Marriage = Biology (Not Bigotry) Great Video! Marriage is Sacred and must be protected and defended. This is because Marriage was designed by God to be an integral part of manifesting His grand design of God who is the Bridegroom... By: Wedding Feast of the Lamb … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary biology techniques can and must be used to help solve global challenges in agriculture, medicine and environmental sciences, advises a nine-member global team led by an evolutionary ecologist from University of California, Davis. Findings from the study will appear Sept. 11 in Science Express. Evolutionary biology is often overlooked in the study of global challenges, said lead author Scott Carroll of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the Institute for Contemporary Evolution, also in Davis. By looking at humanitys problems across the domains of nature conservation, food production and human health, it is clear that we need to strengthen evolutionary biology throughout the disciplines and develop a shared language among them. The new study calls attention to how evolutionary biology can be used to address challenges in agriculture, medicine and environmental sciences, for example, in crop breeding, avoiding antibiotic resistance, genetic therapy for diseases and mitigating the effects of climate change. A particular worry is the unaddressed need for management of evolution that spans multiple sectors, such as occurs in the spread of new infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance genes between natural, human health and agricultural systems, Carroll said. Many of the global challenges we face … Continue reading →

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) will celebrate its 50th year and the universitys 150th with a Sesquicentennial Colloquium series in the fall and spring semesters. Sesquicentennial Colloquium speakers Fall speakers in the EEB Sesquicentennial Colloquium include: Sept. 15: William Schlesinger, Ph.D. 76. President Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Sept. 22: Mark Rausher, Ph.D. 78, professor of biology, Duke University Sept. 29: Carla Caceres, Ph.D. 97, professor of animal biology, director, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Oct. 6: Michelle McClure, Ph.D. 98, director of the Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center Oct. 20: Betty Smocovitis, Ph.D. 88, professor of history of science and professor of biology, University of Florida, Gainesville Oct. 27: Justin Meyer 04, assistant professor, University of California, San Diego Nov. 10: Rick Harrison, Ph.D. 77, professor, ecology and evolutionary biology, Cornell See the original post here: Speaker series marks 50 years of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology … Continue reading →

Two years after a sequence of half-semester introductory courses first replaced each biology departments individual introductory courses, faculty are still ironing out the details. The courses, which span Biology 101 to Biology 104 and are known as introductory modules, are each half-semester courses that introduce students to an aspect of the biological sciences: biochemistry and biophysics, cell biology and membrane physiology, genes and development and ecology and evolutionary biology. They replaced individual biology departments introductory courses in the fall of 2012, in order to give students a more comprehensive overview of topics in biological sciences. But the four required modules have caused their share of frustration, especially as more and more students enroll in them. This year, for example, some individual departments are discussing a potential revamp of requirements for certain majors, since many students who take the modules struggle to fit in all the other courses they want to take. The modules, in the two years since they were first implemented, have affected many incoming students with regard to their science placements. Before 2012, students who received a 5 on the Advanced Placement Biology exam or an equivalent standardized test could place out of introductory biology courses but with … Continue reading →