Profiles, new papers, courses, field trips and coverage of the group.
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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KUNR’s Kat Fulwider joined Prof. Jeffrey and Prof. Lee Dyer at La Selva Biological Station to report on how Piper plants and the caterpillars that feed on them interact through chemistry, and how that chemistry is inherited.
“If you’re trying to study interactions, this is the place to do it, because there’s a lot of them if you can’t already tell.” Chris JeffreyListen to the story
Prof. Jeffrey is named the Harold Walter Siebens Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and will lead a new Innovation Certificate program through the lab.
Read the storyA weekend course at Lake Tahoe, led by Prof. Jeffrey, brought students from several disciplines together with pharmaceutical and industry professionals.
Read the storyScience 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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