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Biology Professor Receives Friend of Darwin Award

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Undergraduate Researchers Receive Research and Creativity Awards

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A&S Senior Angela Jones Wins Astronaut Scholarship

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Biology Major Places 1st in 5-Minute Fast Track Research Competition

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A&S Students Among Lyman T. Johnson Torch of Excellence Award Recipients

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UK Research on Limb Development Featured in eLife

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4th Annual BioBonanza to Showcase UK Research

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Biology's Mirabito Named Scientific Teaching Mentor by Summer Institutes

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Lewis Honors College Awards 2 Outstanding A&S Students With Top Honors

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Van Cleve Receives NSF CAREER Award to Promote Evolutionary Biology, Teaching

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Recent PubMed Publications

Hunnicutt, KE ;Tiley, GP ;Williams, RC ;Larsen, PA ;Blanco, MB ;Rasoloarison, RM ;Campbell, CR ;Zhu, K ;Weisrock, DW ;Matsunami, H ;Yoder, AD "Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Pheromone Receptor Class 1 Family (V1R) Reveals Extreme Complexity in Mouse Lemurs (Genus, Microcebus) and a Chromosomal Hotspot across Mammals." Genome biology and evolution 12, 1 (2020): 3562-3579.

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Thomas, JM ;Kern, PA ;Bush, HM ;McQuerry, KJ ;Black, WS ;Clasey, JL ;Pendergast, JS "Circadian rhythm phase shifts caused by timed exercise vary with chronotype." JCI insight (2020):

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Meador, WD ;Sugerman, GP ;Story, HM ;Seifert, AW ;Bersi, MR ;Tepole, AB ;Rausch, MK "The regional-dependent biaxial behavior of young and aged mouse skin: A detailed histomechanical characterization, residual strain analysis, and constitutive model." Acta biomaterialia 101, (2020): 403-413.

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Harris, RB ;Irwin, K ;Jones, MR ;Laurent, S ;Barrett, RDH ;Nachman, MW ;Good, JM ;Linnen, CR ;Jensen, JD ;Pfeifer, SP "The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards." Heredity 124, 1 (2020): 1-14.

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Dwaraka, VB ;Smith, JJ ;Woodcock, MR ;Voss, SR "Comparative transcriptomics of limb regeneration: Identification of conserved expression changes among three species of Ambystoma." Genomics 111, 6 (2019): 1216-1225.

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Baddar, NW Al Haj;Chithrala, A ;Voss, SR "Amputation-induced reactive oxygen species signaling is required for axolotl tail regeneration." Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 248, 2 (2019): 189-196.

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Keinath, MC ;Hardy, D ;Voss, SR "A chromosome-scale assembly of the axolotl genome." Genome research 29, 2 (2019): 317-324.

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Voss, SR ;Ponomareva, LV ;Dwaraka, VB ;Pardue, KE ;Baddar, NWAH ;Rodgers, AK ;Woodcock, MR ;Qiu, Q ;Crowner, A ;Blichmann, D ;Khatri, S ;Thorson, JS "HDAC Regulates Transcription at the Outset of Axolotl Tail Regeneration." Scientific reports 9, 1 (2019): 6751.

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Wang, X.;Abbas, M ;Zhang, Y.;Elshahawi, SI ;Ponomareva, LV ;Cui, Z ;Van Lanen, SG ;Sajid, I ;Voss, SR ;Shaaban, KA ;Thorson, JS "Baraphenazines A-G, Divergent Fused Phenazine-Based Metabolites from a Himalayan Streptomyces." Journal of natural products 82, 6 (2019): 1686-1693.

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Zhang, Y.;Ye, Q ;Ponomareva, LV ;Cao, Y ;Liu, Y.;Cui, Z ;Van Lanen, SG ;Voss, SR ;She, QB ;Thorson, JS "Total synthesis of griseusins and elucidation of the griseusin mechanism of action." Chemical science 10, 32 (2019): 7641-7648.

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Dwaraka, VB ;Voss, SR "Towards comparative analyses of salamander limb regeneration." Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution (2019):

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Hughes, RR ;Shaaban, KA ;Ponomareva, LV ;Horn, J ;Zhang, C ;Zhan, CG ;Voss, SR ;Leggas, M ;Thorson, JS "OleD Loki as a Catalyst for Hydroxamate Glycosylation." Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (2019):

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Wang, X.;Elshahawi, SI ;Ponomareva, LV ;Ye, Q ;Liu, Y.;Copley, GC ;Hower, JC ;Hatcher, BE ;Kharel, MK ;Van Lanen, SG ;She, QB ;Voss, SR ;Thorson, JS... "Structure Determination, Functional Characterization, and Biosynthetic Implications of Nybomycin Metabolites from a Mining Reclamation Site-Associated <i>Streptomyces</i>." Journal of natural products 82, 12 (2019): 3469-3476.

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Potter, S ;Sifers, J ;Yocom, E ;Blümich, SLE ;Potter, R ;Nadolski, J ;Harrison, DA ;Cooper, RL "Effects of inhibiting mTOR with rapamycin on behavior, development, neuromuscular physiology and cardiac function in larval <i>Drosophila</i>." Biology open 8, 11 (2019):

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Hotaling, S ;Foley, ME ;Zeglin, LH ;Finn, DS ;Tronstad, LM ;Giersch, JJ ;Muhlfeld, CC ;Weisrock, DW "Microbial assemblages reflect environmental heterogeneity in alpine streams." Global change biology 25, 8 (2019): 2576-2590.

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Hotaling, S ;Shain, DH ;Lang, SA ;Bagley, RK ;Tronstad, LM ;Weisrock, DW ;Kelley, JL "Long-distance dispersal, ice sheet dynamics and mountaintop isolation underlie the genetic structure of glacier ice worms." Proceedings. Biological sciences 286, 1905 (2019): 20190983.

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Plouviez, S ;LaBella, AL ;Weisrock, DW ;von Meijenfeldt, FAB ;Ball, B ;Neigel, JE ;Van Dover, CL "Amplicon sequencing of 42 nuclear loci supports directional gene flow between South Pacific populations of a hydrothermal vent limpet." Ecology and evolution 9, 11 (2019): 6568-6580.

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Hime, PM ;Briggler, JT ;Reece, JS ;Weisrock, DW "Genomic Data Reveal Conserved Female Heterogamety in Giant Salamanders with Gigantic Nuclear Genomes." G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 9, 10 (2019): 3467-3476.

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Donohue, ME ;Asangba, AE ;Ralainirina, J ;Weisrock, DW ;Stumpf, RM ;Wright, PC "Extensive variability in the gut microbiome of a highly-specialized and critically endangered lemur species across sites." American journal of primatology 81, 10-11 (2019): e23046.

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Santiago-Cartagena, E ;González-Crespo, S ;Vélez, V ;Martínez, N.;Snider, J ;Jessulat, M ;Aoki, H.;Minic, Z ;Akamine, P ;Mejías, I ;Pérez, LM ;Rymond... "Identification and Functional Testing of Novel Interacting Protein Partners for the Stress Sensors Wsc1p and Mid2p of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>." G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 9, 4 (2019): 1085-1102.

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Shlensky, JA ;Thurber, KM ;O'Meara, JG ;Ou, NN ;Osborn, JL ;Dierkhising, RA ;Mara, KC ;Bierle, DM ;Daniels, PR "Unfractionated heparin infusion for treatment of venous thromboembolism based on actual body weight without dose capping." Vascular medicine (London, England) (2019): 1358863X19875813.

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Dalmasso, C ;Osborn, JL ;Loria, AS "Sensory Signals Mediating High Blood Pressure via Sympathetic Activation: Role of Adipose Afferent Reflex." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2019):

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Jang, H ;Oakley, E ;Forbes-Osborne, M ;Kesler, MV ;Norcross, R ;Morris, AC ;Galperin, E "Hematopoietic and neural crest defects in zebrafish shoc2 mutants: a novel vertebrate model for Noonan-like syndrome." Human molecular genetics 28, 3 (2019): 501-514.

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Marks, RA ;Smith, JJ ;Cronk, Q ;Grassa, CJ ;McLetchie, DN "Genome of the tropical plant Marchantia inflexa: implications for sex chromosome evolution and dehydration tolerance." Scientific reports 9, 1 (2019): 8722.

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Paulose, JK ;Cassone, CV ;Cassone, VM "Aging, melatonin biosynthesis, and circadian clockworks in the gastrointestinal system of the laboratory mouse." Physiological genomics 51, 1 (2019): 1-9.

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Paulose, JK ;Cassone, CV ;Graniczkowska, KB ;Cassone, VM "Entrainment of the Circadian Clock of the Enteric Bacterium Klebsiella aerogenes by Temperature Cycles." iScience 19, (2019): 1202-1213.

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Harpole, CE ;Miles, MD ;Cassone, VM "Melatonin duration gates photoperiodic vocal state change in a songbird." Journal of pineal research (2019): e12625.

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Duncan, EM ;Alvarado, Sánchez "Regulation of Genomic Output and (Pluri)potency in Regeneration." Annual review of genetics 53, (2019): 327-346.

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Duncan, EM ;Ross, EJ ;Gorbovytska, V ;Nowotarski, SH ;Elliott, SA ;Alvarado, Sánchez ;Kuhn, CD "Planarians recruit piRNAs for mRNA turnover in adult stem cells." Genes & development 33, 21-22 (2019): 1575-1590.

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Carrara, N ;Weaver, M.;Piedade, WP ;Vocking, O ;Famulski, JK "Temporal characterization of optic fissure basement membrane composition suggests nidogen may be an initial target of remodeling." Developmental biology 452, 1 (2019): 43-54.

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