New Research Center Targets Chlamydia’s Climate and Chromosomes
Posted: Friday, September 4 2009
Scientists from the University of Idaho are teaming up with colleagues around the world to wage a genetic war against chlamydia. The five-year, $12.5 million project will use genetic sequencing to learn more about the number one reported sexually transmitted infection in the world.
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It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Mutivity
Posted: Tuesday, December 22 2009
Written by Ken Kingery MOSCOW, Idaho – An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Idaho soon will begin investigating whether viruses that have adapted to higher temperatures – similar to increases due to global warming – can jump species more easily. Thanks to a $911,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, a group that includes a computational bi...
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Idaho Technology Creates Lucid Path to Texas
Posted: Friday, March 12 2010
Written by Ken Kingery MOSCOW, Idaho – An interdisciplinary team with some of the top talent at the University of Idaho is taking their two-time champion business plan to Arlington, Texas, host of the annual World’s Best Technology Showcase as well as the University of Texas at Austin’s IC2 Institute business plan competition. The WBT Showcase features between 75 and 100 of...
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Research Suggests Strategy to Prevent Deadly E coli in Cattle
Posted: Wednesday, May 12 2010
Written by Bill Loftus MOSCOW – Scientists, including the University of Idaho's Carolyn Hovde Bohach, Monday reported they have learned how deadly E. coli bacteria sense the cattle gastrointestinal tract. The work may provide "an exciting alternative to diminish contamination of meat products and cross-contamination of produce crops because of cattle shedding this human pathogen," the scientists...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | News Release

Study Provides New Insights About Women's Reproductive Health
Posted: Thursday, June 3 2010
MOSCOW, Idaho – It's an uncomfortable topic, and not considered polite dinner conversation, but Larry Forney's research on the human vagina and the ecology of the vaginal microbial ecosystem has big implications for women. Forney, professor of biological sciences and director of the Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) at the University of Idaho, is focusing his research...
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Idaho Researchers Aim to Unlock Plasmid Transfer Secrets
Posted: Wednesday, June 23 2010
Written by Amanda Cairo MOSCOW, Idaho – In an effort to take the resistance out of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, University of Idaho researchers are getting down to the genetic level to figure out how multi-drug resistance plasmids increase their resistance. Thanks to a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Eva Top, professor of biology, and Zaid Abdo, assistant...
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Science | Biological Sciences | Mathematics | Zaid Abdo | Eva Top | Biology | Mathematics | Research | News Release | Idaho at Glance | Register Features | ibest

Arrizabalaga Receives Substantive Grant From NIH
Posted: Friday, July 23 2010
Gustavo Arrizabalaga , associate professor of microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, has been awarded a four-year, $979, 496 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The health-related research and development award will enable him to investigate a novel way to kill the human parasite Toxoplasma gondii. T. gondii infects 30 percent of the world population, including the U.S. and ca...
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University of Idaho Graduate Programs Shine in National Ranking
Posted: Wednesday, October 20 2010
Several graduate programs at the University of Idaho, earned good marks in recent ranking of graduate programs.
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NSF Awards $700,000 for Cross-Institutional, Interdisciplinary Math/Biology Education
Posted: Thursday, November 4 2010
Written by Donna Emert MOSCOW, Idaho and PULLMAN, Wash. – The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to 10 faculty researchers and educators at the University of Idaho and Washington State University. The funding will support interdisciplinary undergraduate training in mathematics and biology at both institutions. As health and life sciences become increasingly quantitative,...
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Science | Mathematics | Paul Joyce | Barrie Robison | Mathematics | Biology | Mathematics | Biology | News Release | Undergraduate | Mathematics | ibest

World's Largest Science Society Honors Idaho Microbiologist Carolyn Hovde Bohach
Posted: Tuesday, January 11 2011
Written by Bill Loftus MOSCOW, Idaho – University of Idaho microbiologist Carolyn Hovde Bohach was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Tuesday for her work with E. coli bacteria and a statewide biomedical research network. A College of Agricultural and Life Sciences faculty member since 1990, Bohach studies the lethal enterohemorrhagic b...
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