Using a novel approach called reverse vaccinology, which employs powerful bioinformatic tools and reverse pharmacology practices, the researchers are examining the genetic makeup of several parasites that cause malaria, seeking specific antigens to target with new vaccines.

When you donate to the Reid and Nancy Compton Maryland Promise Scholarship, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation and the University of Maryland.

Ata is Biology's associate director of research and faculty affairs.

UMD graduate students Marron McConnell and Qianru Liao are combining their expertise in biomathematics and remote sensing to learn how climate change shapes caribou population dynamics and migration behavior in the Arctic.

This year's awardees were selected from a pool of more than 700 nominations from the CMNS community.

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences will host 48 events.

Awards for projects fund use of AI, DNA replication simulation and more in the classroom.

The paper describes the life and death of photosynthetic microbes that drive the base of marine food webs.

Lips observed frogs for several years in Central America. She left briefly, and when she returned, the frogs were gone. She sets out to find them and encounters a horrible truth.

Through her work with startup MindX and Blackrock Neurotech, Julia Brown (B.S. '13, biological sciences) is setting the stage for next-generation devices in health care and neurotechnology, from brain-controlled smart glasses to seizure detectors and more.