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2016, Vol. 20. Healy also published with Nguyen and R. Bierman* “A multi-scale model of Escherichia coli chemotaxis from intracellular signaling pathway to motility and nutrient uptake in nutrient gradient and isotropic fluid environments,” in Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2016, Vol. 71. Additionally, he published “Spatial structure of the Mormon cricket gut microbiome and its predicted contribution to nutrition and immune function” in Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, Vol. 8.
PAULA HERTEL / Psychology along with A. Maydon* and J. Cottle* published “Cognitive Bias Modification: Retrieval Practice to Simulate and Oppose Ruminative Memory Biases” in Clinical Psychological Sciences, January 2017, Vol. 5. Hertel is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, which receives about 180 submissions a year and publishes a variety of empirical reports.
LAURA HUNSICKER-WANG / Chemistry and Si Ying Li ’13, ’16 published “Reactive Sites and course of Reduction in the Rieske protein” in the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, Vol. 22. ALBERT XIN JIANG / Computer Science along with Hau Chan / Computer Science presented “Resource Graph Games: A Compact Representation for Games with Structured Strategy Spaces” at the proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2017. MICHELE JOHNSON / Biology published “Sexual selection and sex ratios in Anolis lizards” in the Journal of Zoology in 2017 and “Why do curly tail lizards (genus Leiocephalus) curl their tails? An assessment of displays toward conspecifics and predators” in Ethology, 2017, Vol. 123. Johnson’s
work on green anoles was the subject of a January 2017 article in The Scientist, a popular-science magazine for life science professionals that is dedicated to covering a wide range of topics in biology. She was the subject and guest speaker on the December 2016 edition of “The Conjectural,” a monthly science news show aimed at documenting newsworthy scientific stories and experiments.
JONATHAN KING / Biology was one of three principal investigators of a collaborative research grant with UT Health San Antonio. The one-year grant focused on how overweight or diabetic mothers can affect the body compositions of their babies.
DANIEL LEHRMANN / Geosciences published “Mechanical Stratigraphic Controls on Natural Fracture Spacing and Penetration” in the Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 95, and “Fault zone processes in mechanically layered mudrock and chalk” in the Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 97. MARK LEWIS ’96 / Computer Science coauthored “The Case for N-Body Simulations in Rust” with A. Hansen*, which was presented at the 2016 International Conference on Scientific Computing. Lewis also co-authored “Uncommon Teaching Languages” presented at the proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education in 2017. He also co-authored Introduction to Programming and Problem-Solving Using Scala, Second Edition. CORINA MAEDER ’99 / Chemistry received the Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) from the National Institutes of Health to support her research on the “Identification of a Novel Regulatory Element in the Assembly of the Spliceosome.”
KEVIN MCINTYRE / Psychology along with K.A. Hamilton ’16 and Paula Hertel / Psychology published “Judging knowledge in the digital age: The role of external-memory organization” in Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2016, Vol. 30. McIntyre and the Open Stats Lab were awarded a grant from the Association for Psychological Science Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science to create a website (openstatslab. com). The website provides faculty and students with free resources such as published articles, open data, and activities for the teaching and learning of statistics. Since going live in December 2016, the website has had more than 14,000 views.
DANY MUNOZ-PINTO / Engineering Science published “Evaluation of late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cell and umbilical vein endothelial cell responses to thromboresistant collagen-mimetic hydrogels” in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A in 2017. He was awarded a grant for his laboratory from the San Antonio Area Foundation in 2017. Three students will be working in his lab on the development of a new family of wound dressings for the treatment of diabetic ulcers. Munoz-Pinto presented “Relative Effects of Substrate Stiffness on Neuronal Phenotype Modulation in 2D and 3D Microenvironments” with R. Tchen*, R. Zurita*, and A. Vergara* at the Biomedical Engineering Society 2016 annual meeting in Minneapolis. He also spoke at the XI Chemical Engineering Technical Weed at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia, in May 2017.
TROY MURPHY / Biology received a fellowship for his sabbatical to work at the Smithsonian Institute National History Museum. The work measures the color and shifting of the genetic landscape across a hybrid zone of birds
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