UCSDBioSciGrad

Karagan Smith and Josh Dominguez of the Department of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution have received prestigious Graduate Research Program fellowships by @NSF. Undergrad general biology major Nadia Haghani also received a GRFP fellowship. Congratulations! go.ucsd.edu/3ky9lyN

New findings about how viruses evolve to infect new hosts: Publishing in @PLOSGenetics, Hannah Strobel, @ElijahHorwitz and @justinrmeyer describe the steps viruses take to jump to new hosts. With SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses, the results reveal that instability may be key…

In @pnasnews, @ucsandiego researchers today published the first sensory map for smell. The map details how the fruit fly’s olfactory receptor neurons, the components that sense smell, are organized within the insect’s sensory hairs. go.ucsd.edu/3AGjikO

Doctors now prescribe combinations of antibiotics, yet many risks are involved with multi-drug treatments. @UCSanDiego biologists have developed a way to help doctors evaluate outcomes for drug pairs and boost successful treatments. @skryazhi @eLife ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/n…