Accomplishments: School of Life Sciences
The interdisciplinary team of Avinash Yaganapu (Computer Science), Amarnath Singam (Mechanical Engineering), Sai Phani Parsa (Computer Science), Calvinique Lee (Biomedical Engineering), Jennifer Zheng (Life Sciences), Sunjeet Saha (Mechanical Engineering), Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering), and Mingon Kang (Computer Science) in collaboration…
Associate Professor Allyson Hindle (Life Sciences) is part of a team of scientists awarded an $18.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will pave the way for the next generation of Antarctic research.
The project, titled “Genome Infrastructure Catalyzing Next Generation Antarctic Data, Access, Tools, and…
Robert Pelletier (PhD Biological Sciences, Spring 2026), Michael D. Treat, Frank van Breukelen, and Jef Jaeger (all School of Life Sciences) recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Zoology, titled "Higher Energy Demands and Lower Body Condition in a Hot Spring: Comparing Relict Leopard Frogs at Two Thermally Contrasting Sites."…
Doctoral student Natasha Sushenko (Life Sciences) won the International Society for Extremophiles Poster Award 2026 for her poster presentation titled "Folate auxotrophy in Atribacterota reveals a widespread and underappreciated microbial cultivation problem" at the 15th International Congress on Extremophiles 2026, held in Seoul, South…
Distinguished professor Brian Hedlund and doctoral student Natasha Sushenko (both Life Sciences) presented their research at the 15th International Congress on Extremophiles 2026, held from September 13th-17th in Seoul, South Korea. Hedlund presented an invited thematic keynote lecture entitled "Polysaccharide Metabolism by the Aerobic…
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…
Prasun Guha (Life Sciences) gave a talk at the FASEB Acetylation International Meeting (2026) in Porto, Portugal.
Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new meta-analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled "Divergent trait controls on soluble sugars and starch underlie global strategies of tree carbohydrate storage." This study showed that phylogeny and functional traits—especially stomatal regulation, photosynthetic…
Aude Picard (Life Sciences) and Cheyenne Brokaw (Law) and master's student Patrice Boyd (English) recently published a research article in the journal Geobiology, titled: "Membrane Vesicle Formation Removes Iron Sulfide Mineral Crusts From the Cell Surface of Growing Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria." In this project, funded by NSF EPSCoR, the team…
Monika Karney, alumna Taylor Gerson, and Helen Wing (Life Sciences) published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). Gerson completed her Ph.D. in December and is a post-doc at Scripps Research, San Diego, Calif. Karney is a self-funded MS student who works as a lab manager on Wing's team.
Published in Nature Communications, a new study from Prasun Guha’s (Life Sciences) laboratory, led by Sujan Chatterjee (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) et al., discovered that the small molecule IP6 (phytic acid) acts within the nucleus and is essential and sufficient for activating the HDAC3 epigenetic axis. The study further…
The Brain Injury Translational Research (BITR) lab proudly presented posters at the UMC 8th Annual Poster Symposium help Nov. 5-6, 2025.
Hana Sourjah, Dihini Perera, Ph.D. student Joe Cadiz, and Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (all Nursing) received the 2nd Place Award in the Healthcare Student category for their…