Ryan Schwark, PhD

PhDone! It’s been an incredible journey and I’m indebted to my thesis advisor @IshmailSaboor for his mentorship. Huge thanks to all the amazing scientists in the lab, our collaborators, and everyone else at Columbia University @ZuckermanBrain for making this possible!

Exciting week for my lab with back-to-back PhD defenses. Congratulations to @Columbia_Bio students @RyanWSchwark and @justin_burdge on masterful thesis defenses!

It was so exciting to defend my thesis yesterday @ZuckermanBrain. Thank you to my lab, family and friends for coming out to support. Thankful to @IshmailSaboor for all of his support and mentorship over the years.

@IshmailSaboor @Columbia_Bio @justin_burdge Thanks so much! It’s been an amazing journey and I can’t wait to see what the lab discovers in the years—and decades—to come!

@IshmailSaboor @SimonOgundare @Will__Foster @phalaen_chang @AndreBToussain1 Our collaborators @caleb_weinreb, @Datta_Lab, @esschaffer, @KanakaRajanPhD, and Dan McCloskey were also amazing and invaluable. Science is a team effort and I’m indebted to everyone who helped make the mole-rat dream come true! 4/4

@IshmailSaboor Huge shout-out to everyone on the mole-rat team, @SimonOgundare, Preston, @Will__Foster, Wes, @phalaen_chang, Max, @AndreBToussain1, and Amanda. 3/4

Super excited to share my PhD project uncovering the weird & wonderful biology of naked mole-rats in the @IshmailSaboor lab! 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new pre-print where we discover behavior signatures of eusociality and social touch in the East African naked mole-rat. 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…