Four Alaska Native students got the chance over the summer to conduct research on the cutting edge of innovation at the University of Oregon.
They used innovative strategies to isolate novel bacteria from fish. They explored the emerging fields of gnotobiology, live imaging, genomics and bioinformatics. They gained a holistic understanding of biology that focuses on host-microbe systems.
Research by UO biochemists provide new windows into the complexities of cellular structure.
University of Oregon biologist Joe Thornton’s long-running study of protein mutations and cancer has yielded another breakthrough.
Thornton, of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and Mike Harms, a postdoctoral scientist who will join the UO chemistry faculty in September, found that two tiny mutations in a single protein 500 million years ago caused steroid hormones to take on their crucial present-day roles.
