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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; Biology</title>
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		<title>Cohan Participates in Darwin Conference at University of Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Cohan, professor of biology, delivered a presentation titled &#8220;Darwin vs. Mayr on the Origin of Bacterial Species,&#8221; during a Darwin conference, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin&#8217;s birth. The event was held Oct. 29-31 at the University of Chicago. Cohan joined other evolutionary biologists, historians and philosophers who connected their work directly with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ph.D Candidate&#8217;s Bat Research Links 3 Biological Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biology Ph.D candidate Kate Miller treks through a wildflower-lined trail alongside Middletown&#8217;s Coginchaug River. She approaches a plastic garbage bin and a PCV pipe protruding from the ground.
&#8220;That&#8217;s my bat echolocation recorder,&#8221; she says. “It’s old but I’m not complaining. It was free and it works.” Miller credits Scott Reynolds, Ph.D, of North East Ecological Services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undergraduates Present Summer Research at Poster Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<title>NSF, NIH Support Burke&#8217;s Development, Evolution Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, recently received a three-year, $395,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development and evolution of the shoulder girdle using transgenic mice, frog and salamander.
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		<title>Burke Awarded NSF, NIH Grants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, received a three-year, $395,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development and evolution of the shoulder girdle using transgenic mice, frog and salamander. She also received a two-year $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use the same amphibian systems (salamander and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5th Graders Sample Wesleyan Sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<title>Marie Curie Fellowship Winner Studies Non-Native Plant at Wesleyan</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/06/04/marie-curie-fellowship-winner-studies-non-native-plant-at-wesleyan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corrina Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next two years, researcher Silvia Matesanz of Segovia, Spain will be collaborating with Chair and Professor of Biology Sonia Sultan in her plant evolutionary ecology lab at Wesleyan. Matesanz was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie International Post-doctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. Matesanz, Sultan and biology BA/MA student Timothy Horgan-Kobelski ’09 will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfe Honored at Retirement Reception</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/04/29/wolfe-honored-at-retirement-reception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hingorani, Biro &#8217;09 Co-Author Article on Metal Toxin</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/04/13/hingorani-biro-09-co-author-article-on-metal-toxin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manju Hingorani, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, is the co-author of &#8220;Mechanism of Cadmium-mediated Inhibition of Msh2-Msh6 Function in DNA Mismatch Repair,&#8221; published in Biochemistry, March 25, 2009. Three undergraduates from three countries worked on the project in the Hingorani Lab at Wesleyan. They include Francis Noah Biro &#8216;09; Markus Wieland, an exchange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty Teach Elementary Students DNA, Natural History</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/03/25/faculty-teach-elementary-students-dna-natural-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a &#8220;Who Done It? A DNA Investigation,&#8221; elementary school aged children sported white lab coats and became &#8220;detectives&#8221; hoping to solve a crime.
The students learned about DNA structure by isolating DNA from wheat germ and comparing DNA samples from a &#8216;crime scene&#8217; with the DNA from five suspects. They learn how DNA forensics actually [...]]]></description>
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