Jeffrey Research GroupUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO
At La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica
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Hatice Tugba Selvi
2026 · Nevada Today

Nevada Today profiles Ph.D. candidate Hatice Tugba Selvi

Tugba is a Ph.D. candidate in the Jeffrey group, where she works on ecologically guided discovery of bioactive natural products.

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Mar 2026 · Nevada Today

Tahoe Discovery Lab expands innovation at the Lake Tahoe campus

Prof. Jeffrey is named the Harold Walter Siebens Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and will lead a new Innovation Certificate program through the lab.

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Nov 2025 · Nevada Today

Students meet industry leaders at the first Bioinspired Innovation Course

A weekend course at Lake Tahoe, led by Prof. Jeffrey, brought students from several disciplines together with pharmaceutical and industry professionals.

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Jun 2025 · Science News

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

Science News covers our Astrobiology study with NASA Goddard and DRI: a Mojave Desert lichen survived three months of intense UV, challenging assumptions about which exoplanets could host life.

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