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April 6 2020 – Research by Pitzer College’s W.M. Keck Science Professor on Genome Conflict Publishes in Leading Science Journal

https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2020/04/06/research-by-pitzer-colleges-w-m-keck-science-professor-on-genome-conflict-publishes-in-leading-science-journal/

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Leconte Group publishes on new technology to manipulate modified DNAs

Aaron Leconte’s research group in the Keck Science Department is interested in using chemistry to create new tools for manipulating, controlling, and studying biology. A long standing goal of the group has been to develop new methods for creating new types of DNA that have enhanced properties with biotechnological value. In a recent report, the […]

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Leconte Group awarded NIH grant to engineer improved luciferases

Associate Professor of Chemistry Aaron Leconte received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop new, faster methods to understand and modify luciferase. In Nature, luciferase is the enzyme that causes fireflies to glow; in the lab, luciferase allows the tracking and understanding of how cells behave in complex living systems. This new […]

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Professor Budischak and colleagues publish new models explaining variation in parasite infection

Over a billion people on earth are infected with helminth parasites and show remarkable variation in parasite burden and chronicity. These parasite distributions are captured well by classic statistics, such as the negative binomial distribution. But the within-host processes underlying this variation are not well understood. In this study, we explain variation in macroparasite infection […]

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Marya Ornelas, Pitzer ’20, wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Marya Ornelas, Pitzer ’20, has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship; she is the first student in Keck to win the award in three years. The Goldwater Foundation awards the highly competitive scholarships to undergraduate STEM students of exceptional promise for a career in research, which Marya has shown through highly successful research experiences in […]

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Gabriela Ochoa, Scripps ’19, wins presentation award

Gabriela Ochoa, Scripps ’19 won an award for the best poster presentation in Ecology and Evolution at the 44th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference on April 6th, 2019, at the University of San Diego. Gabriela presented on her thesis work with Dr. Elise Ferree studying competitive interactions between house finches and black […]

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