Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

Peace of Cake: NIMBioS Postdoc Revealed as Top Baker

NIMBioS postdoc Angie Peace knows a little something about food web dynamics, and she also knows how to make the best kind of food: cake! Peace’s cake took 1st place this week in the Biogeography Cake Contest for UTK’s Darwin Day. Judged on taste and … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Hits 5,000 Mark

Since our first activity in March 2009, more than 5,000 visitors have participated in NIMBioS research and educational opportunities. We recently surpassed the 5,000 mark with last week’s Investigative Workshop on Lymphoid Cells in Acute Inflammation. NIMBioS was established in … Continue reading

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The Bat Cave at NIMBioS

Literally and figuratively speaking, both, this little brown bat knows a good and safe spot when he sees it. The bat found refuge today on the wall outside the entrance to NIMBioS, where inside scientists have worked feverishly to save … Continue reading

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Postdoc Shares Latest Research with National Seed Bank

Picture a library but instead of books, thousands upon thousands of seed packets on every shelf. The USDA’s National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation in Ft. Collins, CO, is a secure 5,000-square-foot storage facility for more than half a million … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Fall Hike: Grotto Falls and Brushy Mountain

One of the great perks of working at NIMBioS is the number of folks who love to get outside and climb up mountains together. On Saturday, NIMBioS friends and families ventured into the beautiful autumnal scenery in the Great Smoky Mountains … Continue reading

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New Textbook Introduces Undergraduates to Mathematics for the Life Sciences

KNOXVILLE—Today’s students in college biology and other science courses are increasingly being asked to analyze problems in quantitative ways, and now they have a new textbook to help them do so. “Mathematics for the Life Sciences,” published this month by … Continue reading

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Calling All Nationally Distinguished Biologists

It’s not everyday that two alumni from the same high school learn that they are both nationally distinguished scientists. NIMBioS Director Louis Gross and Joe Felsenstein, visiting NIMBioS this week as co-organizer of the Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Tutorial, both graduated … Continue reading

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Summer Research Students Present Their Findings

The 2014 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teachers drew to a close today with the six project teams presenting their final results. Several groups announced plans to continue their work beyond the SRE program, hoping to continue collaborating with … Continue reading

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SRE Undergrads In Media Spotlight

(Updated: Aug. 1, 2014) Research examining facial expression of emotion and research examining the social complexity of Argentine ants — both projects of NIMBioS’ Summer Research Experiences program, were featured in the news recently, and the undergrads working on the projects … Continue reading

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NIMBioS, UT researchers publish in top journal

A study on marine viruses and their implication for marine biogeochemical cycles by a group of NIMBioS- and UT-associated researchers has been published in the journal Nature Reviews Microbiology. The researchers used a biophysical scaling model of intact virus particles … Continue reading

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