Our lab investigates plant natural products with biomedical potential. Unusual substances from plants often act as toxins, deterrents, hormones, signals, and pheromones. They shape plant-animal interactions in nature…
I’m a professor and Walter Beach ’56 Chair of Sustainability Studies in the Biology department and the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program at Dickinson College. I am a…
Congrats to the 2025 team on a successful series of summer experiments focusing on epigenetic regulation of herbivore development and metabolism!
New developments in our understanding of ApoE and late onset Alzheimer’s disease In early 2020 a special issue of the journal Neurobiology of Disease was published containing eleven…
Inviting Alzheimer’s: the apoe4 gene disrupts cellular infrastructure, paving the way for cognitive decline January 22, 2021. Thomas Arnold On Friday, approximately two hundred scientists from around the…
Research Update Epigenetic weapons in plant-herbivore interactions: Sulforaphane disrupts histone deacetylases, gene expression, and larval development in Spodoptera exigua while the specialist feeder Trichoplusia ni is largely resistant…
Congratulations to Eric, who is off to study chemical engineering, and Eryn who successfully defended her honors thesis, Effects of Biotic Elicitors on the Glucosinolate Content in Broccoli…
Our lab team has been analyzing the polyphenol chemistry of coffee fruit. That’s right, there was a fruit around that beautiful bean. And it’s packed full of useful…