Dr. Jon Raberg, Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Chemistry of Climate, Energy and the Environment, is a co-author on a paper published in Science entitled "Late Holocene reexpansion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet." According to the editor, Dr. Jesse Smith, "the authors looked at the evolution of the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Canada, the last remaining piece of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), which once covered much of North America and was the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets. After shrinking throughout much of the early- and mid-Holocene, the LIS began to grow again around 2000 years ago but then began shrinking once more around 1960. The authors attribute this reversal to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing, evidence that humans caused the termination of the next glaciation."

Dr. Eric Schuppe, Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Neuroscience, is a co-author on a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B entitled "Repeated evolutionary turnover of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosins." This study maps the evolution of over 1200 myosin proteins across chordates and shows that vertebrate groups independently evolved distinct sets of skeletal muscle myosins through repeated gene duplication and loss.

Dr. Rui Cheng, Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Physics of Climate, Energy, and the Environment, is a co-author on a new paper published in Remote Sensing of Environment entitled "Characterizing effects of tree mortality from wildfire and bark beetles using satellite observations of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence." The study used satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) to track forests across the western US hit by wildfire and bark beetle outbreaks.

Dr. Colin Rathbun, Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Chemistry, and his co-authors have recently published a paper in ACS Omega entitled "Semisynthetic, Multicolor Probes for Bioluminescence Imaging."  Bioluminescence imaging is a sensitive and noninvasive technique for monitoring molecular and cellular processes in living systems. 

Dr. Emily K. Ho, Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Developmental Biology, and her colleagues published a paper that is showcased on the cover of the journal Cell Reports. The paper, entitled "A live-cell biosensor of in vivo receptor tyrosine kinase activity reveals feedback regulation of a developmental gradient", introduces a novel biosensor for detecting receptor activity. 

Dr. Diana Williams, Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Neuroscience, and her colleagues have published a paper in Psychological Medicine identifying biological mechanisms underlying disordered eating. 

Dr. Jason Keller, Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Ecology, and his former students and colleagues have recently published several recent papers including papers in Global Change Biology,Ecosystems, and Scientific Reports. 

Dr. Shibu Yooseph, Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Dr. Andy Thompson, a former postdoctoral fellow at KDIS, have co-authored a paper with colleagues in Environmental Microbiology Reports on evidence for trace gas metabolism and widespread antibiotic synthesis in an Antarctic soil ecosystem.  

Dr. Paul Nerenberg, Kravis Associate Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Science was a awarded a grant from NASA to establish a partnership between CMC, JPL, and Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. This work will involve computational and experimental studies to better understand the surface composition of Saturn's moon Titan and how erosion shaped its surface, as observed by the Cassini mission.