Interdisciplinary Graduate Program News Today

University of Iowa biologists have found that a yeast species that can be hazardous to human health can become more resistant when exposed to a prior, mild stress. The researchers also learned this trait does not exist in a close relative, brewer’s or baker’s yeast.

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The University of Iowa, College of Public Health invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Simon J. Atkinson will be the next UC Davis vice chancellor for research effective November 15.

With a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Yale is creating an interdisciplinary Ph.D. training program in the area of quantum materials science and engineering.

Over 3,000 generations of laboratory evolution, researchers watched as their model organism, snowflake yeast, began to adapt as multicellular individuals. In new research, the team shows how snowflake yeast evolved to be physically stronger and more than 20,000 times larger than their ancestor. Their study is the first major report on the ongoing Multicellularity Long-Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE), which the team hopes to run for decades.

The world would look very different without multicellular organisms – take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars. But precisely how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors remains poorly understood. The transition happened hundreds of millions of years ago, and early multicellular species are largely lost to extinction.

Lizbeth Juarez-Bartolo has won the University Transportation Centers Outstanding Student of the Year award, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation. She is a civil engineering graduate student at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The award is in recognition of her continued research in transportation planning, transportation policy and infrastructure systems.

Researchers are finding more genes directly associated with cleft lip and palate.

The Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program will host its annual symposium April 6-8 via Zoom.