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Electrostatics effects of jumping nematodes

Flows of tracer particles show the attractive force of a positively charged fruit fly. Parasitic nematodes use this static charge to leap onto the insects. Victor Ortega Jimenez/University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor Victor Ortega-Jiménez and his lab have discovered that jumping entomopathogenic nematodes can be electrostatically attracted by the natural electric fields of the flying insects, thus increasing the effectiveness attachment to distant hosts and likelihood of infection. Read more...

Galicia receives L&S Staff Achievement Award

Carina Galicia has received the College of Letters & Science Staff Achievement Award for 2024-2025. Read more here.

Fossil discovery alters fish evolution story

An artist's reconstruction of the Weberian apparatus in a 67 million-year-old fossil fish. Credit: Ken Naganawa for UC Berkeley

Research by IB's Adjunct Assistant Professor Juan Liu on a newly discovered fossil fish is being used to reshape the origin story of freshwater fish evolution. Read more in the Berkeley News article here.

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Remembering Gabriel Trujillo

It has been a little over a year since the death of Gabriel Trujillo, a beloved member of the IB community. Gabe was a doctoral candidate exploring the ecology and evolution of plants in the genus Cephalanthus, commonly known as button bush. Gabe was in search of a population of these plants in Sonora, Mexico, when he was killed on 19 June 2023.