How strong are the links in food webs? An experiment at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrates that they’re strong enough for a disturbance to propagate across four trophic levels and two ecosystems. The experiment demonstrates that invasive species such as purple loosestrife could have broad effects on surrounding plant and animal communities, many of them cryptic.
WHAT: In an environmentally friendly and community initiative, Washington University in St. Louis and Teamsters Joint Council 13 will load about 1 million pounds of large rolls of artificial turf from WUSTL’s Francis Field into trucks to be distributed and reused throughout the region in playgrounds, parks and more, instead of ending up in a […]
A new assay that uses mitochondrial DNA that mutates faster than nuclear DNA has allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis to identify one of the major animal reservoirs for the ehlichioses, STARI and other tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States. The animal turned out to be the eastern gray squirrel.
Twitter may appear to be one of many online attention drains, but tweeting often proves surprisingly practical. Washington University Libraries staff members are offering two free workshops in July aimed to help interested members of the WUSTL community explore how and why this social media tool can be useful.
WUSTL employees interested in going back to school are invited to attend a joint information session for graduate evening programs at Olin Business School and the Henry Edwin Sever Institute. Free and open to all employees, the event is at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 12, in the Danforth University Center, Room 276.
A protein required to regrow injured peripheral nerves has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The finding, in mice, has implications for improving recovery after nerve injury in the extremities. It also opens new avenues of investigation toward triggering nerve regeneration in the central nervous system, notorious for its inability to heal.
Researchers studying the genetic roots of the most common malignant childhood brain tumor have discovered missteps in three of the four subtypes of the cancer involving genes that are already being targeted for drug development.
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Mark W. Smith, JD, assistant
vice chancellor and director of the Career Center at Washington
University of St. Louis, to serve on the Midwestern Higher Education
Commission (MHEC). The commission advances higher education through interstate cooperation and resource sharing.
Randall Bateman, MD, has been named the Charles F. and
Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor in Neurology at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, a neurofibromatosis expert
at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2012
Friedrich von Recklinghausen Award.
