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Summit to Explore Gene Technologies and Environmental Solutions

April 20, 2017
BY TIMOTHY BROWN Originally published in Yale F&ES News This week, Yale will host the Editing Nature Summit: Integrating Science and Collective Wisdom to Create...

Editing Nature Summit 2017: Integrating science and collective wisdom to create responsible environmental solutions using gene technologies

March 31, 2017
The first Editing Nature Summit will take place on April 20-22, 2017, at Yale University. About the Summit DNA is the basic building block of life. It is shared by all...

The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time

March 13, 2017
A new Biological Reviews paper co-authored by former YIBS Donnelley Fellow Dr. Peter Cowman uses both phylogenetic and biogeographic data for coral reef fishes to examine the...

YIBS Science Communication Workshops and Lectures

February 18, 2017
On Friday February 10th, students and faculty from Yale gathered in Kroon Hall for a day of science communication. The event was part of a larger effort at Yale to train...

Sustaining a High-Tech Economy Using Inspiration from Nature

January 21, 2017
What can our current high-tech economy learn from nature’s evolution over the past 3.8 billion years? Os Schmitz, YIBS Director, writes about a nature-inspired self-...

Ice Age ‘skeleton crew’ offers insights for today’s endangered species

January 11, 2017
By Jim Shelton   Originally published in YaleNews on January 10th, 2017   ***   The ghosts of Ice Age mammals can teach valuable, real-world lessons about what happens to...
Creative example of collected methane use in a greenhouse in Latvia. Photo: Jon Powell

Not Just a Data Dump: YIBS Scholar Uses Informatics to Improve Waste Management

December 6, 2016
A new Yale-led paper published in Environmental Science & Technology provides the first known estimate of available U.S. municipal waste stocks and the most accurate...

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