Twitter face of the Department of Biological Sciences @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Troy, NY
Joined February 2018
Only 2 weeks left to apply for our open Assistant Professor position in Computational Ecology! See link below for more info and to submit your application by April 1! 🗳️ careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49…
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Today, our Biology & Biochemistry/Biophysics Graduate Student Council hosted "Dogs with Dogs" where students and staff brought their dogs to campus and we all enjoyed a hot dog lunch. Fun was had by all two-legged and four-legged attendees! 🐶🌭
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A huge congratulations to our RPI Biology faculty member Scott Forth, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Well deserved!
I am delighted to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! I would like to thank everyone (lab members, students, colleagues, mentors, family, friends) who helped make this happen. I’m grateful to be able to keep doing science for years to come!
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Exciting research out of the Relyea Lab! 🐸
When you hear the word “evolution,” you probably think of a process that happens over thousands of years. However, recent research led by Professor Rick Relyea has found that wood frogs have evolved to have an increased salt tolerance over just 25 years. bit.ly/4b6A3H1
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April 16th, 5pm - Troy Saving Bank Music Hall. Featuring our very own Dr. Hurley! @jennifermhurley
RPI To Host Panel on Sleep and Your Health April 16 @RPIScience @RPIEng news.rpi.edu/2024/04/10/rpi-…
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RPI Biology & BCBP PhD candidates Anqesha Murray and Nathan Smith making us proud with their cognitive decline tracking application and software, ADuCare!
I presented our point-of-care application and company ADuCare, LLC as one of seven new ventures during the 2023 William F. Glaser ‘53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Award Ceremony at @rpi! #innovation #ai #phdlife
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RPI Biological Sciences retweeted
Molecular biologist Jennifer Hurley was recently featured on the Bonding Over Science podcast, where she explained how her circadian rhythm research could help cellulase production for biofuel manufacturing: bit.ly/46DHmTR.
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🚨TWO DAYS LEFT!⏰ Submit your applications for our open rank faculty position in cell biology, developmental biology, and neurobiology at the following link: careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49…
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Only 2 weeks left to apply for our open rank faculty position in cell biology, developmental biology, and neurobiology! See link below for more info and to submit your application by Nov 15! 🗳️ careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49…
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Our very own Lucas Sutton (from the Hurley Lab) has received a U.S. DOE SCGSR award! Lucas will spend 12 months at Oak Ridge National Laboratory continuing his research on circadian rhythms. Way to go, Lucas! 🏆
Lucas Bowman Sutton Wins Graduate Student Research Award @RPIScience news.rpi.edu/content/2023/10…
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RPI Biological Sciences retweeted
Congratulations to the worlds newest Ph.D., Dr. Meaghan Jankowski! @m_s_jankowski
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Big news... We are hiring! Open rank faculty position in Cell Biology, more information linked below. We can't wait to welcome you to our department of incredible faculty and exciting research! careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49…
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With support from the @NIH, Jennifer Hurley, associate department head of biological sciences, is investigating the impact of circadian rhythms on life at the cellular level.
RPI receives $2M for ongoing research trib.al/TSZ5c7f
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Excited to see excellent work published in MBoC from @GaskaIgnas, former Rensselaer BCBP PhD graduate from the Forth Lab!
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Nathan Smith, doctoral candidate in biochemistry and biophysics, shares how his research is offering new hope for patients with Alzheimer’s disease: bit.ly/3KyqhT8.
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Expand your horizons! Apply for a MS or PhD at Rensselaer @rpi (GRE test is now optional). Deadline is January 1 admissions.rpi.edu/graduate
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Exciting new paper from the Marvin Bentley lab in which they visualize vesicle-bound kinesin transport and show that trafficking of the these vesicles did not correspond to the trafficking of their kinesin motor domain preference. Traffic DOI: 10.1111/tra.12692
A new imaging technique is upending the standard view of how proteins move in cells: news.rpi.edu/content/2019/10… #Science #research
And member of the RPI Biological Sciences faculty!
Associate Dean of Science Lee Ligon @DrLigon was featured in this @WNYT story on the first all female spacewalk! wnyt.com/education-stem/all-…
Woohoo -- congrats to the Swank lab!!
Congratulations to Chris Newhard, Sam Walcott, & Doug Swank for APSselect Award!
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