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Dr. Yongjian Qiu and Anupa Wasti 2023

Biology Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award

Yongjian Qiu awarded $1 million to find biological solutions to agricultural challenges JUNE 7, 2023 BY DEBBIE NELSON FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendlyShare Biologist Yongjian Qiu (right) works with Ole Miss graduate student Anupa Wasti in his lab in Shoemaker Hall.
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Goldwater Scholarship winners 2023

Three UM Students Win Goldwater Scholarships

Prestigious STEM scholarships awarded to Mississippi natives April 3, 2023 by Erin Garrett OXFORD, Miss. – For the second year in a row, three University of Mississippi students have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships in a single year. All native Mississippians, Christian Boudreaux, of
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Dr. Joshua Bloomekatz and Rabina Shrestha

Study Could Provide Insight Into Origin of Heart Defects

UM biologist receives National Institutes of Health award to study heart formation MARCH 15, 2023 BY ERIN GARRETT FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendlyShare Biology professor Joshua Bloomekatz (left) and doctoral student Rabina Shrestha examine a tank of zebrafish.
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Dr. Qiu

Department of Biology Assistant Professor Wins NSF Career Award

Dr. Yongjian Qiu will use the $1 million award to aid in discovering gene expression mechanisms in plant thermomorphogenesis.  The National Science Foundation Career Awards are highly prestigious and only offered to faculty members who demonstrate the potential to serve as teacher-scholar
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Dr. Tammy Goulet

Building Consensus Around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity

Dr. Tammy Goulet coauthored the manuscript that will be published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ.  Below is the abstract and the international team of co-authors. Abstract   Within microeukaryotes, genetic variation and functional variation sometimes accumulate more quickly than
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