Media Relations
Tuesday,
February 22,
2005
Faculty
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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Indiana University Provost Professor of Anthropology Richard Wilk has been appointed to the American Anthropological Association's new nine-member Global Climate Change Task Force.
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Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presented the President's Medal for Excellence to David Baker, distinguished professor of jazz studies and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Jacobs School of Music. The presentation was made during a musical celebration honoring Baker's 80th's birthday on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Musical Arts Center.
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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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