Biology UK
Dr. Vincent Cassone

Chair's Message

Welcome to the UK Department of Biology! The department offers rigorous M.S. and Ph.D. programs that prepare students for successful research, academic and professional careers in the life sciences.

Upcoming Seminars

Todays Date: January 29, 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012
"The Evolution of Vision in Mantis Shrimp: A Multifaceted Approach"
Venue: Room 116 THM
Megan Porter, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maryland
Host: Vincent Cassone

Recently Published Articles From PubMed

  1. Jones G, Jones D, Fang F, Xu Y, New D & Wu WH (2012) Juvenile hormone action through a defined enhancer motif to modulate ecdysteroid-activation of natural core promoters. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 161:219-25 Full text
  2. Wetzel DP, Stewart IR & Westneat DF (2012) Heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size but not plasticity in a house sparrow population with no evidence of inbreeding. Mol Ecol 21:406-20 Full text
  3. Westneat DF, Hatch MI, Wetzel DP & Ensminger AL (2011) Individual variation in parental care reaction norms: integration of personality and plasticity. Am Nat 178:652-67 Full text
  4. Morris AC (2011) The genetics of ocular disorders: insights from the zebrafish. Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 93:215-28 Full text
  5. Crowley PH & Cox JJ (2011) Intraguild mutualism. Trends Ecol Evol 26:627-33 Full text
  6. Cuadros DF, Branscum AJ & García-Ramos G (2011) No evidence of association between HIV-1 and malaria in populations with low HIV-1 prevalence. PLoS One 6:e23458 Full text
  7. Cuadros DF, Crowley PH, Augustine B, Stewart SL & García-Ramos G (2011) Effect of variable transmission rate on the dynamics of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Infect Dis 11:216 Full text
  8. Li H, Rodriguez J, Yoo Y, Shareef MM, Badugu R, Horabin JI & Kellum R (2011) Cooperative and antagonistic contributions of two heterochromatin proteins to transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila sex determination decision. PLoS Genet 7:e1002122 Full text
  9. Gama-Arachchige NS, Baskin JM, Geneve RL & Baskin CC (2011) Acquisition of physical dormancy and ontogeny of the micropyle--water-gap complex in developing seeds of Geranium carolinianum (Geraniaceae). Ann Bot 108:51-64 Full text
  10. Voss SR, Kump DK, Putta S, Pauly N, Reynolds A, Henry RJ, Basa S, Walker JA & Smith JJ (2011) Origin of amphibian and avian chromosomes by fission, fusion, and retention of ancestral chromosomes. Genome Res 21:1306-12 Full text