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Biology News

2.21.19

Undergraduate Researchers Present Their Work at the State Capitol

1.24.19

Sci-Fi to Reality: Superpowered Salamander May Hold Key to Human Regeneration

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

3.08.18

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

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Prachee Avasthi, The University of Kansas

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Allison McLaughlin (Westneat Lab)

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Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Allison McLaughlin (Westneat Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar - Neural circuit control of value-...

3:30pm

Erin Calipari, Vanderbilt University

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Eco-Lunch

12:00pm

Kuehne Room

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Kayla Titialii (Morris Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

3:30pm

Elena Semina, Medical College of Wisconsin

THM 116

PhD Defense Seminar: "Intraspecific variation...

10:00am

Rose Marks

223 MultiDisciplinary (MDS) Building

SPRING BREAK - No Seminar

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Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Jiffin Paulose, PhD (Cassone Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar - Short-term evolution of a...

3:30pm

Nancy Chen, University of Minnesota, Rochester

THM 116

PhD Defense Seminar

1:00pm

Jacqueline R. Dillard

Kuehne Room, Small Animal Bldg.

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Oluwabukola Omotola (Pendergast Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

3:30pm

Celine Vetter, University of Colorado, Boulder

THM 116

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Courtney Waterbury (Smith Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

3:30pm

Gerald Downes, UMass Amherst

THM 116

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Sepideh Dadkhah (Harrison Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

3:30pm

Voot Yin, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

THM 116

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Julia Howell (Santollo Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

3:30pm

Kryn Stankunas, University of Oregon

THM 116

Graduate Research Talks

4:00pm

Laura Krueger (Morris Lab)

116 TH Morgan

Biology Seminar

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Kimberly Tanner, San Francisco State University

THM 116

Recent PubMed Publications

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.) (2019):

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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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Dalziell, EL ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Young, RE ;Dixon, KW ;Merritt, DJ "Morphophysiological dormancy in the basal angiosperm order Nymphaeales." Annals of botany 123, 1 (2019): 95-106.

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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 ;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, K ;Yao, L ;Zhang, Y.;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Xiong, Z ;Tao, J "A review of the seed biology of Paeonia species (Paeoniaceae), with particular reference to dormancy and germination." Planta 249, 2 (2019): 291-303.

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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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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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Santollo, J ;Daniels, D "Anorexigenic effects of estradiol in the medial preoptic area occur through membrane-associated estrogen receptors and metabotropic glutamate receptors." Hormones and behavior 107, (2019): 20-25.

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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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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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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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Coomer, CE ;Morris, AC "Capn5 Expression in the Healthy and Regenerating Zebrafish Retina." Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 59, 8 (2018): 3643-3654.

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Chen, YW ;Das, M ;Oyarzabal, EA ;Cheng, Q ;Plummer, NW ;Smith, KG ;Jones, GK ;Malawsky, D ;Yakel, JL ;Shih, YI ;Jensen, P "Genetic identification of a population of noradrenergic neurons implicated in attenuation of stress-related responses." Molecular psychiatry (2018):

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Han, YJ ;Baskin, JM ;Tan, DY ;Baskin, CC ;Wu, MY "Effects of predispersal insect seed predation on the early life history stages of a rare cold sand-desert legume." Scientific reports 8, 1 (2018): 3240.

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Lan, Q ;Yin, S ;He, H.;Tan, Y ;Liu, Q.;Xia, Y ;Wen, B ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM "Seed dormancy-life form profile for 358 species from the Xishuangbanna seasonal tropical rainforest, Yunnan Province, China compared to world database." Scientific reports 8, 1 (2018): 4674.

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Rodrigues-Junior, AG ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Garcia, QS "Sensitivity cycling in physically dormant seeds of the Neotropical tree Senna multijuga (Fabaceae)." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 20, 4 (2018): 698-706.

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Athugala, YS ;Jayasuriya, KMGG ;Gunarathne, AMTA ;Baskin, CC "Diversity of epicotyl dormancy among tropical montane forest species in Sri Lanka." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 20, 5 (2018): 916-925.

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Liu, K.;Cao, S ;Du, G.;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Bu, H.;Qi, W ;Ting, L "Linking seed germination and plant height: a case study of a wetland community on the eastern Tibet Plateau." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 20, 5 (2018): 886-893.

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Wang, G.;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Yang, X.;Liu, G.;Ye, X ;Zhang, X.;Huang, Z. "Effects of climate warming and prolonged snow cover on phenology of the early life history stages of four alpine herbs on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau." American journal of botany 105, 6 (2018): 967-976.

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Rodrigues-Junior, AG ;Mello, ACMP ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Oliveira, DMT ;Garcia, QS "A function for the pleurogram in physically dormant seeds." Annals of botany (2018):

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Rodrigo-Peiris, T ;Xiang, L ;Cassone, VM "A Low-Intensity, Hybrid Design between a "Traditional" and a "Course-Based" Research Experience Yields Positive Outcomes for Science Undergraduate Freshmen and Shows Potential for Large-Scale Application." CBE life sciences education 17, 4 (2018): ar53.

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Santollo, J ;Volcko, KL ;Daniels, D "Sex Differences in the Behavioral Desensitization of Water Intake Observed After Repeated Central Injections of Angiotensin II." Endocrinology 159, 2 (2018): 676-684.

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Pendergast, JS ;Yamazaki, S "The Mysterious Food-Entrainable Oscillator: Insights from Mutant and Engineered Mouse Models." Journal of biological rhythms 33, 5 (2018): 458-474.

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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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Altenberg, L ;Creanza, N ;Fogarty, L ;Hadany, L ;Kolodny, O ;Laland, KN ;Lehmann, L.;Otto, SP ;Rosenberg, NA ;Van Cleve, J ;Wakeley, J "Some topics in theoretical population genetics: Editorial commentaries on a selection of Marc Feldman's TPB papers." Theoretical population biology (2018):

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Hocking, JC ;Famulski, JK ;Yoon, KH ;Widen, SA ;Bernstein, CS ;Koch, S ;Weiss, O ;Canada, Consortium. F.O.R.G.E.;Agarwala, S ;Inbal, A ;Lehmann, OJ ;... "Morphogenetic defects underlie Superior Coloboma, a newly identified closure disorder of the dorsal eye." PLoS genetics 14, 3 (2018): e1007246.

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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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