Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers from Caltech, is the lead author of a groundbreaking new study that found many more bacteria produce greenhouse gases than previously thought. The research team discovered a new class of enzymes that enable various bacteria to use nitrate as a substitute for oxygen in low-…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) participated as an invited speaker and panelist in the Lessons from Successful Grantees panel at the Dialogue With Institutional Leaders About Successfully Navigating NIH conference held at the National Institutes of Health main campus in Bethesda, MD. 

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Sean Neiswenter (Life Sciences) were selected to receive a UNLV 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award for their project titled, "Emerging Parasitic & Vector-Borne Diseases: Disease Ecology from a One Health Perspective." The Faculty…

Noehealani Antolin (Public Health), Manoj Sharma (Public Health), Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Chad Cross (Public Health), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), Jason Flatt (Public Health) gave an oral presentation on "Understanding Fruit and Vegetables Consumption Behaviors Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander College…

Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), Dengxun Lai (Life Sciences), Landon Netherton (Life Sciences), Efren Heredia (Chemistry), Ryan Doss (Life Sciences), and Monika Karney (Life Sciences) all won prizes for their oral or poster presentations at the Regional American Society for Microbiology Meeting that was held in the…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Allen Gibbs (Life Sciences) were interviewed for an article titled, "'Double' the Amount of Cicadas Are Coming This Spring in Once-in-200-Year-Event—And These 2 States Will Be Hit the Hardest" by Parade magazine. Cross and Gibbs discussed why there are so many cicadas this year, how many there will…

Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) coauthored the recent publication, "Toward the integration of speciation research," in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. This paper outlines the major roadblocks to — and potential solutions for — both the integration of the many subfields of speciation biology and the entry into these…

An undergraduate student researcher in the laboratory of Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences), Karla Akari Garcia (Nevada State University) won the 1st Place Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award at the 2024 Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology. Garcia presented her research findings on identifying conserved mechanisms in…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the 2024 Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology. Her talk was titled "Eyeing Regrowth: Mechanisms Regulating Retinal Repair During Development." She presented her research group's findings on the mechanisms regulating eye stem cells and regeneration. Group…

Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences), Ph.D., is this year's recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award. Hedlund, who is a professor in the School of Life Sciences, has been at UNLV for 20 years and is an extremely productive researcher and dedicated teacher, with a strong commitment to professional service. According to one of his nominators,…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker for the 19th International Xenopus Conference, and the 9th International Lens Conference. She presented her research group's work on eye regeneration.

Assistant professor Mo Weng (Life Sciences) was recently awarded CAREER: Molecular mechanisms of epithelial and mesenchymal plasticity: the reversible regulation of cell polarity and cell adhesion from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The proposal is to investigate the molecular mechanisms of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity, a…