Power of 3
SBU’s Alan Turner lands fossil papers in consecutive issues of Nature
By Daniel Dunaief
Dromomeron and Falcatakely lived nowhere near each other. They also lived millions of years apart, offering the kind of evolutionary pieces to...
CSHL’s Michael Schatz and apprentice create Star Trek device
By Daniel Dunaief
Michael Schatz, Adjunct Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, saw some similarities to his own life when he met the then...
SBU’s Carlos Simmerling wins $10K prize for COVID research
By Daniel Dunaief
They know what happens. They’re just not sure how it happens.
Carlos Simmerling, Marsha Laufer Endowed Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology and...
Dennis Plenker leads new organoid facility at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
By Daniel Dunaief
If the job is too easy, Dennis Plenker isn’t interested.
He’s found the right place, as the research investigator in Cold Spring Harbor...
Arkarup Banerjee returns to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to study singing mice
By Daniel Dunaief
Arkarup Banerjee is coming back home to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This time, instead of working on the olfactory system, the way...
CSHL’s Tobias Janowitz, Douglas Fearon use HIV drug for possible cancer treatment
By Daniel Dunaief
The body’s savior in its battle against disease, immune cells respond to a collection of signals which tell them to dial up...
BNL’s Vanessa Sanders explores arsenic isotopes for therapeutics and diagnostic
By Daniel Dunaief
If doctors could somehow stick numerous miniature flashlights in human bodies and see beneficial or harmful reactions, they would be able to...
SBU’s Kamazima Lwiza studies effect of higher temperatures on spread of parasite
By Daniel Dunaief
In tropical and subtropical countries, including Brazil and the Ivory Coast, a parasite moves from snails to humans, causing 220 million illnesses...
Ijeoma Opara becomes a social working trailblazer
By Daniel Dunaief
The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Ijeoma Opara was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her first name means “safe journey” in Igbo,...
SBU’s Ijeoma Opara becomes first social worker to win coveted NIH award
By Daniel Dunaief
Stony Brook University’s Ijeoma Opara, a new Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare, is starting her promising early scientific career...
