Archived News Stories

Protein burns its evolutionary bridges

University of Oregon researchers find that evolution can only go forward

Nature News, Sept 2009 | PDF of article

Thornton Lab | UO Media Relation story

Capturing the birth of a synapse

University of Oregon-University of California, Davis, collaboration finds mechanism locking two neurons.

Neural Development, May 2009

Washbourne Lab | UO Media Relation story

Evolution Revolution; Finding Our Future

Joe Thornton goes back 450 million years in time to piece together the evolution of hormones and their receptors.

Findings, February 2009

Thornton Lab

Protein phosphatase PP1 is required for normal DNA methylation
in Neurospora

Genes and Development January 2009

Selker Lab

PERSPECTIVE:Talk is cheap—cross-talk in establishment, maintenance,
and readout of chromatin modifications

Castenholz recognized by American Society for Microbiology

Richard Castenholz, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Oregon, has been named the 2009 laureate of the USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award given annually by the American Society for Microbiology. He will receive the award in May when he delivers the Roger Porter Award Lecture at the annual ASM meetings in Philadelphia.
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EVOLUTION: Armor Development and Fitness

Science, 10 October 2008: v. 322. no. 5899, pp. 204 - 203

Cresko Lab

Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits

Science 23 May 2008: v. 320. (5879),1039-43

Green Lab
Bohannan Lab
Whitaker Lab, UI Urbana-Champaign

Neural stem cells:
balancing self-renewal with differentiation

Development 2008 135: 1575-1587

Doe Lab, UO Institute of Molecular Biology