a bat

会疯狂的

Costa Rican biologist Jorge D. Carballo Morales, 25岁, who began his research at 稳定的十大彩票网站 in 2023 in the 生物学硕士课程, is a student in the lab of assistant professor 丹尼尔Caetano, Ph.D. Carballo Morales is studying the macroevolution of bat families and how their diets play a role in their evolution and contribute to various ecosystems.

蝙蝠太重要了,而我们却把它们视为理所当然。 They are essential seed dispersers in the tropics and ensure the continuity of forests.

Jorge D. Carballo Morales, 25岁

Under Caetano’s wing, Carballo Morales is learning how to apply statistical methods to his data collection on bat diets. To better understand bat diversification, Carballo Morales is working through 3,000 rows of existing data to make reconstructions of bat diets from when bats first appeared more than 50 million years ago to the present day. Studying the evolution of bat diets is key to understanding how these essential seed dispersers support forest ecosystems.


在单元格中搜索解

生物学教授Elana Ehrlich博士, is using her third grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), an infection associated with HIV/AIDS.

Her research seeks to determine how and why KSHV hijacks the cellular protein degradation system to evade the immune system and promote viral replication. By identifying proteins targeted for degradation by the virus, Ehrlich hopes to identify new drug targets.

From an undergraduate training perspective, for students to have real-world research experience can be life changing.

Elana Ehrlich博士,生物学教授

Ehrlich is working with nine undergraduate students to test how drugs target the “tagged for trash” proteins, impact the replication of the virus and play a role in whether the virus remains latent or could infect other cells.


city skyscrapers

流动和迁移

副教授Maria jo<e:1> o Lobo Antunes博士, is exploring the impacts of intracity residential mobility on deviant behaviors and victimization among minority and immigrant youth.

凭借她作为定量犯罪学家的背景,安图内斯发现 the need to examine how inner-city and intracity moving influences minority and immigrant youths’ experiences with perpetrated or experienced violence.

I like to inform my teaching with my research, and I like my research to be informed by my teaching.

Maria jo<s:1> o Lobo Antunes博士,副教授

Antunes is expanding her research on “crimmigration”—the merging of immigration and the legal system—with the support of the W.E.B. Du Bois grant from the National Institute of Justice and connecting it to the classroom through a special topics course, 移民,犯罪和司法。