How often have you seen a Mormon cricket (really a katydid) lay eggs?

Marlen Rice, in James Gagnon lab used #CRISPR gene editing to create gadusol deficient zebra fish embryos and then tested sun protecting properties.
Feature story from College of Science: science.utah.edu/faculty/gaduso…

Current Biology
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
University of Utah TheGraduateSchool

Lots of enthusiasm for learning about #DNAextraction and #mammals at Dylan Klure's Scientist in the Spotlight at NHMU last week. Thanks to Noah and Maggie for helping out.

New from the Directorate of Biological Sciences at NSF........we have a new head of BIO!

new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-selec…

Leadership and research excellence in the School or Biological Sciences and as Director of Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy grateful for the work being done by Professor Anderegg College of Science #universityofutah #climatescience

How many hummingbirds do you see?

They are back and hungry!!

NSF Panel Summaries for IOS proposals - ever wonder what they are? Would you love to see the panel summary template before your proposal gets reviewed and panelists get asked to fill it out?

You're in luck! Check out this new IOS blog post 👇

iosblog.nsfbio.com/2023/05/02/pan…

Congrats Lissy!!

Sampling a pika's pantry: Temporal shifts in nutritional quality and winter preservation of American pika food caches - Varner - 2023 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library ⁦Dearing Lab – University of Utah⁩ ⁦University of Utah School of Biological Sciences⁩ phenolics doubled, protein decreased! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today, the National Academy of Sciences announced 120 new members and 23 international members. College of Science University of Utah National Academy of Sciences
'Members are elected for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.' Membership is one of the highest honors in science.

Way to go Lissy!!! 🍾😀well done!!! Dearing Lab – University of Utah

Nature in action

Read about hybrid success in woodrats, p-element invasion in Drosophila melanogaster, aphid wing polymorphisms, and more in the latest issue of Evolution:
academic.oup.com/evolut/issue/7…
OUP Life Sciences Oxford University Press Oxford Academic

For anyone submitting to NSF and confused about the new Safe and Inclusive (SAI) requirements in BIO. Check out this post and the FAQs. 👇

Congratulations Dylan Klure Dearing Lab – University of Utah University of Utah recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from College of Science “I have deep interest in desert animals and understanding what adaptations facilitate their persistence in some of the harshest environments on Earth”

.Dearing Lab – University of Utah University of Utah School of Biological Sciences Congrats to Dylan Klure, recipient of this year’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the College of Science!!(yes that’s a menu and not the actual award, but whose looking that closely??)

Radiolab features: 'Toto' Baldomero Olivera winner Golden Goose for 'scientific research that at first sounds trivial or laughable but then turns out to change the world!' University of Utah College of Science Research at the U Radiolab
wnycstudios.org/story/golden-g… #awards

Way to go Noah

Our latest research on how ecological barriers influence hybridization, is published in Evolution Journal! This work, lead by grad student Dylan Klure is the result of collaboration between 4 labs at University of Utah School of Biological Sciences and College of Science at the Uni. of Nevada, Reno

doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Denise Dearing Mike Shapiro