Biological Sciences

After a successful first summer, Assistant Clinical Professor Heather Williams talks about a new @UBBiology program offering students from other institutions the chance to spend time at #UBuffalo conducting research. arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/news-and-event…

Great summer program here ran by great people. Looking forward to next year's summer students. :) buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/…

Who knew there were so many mucins? Fantastic work from my colleagues Stefan and Omer on Mucin gene evolution recently published in science.org/doi/full/10.11… I have followed the evolution (no pun intended) of this paper with interest. @Ruhl_Lab @gokcumen

Saliva is up to some weird evolutionary business. New research from @Ruhl_Lab and @gokcumen, published in @ScienceAdvances, confirms what has long been suspected: spit just keeps on evolving. sc.org/3cpQ6He

⁦💧💧#SALIVA💧💧 @gokcumen⁩ and ⁦@Ruhl_Lab⁩ on BBC Inside Science talking about "What actually is spit?" and "How did mucins evolve?". The interview starts at around minute 24. BBC Inside Science - Dealing with drought - BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Trailblazing work by @PetarPajic93 on the evolution of mucin genes. Congratulations, Petar!

Hey, that’sa me! buffalo.edu/news/releases/…

Our very own @gokcumen is @Radiolab - Talking about poop, Neanderthals, Crohn's, and ancient alleles. radiolab.org/episodes/neand… We hope that @latifnasser is feeling better. @lmillernpr @UBScience

Cool stuff from @UBBiology @UBCAS @UBuffalo Polar bears and grizzlies, oh my! newsweek.com/polar-bears-gr…

A great day for @UBBiology honors students. Congratulations to all!

Please join us in congratulating our undergraduate fellowship recipients! Raszl Fellowship: Aniket Maini Abate Fellowship: Nathan Pfeffer learn more about undergraduate fellowship opportunities and our previous winners: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/biological-sci… @UBScience @CSTEP_UB @UBCAS

So exciting to see the final proof of my first first author paper! Still amazed by how fast we were able to pull all of this together. #biology #ScienceTwitter jbc.org/article/S0021-…

"How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?" This story featuring @UBBiology's Victor Albert is now in The Atlantic. On the #evolution of flesh-eating plants: theatlantic.com/science/archiv… Originally published in @KnowableMag.

.@UBBiology's Victor Albert talks w/ @KnowableMag about how carnivorous plants became predators: “Evolution is sneaky and flexible. It takes advantage of preexisting tools. It’s simpler in evolution to repurpose something than make something new.” knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

A thorough analysis of auditory nerve activity at the cellular analysis. @SfNJournals jneurosci.org/content/early/… @nwon312 from Xu-Friedman lab leads the charge. @UBScience

Motor neurons innervate the body. A study led by the Lee lab in @UBBiology describes how a gene called Kdm6b helps these cells diversify into crucial subtypes that activate different muscles: buffalo.edu/news/releases/… Research in @NatureComms.

Successfully defended my PhD with @UBBiology @UBuffalo @UBCAS! Onwards to study axonal regeneration with Dr. Zhigang He at @FMKirbyNeuro @BostonChildrens @BCHPostDoc (but first... i sleep...)