DePauw University Biologists

07/31/2024

Congratulations to DePauw Biologist alum Hannah Nelson or as we like to call her DOCTOR Hannah Nelson (DPU Bio '18) who recently received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University . At DePauw Hannah worked in Lafontant lab. You can read her most recent work, about the role of specific microRNA in invasiveness of cancer cells, at the link below. Congratulations, Hannah!
Link to Hannah's article: https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/evcna.2024.43

08/11/2023

More DPU Biologists doing Biology! 2023 was a great summer for student-faculty research; we had four professors and twelve students working on projects in the department, and several Bio students working on internships or summer research projects off-campus.

08/07/2023

DePauw Biologists doing biology!

05/04/2023

Artoo says Happy Force Day from Olin Hall!

01/12/2021

DPU Biologist Hira Ahmad!

08/14/2020

DePauw Alum Elisabeth Garland-Kuntz is an author on a Nature Paper!

Rugema, Garland-Kuntz et al. report the 2.7 Å crystal structure of a fragment of a catalytically active PLCε in which the RA1 domain is integrated into the core. They find that a conserved amphipathic helix in the autoregulatory X–Y linker of PLCε modulates its catalytic activity in cells. This...

08/04/2020

DPU Biologists Nipun Chopra and Molly Ruggles spent the summer reading about ACE-2, COVID-19. Read about it here!

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07/24/2020

DePauw Biologist Nipun Chopra is on the Social Distancing podcast this week! Check it out here...

Jul 23, 2020 - Dr. Nipun Chopra (Assistant Professor of Biology at DePauw University) & I discuss the status & progress of the 2 Covid vaccines, vaccine development, dispelling Covid myths, being a sports fan right now and more. Stay safe. Wear a mask.

07/16/2020

Important Read: IU Biology alum Tanmoy Das Lala writes in Science about weathering the pain of racist jokes as a scientist/student of color in the US, and the difficulty of speaking up in the face of racism and xenophobia in the scientific community and academia.

At our first lab meeting since the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted, I sensed unease. After taking a seat at a large table, I noticed that no one seemed to want to sit next to me. As more people shuffled in, most of my labmates huddled on the opposite side of the table. Someone mentioned the “kung f...

06/26/2020

Check it out: DPU Biologist Dr. Andrea Stathopoulos wrote the script for this great video about a protein involved in signalling for puberty! Hooray for and the liberal arts!

Puberty is a wild time in human bodies, and so much goes on as they transform from a child to an adult. But it turns out, the whole process is controlled by ...

06/15/2020

DPU Biologist Nina Moore is an author on this fascinating paper-- the link to the actual article is in this general science piece. Congrats Nina!

Promoting a healthy gut microbiome may be a powerful strategy for lowering cholesterol and other heart attack risk factors.