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At the 2014 Biology Research Symposium we displayed twelve figured from papers published in the previous twelve months and challenged the department to identify authors. Here we reveal the answers.  Kudos to those who could name them all!

Month Authors Title Journal
May 2013 William Bradford, Adam Buckholz, John Morton, Collin Price, Alan Jones, Daisuke Urano Eukaryotic G protein signaling evolved to require G protein-coupled receptors for activation Science Signaling
June 2013 Jonathan B. Leano, Stephen L. Rogers,and Kevin C. Slep A cryptic TOG domain with a distinct architecture underlies CLASP-dependent bipolar spindle formation Structure
July 2013 Megan A. Rua, James Umbanhowar, Shuijin Hu, Kent O. Burkey and Charles E. Mitchell Elevated CO2 spurs reciprocal positive effects between a plant virus and an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus New Phytologist
August 2013 Jeffery L. Dangl, Diana M. Horvath, Brian J. Staskawicz Pivoting the plant immune system from dissection to deployment Science
September 2013 Derek A. Applewhite, Kyle D. Grode, Mara C. Duncan, and Stephen L. Rogers The actin-mircotubule cross-linking activity of Drosophila Short stop is regulated by intramolecular inhibition Molecular Biology of the Cell
October 2013 Daniel J Dickinson, Jordan D Ward, David J Reiner & Bob Goldstein Engineering the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination Nature Methods
November 2013 Eric A. Hungate, Eric J. Earley, Ian A. Boussy, David A. Turissini, Chau-Ti Ting, Jennifer R. Moran, Mao-Lien Wu, Chung-I Wu, and Corbin D. Jones A locus in Drosophila sechellia affecting tolerance of a host plant toxin Genetics
December 2013 Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, Jeremy S. M. Greeter, Rajat Mittal and Tyson L. Hedrick Hawkmoth flight stability in turbulent vortex streets The Journal of Experimental Biology
January 2014 Sarah Lee and John Bruno Propagule supply limits grazer richness equally across a resource gradient Ecosphere
February 2014 Jolien Verdaasdonk, Andrew Stephens, Julian Haase, and Kerry Bloom Bending the rules: widefield microscopy and the Abbe limit of resolution Journal of Cellular Physiology
March 2014 Marta S. Charpentier and Frank L. Conlon Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying blood vessel lumen formation Bioessays
April 2014 Courtney J. Murren, Heidi J. Maclean, Sarah E. Diamond, Ulrich K. Steiner, Mary A. Heskel, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Josh R. Auld, Hilary S. Callahan, David W. Pfennig, Rick A. Relyea, Carl D. Schlichting, and Joel Kingsolver Evolutionary change in continuous reaction norms The American Naturalist