10/02/09 Darwin / Chicago 2009 - A conference celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwins birth, the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, his most famous work and the 50th anniversary of another remarkable Darwin conference at Chicago.
October 29 - 31, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
The University of Chicago
Further Information and Registration:
http://darwin-chicago.uchicago.edu
9/08/09 Stefano Allesina's work has been highlighted by several news sources - Stefano Allesina, PhD, Assistant Professor of the Department of Ecology and Evolution and Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute, is featured in a number of articles discussing his application of search engine techniques to tracking extinction. Read the full articles in The New York Times, BBC and Wired.
5/20/09 Greg Dwyer weighs in on the latest flu scare - In a recent article published by Northwestern's Medill Reports, Professor Dwyer speaks to the possibility of further flu strains making the jump to humans through mutation. Read the full article here.
5/1/09 Molly Przeworski quoted in groundbreaking genetics study - Newly appointed to the Department of Ecology & Evolution, Professor Przeworski has been quoted in a story about genetic diversity amongst Africans. Research conducted by Przeworski and her colleagues at other universites has indicated that Africa may have the most genetically diverse peoples of any region in the world. Read the full story here.
4/23/09 UofC achieves top national ranking in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology - The University of Chicago ranked first in U.S.News & World Report's special issue of Best Graduate Schools for ecology/evolutionary biology. The Pritzker School of Medicine ranks thirteenth in the nation for research-focused medical schools. The University also ranks in the top 20 for Biological Sciences.
4/15/09 Congrats to the IJPS! - The International Journal of Plant Sciences was recently one of three University of Chicago journals listed among the Special Library Association's "100 Most Influential Journals in Biology and Medicine over the past 100 years." The IJPS is edited in part by Manfred Ruddat, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology & Evolution. Journals were voted onto the list by 680+ members of the SLA's Miomedical and Life Sciences Division. The full list of influential journals can be viewed here.
4/02/09 Top of the Charts! - Books written by two of the University of Chicago's faculty specializing in evolution (Ecology & Evolution's own Jerry Coyne and Organismal Biology and Anatomy's Neil Shubin) are occupying the top two best selling positions in Amazon.com's section on Evolution. Click here for the full story, or here to take a look at the books on Amazon.com.
2/25/09 Mark your calendars for the Darwin Bicentennial Conference, Oct. 29-31st, 2009 - Dept. of Ecology & Evolution Professor Jerry Coyne, in cooperation with Professors Robert Richards (History of Science and Medicine) and Neil Shubin (Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy), has organized a gala in honor of Charles Darwin featuring a variety of speakers and events. Registration begins this summer, but for now click here for more information.
11/25/08 Pfister & Wootton Research Widely Cited in Media -
A
recent paper by E&E faculty members Tim Wootton, Cathy Pfister
and former post-doctoral scholar James Forester, published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has garnered the
researchers widespread media coverage from news organizations such as
the BBC, National Public Radio, Discovery, and USA Today. The
paper details the damaging effects of increasing acidity on sea life.
Full story here.
11/13/08 Annual Jean Mitchell Watson Lecture - This
year's Watson lecture was a great success! Many thanks to all those who
helped make the event special, particularly our distinguished guest
lecturer Sean Carroll. Dr. Carroll spoke to the
filled-to-capacity lecture hall on how CIS regulatory sequences
interract with other portions of a fruit fly's genome to produce
outwardly-expressed phyisical characteristics such as thorax and wing
pigmentation patterns. See our lectures page for photos!
7/20/08 Multi-Faculty Paper Published in Nature - Several of E&E's faculty, namely Joy Bergelson, Richard Hudson, Marty Kreitman, and Tom Nagylaki, have collaborated on a paper entitled "Single-nucleotide mutation rate increases close to insertions/deletions in eukaryotes." Click Here for the article at the Journal Nature.