Department of Biology

Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli cells with fluorescently labeled chromosomal loci.

Social evolution

Social sharing of liquid food between ant nestmates ©Alexander Wild

Bacterial Respiratory Complex

Structural model of a bacterial respiratory complex III: remember that when you respire, your complex III perspires to produce your body's energy.

Malaria parasites

Malaria parasites (and their kin) can be viewed as minimal eukaryotes, harboring a nucleus (yellow), a secretory pathway the Golgi (purple) and specialized ‘rhotpry’ organelle (black), and two endosymbiotic organelles, the mitochondrion (red) and apicoplast (green).

Larix siberica

Siberian Larch, taken at our field site near Lake Khovsgol in north-central Mongolia. We are analyzing tree-ring width and stable isotopes of the tree rings to reconstruct climate, and Larch responses to climate change, over the past century as the temperature in Mongolia has risen.

Feeding worker and queen

Social evolution: honey bee nurse workers rear larvae as either new queens or new workers

Behavior

Baboon mother and offspring cross a flood plain in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Arabidopsis

Wild-type and transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing miR156, a microRNA that promotes juvenility and increases the rate of leaf initiation

News

Graduate Students Ben Galeota-Sprung and Erica Lawrence Receive NSF Fellowships

April 12, 2016
Lee Dietterich won the 2016 SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Student

March 29, 2016
Ted Abel elected AAAS Fellow

December 7, 2015
Janani Saikumar, Biology graduate student, has received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship.

September 15, 2015

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Events

Yana Kamberov, University of Pennsylvania

September 29, 2016 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building
Biology Retreat

October 6, 2016 (All day)

Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building
Erika Edwards, Brown University

October 13, 2016 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building

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Highlights

Yun S. Song

Dr. Yun S. Song is a visiting professor from UC Berkeley, holding the Calabi-Simons Chair of Mathematics and Biology at Penn. His research aims to develop accurate, efficient inference methods for population genomic analyses, utilizing a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Applications of Dr. Song's research range from inferring recombination maps and selection in Drosophila to drawing inferences about human demographic history. Dr. Song received his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University and did research in multiple fields at the University of Oxford and UC Davis, prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.