Matthew Salanga, an assistant professor in NAU’s Department of Biological Sciences, is leading an 18-month project funded through a Flinn Foundation grant of $100,000. His team, which includes experts in experimental biology, computational systems biology and translational medicine, will study melanoma tumors on zebrafish, a small minnow-sized fish that has 70 percent of the same genes that are found in humans. Physiologically, zebrafish also have pigment cells in their skin, called melanocytes, which give them their stripes… Read more
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- David Trilling, professor of astronomy and planetary sciences, is listed as an author on the article “The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth.” He also presented at the Spitzer Legacy conference at Caltech. The conference celebrated the end of the Spitzer mission after 17 years, and Trilling reported on observations of Earth’s asteroids.
- Postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Buz presented at the ASU Desert Attunement Symposium. The symposium explores imperatives the desert gives to those that dwell within it and… Read more