🚨 Publication alert! 🚨  Work from Associate Professor Glen Hood in collaboration with Professor Douglas Ruden at the Wayne State School of Medicine: "POLETicians in the Mud: Preprokaryotic Organismal Lifeforms Existing Today (POLET) Hypothesis" mdpi.com/2674-1334/4/3/…

📢 Seminar Announcement! 📢 Dr. Peter Unmack from the Institute of Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra is giving a talk later today in biology. "The enigmatic hemiclonal unisexual species complex in the freshwater fish genus Hypseleotris in eastern Australia"

📢 Master's defense announcement! 📢 Booker Ruud will be defending his MS thesis on Thursday, Sept. 25th at 1PM via zoom: "Plant Diversity in Vacant Lots Following Residential Building Demolition" This one is only via Zoom: us05web.zoom.us/j/86766482625?…

📢 Seminar announcement! 📢 Dr. Bruce Bamber from the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Toledo is talking to us about: "Whole brain analysis of olfactory coding in C.elegans" Room 1167 in the bio building at 11:30AM.

It’s not just #WarriorWednesday, it’s WSU’s first-ever Warrior Week! This week is full of campus activities guaranteed to bring out your Warrior spirit 💚💛 #wsuchemistry

🎙️ Podcast Alert!🎙️ Post-doc Dr. Abby Wicks and PhD student Julie Nitz from the lab of Tom Dowling were on the recent 'Fish of the Week' podcast from the US Fish and Wildlife Service: Check it out here: fws.gov/fish-of-the-we… Podcast #37 on Round Gobies!

📰 Faculty member in the news alert!📰 Professor Donna Kashian (Donna Kashian) was recently interviewed by Michigan Public about microplastics in the aquatic environment. Check it out here: michiganpublic.org/environment-cl…?

📢 Seminar announcement!📢 Dr. Matthew Dent will be telling us about "Carbon monoxide, sensing, selectivity, and signaling in microbes" this afternoon. 11:30-12:30 in room 1167 of the biology building. All are welcome!

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨 New work from the lab of Dr. Justin Kenney (Justin W. Kenney) looking at the effects of Arabian Jasmine on zebrafish behavior. The work was led by Trip. Atir. who visited Wayne State last year from Thailand. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

📢 Dissertation defense announcement! 📢 Shelby Kasto from the lab of Dr. Penelope Higgs will be defending her thesis on Tuesday, Oct. 21st. at 1PM in room 1167. Zoom link is also available. All are welcome!

🚨 Seminar announcement! 🚨 Our very own PC Lab will be giving a seminar today. ⚔️ ⚔️ Break out your light sabers and prepare yourselves: "Host-Pathogen War: The Hippo Awakens" Room 1167 of the biology building @ 11:30AM

📢 Publication alert! 📢 Check out the latest work on aging from the lab of Dr. Sadagurski lab "Canagliflozin Reprograms the Aging Hippocampus in Genetically Diverse UM-HET3 Mice and Attenuates Alzheimer's-Like Pathology" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac…

🎉 🎉 Congratulations to Shelby Kasto on her recent defense! #PhDone! She did her work the Dr. Penelope Higgs on: "Characterization of the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Myxococcus xanthus" Well done Dr. Kasto! 🥂🥂🥂

🎉 Big congrats to Antoinette Cunningham (10 yrs) & Rebecca Russell (15 yrs) for their WSU anniversary milestones! They have been advising undergraduates to help them succeed! 👏

New publication! 🧫 Shelby Kasto & Penelope Higgs : Regulatory network driving cell fate segregation in Myxococcus xanthus biofilms This study reveals how regulatory networks shape cell fate segregation in M. xanthus biofilms 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

📘 New book by BioSci alum Joseph Graves: Why Black People Die Sooner 🔗 cup.columbia.edu/book/why-black… 🌟 Read the review in Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Publication alert!🧬 Lead by Hadi Yassine from Jared Schrader: APEX2 proximity labeling of RNA in bacteria This study introduces APEX2-based RNA proximity labeling in bacteria, opening new doors for spatial transcriptomics in prokaryotic systems. 🔗 cell.com/cell-reports-m…

New publication! 🧬 Led by Emma Fidler from the Ansari lab: ASC1 & APE2 introns impact cellular fitness, transcription & RNA dynamics This study explores how introns in ASC1 and APE2 genes influence transcriptional regulation and RNA dynamics. 🔗 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fe…

📢 BioSci Seminar Series – Oct 27 🧬 Dr. Patrick Edger (MSU) 📍 BioSci Bldg Rm 1167 🕦 11:30AM–12:30PM 🎙️ Subgenome dominance in hybrids & allopolyploids Hybrid event – contact [email protected] Join us! #Genomics #PlantScience #WayneState

🎓 Successful PhD Dissertation Defense! Congratulations to Abu Ramim from the lab of Miriam Greenberg for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! His work advances our understanding of mitochondrial dysfunction and its impact on cellular metabolism.