Gus Waneka

Molecular evolution, PhD candidate at Colorado St. Uni. Interested in the evolution of DNA replication/repair machinery - especially in plants! also🎹🎨🎲🍅🍺🐟

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

Really excited about this breakthrough by Luis Brieba and his group to express and purify plant MSH1 in functional form. Lots of additional avenues and ongoing work to understand its mechanisms for controlling recombination and mutation rates.

https://t.co/7vSRAOH93i

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

Please RT! Our lab has opportunities for a postdoc with experience in plant molecular genetics and/or biochemistry to investigate mutation rate evolution in plant mitochondria and plastids. Get in touch if interested!

https://t.co/yHcVgi02Ue

[UCW Colorado State University @UCWCSU]

"Opinion: Graduate workers at CSU are underpaid and overcharged" via @denverpost by GWOC's own Ben Freedman! #EndStudentFees #GWOCisMyUnion
https://t.co/utrhKlolfv

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

Something to consider when setting up your next food hang. Apparently black bears are super athletes

[Taal Levi @taaltree]

Bears are somehow still super underrated.

[Michael Foisy @Michael_Foisy]

Over the last week, our local ukrainian community has gathered over 9,000 pounds of emergency supplies to ship to the Ukraine. If anyone in Edmonton & area has connections that can help with finding cargo space or reducing shipping costs DM me pls! Thanks!

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

So how did >600kb of mtDNA get jammed into the middle of Arabidopsis chromosome 2? That’s almost 2x the size of the entire mitogenome! Check out our assembly of this complex region 20+ yrs after it was first identified.

https://t.co/kBhYihmAnO

[Grey Monroe @Grey_Monroe]

Mutations are NOT random.

Check out our discoveries published today in @Nature!
https://t.co/6kqW7RZmPc

Feeling super lucky to work with an amazing group of scientists on this unexpected and exciting line of research 🙏

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

Very happy to have this published in my fave society journal @MolBioEvol. Congrats to @JumpingGenomes on a huge effort!!

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

CU Boulder is waiving fees for GRAs and GTAs. Can we do this too @GradSchoolCSU?

https://t.co/eos7USWzef

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@ArlinStoltzfus @TheDMMcC @JoannaMasel I enjoyed the talk - thanks for posting! You mentioned related talks from Joanna Masel and David McCandlish, do you know if those are posted somewhere?

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@alishas2484 @KelloggBioStn @MSU_IBIO @cpkoza That's awesome Alisha! Congratulations!

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@Itgenm Hey man we had a deal.

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

The best part of doing molecular biology is dumpin' the leftover liquid nitrogen on the ground.

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@spiderdayNight @SloanEvoLab I realize that’s not visually polymorphic, but it’s stunning nonetheless!

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@spiderdayNight The massive mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene noctiflora is evolving by gain or loss of entire chromosomes https://t.co/oMAKnJLtWp @SloanEvoLab

[Dan Sloan @SloanEvoLab]

Please RT! Our lab is looking to add multiple positions, including a technician and a postdoc. If you're interested in plant molecular genetics and coevolution, check out our lab website and get in touch. #postdocjobs

https://t.co/yHcVgih5We

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

@Bridgette_Rae Thanks dawg! I used Grand Budapest Hotel colors from the wesanderson library in R!

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

Interested in animal mitochondrial genomes? Check out our preprint exploring rare mutations in the C. elegans mtDNA. Compared to mtDNA mutation spectra from several other animals, we find an abundance of CG>AT transversions. Potential explanations in link
https://t.co/mj6vW5g5M5

[Gus Waneka @GusWaneka]

Huge thanks to @SloanEvoLab, @jchavird, Josh Svendsen, and @TaiowaM for making this such a fun project to work on!