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Around 100 faculty, staff, postdocs and students affiliated with the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) gathered together to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues over the past year at the 2024 GDCB Honors and Awa

Around 100 faculty, staff and students affiliated with the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) gathered together to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues over the past year at the 2024 GDCB Honors and Awards Recogn

Around 100 faculty, staff, students, and other invited guests of the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology gathered together to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues over the past yea

A research team led by Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Dior Kelley and Craig Cowling, a doctoral student in the Kelley lab, has identified that a widely found gene in plants is a key transporter of a hormone that influen

Clark Coffman, genetics, development and cell biology associate professor, and other faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received honors at the Iowa State University Learning Communities Institute on May 13. 

Joe Aung, genetics, development and cell biology assistant professor, is the recipient of an $830,000 amended grant, bringing the total funded by the National Science Foundation to $1.2 million for his research in determining the function of plasm

Several undergraduate biology and genetics students mentored by Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology faculty are among 26 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students completing undergraduate work this spring as recipients of the

Raquel Espin Palazon, assistant professor in genetics, development and cell biology, is the recipient of the faculty 2024 Early Achievement in Research Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.

Eight faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, including Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Associate Professor Geetu Tuteja, recently received funded awards for innovative research in their respective academic areas.

Ashwini Rangaraj, genetics, development and cell biology graduate student, won the Iowa State University (ISU) Graduate College’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held in November 2023 with her presentation, “Characterizing a novel DNA elemen

Two genetics, development and cell biology (GDCB) faculty members have been chosen to participate in the Iowa State University (ISU) College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) 2024 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows program.&nbsp

The Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) awarded $100,000 in 2024 Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant program (PIRS) funding to support university scholars exploring novel approaches to genomics stu

The research discoveries of two Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) faculty appeared in the Des Moines media recently. 

Vaishali Todi, genetics, development and cell biology graduate student, GDCB Associate Professor Mohan Gupta's lab, discusses the internship she participated in during summer 2023 at Elanco in the Indianapolis area. 

One of Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Teaching Professor Karri Haen Whitmer's bionics students was featured in the fall 2023 issue of Forward Magazine in "The Future by Degrees" article.

AMES, Iowa — Scientists have been making nanoparticles out of DNA strands for two decades, manipulating the bonds that maintain DNA’s double-helical shape to sculpt self-assembling structures that could someday have jaw-dropping medical applicatio

Dior Kelley, assistant professor of genetics, development and cell biology (GDCB), and Jelena Kraft, GDCB assistant teaching professor, are among a group of 11 faculty from eight College of Agriculture and Life Sciences departments who have been c

A microbial sensor that helps identify and fight bacterial infections also plays a key role in the development of blood stem cells, valuable new insight in the effort to create patient-derived blood stem cells that could eliminate the need for bon

Shannon Harris, '95 zoology, of St. Paul, Minn., received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) in late 2023.

The Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) recognized several faculty, students and postdocs with awards in spring 2023.