Indiana University Bloomington Department of Biology

A memorial will be held for IU Biology Professor Milton Taylor (1931-2022) on Sat, Jul 1, 2023, at 3pm in the IMU Frangipani Rm on the IU Bloomington campus. Find Taylor retirement and obituary at https://go.iu.edu/4Ofi.

Congratulations to Libby Tilghman—named 2023 Advisor of the Year by Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences. https://go.iu.edu/4O0e

Congratulations: Leonie Moyle and Irene Newton have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor recognizing their outstanding contributions to the progress of science and research. https://go.iu.edu/4Mg9

With sadness, the Department of Biology reports the death of esteemed alumnus and epigenetics pioneer C. David Allis. https://biology.indiana.edu/news-events/news/2023/remembering-c-david-allis.html

Insect cuisine lab offers students food for thought: Armin Moczek surprised students in his entomology class last semester with a buffet of edible insects while also revealing facts about insects they unknowingly eat every day. Read more at https://biology.indiana.edu/news-events/news/2023/insect-cuisine-lab.html.

Mapping the Gap: Richard Wang, Matt Hahn, and colleagues can now determine the average age that women and men had children throughout human evolutionary history with a new method they developed using DNA mutations. Their new model using de novo mutations found that fathers have been consistently older than mothers for the last 250,000 years, but the age gap has shrinking.

Study reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years Evolutionary biologists at Indiana University have found that fathers are consistently older than mothers throughout human history, but that age gap is sh...

FlyBase on inaugural GCBR list! FlyBase (IU knowledge base for Drosophila research) was recognized as elite, open-access, international biological knowledge base by induction into Global Biodata Coalition's first collection of Global Core Biodata Resources.

FlyBase selected as one of inaugural members of Global Core Biodata Resources IU Biology news: IU knowledge base for fruit fly research selected as one of the inaugural members of the Global Core Biodata Resources

Professor Jay T. Lennon has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award will allow Lennon to collaborate on a universal process of dormancy research project at Goethe University Frankfort in Germany: https://go.iu.edu/4HL8.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded Professor John Patton to continue his research to create a rotavirus vaccine specifically for developing countries. Rotavirus strains are the main cause for severe diarrheal illness in infants and young children across the globe. The current rotavirus vaccine is 80 to 90 percent effective in the United States, but it has just 40 to 70 percent effectiveness in developing countries.

IU professor hoping to increase immunization effectiveness in developing countries IU Biology news: IU Professor John Patton hoping to increase immunization effectiveness in developing countries, thanks to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant.

Associate Professor Julia van Kessel and her lab are bringing the ocean to IU Bloomington! They will study Vibrio pathogen infection of coral in the lab’s new coral facility (aka coral corral) to better understand coral disease in endangered coral reef ecosystems. Learn more at https://go.iu.edu/4BQY.

New Indiana University coral facility receives funding to study how pathogen infects coral IU Biology news: New coral facility receives funding to study how pathogen infects coral.

Interested in teaching undergraduate students? Come join us! IU Biology has multiple lecturer positions open. Start date: Aug 1, 2023.

Job Openings Discover new job opportunities from the Department of Biology at IU.

The American Society for Microbiology has awarded Professor Irene Newton with its 2023 Honorary Diversity Lecturer Award. Congratulations, Irene! Learn more at https://go.iu.edu/4A19.