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Kelley Gallagher headshot

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Meet our faculty: Kelley Gallagher
Academic focus: Bacterial development and evolution. Research summary: I am interested in the regulation of development and antibiotic production in bacteria. I primarily study soil-dwelling bacteria belonging to a genus called Streptomyces that...
  • Microbiology
Researchers place solar panels on the Cornell Experimental ponds

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Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Elizabeth Johnson headshot

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Johnson received the inaugural Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grant, worth $375,000, to support her research that will delve deeply into understanding how human milk nutrients contribute directly to infant gastrointestinal health.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Bacteria
  • Microbiology
A healthy sea urchin is swabbed

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Scientists have discovered that a parasite is behind a severe die-off of long-spined sea urchins across the Caribbean Sea, which has had devastating consequences for coral reefs and surrounding marine ecosystems.

  • Animals
  • Organisms
  • Biology
Ribosomes

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Heather Feaga, Microbiology, is identifying and characterizing strategies used by gram-positive bacteria to detect and rescue stalled ribosomes.
  • Microbiology
  • Bacteria
  • Microbiology

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