News Jack Werren talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about New Hot Papers paper in the field of Plant & Animal Science, Sept. 2010. (Click image to download pdf document) Cheryl Kerfeld and Kathleen Scott use BLAST to teach e-value-tionary concepts. (Click image to download pdf document) "Using the Wolbachia Bacterial Symbiont to Teach Inquiry-Based Science: A High School Laboratory Series" is the feature article in the Oct. issue of The American Biology Teacher, the journal of the National Association of Biology Teachers. Special kudos to Michael Clark for the awesome cover image! (Click image to download pdf document) (Click here to download cover image) John Allen's students Jeannie Tran, Van Tran, and Katerina Trinh won the Synopsys Regional Science Championship with their research on Identifying Trends of Wolbachia pipientis Infection in Various Species of Arthropods. The Oak Grove HS team from San Jose, CA went on to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and also attended the at the 6th International Wolbachia Conference in Asilomar, CA, June 9-12, 2010. Congratulations to all! (Click image to download pdf document) Journalist Lauren Urban joined us in Woods Hole for the April 2010 Wolbachia workshop. Her article "Bringing Research to High Schools" can be found at The Scientist Magazine. Kathy McKone's Biomedical Research students are involved in the "Muse of Fire" project, testing MS fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) for Wolbachia. (Click image to download pdf document) Congratulations to Tamica Stubbs (2008 workshop) and her students (Click image to download ppt document) Congratulations to Tamica Stubbs (2008 workshop) and her students at E.E. Waddell High School for their advancement to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest pre-college science and engineering competition. Michael Sturdivant and Edwin Chavez presented their research on "The Effects of EDTA/Tetracycline on Wolbachia pipientis." Five other Waddell Biotechnology Research students also attended ISEL, held in San Jose, CA, 9-14 May 2010. Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals highlights the positive ecological benefits Wolbachia may provide to their insect hosts. (Click image to download pdf document) 2009 Workshop Participant Kathy McKone and her students break new ground in presenting authentic research at MS Science Quest program. (Click image to download document) From Focus on Microbiology Education: Overview article about the Wolbachia Project by Seth Bordenstein (Fall 2007). From TheScientist.com: News: Virus benefits insect hosts (Aug. 20th, 2009). Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology Nature Reviews Microbiology, October 2008. (Click image to download pdf document) Check out this post on Small Things Considered - The Microbe Blog: Jumping Genes, Wolbachia Style (Nov. 10th, 2008). From The University of Rochester News: One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's (Aug. 30th, 2007). Biological identifications through DNA barcodes Hebert et al., 2003 (Click image to download pdf document) Wolbachia Research News Butterflies fight back against Wolbachia (Click image to download pdf document)