Undergraduates Rosales, Perez, Callaway, and Chavez Rios (Life Sciences) attended and presented their summer research projects at the 2023 SACNAS (Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) conference in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 26-28. Chavez Rios, Rosales, Callaway, and Perez are undergraduate researchers in Eduardo Robleto's…

Aude Picard (Life Sciences) was awarded two research grants: $694,948 from the NASA Exobiology program to study microbial activity and microbial signatures under conditions analog to those found on icy moons of the outer Solar System (e.g. Europa, satellite of Jupiter) and $34,627 from the NV NASA space grant research infrastructure program to…

Jennifer M. Clark and Allen Gibbs (both Life Sciences) published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology titled, "Starvation selection reduces and delays larval ecdysone production and signaling." This research shows that changing steroid hormone production in larval fruit flies causes them to develop into obese adults. This work was part…

Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) presented her and her team's research on the regulation of Shigella virulence genes at the BioPhyChrom workshop in the Netherlands (Sept. 11-15). The workshop, which focuses on the biology and physics of the bacterial chromosome, was held at the Lorentz Center on the campus of the University of Leiden (…

Published: VirB, a key transcriptional regulator of Shigella virulence, requires a CTP ligand for its regulatory activities Professor Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) and a team of researchers published their findings in a top-ranked microbiology journal, mBIO, and received the honor of "editors pick" in the journal. The paper lists Taylor Gerson, a…

Christy Strong, Ph.D. and Kurt Regner, Ph.D., (both Life Sciences) have a recent publication, "Complete genome sequences of cluster G1 and cluster K4 Mycobacterium smegmatis phages Omnicritical and Barkley26." The publication has 16 UNLV undergraduates as coauthors. The publication will appear in Microbial Resource Announcements.

Donald Price (Life Sciences) led a team of scientists, including his previous graduate students and post-doctoral researcher associates, from the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, the Hawaii Division of Forestry & Wildlife Native Ecosystem Protection and Management Hawaii…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker for the 2023 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. She spoke at the Amphibian Vision Symposium and gave a talk titled, "Probing Conserved Regenerative Pathways in Frog Eye Regeneration." 

The laboratory of associate professor Boo Shan Tseng (Life Sciences) published their work entitled, "OprF Impacts Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Matrix eDNA Levels in a Nutrient-Dependent Manner" in the Journal of Bacteriology. This study was spearheaded by Erin Cassin (Graduate Student) and included three undergraduate researchers, another…

Video on a Rare Local Frog Released to a New Site Jef Jaeger and M.S. Student Rebeca Rivera (both Life Sciences) are featured in a new video that describes the initial translocation of the Relict Leopard Frog to a restoration site in Arizona. The frog is a species of conservation concern under intensive management in southern Nevada and adjacent…

On Thursday, June 15, 2023, OUR’s Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal’s Vol. 3, Issue 1 went live with four undergraduate research articles. This issue celebrates the work of undergraduate researchers representing three academic departments: department of history, School of Life Sciences, and department of civil and environmental engineering…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) in collaboration with researchers from Arizona State University, has published a paper on Foliar functional and genetic variation in a keystone Hawaiian tree species estimated through spectroscopy in the journal Oecologia. This study examined the potential for imaging spectroscopy to distinguish varieties of a…