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UNC senior researches cicadas’ impact on food web dynamics

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Alexander Smith (Allen Hurlbert Lab) used his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to explore how the bugs’ cyclical emergence changed some animals’ feeding habits around the Triangle. The emergence of millions of cicadas across North Carolina caused a buzz in parts … Read more

Amy Maddox Lab Published in Current Biology (and on the cover!)

Posted 5 days ago

Mechanical and biochemical feedback combine to generate complex contractile oscillations in cytokinesis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.037 The actomyosin cortex is an active material that generates force to drive shape changes via cytoskeletal remodeling. Cytokinesis is the essential cell division event during which a … Read more

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