​If you had told me years ago that a career spent chasing salamanders through the woods would lead to being named a 2026 Beckman Young Investigator  (BYI), I’m not sure I would have believed...

Every spring, thousands of amphibians embark on a perilous journey from their wintering grounds to breeding pools. This event is often referred to as the "Big Night." While they face many natural...

RIT’s College of Science will receive funding from the Simons Empire Faculty Fellows program for four junior tenure-track faculty positions.

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Bacteria leverage a secretion system to kill and scavenge nutrients from nearby competitors

We need YOU as we rally in support of _critical_ federal government services at risk of being lost forever. The U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area is responsible for many of the programs t...

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

Ecological interactions are central to our understanding of the composition and function of communities, but attempts to use them as a theoretical foundation for experimental ecology have been confou....

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...