Hi! I still have a blog but not updating at OS anymore. Unfortunately, they have not provided a way for me to delete my account.

 If you want to read about my adventures in the South Pacific with my husband and our nerdly investigations of mosquitoes please direct your browser… Read full post »

Interview with Dr. Steve Klaine – Director, Clemson University Institute for Environmental Toxicology and member of the department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Klaine, on February 15^th you will give the “Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Talk” in McKissick Theater at Clemson University.… Read full post »

Drs. Rick Blob and Margaret Ptacek are research collaborators in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University. Thier mutual research work is on functional morphology and genetic variation in waterfall-climbing gobiid fishes of Hawaii. From Dr. Blob's website: "Juveniles of three specie… Read full post »

The material that has the highest internal surface area per gram (about one football field per cubic inch), and is the best electrical, thermal, and sound insulator known to man, was also made by man. This ultra-light, low-density solid nanofoam is known as aerogel and sometimes referred to as "blue… Read full post »

Pubic lice are going extinct and this may seem like a good thing. But what if researchers could develop a novel blood-thinning agent from these blood-sucking pests? In late 2004, Brugia malayi, a causative agent of elephantiasis, was the first parasitic nematode to have its entire genome sequenced. U… Read full post »

Malaria has ravaged mankind throughout recorded history. Until the early 1600s, the old world had no cure for this pestiferous disease. Relief was delivered by a Jesuit missionary in the form of teas made from the bark of Peruvian Cinchona trees. Quinine, one of the most effective malaria medications… Read full post »