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American Genomics Association Special Event Award
Supported in part by a Special Event Award from the American Genetics Association, the KU Genomics Symposium brought together 281 students, postdoctoral researchers, staff scientists, and faculty to share research spanning genomics, genetics, evolution, ecology, development and biomedicine.
KU postdoc maps genomes to understand the nervous system
Felipe Teixeira, postdoctoral researcher in the Lundquist lab, uses genetics, biochemistry, and computation to figure out which genes are responsible for development of neurological cells in small animals, which could help us better understand similar genes in humans.
Researchers unveil evolutionary effects on mammalian species due to extreme environments
Allie Graham, assistant professor and integrative biologist with the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Genomics, has recently discovered that numerous high-altitude species, such as mountain goats or pika, have had a genetic shift toward olfactory receptors with limited functionality.
A clerical error caused misidentification of frog specimen that once stood for an entire species
Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from decades ago: the misidentification of a poison frog specimen from Peru used as a holotype.