The story of Tyrone Hayes' study of atrazine and Syngenta’s efforts to destroy his credibility, brought to life as a short documentary, “What’s Motivating Hayes,” directed by Jonathan Demme.
Associate Professors George Bentley and Daniela Kaufer have just published research on how blocking gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) could eliminate stress-induced infertility.
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Research by Professor Nipam Patel on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless "structural color" is featured on KQED Science.
Professor Anthony Barnosky is the author of a new book, Dodging Extinction, which provides strategies for preventing the sixth mass extinction.
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Lindsey Dougherty, a graduate student in Roy Caldwell's lab, and her research on disco clams is the focus of a NY Times article.
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Professor Brent Mishler and his research group published a major paper presenting new quantitative methods for assessing patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism on the landscape using collection data.
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Jeff Benca's computer rendering of the long-extinct lycopod, Leclercqia scolopendra, and accompanying article has been chosen as the cover of March’s centennial issue of the American Journal of Botany. Bencas is a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's Lab.
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The Bakar Fellows Program supports innovative research by early career faculty at UC Berkeley. Associate Professor Daniela Kaufer is a 2013-14 Bakar Fellow, and her research is profiled in depth on the Bakar Fellow site.
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Professor Robert Dudley has published a new book (The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol; University of California Press, 2014) that assesses the evolutionary origins of attraction to alcohol.
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Research by members of Professor Nipam Patel's lab will be on display at the Xtreme Bugs Exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science through September 1, 2014.
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