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…

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…