Prof. Michele Nishiguchi (University of California Merced, USA)
“Interpreting the road map between ecological and molecular boundaries using a squid-bacterial mutualism”
Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Michele “Nish” Nishiguchi has been inducted as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and was recently named president-elect for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB).“Interpreting the road map between ecological and molecular boundaries using a squid-bacterial mutualism”
Prof. Michele Nishiguchi (University of California Merced, USA)
“Interpreting the road map between ecological and molecular boundaries using a squid-bacterial mutualism”
UC Merced has received a $12.5 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the Biology Integration Institute (BII): INSITE — the INstitute for Symbiotic Interactions, Training and Education — a research collaborative that aims to expand the fundamental knowledge of symbioses and inform immediate and long-term conservation strategies in the face of climate change.
From understanding the multifaceted transmission of disease to deciphering how living organisms adapt to harsh conditions, answering big questions in biology requires interdisciplinary research and scientists engaging and partnering with those from other fields of study.
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the aster leafhopper (Macrosteles quadrilineatus) reveals the role of environment and microbial symbiosis in shaping pest insect genome evolution