Author: Talia Ogliore

Biologists in Arts & Sciences have found new ways to encourage the plastic-producing power of purple microbes.

Courtney Reichhardt, an assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue several projects on fibrillar adhesins, the proteins bacteria use to stick to each other and surfaces.

Patty Jo Watson, a professor emerita in anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Mass. Watson was one of the world’s leading experts on cave archaeology and agricultural origins.

A study by Kim Medley, director of Tyson Research Center, and others found that dragonflies with dark wing markings have a lower risk of extinction.

Tweaking the numbers of receptors in a key brain area changes the daily rhythms of rest and wake in mice, according to research led by Daniel Granados-Fuentes in Arts & Sciences, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A team of WashU chemists led by graduate student Alex Quillin in Arts & Sciences has developed a test that makes it possible to precisely track edits in cells, an advance that could lead to a new understanding of the origins of many illnesses.

Mikhail Tikhonov in Arts & Sciences has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project that will apply the statistical approaches of physics to the complicated world of microbial ecology.

Natalie Mueller, an assistant professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, and alumna Caitlin Rankin dig into the Cahokia Mounds’ history to cast doubt on a popular theory about why the ancient city was abandoned.

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, physicist Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences demonstrates a new type of sensor that leverages quantum entanglement to make time-traveling detectors.

Natalie Mueller in Arts & Sciences excavated and identified a trove of ancient plant remains in Kenya that represents the largest and most extensively dated archaeobotanical record from east Africa.