UofSC Graduate Association of Biological Sciences

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'Get Together' Tuesdays!

Mark your calendars!! Here are some events happening in September that you won't want to miss:

Arts and Drafts- September 10, 2021
Columbia Museum of Art- 1515 Main Street, Main at Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Time: 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Price: $10 / $5 for members
https://www.experiencecolumbiasc.com/event/arts-%26-draughts/65007/

34th Annual Greek Festival- September 16-19, 2021
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral- 1931 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Time: 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
https://www.experiencecolumbiasc.com/event/34th-annual-greek-festival/65051/

Jubilee: Festival of Black History and Culture - September 18, 2021
Mann-Simons Site- 1403 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201
Time: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
https://www.experiencecolumbiasc.com/event/jubilee%3a-festival-of-black-history-%26-culture/65041/

Hope to see you all there! And remember COVID safety first!

Another week, another dissertation defense!!!

Mark your calendars- Wednesday, July 7th @ 1pm in CLS 005

Stephanie Ackerson, a PhD student in the Stewart Lab, will be defending her PhD dissertation on “Human CST (CTC1-STN1-TEN1) promotes TopBP1 stability and CHK1 phosphorylation in response to telomere dysfunction and global replication stress".

All are welcome in person or via zoom (contact anyone in the department for link)

and please remember to follow covid safety guidelines!

And so we begin our summer thesis defenses!

To kick off the first of many: Lauren Faulk, a MS student in the Stone Lab will be presenting a seminar as part of her MS Thesis defense.

The title of Lauren's seminar is "Characterizing the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Cannonball Jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) in the South Atlantic Bight"

Join us!
When?- Friday, June 25th at 1pm
Where?- EWS 604 or via zoom (reach out to Dr. Reisman for link)

Shout out to Michelle Passerotti or should I say... Dr. Passerotti

Dr. Passerotti, a recent doctoral graduate, was featured in "Women of Fisheries" this week.

Titled "June Research Highlight: Shining a New Light on Fish Ageing", this story is all about Michelle's journey as a former graduate student here at UofSC.

Go check it out: https://womenoffisheries.org/june-research-highlight-shining-a-new-light-on-fish-agein

June Research Highlight: Shining a New Light on Fish Ageing - Women of Fisheries Welcome to our blog series, Research Highlights! On the second Monday of each month, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form! This Month’s Research Highli...

We love a Friday Feature 👏📣

Accuweather featuring Josh Stone, Assistant Professor at UofSC

"Hundreds of dead jellyfish wash ashore on South Carolina"

Take a look:

Hundreds of dead jellyfish wash ashore on South Carolina Experts say this is something that happens every year due to a combination of springtime jellyfish population growth and wind.

We are starting a new monthly series:

'Get-Together' Tuesdays 🤝

Every other Tuesday, GABS will be sharing events happening in the Columbia area. This is in hopes that members of our department will get together, socialize, and be a part of the community. But don't forget, COVID-safety first.

Here are some events happening over the next two weekends:

Columbia International Festival- Saturday, June 5: 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m and Sunday, June 6 12 p.m. to 7:00 p.m at the state fair grounds
https://www.cifonline.org/addmission

Outfest Columbia 2021- Saturday, June 5: 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM in the Vista on the 1200 block of Park Street
https://scpride.org/outfest/

Main Street Caribbean Festival- Sat, June 12, 2021 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/main-street-caribbean-festival-tickets-149742103663

Please always have your mask with you and if you are feeling under the weather do not attend.

Main Street Caribbean Festival Your safety is our top priority....We want you to come out to this free family-friendly event and Enjoy the experience.

Woah what a week- dissertations, pizza parties and now...

FURBABY* FRIDAY
*not always furry but always cute
🐶🐈🐇🐰🐀🦔🐷

GABS would like to introduce the newest furbaby in the biological sciences program... Duffy!!

Duffy and his mom have been research assistants at UofSC but as of summer 2021 they will officially be masters students within our program. Duffy was adopted last December from a shelter and is almost two years old. He has a gimpy leg but that definitely doesn't slow him down. His favorite activities are getting dirty, roughhousing, and barking at leaves.

Parent: Valerie Hinsch, a MS student in the Xu Lab.

Dissertation Defense Announcement 📣📣

Louis Berrios a PhD student in the Ely Lab will be defending this Thurs, May 6th at 10:30 am.

The title of his seminar is “The development of a tractable system to assess Caulobacter-Arabidopsis interactions"

All are welcomed- reach out to anyone in the biological sciences program for the zoom link.

Time to end the week with...

FURBABY* FRIDAY
*not always furry but always cute
🐶🐈🐇🐰🐀🦔🐷

This week we'd like to introduce another adorable family: Holo and Mika

Holo is the beautiful black fluffy cloud picture below. She enjoys playing with hairties, is the sweetest thing on the planet, and goes wild for some Fancy Feast.
Mika is a lovely striped tabby. She’s the eldest of the two and a sweet tiger of doom who enjoys joining in on Zoom calls, chasing the Red Dot, and follows mom EVERYWHERE she goes- so much she now has a harness to travel with mom anytime and any day ❤️

Parent: Rachel Schomaker, a PhD student in the Dudycha Lab .

On Fridays we celebrate!!

Congratulations Matthew Zdradzinski 🎉🍾

Matt is a PhD student in the Twiss lab and was just interviewed by the Journal of Cell Science.

“First Person" is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers.

Check it out:

First person – Matthew Zdradzinski | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists First person – Matthew Zdradzinski. J Cell Sci 1 April 2021; 134 (7): jcs258683. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.258683

Oh we have some cuties for you today- and by that I mean furbaby cuties because it’s...

FURBABY* FRIDAY
*not always furry but always cute
🐶🐈🐇🐰🐀🦔🐷

This week GABS’ introduces...
Jezebel & Ace

Jezebel wearing the cute black bandana is three years old, and Ace with the fancy plaid getup is two years old. Lauren, their mom, likes to call them the mutts - half spoiled, half rotten. They're sweet pit-babies who don't believe me when I tell them that they've exceeded the lab dog weight threshold. They like to play outside with dad and snuggle inside with mom. They can definitely get used to the whole "working from home" thing.

Parent: Lauren Faulk, MS student in the Stone lab.