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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.
Read MoreThree 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
Read MoreStudy 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.
Read MoreDepartment 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
Read MoreBuilding 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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