Using rat genetics to inform disease control in Brazil's urban slums
A research team from Yale and Providence College is using DNA analyses to combat the leptospirosis disease that plagues urban slums in Brazil. This tropical disease is...
Actionable Sustainability Research and Entrepreneurial Solutions to Climate Change
Call for Proposals: Actionable Sustainability Research and Entrepreneurial Solutions to Climate Change
The Yale University Office of Sustainability, in partnership with the...
The Health Implications of Droughts for Older Adults
A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health explores the health consequences of droughts. Lead author Dr. Jesse Berman is a former YIBS Donnelley Fellow, who worked...
Summit to Explore Gene Technologies and Environmental Solutions
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
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
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
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...
![In the community of Pau da Lima, Brazil, poor infrastructure and floods contribute to higher exposure to leptospirosis, a rat-borne disease. [Photo by Jonathan Richardson]](https://yibs.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_thumbnail/public/paudalima-637x640.png?itok=tuLJC6D7 "In the community of Pau da Lima, Brazil, poor infrastructure and floods contribute to higher exposure to leptospirosis, a rat-borne disease. [Photo by Jonathan Richardson]")
