UofSC Biological Sciences

🌟✨ Celebrating Excellence in Biological Sciences! 🌿🔬 Our very own Department Chair and Professor, Dr. Tammi Richardson, has been honored with the prestigious 2024 SEC Faculty Achievement Award! 🏆🎉 #ExcellenceInScience #UofSC #FacultyAchievement sc.edu/uofsc/posts/20…

Calling all botanists, herpetologists, birders, and anyone who loves the outdoors!!   You’re invited to a seminar by Dr. Eric LoPresti on how we can all contribute to natural history, at 7pm this Thursday, November 13, at the Columbia Garden Club Council building.

Meet Beth Krizek— our Faculty Member of the Week! ✨ Dr. Krizek is a researcher in Plant Development Biology.🌿 When she isn’t in the lab or classroom you can find her reading. A fun fact about her is while she was a postdoc in Southern California she claimed Mt. Whitney!

Meet Hexin Chen — our Faculty Member of the Week! ✨ Dr. Chen is a researcher in Cancer Stem Cells and Cancer Immunology. When he’s not in the lab he is on the court playing tennis! Here are some fun facts about him! Thank you Dr. Chen for all you do!#facultyoftheweek #uofsc

Hi everyone! My name is Alayna Brown and I am thrilled to introduce myself as the new Student Relations Coordinator for the Department of Biological Sciences! I can’t wait to connect with you, share exciting updates, and celebrate all the amazing things going on year! 💚

🔬 Exciting News! Drs. Merritt and Richardson have a new paper out in the Journal of Phycology! 🌿 Their study delves into the variability in spectral absorption within cryptophyte phycobiliprotein types! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp… #Phycology #Cryptophytes #Research 📚🔍

🔬 Exciting News! 🎉 Our very own Dr. Dan Speiser is making waves in the scientific community with a groundbreaking paper just published in @sciencemagazine! 📄🌟 Congratulations to all involved! 🎊🙌science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🎉 Fantastic News! 📚 Thrilled to share that Ymani Wright and Dr. Alissa Armstrong have a paper accepted in microPublication Biology! 🌟👏 Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement! 🥳👩‍🔬👨‍💻 #Publication #Drosophila #aminoacids🎓📖 tinyurl.com/4svxxh7f

Really excited to have Damie joining the lab as a postdoc starting this summer! Time to do some fun disease research! 🎉

NEWS | Dr. Jeffery Twiss from @UofSC_CAS wins 2022 @SEC Faculty Achievement Award for @UofSC. #ItJustMeansMore thesecu.com/news/sec-annou…

We're a "hidden gem"! @UofSC @UofSCBiology's W. Gordon Belser Arboretum named one of Columbia's hidden gems by @thestate newspaper. From dining to entertainment, here are the best hidden gems near Columbia, according to you thestate.com/news/local/art…

🎉New work from our lab🎉 Graduate researchers Cleber Ten Caten and Lauren Holian leading this work exploring how species occupancy relates to local mean abundance across broad temporal and taxonomic scales. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🎉Pleased to announce that @shoebutterbean defended her Ph.D. and is now Dr. Rachel Schomaker! Her work on the plasticity of trophic strategies in #cryptophyte #algae uncovered new insight into mixotrophy and how light spectrum🌈 influences photophysiology and gene expression.

Congratulations!! to my awesome grad student Foster Ritchie @UofSCBiology for his successful 🎓Master thesis defense on the role of Ash1l in neuronal development!!!! #proudPI 🥳🥳🥳@UofSC_CAS

Do you ever feel like stress is shortening your lifespan? The latest piece in our collaboration on #aging in #Daphnia with biochemist Rekha Patel is out! In this work, newly-minted Ph.D. @UBennie compared oxidative stress responses in long- and short-lived Daphnia. (1/7)

Congrats to UofSC graduate student @TrinityDepatie on winning the Best Student Poster Award at the recent @SICB_DOB conference!

Congratulations to the 4⃣ Arts and Sciences faculty members elected as @aaas fellows, a distinguished group of scientists, engineers and innovators. 👩‍🔬🔬💡 Learn more about the fellows: bit.ly/3g25jwp

. @NRSenner, assistant professor of ornithology at #UofSC, is one of the leading advocates for the conservation of migratory shorebirds like the Hudsonian godwit. He recently talked with @SmithsonianMag about his research in the Alaskan bog. 🔗: bit.ly/34hjuLc

We recently named seven faculty members as Peter and Bonnie McCausland Faculty Fellows for 2022. Read more about this year's fellows: ⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/3qGYk1O

Congrats!! to our @UofSCBiology awesome grad students awarded 2022 SPARC grants!! 🥳 Ken Frederick - Patel Lab Madison Janakis - Speiser Lab @jennylinscott - @NRSenner Lab Kristiaan Merritt - Richardson Lab @planktonlv Janay Vacharasin @JanayJC - @sblizarraga Lab