Faculty from the Biosciences Department: Shireen Alemadi, Becky Andres, Sara Anderson, Tamara Mans and Alison Wallace were accepted into a yearlong functional genomics residency. The residency kicked off with participation in the 2012 ASM/JGI Functional Genomics Institute: Connecting Bioinformatics-Driven Hypotheses to Wet Lab Projects. The Institute was held June 24 – 28 at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM FARGO – Just because we’re thousands of miles away from the nearest ocean, doesn’t mean those of us in the Red River Valley can’t celebrate Shark Week with a splash. The annual event, which kicked off Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, is celebrating its 25th year of weeklong, shark-themed programming. For longer than that, though […]
Dr. Ellen Brisch, MSUM, provides information on Naegleria fowleri. By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY Lake Lilly, MN (WDAY TV) — A warning, but also some assurances, from the Minnesota State Health Department tonight concerning that horrible brain-eating death of a 9-year old boy. The health department is investigating the Naegleria fowleri, as the amoeba responsible for the boy’s death. The […]
By Sarah Bushman, IREX Students at Minnesota State University Moorhead got an unexpected ‘Journey to Pakistan’ this past semester, thanks to a young Pakistani woman, Zahra, who found her public voice after coming to the U.S. Though students had never before enjoyed a program hosted by an international student, Zahra quickly gained followers through what became a popular campus radio […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave the 200th presentation of his career when he delivered an invited keynote address to the Society of Experimental Biology, in Salzburg, Austria on June 30, 2012. His talk was entitled “Behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to chemical information about predation risk.” Almost all of the research presented in the talk was conducted by undergraduates.