Media Relations
Wednesday,
February 6,
2008
Research
The next event in the successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on Feb. 24 will focus on the increased role of diagnostic testing in "personalized medicine" and the opportunities this presents to companies in this developing industry.
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Twenty-one Indiana University Bloomington faculty members have received 2011-12 Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding awards granted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research to foster collaborations and jump-start projects that involve IU Bloomington faculty and IU centers, institutes and museums.
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Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Indiana University biologists are showing how freeloading, mutant derivatives of these plasmids benefit while the virulent, disease-causing plasmids do the heavy-lifting of initiating infection in plant hosts. The research confirms that the ability of bacteria to cause disease comes at a significant cost that is only counterbalanced by the benefits they experience from infected host organisms.
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Two new faculty fellows, kinesiologist Elizabeth Shea and the English Department's Tarez Graban, have joined Indiana University Bloomington's Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities for the 2011-12 academic year.
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An international team of microbiologists led by Indiana University researchers has identified a new bacterial growth process -- one that occurs at a single end or pole of the cell instead of uniform, dispersed growth along the long axis of the cell -- that could have implications in the development of new antibacterial strategies.
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Indiana University Bloomington developmental and evolutionary biologist Armin Moczek begins a new year with a new National Science Foundation grant of $617,000 to fund continued investigations into the origin and evolution of novel traits. For Moczek, those novel traits are combat tools: the horns male dung beetles use to battle and defeat male competitors with the hope of winning a female sexual partner.
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