Accomplishments: School of Life Sciences
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker for the XXVIth International Society for Eye Research Biennial Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her talk was titled "Mechanisms regulating plasticity during embryonic eye regrowth." She presented her research group's findings on the molecular pathways that control eye stem cells and…
Kelly Tseng and students Belen Gutierrez, Jose Guerra, Iris Nava, and Ashley Fitzpatrick (Life Sciences), in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder and Western Michigan University published an article titled, "Construction of a Static Magnetic Field Exposure Apparatus for Aqueous Model…
Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in…
Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) received a new NIH award — a diversity supplement to support the training of Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Huezo. The award (totaling $149, 536) will supplement Wing's active R15-05 award and runs until the end of the current project period (November 2026).
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was a speaker at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. Her talk was titled, "Probing Conserved Regenerative Pathways in Embryonic Eye Regrowth." She presented her research group's findings on the mechanisms regulating eye stem cells and regeneration.
An undergraduate student researcher in the laboratory of Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences), Karla Akari Garcia (Nevada State University) won the 3rd Place Award for Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Atlanta, Georgia. Garcia presented her research findings on identifying…
Jack P. Marshall, Emily Marinko, Amber To, Jilian L. Morejon, Ritika Joshi, Allen G. Gibbs, Matthew R. Meiselman (all Life Sciences) published a manuscript in Scientific Reports: Circadian regulation of locomotion, respiration, and arousability in adult deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis).
Ranjani Murali (Life Sciences), in collaboration with researchers from Caltech, is the lead author of a groundbreaking new study that found many more bacteria produce greenhouse gases than previously thought.
The research team discovered a new class of enzymes that enable various bacteria to use nitrate as a substitute for oxygen in low-…
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) participated as an invited speaker and panelist in the Lessons from Successful Grantees panel at the Dialogue With Institutional Leaders Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Successfully Navigating NIH conference held at the National Institutes of Health main campus in Bethesda, MD.
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Sean Neiswenter (Life Sciences) were selected to receive a UNLV 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award for their project titled, "Emerging Parasitic & Vector-Borne Diseases: Disease Ecology from a One Health Perspective."
The Faculty…
Noehealani Antolin (Public Health), Manoj Sharma (Public Health), Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Chad Cross (Public Health), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), Jason Flatt (Public Health) gave an oral presentation on "Understanding Fruit and Vegetables Consumption Behaviors Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander College…
Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), Dengxun Lai (Life Sciences), Landon Netherton (Life Sciences), Efren Heredia (Chemistry), Ryan Doss (Life Sciences), and Monika Karney (Life Sciences) all won prizes for their oral or poster presentations at the Regional American Society for Microbiology Meeting that was held in the…