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http://www.depts.ttu.edu/biology/ 30-11-2017 16:28:04
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May I present the entire vascular flora of Antarctica: Deschampsia antarctica (hairgrass, right) and Colobanthus quitensis (pearlwort, center), collected by BiologicalSciencesTTU prof Natasja van Gestel. Seen here awaiting prep for the herbarium along with an array of mosses and lichen.




My review article is finally out!!! Wakeman Lab Want to learn more about biofilm subpopulations, check this out :) #biofilm #phdlife frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…



TTU students, make sure you swing by the CISER Research Carnival on Wednesday from 10 AM to Noon in the SUB! Lots of orgs, programs, and tables. And, free snacks! SSO CISER @ TTU BiologicalSciencesTTU


Through an international research effort, Thomasomys salazari, an endemic Ecuadorian mammal, was described in the "Journal of Neotropical Mammalogy" and named in tribute to TTU DBS Bolivian Mammalogist, Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo. Read more bit.ly/2VqPbJu. Neotropical Mammals


.BiologicalSciencesTTU professor Liam McGuire has made a career of studying BATS! In #23Questions, he answers: 🦇 Do bats really feed on blood? 💥 What in the world is a bat-bomb? 📺 His favorite tv show? (not Batman) And so much more! #IAmARedRaider #TexasTech youtu.be/KT4viImneaQ

Check out this press article written by one of my favorite humans as part of #BatWeek! Here, she writes about her research at BiologicalSciencesTTU dealing with tradeoffs between migration and hibernation in Mexican free-tailed bat populations. medium.com/@WCS/for-winte…

It's an honor to receive the #OpenAccess data award from TexasTechLibraries . Awards like these help to encourage open data sharing.



Come join a growing group of plant ecologists! I’d be happy to answer any questions about grad student life in #Lubbock or our department (BiologicalSciencesTTU)

BOT3404 students BiologicalSciencesTTU are in the Herbarium today sampling Abronia specimens for DNA extraction. Next they will be doing targeted sequencing for a phylogeny of the entire western US genus!


Nice job, Logan! Presenting some of our cool collaborative research at the CISER forum today! SSO CISER @ TTU TTU Nutritional Sciences BiologicalSciencesTTU (photo credit, Dana Weiser). Our undergrad researchers are awesome!


Excited to share our recent review on "Pseudomonas aeruginosa polymicrobial interactions during lung infection" Was fun compiling this one for the themed issue on Host-microbe interactions: bacteria Wakeman Lab Jiwasmika Baishya #WomenInSTEM #AcademicTwitter sciencedirect.com/science/articl…



