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1.17.19

In Memoriam: Professor Grace Jones

11.29.18

UK Students Sought for 2019 STEM Expanding Your Horizons

11.14.18

Two A&S Students Bring Home Gold Following Research Competitions

10.25.18

A&S Senior Wins Astronaut Scholarship, Brooke Owens Fellowship

10.18.18

College of Arts and Sciences to Induct 6 into Hall of Fame

10.03.18

Biology Professor Ann Morris Receives Nearly $1.9 Million to Study Retinal Regeneration

8.24.18

College of Arts and Sciences Names First Recipients of Inclusion Fellows Program

7.30.18

Truman Scholarship, Pickering Fellowship Winners Mark Banner Year for UK Student Scholars

5.29.18

UK Woman's Club Awards Three $10,000 Scholarships

5.23.18

Turning STEM Majors Into STEM Educators

5.17.18

Ph.D. Students Gain Science Advocacy Skills in D.C.

5.17.18

A&S Biology Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Promote Genetic Research and Teaching

5.02.18

Congratulations to Neuroscience Majors Meghan Turner and Daimen Stoltz

4.11.18

College of Arts & Sciences Biology Professor to Deliver NIH’s NIGMS Early Career Investigator Lecture

4.11.18

Everything is Science: University of Kentucky Hosts City-Wide Science Festival

4.09.18

#IAmAWomanInSTEM to Host Week of Celebration

3.22.18

A&S Students Among 2018 Gaines Center Scholars

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Expanding Your Horizons Returns to UK - Saturday, April 21, 2018

3.08.18

A Passion for Science Earns A&S Biology Junior Astronaut Scholarship, NIH Internship

2.15.18

UK Biology Research May Lead to Treatment for Blinding Disorders, Including Glaucoma

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Recent PubMed Publications

Anderson, GL ;Osborn, JL ;Nei, SD ;Bell, MR ;Barsness, GW ;Mara, KC ;Ou, NN "Comparison of In-Hospital Bleeding and Cardiovascular Events with High-Dose Bolus Tirofiban and Shortened Infusion to Short-Duration Eptifibatide as Adjunctive Therapy for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention." The American journal of cardiology 123, 1 (2019): 44-49.

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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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Hu, D ;Zhang, S ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Wang, Z.;Liu, R.;Du, J ;Yang, X.;Huang, Z. "Seed mucilage interacts with soil microbial community and physiochemical processes to affect seedling emergence on desert sand dunes." Plant, cell & environment 42, 2 (2019): 591-605.

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Zhang, H.;Gao, Y.;Tasisa, BY ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Lü, XT ;Zhou, D. "Divergent responses to water and nitrogen addition of three perennial bunchgrass species from variously degraded typical steppe in Inner Mongolia." The Science of the total environment 647, (2019): 1344-1350.

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Hu, D ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Wang, Z.;Zhang, S ;Yang, X.;Huang, Z. "Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and achene mucilage have independent functions in seedling growth of a desert shrub." Journal of plant physiology 232, (2019): 1-11.

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Estrela, S ;Libby, E ;Van Cleve, J ;Débarre, F ;Deforet, M ;Harcombe, WR ;Pena, J ;Brown, SP ;Hochberg, ME "Environmentally Mediated Social Dilemmas." Trends in ecology & evolution 34, 1 (2019): 6-18.

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Simkin, J ;Seifert, AW "Concise Review: Translating Regenerative Biology into Clinically Relevant Therapies: Are We on the Right Path?" Stem cells translational medicine 7, 2 (2018): 220-231.

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Seifert, AW ;Muneoka, K "The blastema and epimorphic regeneration in mammals." Developmental biology 433, 2 (2018): 190-199.

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Pfeifer, SP ;Laurent, S ;Sousa, VC ;Linnen, CR ;Foll, M ;Excoffier, L ;Hoekstra, HE ;Jensen, JD "The Evolutionary History of Nebraska Deer Mice: Local Adaptation in the Face of Strong Gene Flow." Molecular biology and evolution 35, 4 (2018): 792-806.

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Linnen, CR ;O'Quin, CT ;Shackleford, T ;Sears, CR ;Lindstedt, C "Genetic Basis of Body Color and Spotting Pattern in Redheaded Pine Sawfly Larvae (<i>Neodiprion lecontei</i>)." Genetics 209, 1 (2018): 291-305.

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Linnen, CR "Predicting evolutionary predictability." Molecular ecology 27, 12 (2018): 2647-2650.

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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 (2018):

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Mehrotra, P ;Collett, JA ;Gunst, SJ ;Basile, DP "Th17 cells contribute to pulmonary fibrosis and inflammation during chronic kidney disease progression after acute ischemia." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 314, 2 (2018): R265-R273.

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Kolb, AL ;Corridon, PR ;Zhang, S ;Xu, W ;Witzmann, FA ;Collett, JA ;Rhodes, GJ ;Winfree, S ;Bready, D ;Pfeffenberger, ZJ ;Pomerantz, JM ;Hato, T ;... "Exogenous Gene Transmission of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 Mimics Ischemic Preconditioning Protection." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 29, 4 (2018): 1154-1164.

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Herman, PE ;Papatheodorou, A ;Bryant, SA ;Waterbury, CKM ;, ;Arcese, AA ;Buxbaum, JD ;Smith, JJ ;Morgan, JR ;Bloom, O "Highly conserved molecular pathways, including Wnt signaling, promote functional recovery from spinal cord injury in lampreys." Scientific reports 8, 1 (2018): 742.

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Ye, C ;Holt, C.;Keinath, MC ;Parker, HJ ;Cook, ME ;Hess, JE ;, ;Lamanna, F ;Kaessmann, H ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Waterbury,... "The sea lamprey germline genome provides insights into programmed genome rearrangement and vertebrate evolution." Nature genetics 50, 2 (2018): 270-277.

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Ye, C ;Holt, C.;Keinath, MC ;Parker, HJ ;Cook, ME ;Hess, JE ;, ;Lamanna, F ;Kaessmann, H ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Waterbury,... "Publisher Correction: The sea lamprey germline genome provides insights into programmed genome rearrangement and vertebrate evolution." Nature genetics 50, 5 (2018): 768.

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Smith, JJ "Programmed DNA Elimination: Keeping Germline Genes in Their Place." Current biology : CB 28, 10 (2018): R601-R603.

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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 (2018):

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Ye, C ;Holt, C.;Keinath, MC ;Parker, HJ ;Cook, ME ;Hess, JE ;, ;Lamanna, F ;Kaessmann, H ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Waterbury,... "Publisher Correction: The sea lamprey germline genome provides insights into programmed genome rearrangement and vertebrate evolution." Nature genetics 50, 11 (2018): 1617.

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Gómez, CM Arenas;Woodcock, RM ;Smith, JJ ;Voss, RS ;Delgado, JP "Using transcriptomics to enable a plethodontid salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi) for limb regeneration research." BMC genomics 19, 1 (2018): 704.

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Keinath, MC ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Voss, SR ;Smith, JJ "Miniscule differences between sex chromosomes in the giant genome of a salamander." Scientific reports 8, 1 (2018): 17882.

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Sánchez-Tójar, A ;Nakagawa, S ;Sánchez-Fortún, M ;Martin, DA ;Ramani, S ;Girndt, A ;Bókony, V ;Kempenaers, B ;Liker, A ;Westneat, DF ;Burke, T.;... "Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias." eLife 7, (2018):

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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 (2018):

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Robinson-Junker, AL ;O'Hara, BF ;Gaskill, BN "Out Like a Light? The Effects of a Diurnal Husbandry Schedule on Mouse Sleep and Behavior." Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS 57, 2 (2018): 124-133.

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Rowe, RK ;Harrison, JL ;Zhang, H.;Bachstetter, AD ;Hesson, DP ;O'Hara, BF ;Greene, MI ;Lifshitz, J "Novel TNF receptor-1 inhibitors identified as potential therapeutic candidates for traumatic brain injury." Journal of neuroinflammation 15, 1 (2018): 154.

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Nunziata, SO ;Weisrock, DW "Estimation of contemporary effective population size and population declines using RAD sequence data." Heredity 120, 3 (2018): 196-207.

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Jones, KS ;Weisrock, DW "Genomic data reject the hypothesis of sympatric ecological speciation in a clade of Desmognathus salamanders." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 72, 11 (2018): 2378-2393.

Rivera-Robles, MJ ;Medina-Velázquez, J ;Asencio-Torres, GM ;González-Crespo, S ;Rymond, BC ;Rodríguez-Medina, J ;Dharmawardhane, S "Targeting Cdc42 with the anticancer compound MBQ-167 inhibits cell polarity and growth in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae." Small GTPases (2018): 1-11.

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Danelich, IM ;, ;Bergquist, WJ ;Osborn, JL ;Wright, SS ;Tefft, BJ ;Sturm, AW ;Langworthy, DR ;Mandrekar, J ;Devine, RM ;, ;Mathis, KL ;Pemberton, JH... "Early Diuresis After Colon and Rectal Surgery Does Not Reduce Length of Hospital Stay: Results of a Randomized Trial." Diseases of the colon and rectum 61, 10 (2018): 1187-1195.

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