, 2013 |
Frontiers Debuts New OA Journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution features research in evolutionary biology, ecosystem and systems ecology, macroecology, phylogenetics, and conservation. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
Science News
July 29, 2006 |
Science Safari: Cool Science for Kids This Web site, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, provides hands-on science activities for elementary-school students. |
Smithsonian
June 2006
Amy Crawford |
Interview: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science. Her first book, Coming to Life, explains the genetic and cellular basis of animal development and explores the ethical implications of recent progress in genomics and biotechnology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Elise Lamar |
Push and Pull Jennifer Zallen, an HHMI early career scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, studies how embryonic tissues stretch along an anterior-posterior axis using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Jennifer Michalowski |
JAABA: Automating the Human Observer Software can be trained to recognize behaviors in several animals, including adult fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and mice -- even by a user with no background in computer science. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Jennifer Michalowski |
Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators. |
| Chemistry World |
Fishing for Chemical Answers to Biological Questions James K. Chen talks about chemical biology, his love for the outdoors and fly fishing. |
Science News
June 11, 2005
Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
Chemistry World
December 2, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
Using fruit flies' sweet tooth Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
R. John Davenport |
Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images. |
Bio-IT World
July 2005
Salvatore Salamone |
Image Analysis Pipeline Speeds In Silico Research Researchers have developed a high-throughput method to measure gene expression and protein levels in fruit fly (Drosophila) embryo nuclei to vastly expand the amount of data used in developmental studies. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Tekla S. Perry |
Dream Jobs 2011: Insect Imagineer Gus Lott designs virtual reality systems for bugs and rats so that we can study their brains -- and ours |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Ivan Amato |
The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
New live action microscopy lets scientists follow the first days of a zebrafish embryo's development The promise of live embryo imaging is unquestionable. Light-sheet microscopy will allow scientists for the first time to describe in detail the processes of development in complex vertebrates |
