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Dr. Goodman’s paper “Host and Bacterial Factors Control Susceptibility of Drosophila melanogaster to Coxiella burnetii Infection” featured on cover of Infection and Immunity
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Offerdahl Lab Presents at National Conferences
Erika Offerdahl’s research was showcased at two national conferences during July 2017. During the Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education (TRUSE) conference (July 5-9 in St. Paul, MN) Dr. Offerdahl was the lead author of a poster. During the annual national conference of the Society for the Advancement in Biology Education Research (SABER) (July 21-23 in Minneapolis, MN), Dr Offerdahl gave a talk entitled “Hi-Fi Instruction: Characterizing the fidelity of implementation (FOI) of formative assessment and feedback.” SMB graduate student Jessie Arneson from the Offerdahl lab also gave a talk entitled ”The relationship between visual representation and cognitive load: It’s complicated.”
More information is available
TRUSE: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/Towns/TRUSE/
SABER: https://saber-biologyeducationresearch.wikispaces.com/National+Meeting+2017
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Are we in a male fertility death spiral?
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Offerdahl Selected as WSU Teaching Fellow
School of Molecular Biosciences faculty member Erika Offerdahl was selected as one of four inaugural WSU 2017-18 Teaching Fellows. These fellows will enhance their own teaching while collaborating with colleagues to impact the transformative student experience at WSU. Congratulations!
For more information: https://provost.wsu.edu/2017/07/17/teaching-fellows-selected/
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Fertility can hinge on uterus swimming conditions
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Smerdon Delivers Austin Distinguished Lecture
SMB Professor Mick Smerdon will deliver the University of Idaho’s College of Science’s Robert B. and Floretta F. Austin Distinguished Lecture in Science April 27, 2017. His lecture entitled “DNA Repair Doctors WITH (Chromatin) Borders: Protecting Cells From Chaos and Cancer” is free and open to the public. Read More -
Three WSU women in STEM win Goldwater Scholarships
Three WSU women in STEM win Goldwater Scholarships WSU News -
SMB Emeritus Professor Magnuson Honored
SMB emeritus professor Nancy Magnuson will be honored March 31 with the Lane Rawlins Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Magnuson spent her entire career at WSU, serving in various capacities and eventually leading the Graduate School and research divisions. Dr. Magnuson is well known to colleagues, students and alumni for her constant engagement and promotion of WSU at the national and international levels. Congratulations Nancy! WSU News -
Zach Howard to Deliver Undergraduate Research Presentation at Drosophila 2017
School of Molecular Biosciences undergraduate researcher Zach Howard was selected as one of five presenters during the “Spotlight on Undergraduate Research” segment of the Genetics Society of America’s Drosophila 2017 conference (http://www.genetics-gsa.org/drosophila/2017/pages/sessionlisting/Workshops.shtml#sess301). The March 2017 event in San Diego, CA will gather researchers who employ this model system to study biological systems. Zach has been working in the laboratory of Dr. Alan Goodman (http://goodmanlab.com), identifying genes associated with the innate immune responses. Zach’s laboratory research is part of the School’s Students Targeted towards Research Studies (STARS) program (http://www.smb.wsu.edu/academic-training/undergraduate-studies/stars-program). Congratulations Zach!
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Congratulations to Laura Ahlers
Laura Ahlers, a School of Molecular Biosciences doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Alan Goodman, has been awarded a Russ and Anne Fuller Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research/Scholarship from the WSU Graduate School. Laura studies the innate immune response to viruses employing a fruit fly model system, yielding two first-author publications in 2016.
More information on the Goodman Lab is available here: http://smb.wsu.edu/faculty-trainees-and-staff/faculty/alan-g-goodman/lab