February 22nd, 2013 to May 22nd, 2013

• Congratulations to theses students from Biology for being selected as Fellows for 2013-2014!

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	Paul Brewer, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Joe Von Fisher Department of Biology and Graduate  Degree Program in Ecology
	David Hoover, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Alan Knapp Department of Biology and Graduate  Degree Program in Ecology
	Clinton Leach, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Colleen Webb Department of Biology and  Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
	Ryan McShane, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: LeRoy Poff Department of Biology and Graduate  Degree Program in Ecology
	Monica Paez, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Chris Funk Department of Biology and Graduate  Degree Program in Ecology
	Chubashini Suntharalingam, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Gregory Graff Department of Biology and Graduate  Degree Program in Ecology

• Mark Simmons:       Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor
Lisa Angeloni:          Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure
Chris Funk:                Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure
Rachel Mueller         Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure

• Three members of the Department of Biology were honored with the following College of Natural Sciences awards:

Lisa Angeloni: Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring

E. Dale Broder: Graduate Student Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring

Donald L. Mykles: Faculty Excellence in Graduate Education and Mentoring

Please join us at the College of Natural Sciences awards ceremony on Friday, April 26 at 4:30 PM in the Lory Student Center Cherokee Park Ballroom.

• The winners of the 2013 Department of Biology Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring are in! 

Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching:  Becky Chong and Jennifer Cappa

Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:  Karen Raines

Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring:  Lisa Angeloni

Faculty Excellence in Graduate Education and Mentoring:  Don Mykles

Our awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April 30 at 3:45 PM in E112 Anatomy / Zoology before the departmental seminar at 4 PM.

• The 2013-2014 Department of Biology scholarship and fellowship awardees are as follows:

Robert E. Cooper Scholarship: Madisen Thero

Bruno Klinger Memorial Scholarship: Rachel Detar

Peitersen Memorial Scholarship: Zane Moore

Edward and Phyllis Reed Fellowship: Rachel Harrington

Harold Harrington Fellowship: Jenna McAleer

Stavros Family Fund: Jason Reynolds & Seema Sheth

Congratulations to all of our awardees!

• Congratulations to Natalie Pitts, who passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam.

• Postdoctoral fellow Astrid Wittmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, joined the laboratory of Prof. Don Mykles to study the effects of temperature and pH on molt regulation in the green shore crab. She is supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union. She will be splitting her time between CSU and the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab.

• Eva has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for her work on neurobiology and sensory perception.  Please give Eva (and her major advisor Kim Hoke) a big high five!

• Prof. Don Mykles was awarded a 4-year $982K grant from the National Science Foundation to study the transcriptome and proteome of the crustacean molting gland. It involves laboratories at University of Oklahoma, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and University of California-Davis Bodega Marine Lab. The goal is to understand the transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating molting and growth of decapod crustaceans.

• Professor Gregory Florant is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgia State University for the spring semester. He is doing

research in the Departments of Biology and Neuroscience with Dr. Tim Bartness. He is also giving lectures in the Neuroscience

Program. Dr. Florant has also given lectures at Auburn University and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

• Drs. Gregory Florant and Jessica Healy (his former student) have been informed that their article entitled:

"The regulation of food intake in mammalian hibernators: a review" published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology

in May 2012 was one of the 10 most frequently downloaded papers in 2012 published by this journal.

• Curto, M.A., L. Tembrock, P. Puppo, M. Nogueira, M.P. Simmons and H. Meimberg. 2013. Evaluation of microsatellites of Catha edulis (qat; Celastraceae) identified using pyrosequencing. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 49: 1-9.

• Simmons, M.P. and A.P. Norton. 2013. Quantification and relative severity of inflated branch-support values generated by alternative methods: an empirical example. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 67: 277-296.

• Prof. Don Mykles is co-author on a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience: Silverman-Gavrila, L.B., Praver, M., Mykles, D.L., and Charlton, M.P. (2013). Calcium, calpain, and calcineurin in low-frequency depression of transmitter release. J. Neurosci. 33: 1975-1990.

• Simmons, M.P. and J.J. Cappa. 2013. Wilczekra, a new genus of Celastraceae for a disjunct lineage of Euonymus. Systematic Botany 38: 148-153.

• Jennifer Ackerfield, the CSU Herbarium collections manager, is featured in a new YouTube short at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-tQS9-tRgw , wherein Jennifer describes the herbarium's mission.

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