While still considered a relatively new program, the Department of Biological Science at the University of Alabama has been breaking onto the national scene with cutting edge research geared towards today's societal challenges. Their faculty is conducting research in the fields of cellular developmental mechanisms, metabolic syndrome, cell signalling, and the mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative diseases. See the video on Youtube... Ricky Seeber & Genevieve Miller Accepted to 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Program. What a way to bring in the holiday season! Congratulations to both!! all the details are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute website - http://hhmi.org. Congratulations to Jordana Baraad who was accepted as a participant in the Summer 2014 Nicaraguan Clinical Experience in Granada, Nicaragua! Congratulations also to Connor Buckley who was accepted as a participant in the Marine Education and Oceans Research internship program in South Africa for Summer 2014! Faculty and students in the UA Department of Biological Sciences explain the excitement of learning and doing biology. Watch the video.... Congratulations to Paula Adams and Hannah Zahedi who were both awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant from the Student Government Association! Two Earley Lab Undergraduate Students Honored by Randall Outstanding Research Award Program3/14/2013
Ryan Jones and Robertson Pierce were among Six College of Arts and Sciences students were recognized recently for their undergraduate research with UA’s Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program. Ryan Jones, a junior from Madison majoring in biological sciences, studied a small species of fish known as mangrove rivulus that is found along the east coast of North, Central, and South America. His aim was to identify factors, such as an organism’s size, that will determine whether the organism is an aggressor in a fight scenario. Using 3D printed models of the fish, he exposed actual mangrove rivulus to 3D printed models of the fish to determine how it might behave in a fight. Jones, who has a background as an artist, sought to integrate the new technology of 3D printing with research already being done in the lab of assistant professor of biological sciences Dr. Ryan Earley, who nominated him for this recognition. After graduation, Jones hopes to pursue graduate studies in marine science. Robertson Pearce, a recent graduate from Birmingham who is majoring in biological sciences, used fluorescent dye to tag mangrove rivulus in the wild. Pearce pioneered a technique that does not harm the fish and provides a color system that gives each fish its own unique marker. These fish can be tracked and researchers can gain valuable information about their behavior, the dynamics of the fish population, and their relationship with other species in their environment. Pearce worked closely with Earley, who nominated him for this award. Pearce, who will attend medical school at UAB, said the problem-solving aspect of this research prepared him for his future role as a physician. Read the full story at www.as.ua.edu... Dr. Ryan Earley ANT 150 Lecture featured on Storify. Ryan Earley uses ethological approach & animal models to understand human psychology & studies endocrinology of hermaphroditic fish. #ant150 cheaters only do well when they're rare; negative-frequency dependent selection. #ant150 plainfin midshipman cheater males are small like females but have huge testes (cheating & sperm competition) #ant150 earley: cheaters reap transient benefits, not long-term rewards (red queen hypothesis) #ant150 ryan: fish change color to demonstrate they lost so as not to be beat on more (can they fake it?) #ant150 earley: female benefits from seep calling b/c males need to guard against eavesdropping males Read the story at Storify.com. July 2013: Nicole Kernahan and Amy Schmitt finished up a wildly productive summer HHMI fellowship and delivered beautiful poster presentations at the HHMI conference!
May 2013: Incredible news! Mark Garcia National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant has been recommended for funding! Splendid job! May 2013: Big time congratulations go out to Kristy Marson who secured an Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program Fellowship! April 2013: Congratulations to Alexandra Waits who landed a summer research fellowship position at the Greehey Childrens Cancer Research Institute! April 2013: Congratulations to Mitchell Belue who was accepted into the Masters program in Microbiology at Alabama A&M! April 2013: Congratulations to Ben Sinderman who was accepted to and will attend St. George Medical School in Grenada where he will pursue a dual MD/MBA degree (perhaps we can visit to collect some rivulus!!). Well done! April 2013: Congratulations to Hannah Zahedi who was awarded the Edward H. Moseley Endowed Scholarship, which will support her upcoming trip to Nicaragua! April 2013: Congratulations to Ricky Seeber (presenter) and the metabolism team (Hannah Zahedi, Luke Bishop, Connor Buckley, and Rose Cianfarani) for landing First Place for a platform presentation in the Emerging Scholars Science, Mathematics and Engineering division at the Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference! April 2013: Congratulations to Annie Lenox (presenter) and the rivulus outcrossing team (Sarah White, Ryan James) for landing Honorable Mention in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference! April 2013: Congratulations to all Earley lab undergraduates who participated in the Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference! A feather in the cap for the 38 students who first-authored or co-authored 17 beautiful platform and poster presentations! April 2013: Chelsea Raulerson has been accepted into, and will join, the graduate program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Carolina! Excellent news and congratulations!! April 2013: Congratulations to Robertson Pearce, Chelsea Raulerson, Adrian Klein, and Jonathan Belanich for their nominations into the Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society! March 2013: Congratulations to Paula Adams whose achievement was recently recognized with the prestigious NOAA Office of Education Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship! March 2013: Congratulations to Nicole Kernahan and Amy Schmitt who were named as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellows! March 2013: Congratulations to Emily Duke who was honored with the James D. & Donjette Yarbrough Endowed Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding academic, research, and leadership potential! March 2013: Mark Garcia was honored with a second-place finish for 4th year PhD students at the Annual Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium. Job well done! March 2013: Ryan Jones has been selected for the CoCo View dive internship in Honduras this summer! Nice work! March 2013: Paula Adams has been accepted into the Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology Undergraduate Summer Research Program at the University of Wyoming where she will work with Dr. Alex Buerkle! Congratulations! February 2013: Congratulations to Alysha Broughton who was accepted into Culinary Management program at The Art Institute of St. Louis! February 2013: Congratulations to Adrian Klein who was accepted into the University of Arkansas Medical School (Little Rock)! Bravo! January 2013: Congratulations to Maggie Gray who was accepted into the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Dentistry! Well deserved! January 2013: Congratulations to Sara Vaughn who was accepted into the Masters program in Environmental Studies at the College of Charleston (Department of Biology). Nice work! The Earley Lab was featured in this year's Arts & Sciences Holiday Card. Advance to minute 1:50 to see Dr. Earley and his students featured for the 2012 Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award. Dr. Earley was also featured in the Collegian, Vol 21, Number 1, 2013 noting that Dr. Earley has been invited to lecture at 52 universities internationally. He and his research students have published some 50 manuscripts and have delivered more than 150 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences and symposia. Enjoy the video/card! |
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