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Tuthill Lab’s work on snow flies in the news
Two great articles were published this week featuring the work from the Tuthill Lab on snow flies and their adaptations in sub-zero temperatures. Choose from The Atlantic (written by Ed Yong, a favorite science writer of John’s) or The Guardian (as linked from UW Today). Kudos to John and all the folks in his lab…
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Professor Emeritus Tom Hornbein, MD
Professor emeritus Tom Hornbein, MD, passed away on May 6, 2023. Dr. Hornbein was faculty in both Physiology & Biophysics and Anesthesiology. He was also known for his West Ridge climb of Mount Everest in 1963, which he wrote about in his book Everest: The West Ridge. HistoryLink published an essay about his life in…
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Claudia Moreno selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
HHMI announced today the selection of Claudia Moreno, PhD, as part of their inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars. We are thrilled for her! For more about Claudia, please visit her lab website. The UW Newsroom article can be found here and the HHMI provides additional information about the program on their website.
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Beth Buffalo inducted into National Academy of Sciences
Beth Buffalo was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences on Friday, April 28th, along with three other UW faculty members (Jay Shendure from Genome Sciences, Joseph Mougous from Microbiology, and James Truman from Biology). Congrats to all! http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20054290.html
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Do people and monkeys see colors the same way?
Summary: Some nerve cells circuits for colour vision are uniquely human, shows a new study led by Yeon Jin Kim and Dennis Dacey from the University of Seattle Washington, and including Save Sight researchers Ulrike Grünert and Paul Martin. Using a fine-scale electron microscopic reconstruction method, they compared the connections of colour-coding receptor cells in…
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John Tuthill interview with Current Biology
Associate Professor John Tuthill recently sat down with Current Biology for their Q&A feature. Read his fantastic interview here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.048
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong