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Yesterday the Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology collection had 96 new, *empty* shelves installed! Huge thanks to John P. Friel, Ph.D. and UA Dept. of BSC. Excited to reorganize IZ (with room to grow!) as part of the U.S. National Science Foundation DigInverts project!See a collection summary at invertebase.org/portal/collect….

Congrats to to Jasmine Allen, from the Yoder lab, for passing her Masters defense!

Kudos to Chelsea Smith, from the Atkinson lab, for having her paper, "Full life cycle assessment of insect biomass allows estimation of bioflows across water, air, and land," published in the Journal Ecosphere!

Today Victoria Faber from the Chtarbanova lab successfully defended her Masters Thesis titled “Investigating the role of the Drosophila Relish (NF-kB) activation in age-dependent immunity following infection with Flock House Virus." Great work Victoria!

Deadline approaching for 2024 BGSA UA Dept. of BSC merch! Check email/flyer below for details on ordering!

A big round of applause to our three 3MT finalists (out of 15 - more than any other department)! Kyle Breault of the Benstead Lab won first place and People's Choice and will go on to the regional finals in March. Henry Mauser of the Kim Lab won third place. Congrats!

This week, we're featuring DCE Riddiford Award nominee Amelia Diaz Amelia Diaz for #MeettheScientist! Amelia is an undergraduate student at UA Dept. of BSC, where she is investigating how environmental pollutants affect physiological and immune responses in Eastern newts! 🦎🦠

New Environmental Science & Technology Journals paper examining demographic disparities in well water testing! doi.org/10.1021/acs.es… @kelseyjpieper #BamaEcoHydro Alabama Water Institute UA Dept. of BSC @UA_AS

Check out this video from Science, featuring UA biology PhD student Chandler Olson (Kocot Lab)!

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ ICYMI: our #IcyInverts team will be blogging during the NBP25-01 cruise to the Ross Sea, #Antarctica. Check it out to see the amazing animals we 🫶 at icyinverts.com #Peracarida #SweatTheSmallStuff UA Dept. of BSC Alabama Museum of Natural History NMNH Invert Zoology SICB Division of Invertebrate Zoology

📢THIS JUST IN: the Biology Graduate Student Association's spring event calendar is out! Add these events to your calendar and check your emails for more information.

🦋BGSA now has a BlueSky account! Follow us at uadeptbsc.bsky.social for departmental updates. Don't worry- we'll still post here too!

🦎ICYMI: UA PhD student Dartagnan Mullins (Burress Lab) won the Wake Award for Best Student Poster in the Division of Phylogenetics and Comparative Biology at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology's (SICB) annual meeting!

🐙Congrats to UA professor Dr. Kocot and UA alumna Dr. Meghan Yap-Chiongco on the publication of their research in Science Magazine!

🥞THIS FRIDAY: Come out to the Math & Science Building for some homemade pancakes and to speak with your BGSA officers!

🎉Congrats to Tyler Altman for the defense of his MSc thesis entitled "Differential Effects of Beta Blockers on Coxsackievirus B3 Infection: Propanolol as a Promising Antiviral Agent." Tyler was co-advised by Drs. Kim Caldwell and Jon Sin.

Congrats to Veronica Campbell from the Yoder Lab for successfully completing her MA project, "The Crossroads of Genetics and Socioeconomic Status: Where Epigenetic Changes and Modern-Day Exposures Meet to Increase Disease Risk in Underserved Populations"!

TODAY - BGSA End of Year Picnic, location changed due to weather, we will be in Bevill 1000 from 3-6pm!

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the last Friday of the month! We had a fun little pop up event for the department with 7 Brew Coffee!

Congrats to Ayodele Oyadeyi of the Ackermans Lab for his successful M.S. Defense, “Assessment of Neurodegeneration Biomarkers in Headbutting Goats”!