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Biology News

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

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

2.12.18

Impressive Undergraduate Researchers Take Work to State Capitol

2.09.18

A&S Students Among 80 UK Student-Athletes on SEC Fall Sports Academic Honor Roll

2.02.18

Alumni Spotlight: Owens Family Traditions: Biology, Optometry, and Basketball

1.26.18

UK Students Promote STEM Education to Women and Girls Through #IAmAWomanInSTEM Projects

12.21.17

Chemistry & Biology Majors Among Six UK Students to Win Kentucky Academy of Science Awards

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Recent PubMed Publications

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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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 (2018):

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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Dalziell, EL ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Young, RE ;Dixon, KW ;Merritt, DJ "Morphophysiological dormancy in the basal angiosperm order Nymphaeales." Annals of botany (2018):

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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 (2018):

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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 (2018):

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

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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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