WALII in the News

2024

18 October 2024
Tardigrades – Life on the extreme – Paris Science Film Festival Documentary 

13 September 2024
The Dynamic Lives of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins – The Scientist

17 May 2024
Rose Marks, a botanist studying resurrection plants – Advanced Science News

5 April 2024
How Long Do Seeds Retain Their Ability To Sprout? – Discover Magazine

7 January 2024
The Many Mysteries of Seed Dormancy – In Defense of Plants Podcast 

2024
What Does A Scientist Look Like? Scaling rocky heights to learn a plant’s survival secrets​ – Nature

2023

15 December 2023
Are seeds alive? – BBC CrowdScience Podcast

18 May 2023
Space invaders: The amazing adaptations of tardigrades – Genetics Unzipped Podcast

8 May 2023
Water bears’ extreme survival skills are being used to make more resilient vaccines – Wyoming Public Radio

4 May 2023
Tardigrades protect proteins on the brink of death – Drug Discovery News

11 February 2023
Dogma-defying biology – Axios Science

2022

26 December 2022
Thomas Boothby: On a Tough Little Guy With Secrets  – Alan Alda Clear + Vivid Podcast

24 November 2022
Microscopic water monster could save humanity – Spectrum News

26 October 2022
Biology faculty member will join a NSF-funded project studying organisms that can survive extreme water loss – CSU Channel Islands News Center

21 September 2022
What it takes for plants to survive drought – MSU Today

14 September 2022
Scientists researching how life interacts with water  – Wisconsin Public Radio

30 August 2022
New institute will probe biology in the absence of water – University of Wisconsin-Madison News

23 August 2022
New NSF-Funded Institute Will Probe Biology In The Absence Of Water – Carnegie Institute for Science News

23 August 2022
UW Part of NSF-Funded Institute That Will Probe Biology in Absence of Water – University of Wyoming