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Conscious Couture: From Paris Fashion Week to Your Closet

LSA students delve into the world of sustainable fashion, where they teach us that you can reduce climate debt one garment at a time.

EEB Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Giorgia G. Auteri on the New York Times

Dr. Auteri graduated from EEB in 2022 and it's worth noting that she did the genomic work as part of her PhD.

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Michigan News: Vast DNA tree of life for flowering plants revealed by global science team

Angiosperm Tree of Life. Image credit: RBG Kew

Scientists use 1.8 billion letters of genetic code to build groundbreaking tree of life!

The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three University of Michigan biologists.

Using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species covering almost 8,000 known flowering plant genera (ca. 60%), this achievement sheds new light on the evolutionary history of flowering plants and their rise to ecological dominance on Earth.

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