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Husker researchers studying fungus that could be melanin resource
Several years ago, Erin Carr’s doctoral adviser Steven Harris handed her bags of soil collected from the soil crust of a cold British Columbian desert. She went to work on it, suspending it in liquid, plating it onto a growth medium and treating it with antibiotics and antifungals. Then, she replated the tiny black dots that emerged.
Those dots turned out to be a novel fungus — Exophiala viscosa, though Carr dubbed it Goopy — that may just be a resource for large-scale, cost-effective production of melanin, with applications in ultraviolet-protective products and advanced materials for aerospace and other industries.
MoreClemente retires, capping 29-year career
Tom Elmo Clemente, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, retired June 30. Clemente served as a principal investigator and director of the Nebraska’s Plant Transformation Core Research Facility, a state-of the-art facility that provides the expertise for researchers to evaluate genes in both model and crop plant species in a cost-effective fashion.
MoreNew center will address rural attorney shortage, support Nebraska children
In a major step toward improving legal support for vulnerable children and families, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents recently approved the launch of the Nebraska Children’s Justice and Legal Advocacy Center, a new initiative focused on addressing the shortage of qualified attorneys in rural communities across the state.
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