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Act of ‘Heresy’ Adds Horseshoe Crabs to Arachnid Family Tree
iBio’s Sharma Lab (in collaboration with six other labs) challenges a well-established scenario of how arachnids colonized land, suggesting instead that the group underwent multiple land colonizations.
How Does a Spider Weave Its Web?
Ever wondered how exactly a spider spins its web? So has Emily Setton of iBio’s Sharma Lab. She seeks this answer by collecting eggs from female Texas brown tarantulas, looking deep into there genes.
iBio Faculty Member Monica Turner Cited as one of the most Published Individuals at UW-Madison
Monica Turner, an iBio faculty member whose focus lies in the subjects of Conservation Biology and Ecology, has recently been recognized on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list! This list honors influential researchers who have …
Remembering Dr. Karen Steudel Numbers
Sr Academic Curator in the UW Zoological Museum, John Lyons, interviewed for National Geographic Article
Sr Academic Curator in the UW Zoological Museum, John Lyons, was interviewed in a National Geographic article regarding climate change.
Algae blooms a problem but not a trend, study finds
New article on the genome of daddy long legs
Congrats to iBio’s Guilherme Gainnet for his new published paper! In a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution in DC, Guilherme published the first harvestman (daddy long legs) genome and used gene silencing experiments to discover …
Climate Change Impacts on our Earth
UW’s climate scientists including iBio professor Monica Turner study and discuss the effects of climate change in this article.
2021 Student Service Scholarship
iBio students Taylor Tai and Patricia Tran received 2021 Graduate Student Service Scholarship!