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Oct. 04, 2023

Remembering Philip Benfey
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Sep. 11, 2023

Ecology track students Rafael Baez and Gaia Rueda Moreno win NYU Global Urban Showcase
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Jun. 28, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about plants but were afraid to ask
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Jun. 06, 2023

Neville Sanjana answers Twitter's genetic questions
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May. 19, 2023

Nathalie Shoji receives Albert Borgman prize for best undergraduate thesis
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Apr. 21, 2023

David Fitch and Patrick Eichenberger win 2023 CAS Golden Dozen Teaching Awards
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Apr. 06, 2023

Yen-Chung Chen awarded 2023 Dean's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
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Nov. 17, 2022

Three Biology faculty included in 2022 list of most highly cited researchers
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Jul. 05, 2022

Kristin Winchell joins NYU Biology as Assistant Professor on September 1st, 2022

Research Highlights

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Jun. 09, 2023

Genomic variation in the ancient grain foxtail millet - Purugganan Lab
Birnbaum Lab
May. 10, 2023

Agricultural traits that help plants adapt to climate change - Birnbaum Lab
Sanjana Lab
May. 04, 2023

STING-seq helps identify causal variants in non-coding regions - Sanjana Lab
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Jan. 20, 2023

How lizards adapt to urban environments - Winchell Lab
Desplan Lab
Apr. 20, 2022

How neurons develop in the correct order - Desplan Lab
Rushlow Lab
Oct. 08, 2021

Genes are activated individually, not collectively, in early embryos - Rushlow Lab

Friday, Dec 1 2023
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PhD Student Seminar - Will Hinckley, Natalia Podolska, Peien Jiang
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Monday, Dec 4 2023
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Seminar: Sohini Ramachandran (Brown)
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Friday, Dec 8 2023
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PhD Student Seminar - Raya Jallad, Dongmin Jin, Maria Nikulkova (John Hopkins)
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Monday, Dec 11 2023
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Seminar: Hakhamanesh Mostafavi (NYU School of Medicine)
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Friday, Dec 15 2023
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PhD Student Seminar - Xiaoai Lu, Lauren Lotka, Emma Nguyen
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9:30am - 11:00am
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