Maryam Hadi and Elizabeth Stacy (both Life Sciences) have published: "An optimized RNA extraction method for diverse leaves of Hawaiian Metrosideros, a hypervariable tree species complex" in the journal Applications in Plant Sciences.  This paper describes a safe and relatively rapid protocol for RNA extraction from a range of…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) and colleagues published two articles. "V-ATPase Regulates Retinal Progenitor Cell Proliferation During Eye Regrowth in Xenopus" was published in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics and was co-authored with students Cindy Kha and Iris Nava (both Life Sciences). This study revealed a novel mechanism…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) convened with 39 other speciation biologists at Tvarminne Zoological Field Station in Finland for a four-day workshop on Integrating Speciation Research, sponsored by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Workshop participants, who were chosen from a large applicant pool, worked together to identify gaps…

Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), a first-generation Latina graduate student, was awarded a National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). Grifaldo and her mentor Eduardo Robleto will study how bacterial cells control the expression of genes conferring the ability to swim, an adaptive behavior to escape environmental…

Second-year Ph.D. student Hossein Madhani (Life Sciences) received a $5,800 EECG Research Award from the American Genetic Association. The EECG program funds highly competitive proposals from graduate students or postdocs that address genome-scale questions, or ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genetics questions that are best addressed…

Drs. Kurt Regner and Eduardo Robleto's (both Life Sciences) NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution (DBI 2244087) proposal was funded ($350,972, Start Date: 03/15/regner2023, End Date: 02/28/2026). 

Jerwin Tiu (Business Marketing major, Biology minor) has recently been accepted to the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute at the University of Washington for the summer of 2023. Among an exceptional pool of applicants, only 20 are being invited to attend the JSI at the Evans School of…

Professor Donald Price (Life Sciences) has been appointed to the NIH COBRE External Advisory Board for the University of Hawaii at Manoa:  "Integrative Center for Environmental Microbiomes and Human Health." As part of this appointment, Price will be attending the annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, from February 23-25, 2023. The COBRE…

The Wing lab at UNLV is excited to share their new publication that appears in the open-access, high-impact journal Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). The research describes a molecular mechanism that regulates gene expression by modulation of DNA topology in bacteria. This work is solely a product of research done at UNLV and…

Donald Price (Life Sciences) was part of a team that published an article in the January 2023 issue of PeerJ titled, “Genetic diversity, structure, and effective population size of an endangered, endemic hoary bat, ʻōpeʻapeʻa, across the Hawaiian Islands." The team included scientists from the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental…

Yang Jiao (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Lingkun Gu (Life Sciences), Yingtao Jiang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Mo Weng (Life Sciences), and Mei Yang (Electrical and Computer Engineering) published a paper titled, "Digitally predicting protein localization and manipulating protein activity in fluorescence images using 4D…

NFT Las Vegas™ is a blockchain and Web 3.0 company created by UNLV student Quincey Lee (Biological Science). Lee is aiming to build NFT Las Vegas™ as a monumental backbone for the city, helping provide individuals' resources, education, and opportunities in the Web 3.0 space to obtain financial freedom.   NFT Las Vegas™ has become the gateway…