Volume 1, Issue 1
October 2008
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ARIZONA
RESEARCH
LABORATORIES
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Director:
Dr. Michael Cusanovich
PO Box 210077
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
cusanovi@u.arizona.edu
Media:
skhelsel@skhelsel.com
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The Entomological Society of America (ESA) has elected ARL's John Hildebrand as a 2008 ESA Fellow. ESA Fellowships are given for outstanding contributions in entomological research, teaching, extension or administration. Hildebrand and nine other 2008 ESA Fellows are among 217 scientists who have been elected fellows since 1938. Hildebrand is the Director of the ARL Division of Neurobiology.
See the UA News article for more information.
Michael Cusanovich, Director of ARL, won the Jon W. McGarity Leadership Award given by The Arizona Bioindustry Association, or AZBio, the state's biotech trade association. Cusanovich, a former Vice President for Research, has championed interdisciplinary research for most of his career.
Read more in the full UA News article.
Research findings from Michael Hammer, ARL Division of Biotechnology, were published in the September 26 open-access journal PLoS Genetics. In his article entitled "Sexual Practice of Polygyny Skews Genetic Variability, " Hammer discusses how his group has found DNA evidence that polygyny, the practice among males of siring children with multiple female partners at the same time or successively, has led to an excess of genetic diversity on the X chromosome relative to the autosomes. PLoS announced the article in a press communiqué, a special outreach service the Genetics publication does for only two-three studies a month that are deemed the best and most approachable by the public, according to Mary Kohut, Press Contact for Bio/Genetics at the Public Library of Science.
Read more in the full PLoS article.
See also the online Press Release.
Earlier this year, ARL's Biomedical Engineering Director Jennifer Barton was honored as a SPIE fellow. She was recognized for her for specific achievements in optical coherence tomography and dual modality fluorescence. Barton serves as the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. She is also an associate professor of optical sciences and electrical & computer engineering.
See the ARL News Article for more information.
To learn more about Barton's research, please visit this link.
ARL's 15-person Genomic Analysis and Technology Center (GATC) laboratory was recently featured by the Arizona Daily Star for first-of-its-kind research assessing the Y chromosome. GATC intends to map chromosomes of people with distinct ancestries. The research is made possible by the recent addition of three new highly sophisticated systems worth $1.8 million to GATC's already excellent lineup of equipment. ARL's new instrumentation further strengthens GATC's world-class position in genomic technologies, services, and research.
Read the full feature story online at ARLs Latest News.
GATC provides a wide range of molecular biology diagnostic and training services to investigators, educators, students, and the greater biotechnology community. The collaborative facility is funded largely by user fees and is one of the largest university-based service providers of genomic tests and analyses in the nation.
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