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4 February, 2010

Summer courses

Summer internship in Honduras. Info here and application here.

Marine biology in the Bahamas. Info here, and application here.

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to the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama. At this site you will find information about undergraduate degrees, courses and programs, and contact information for faculty, staff, and graduate students. You will also find descriptions of faculty research programs, and graduate programs in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Departmental news

Possible treatments for epilepsy from the Caldwell lab. (2/10)

Brook Fluker won Best Student Talk for his presentation in November at the Southeastern Fishes Conference. Brook's paper was "Comparative Phylogeography of Etheostoma boschungi and E. tuscumbia: Assessing Habitat Preference and Dispersal Ability." (12/09)

The laboratories of Drs. Guy Caldwell, Kim Caldwell, Julie Olson and Robert Findlay have found that a soil bacterium produces a chemical that causes neural degeneration. The study was published in the journal PLoS One.(10/09)

Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista has been awarded an NSF grant from the "Assembling the Tree of Life" (AToL) program to construct a phylogenetic tree of red algae. The three million dollar grant is a collaborative project with other three research institutes: Rutgers University (Debashish Bhattacharya), Ohio University (Morgan Vis-Chiasson), and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (HwanSu Yoon).(9/09)

Dr. Matthew Jenny has joined the department as Assistant Professor. Matt received his Ph.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina and was most recently at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Matt's research area is molecular toxicology. (9/09)

Dr. Patricia Sobecky has joined the department as Professor and Chair. Patty comes to us from the Department of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Patty's research interests are in microbial ecology and bioremediation.(9/09)

Congratulations to Kim Caldwell, Juan Lopez-Bautista, Katrina Ramonell and Leslie Rissler, who have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective 16 August 2009. (7/09)

The research labs of 16 faculty members, the departmental administrative office and most of the teaching labs have moved (or will be moving shortly) to the newly completed (and unimaginatively named) Science and Engineering Complex. (7/09)

Five undergraduates have been named the 2009-2010 Alabama Dystonia Scholars and Parkinson’s Association of Alabama Scholars. The five students work in the laboratory of Drs. Kim and Guy Caldwell. (7/09)

Dr. Kim Caldwell has won an NSF Career Development Award. (7/09)

UA researchers have developed a new approach to screen Parkinson's Disease therapeutic drugs(7/09)

Jessica Mitchell, an undergraduate research student in Dr. Steve Marcus's lab, has been awarded a 2009 McNair Undergraduate Research Scholarship. In addition, Jessica was recently accepted into the Biology Honors Program. (6/09)

Daniel Sullivan, an undergraduate research student in Dr. Steve Marcus's lab, received the 2008-2009 University of Alabama Outstanding Senior Award. (6/09)

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