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4.13.22

A&S Students Named 2022 Gaines Fellows

4.11.22

UK Sophomore Isha Chauhan Named Goldwater Scholar

3.30.22

Healing, Housing and Heritage in the Hollers

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A&S Students in 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Show What’s Wildly Possible in Undergrad Research

3.16.22

‘Wildcat Wednesday’: Junior Lauren Hudson Making Strides on Cancer Education, Literacy Through Research

3.02.22

‘Wildcat Wednesday’: Personal Experiences Drive A&S Junior Kayli Bolton to Help Others Through Research

2.22.22

Axolotls ‘Genetically Indistinguishable’ From Other Salamanders

2.15.22

New S-STEM Program to Provide Scholarships, Support for Students Pursuing Biology, Neuroscience Majors

2.15.22

Sparking Change: UK Undergrad Program for Health Equity Research Expands to KSU

2.11.22

UK Undergraduates to Present at 20th ‘Posters at the Capitol’

1.31.22

UK Awarded Beckman Scholars Program With Undergraduate Chemistry Focus

12.09.21

Spiny Mice Can Repair Damaged Cardiac Tissue

12.01.21

UK Appalachian Center to Host Student Research Presentation Series

11.23.21

A&S Students Stand Out in 2021 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition

11.11.21

A&S Faculty, Students Receive UK Office of Sustainability Awards

11.04.21

Hall of Distinguished Alumni (Sally K. Mason)

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A&S Students Selected as 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Finalists

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Krueger, LA ;Morris, AC "Generation of a zebrafish knock-in line expressing MYC-tagged Sox11a using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing." Biochemical and biophysical research communications 608, (2022): 8-13.

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Graniczkowska, KB ;Shaffer, CL ;Cassone, VM "Transcriptional effects of melatonin on the gut commensal bacterium Klebsiella aerogenes." Genomics 114, 2 (2022): 110321.

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Lindstedt, C ;Bagley, RK ;Calhim, S ;Jones, M.;Linnen, CR "The impact of life stage and pigment source on the evolution of novel warning signal traits." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 76, 3 (2022): 554-572.

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Miller, AK ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Smith, JJ ;Gillum, J ;Sharif, S ;Clarke, S ;Baker, C.;Kitson, J ;Gemmell, NJ ;Alexander, A "Population genomics of New Zealand pouched lamprey (kanakana; piharau; Geotria australis)." The Journal of heredity (2022):

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McGlothlin, JW ;Akçay, E ;Brodie, ED ;Moore, AJ ;Van Cleve, J "A Synthesis of Game Theory and Quantitative Genetic Models of Social Evolution." The Journal of heredity 113, 1 (2022): 109-119.

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Silva-E-Costa, JDC ;Luizi-Ponzo, AP ;McLetchie, DN "Sex Differences in Desiccation Tolerance Varies by Colony in the Mesic Liverwort Plagiochila porelloides." Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 11, 4 (2022):

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Volcko, KL ;Brakey, DJ ;McNamara, TE ;Meyer, MJ ;McKay, NJ ;Santollo, J ;Daniels, D "Control of water intake by a pathway from the nucleus of the solitary tract to the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus." Appetite 172, (2022): 105943.

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Collett, JA ;Ortiz-Soriano, V ;Li, X.;Flannery, AH ;Toto, RD ;Moe, OW ;Basile, DP ;Neyra, JA "Serum IL-17 levels are higher in critically ill patients with AKI and associated with worse outcomes." Critical care (London, England) 26, 1 (2022): 107.

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Abreu, JA Gonzalez;Rosenberg, AE ;Fricker, BA ;Wallace, KJ ;Seifert, AW ;Kelly, AM "Species-typical group size differentially influences social reward neural circuitry during nonreproductive social interactions." iScience 25, 5 (2022): 104230.

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Linnen, CR ;Brandvain, Y ;Unckless, RL "Theme: Recent work in speciation research by women authors." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (2022):

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Bendall, EE ;Bagley, RK ;Sousa, VC ;Linnen, CR "Faster-haplodiploid evolution under divergence-with-gene-flow: Simulations and empirical data from pine-feeding hymenopterans." Molecular ecology 31, 8 (2022): 2348-2366.

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Metzger, ME ;Wekesa, JW ;Kluh, S ;Fujioka, KK ;Saviskas, R ;Arugay, A ;McConnell, N ;Nguyen, K ;Krueger, L ;Hacker, GM ;Hu, R ;Kramer, VL "Detection and Establishment of Aedes notoscriptus (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes in Southern California, United States." Journal of medical entomology 59, 1 (2022): 67-77.

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Duncan, MJ ;Guerriero, LE ;Köhler, K ;Beechem, LE ;Gillis, BD ;Salisbury, F ;Wessel, C ;Wang, J.;Sunderam, S ;Bachstetter, AD ;O'Hara, BF ;Murphy, MP "Chronic Fragmentation of the Daily Sleep-Wake Rhythm Increases Amyloid-beta Levels and Neuroinflammation in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease." Neuroscience 481, (2022): 111-122.

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Titialii-Torres, KF ;Morris, AC "Embryonic hyperglycemia perturbs the development of specific retinal cell types, including photoreceptors." Journal of cell science 135, 1 (2022):

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Qin, X ;Liang, W ;Liu, Z.;Liu, M.;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Xin, Z ;Wang, Z.;Zhou, Q "Plant canopy may promote seed dispersal by wind." Scientific reports 12, 1 (2022): 63.

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Ahmed, MR ;Sethna, S ;Krueger, LA ;Yang, MB ;Hufnagel, RB "Variable Anterior Segment Dysgenesis and Cardiac Anomalies Caused by a Novel Truncating Variant of FOXC1." Genes 13, 3 (2022):

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Zhang, Y.;Liu, Y.;Sun, L.;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Cao, M ;Yang, J. "Seed dormancy in space and time: global distribution, paleo- and present climatic drivers and evolutionary adaptations." The New phytologist (2022):

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Duerr, TJ ;Jeon, EK ;Wells, KM ;Villanueva, A ;Seifert, AW ;McCusker, CD ;Monaghan, JR "A constitutively expressed fluorescent, ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator (FUCCI) in axolotls for studying tissue regeneration." Development (Cambridge, England) (2022):

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Santollo, J ;Edwards, AA "How predictive is body weight on fluid intake in rats? It depends on sex." Physiology & behavior 229, (2021): 113262.

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Timoshevskaya, N ;Voss, SR ;Labianca, CN ;High, CR ;Smith, JJ "Large-scale variation in single nucleotide polymorphism density within the laboratory axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)." Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 250, 6 (2021): 822-837.

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Dingemanse, NJ ;Araya-Ajoy, YG ;Westneat, DF "Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 75, 4 (2021): 806-818.

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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 336, 2 (2021): 129-144.

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Davis, ES ;Voss, G ;Miesfeld, JB ;Zarate-Sanchez, J ;Voss, SR ;Glaser, T "The rax homeobox gene is mutated in the eyeless axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum." Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 250, 6 (2021): 807-821.

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Cheema, MT ;Ponomareva, LV ;Liu, T.;Voss, SR ;Thorson, JS ;Shaaban, KA ;Sajid, I "Taxonomic and Metabolomics Profiling of Actinobacteria Strains from Himalayan Collection Sites in Pakistan." Current microbiology 78, 8 (2021): 3044-3057.

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Zhang, Y.;Cheema, MT ;Ponomareva, LV ;Ye, Q ;Liu, T.;Sajid, I ;Rohr, J ;She, QB ;Voss, SR ;Thorson, JS ;Shaaban, KA "Himalaquinones A-G, Angucyclinone-Derived Metabolites Produced by the Himalayan Isolate Streptomyces sp. PU-MM59." Journal of natural products 84, 7 (2021): 1930-1940.

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Trofka, A ;Huang, BL ;Zhu, J.;Heinz, WF ;Magidson, V ;Shibata, Y ;Shi, YB ;Tarchini, B ;Stadler, HS ;Kabangu, M ;Baddar, NW Al Haj;Voss, SR ;Mackem,... "Genetic basis for an evolutionary shift from ancestral preaxial to postaxial limb polarity in non-urodele vertebrates." Current biology : CB 31, 22 (2021): 4923-4934.e5.

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Huffman, D ;Ajwad, A ;Yaghouby, F ;O'Hara, BF ;Sunderam, S "A real-time sleep scoring framework for closed-loop sleep manipulation in mice." Journal of sleep research 30, 4 (2021): e13262.

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Marguerite, NT ;Bernard, J ;Harrison, DA ;Harris, D ;Cooper, RL "Effect of Temperature on Heart Rate for Phaenicia sericata and Drosophila melanogaster with Altered Expression of the TrpA1 Receptors." Insects 12, 1 (2021):

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Harpole, CE ;Cassone, VM "Context and novelty increase strength of auditory cues as a weak circadian zeitgeber in songbirds." Chronobiology international 38, 7 (2021): 1042-1051.

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Keinath, MC ;Davidian, A ;Timoshevskiy, V ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Gall, JG "Characterization of axolotl lampbrush chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunostaining." Experimental cell research 401, 2 (2021): 112523.

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