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…

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…