BioSynthesis

What year did Watson and Crick publish their landmark paper on DNA structure in Nature?  What bacterium causes Lyme Disease? The octopus is in which taxonomic class? Find out the answers to these and other random questions at Biology Trivia on Wednesday, October 1 at 6 pm in G38 Hartline. Students from all classes, freshmen through seniors (and super-seniors and graduate students!), are invited to join in the fun. In addition to a good time, there will be free pizza and goodies and prizes for the top three teams. Please sign-up outside 146 Hartline. Hope to see you there!

Ghaith Ibrahim, at upper right with thesis advisor Dr. Karl Henry, successfully defended his master's thesis on Friday, September 5, 2014. Ghaith examined the role of CgGcn5, a putative histone acetyltransferase, on antifungal susceptibility and multidrug resistance gene regulation in Candida glabrata.   Ghaith graduated in 2011 from Bloomsburg University with a B.S. in biology and a minor in chemistry. As an undergraduate, Ghaith served as a student secretary and lab assistant in the Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences and engaged in a variety of research projects.   He examined MRI noise-induced effects on the auditory nerve with Dr. Huckans, Department of Physics and Engineering Technology, and shared his results at Noise-Con 10. Ghaith’s research with Drs. Hranitz and Surmacz on cellular stress responses in blackworms was presented at a national meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Research on the d iff erential expres...