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...
Sustaining a High-Tech Economy Using Inspiration from Nature
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
By Jim Shelton
Originally published in YaleNews on January 10th, 2017
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The ghosts of Ice Age mammals can teach valuable, real-world lessons about what happens to...
Not Just a Data Dump: YIBS Scholar Uses Informatics to Improve Waste Management
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...
Address from Mark Urban launches new YIBS Center for Biodiversity and Global Change
On Thursday evening, YIBS launched the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change with its first seminar. Mark Urban, MESc ’01 PhD ’06, Associate Professor in Ecology and...
