Accomplishments: School of Life Sciences
Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Jonathan C. Hilpert, (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Christy Strong (Life Sciences) published a brief research report titled, "Using the fused graphical lasso to explore the motivational self-system after a multimedia self-regulated learning…
Hui Zhan (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) has published a research article titled “Biomarker Identification for Alzheimer’s Disease Through Integration of Comprehensive Mendelian Randomization and Proteomics Data” in the Journal of Translational Medicine on March 6.
The study is co-authored by Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health…
Dr. Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) and her team used deep learning AI techniques to develop genetic models based on polygenic risk scores (PRS). A PRS functions like a genetic risk calculator, combining the effects of thousands of small genetic variations to estimate the likelihood of developing specific diseases.…
Matthew Medeiros, Laura Seo, Aziel Macias, and Donald Price (all Life Sciences), along with Joanne Yew from the University of Hawaii, have published a paper in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Communications: New Developments in Microbial Ecology journal in November 2024.
Madeiros is a post-doctoral researcher in Price's and Yew's…
Donald Price (Life Sciences) was part of a team including scientists from Stanford University, Yale University, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, University of North Carolina, University of California Davis, Bangor University, Case Western Reserve University, Syracuse University, Syracuse, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Czech Academy of Sciences,…
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker for the XXVIth International Society for Eye Research Biennial Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her talk was titled "Mechanisms regulating plasticity during embryonic eye regrowth." She presented her research group's findings on the molecular pathways that control eye stem cells and…
Kelly Tseng and students Belen Gutierrez, Jose Guerra, Iris Nava, and Ashley Fitzpatrick (Life Sciences), in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder and Western Michigan University published an article titled, "Construction of a Static Magnetic Field Exposure Apparatus for Aqueous Model…
Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in…
Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) received a new NIH award — a diversity supplement to support the training of Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Huezo. The award (totaling $149, 536) will supplement Wing's active R15-05 award and runs until the end of the current project period (November 2026).
Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was a speaker at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. Her talk was titled, "Probing Conserved Regenerative Pathways in Embryonic Eye Regrowth." She presented her research group's findings on the mechanisms regulating eye stem cells and regeneration.
An undergraduate student researcher in the laboratory of Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences), Karla Akari Garcia (Nevada State University) won the 3rd Place Award for Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Atlanta, Georgia. Garcia presented her research findings on identifying…
Jack P. Marshall, Emily Marinko, Amber To, Jilian L. Morejon, Ritika Joshi, Allen G. Gibbs, Matthew R. Meiselman (all Life Sciences) published a manuscript in Scientific Reports: Circadian regulation of locomotion, respiration, and arousability in adult deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis).