Professor Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) was recently appointed to the editorial board of the American Journal of Botany (AJB). AJB, which is published by the Botanical Society of America, has served as a leading journal in the plant sciences since its first issue in 1914.

Christy Strong and Kurt Regner's (both Life Sciences) published "The Complete genome sequences of cluster F1 and cluster B1 Mycobacterium smegmatis phages Karhdo and Basato" in Microbial Resource Announcements. The publication includes 24 undergraduate co-authors who were enrolled in Biol 217 Bacteriophage Genomics.

Undergraduate student Carmina Chavez (Life Sciences) presented her summer research project (sponsored by Idaho-INBRE) at SACNAS (Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) and received a poster presentation award (Section: Life Sciences Microbiology). Carmina is an undergraduate researcher in Eduardo Robleto's lab.

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…