Mohamed Noor’s Ascension at Duke University: A New Era in Academic Leadership On June 17, 2024, Duke University announced that Mohamed Noor, an esteemed evolutionary biologist, will officially assume the role of Executive Vice Provost on July 1, 2024. Noor has been a faculty member at Duke since 2005, serving as a professor of biology […]
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The Application and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Ecological Research
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Understanding Genetic Diversity and Evolutionary Biology On July 18, 2024, researchers at The Ohio State University (2024 USNews Ranking: 43) unveiled a groundbreaking framework utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the factors influencing genetic diversity among species. This research, published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, focused on […]
NIH Funding Boosts Echinobase for Genetic Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has committed $4 million in funding through 2028 to support Echinobase, an online resource that provides genomic, expression, and functional data related to echinoderms such as starfish, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins. The latest version of Echinobase was created in 2020 by Veronica Hinman and Charles Ettensohn from Carnegie […]
