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WSU’s Skinner to Discuss ‘Ancestral Ghosts’ in Our Genes Feb. 10

WSU’s Skinner to Discuss ‘Ancestral Ghosts’ in Our Genes Feb. 10

Michael Skinner Michael Skinner has authored more than 240 peer reviewed publications and 250 invited symposia presentations, plenary lectures and university seminars. He established the WSU and University of Idaho Center for Reproductive Biology in 1996 and the Center for Integrated Biotechnology in 2002. He received the WSU Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for 2005-06 in the research category. He completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry at WSU and his postdoctoral fellowship at the C.H. Best Institute at the University of Toronto. He has been on the faculty of the pharmacology department at Vanderbilt University and the reproductive sciences and physiology faculty at the University of California, San Francisco.

Michael Skinner

 

Michael Skinner has authored more than 240 peer reviewed publications and 250 invited symposia presentations, plenary lectures and university seminars. He established the WSU and University of Idaho Center for Reproductive Biology in 1996 and the Center for Integrated Biotechnology in 2002. He received the WSU Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for 2005-06 in the research category.

 

He completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry at WSU and his postdoctoral fellowship at the C.H. Best Institute at the University of Toronto. He has been on the faculty of the pharmacology department at Vanderbilt University and the reproductive sciences and physiology faculty at the University of California, San Francisco.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Your grandmother has some explaining to do. What she was exposed to during pregnancy could make you more susceptible to disease, and you’re going to pass that on to your grandchildren as well. » More …

Honors’ McInally Receives 2014 DAAD Scholarship to Germany to Research Influenza

Honors’ McInally Receives 2014 DAAD Scholarship to Germany to Research Influenza

There’s agro-tourism, eco-tourism, and leisure tourism—but what about, say, viral tourism?

That’s the kind on the mind of microbiology major Samantha McInally, a member of the WSU Honors College.

Thanks to a scholarship from the national German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Corvallis, Ore., native will spend the summer in Giessen, Germany, where she’s assigned to work with a Ph.D. student to research the flu virus at the University of Giessen. She will also do some traveling related to her passion for viruses. » More …