Accomplishments: College of Sciences
Christopher Adcock, Oliver Tschauner, Elisabeth Hausrath, Arya Udry, and Minghua Ren (all Geoscience) and a team of international researchers recently published a research paper titled, 鈥淪hock-transformation of Whitlockite to Merrillite and the Implications for Meteoritic Phosphate鈥 in Nature Communications.
The research focuses on how shock鈥
Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) co-organized an Aspen Center for Physics conference titled, 鈥淔ast Radio Bursts: New Probes of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology鈥 in February. The conference hosted approximately 80 scientists from around the world to discuss the nature of fast radio bursts, mysterious radio bursts discovered 10 years ago. The鈥
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) has been named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow. He is one of 126 researchers from 60 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 鈥 and the first 黑料网 scientist 鈥 to be awarded the prestigious fellowship for early career scholars considered the 鈥榥ext generation of scientific leaders.鈥
Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences) and a team of international researchers recently published a research article titled 鈥淥rigin of Microbial Biomineralization and Magnetotaxis During the Archean鈥 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that shows magnetic navigation by swimming bacteria may be more ancient than previously鈥
Ai-Sun "Kelly" Tseng (Life Sciences) published an article, 鈥淪eeing the Future: Using Xenopus to Understand Eye Regeneration鈥 in genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development. Graduate student Cindy Kha鈥檚 images were selected for the journal cover illustration. This invited review article is part of of a special issue focusing on biological鈥
Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) recently had a research paper published in Angewandte Chemie. The paper, titled "The Structure of Glycine Dihydrate: Implications for the Crystallization of Glycine from Solution and Its Structure in Outer Space," looks at long-term puzzling crystal structure determination of glycine at low鈥
Frank van Breukelen (Life Sciences) received a four-year, $797,810 National Science Foundation grant to study hibernation in tenrecs.
The current views about mammalian hibernation were developed using traditional models such as the ground squirrel. In these models, hibernators periodically rewarm to active levels between bouts of depressed鈥
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) received a $444,188 grant from the NASA ATP (Astrophysics Theory Program) for Predicting Observational Signatures of Planet Formation in Realistic Models of Protoplanetary Disks .
He will hire a postdoc to be included in the research. The postdoc will work with Zhu and Jim Stone from鈥
Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences) and a team of researchers recently published a research article titled "Measuring Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Extracted and Intracellular Magnetosomes Using Soft X-ray Ptychography" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Biomagnetism refers to phenomenon where living creatures鈥
Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) will be a co-investigator on a $380,000 grant titled Architecture of Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems. He is working with Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center .
The project will study data from the NASA Kepler space mission to characterize the orbital properties of the thousands of鈥
Helen Wing (Life Sciences) has received a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant worth $445,008. It is a continuation of a research project that now has received nine years of continual NIH funding. The project focuses on virulence gene regulation in the bacterial pathogen Shigella.
Nucleoid structuring proteins鈥
Ai-Sun Tseng (Life Sciences) recently published a research article titled "Effects of the Biocide Methylisothiazolinone on Xenopus laevis Wound Healing and Tail Regeneration鈥 in Aquatic Toxicology. This study shows that the commonly used preservative, methylisothiazolinone, impairs the natural repair ability of frog tadpoles to regrow tails.鈥