Interested in the Sciences? ๐งช๐ฌ๐ญ๐ญ๐ชด๐๐ฆ ๐งฌโ๏ธโ๏ธ . Please join the Natural Science Club #ECSU. We meet on Thursdays at 4:00 pm in Room 104 of the Jenkins Science Center. Activities include: Journal Club ; Community Outreach; Career Guidance; Field Trips. #ECSUVikingsScience
Congrats ๐ to our Fall 2024 graduates ๐ in Biology (BS and MS) and Sustainability Studies (BS) ๐งช๐งซ๐งฌ๐๐ชด. You persevered, and the world ๐ is yours. Special ๐ to Karington and Juelle for completing their Undergrad Senior Honors Theses. #VikingPride๐ #ECSUVikingsScience
This semester, undergrads in BIOL 499 are part of the American Campus Tree Genomes project of @aeharkess#ECSU. We are sequencing an oak ๐ฐ tree near the library. Just sent off the HMW DNA ๐งฌto be sequenced ๐ค๐ค. Students will then learn to annotate. #ECSUVikingsScience#hbcu
Welcome, Mr. Michael H. as our Research Associate #ECSU. He will be assisting in lab preps etc. โ๏ธ๐งช๐ฌ๐๐ชด๐. He is a graduate of both our BS (2020) and MS Biology program (2022; sensors in detection of COVID-19 spike ๐ proteins) #VikingPride ๐ต๐ต๐ต. #ECSUVikingsScience#hbcu
Had a great time at @SIVBiology in St. Louis. Lots of ideas ๐ก ๐ค. Busy as Secretary/Treasurer of the Plant Biotech ๐งฌ๐งซ๐๐ชด Section. Seeing old and new friends (some fun also ๐๐ผ). Tasted @ArcticApples ๐. Great room (Arch seen from it). #ECSU#SIVB2024#ECSUVikingsScience
๐จ Journal Launch! ๐จ
The inaugural Issue of the Journal of STEM Leadership and Broadening Participation will launch on June 12th.
https://t.co/jx6rVp2OAz
#nevertoooldtolearn or relearn. Great CRISPR workshop at @IowaStateU. Lots of hands-on๐งช๐งซ. Designing gRNAs,๐งฌ etc. Agroinfiltration ๐๐ด of benthi leaves๐ชด. Maize transformation with embryos ๐ฝand protoplasts๐โญ๏ธ๐ด. Ideas ๐กfor my courses and research. #ECSUVikingsScience
Congrats ๐ to our Spring 2024 graduates ๐ #ECSU. You EARNED the MS in Biology; or the BS in Biology or Sustainability Studies ๐งฌ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐งช๐๐ชด๐. You did it, and we are so proud of you ๐๐ป โค๏ธ. Remember to visit us as you are now peer mentors. #ECSUVikingsScience#hbcu
Our Chair, Dr. Frontera-Suau represented the dept. at the recent Open House #ECSU. Thanks to the prospective students (and their parents) who came by. More info at: https://t.co/vW9CtTtdZl. ๐งซ๐งฌ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐งช๐ชด๐๐๐๐จโ๐๐ฉโ๐. #ECSUVikingsScience
CURE + all wet labs completed in General Botany #ECSU. 5% bleach best for placing African violet leaves ๐ into culture ๐งซ. Thanks to @VictorA24069829 for SEM๐ฌ pics ๐ธ. Great results from our physiology ๐ผ๐ชด and genetics๐งฌ๐ฝ labs @CarolinaBio. #ECSUVikingsScience#hbcu
Endowed Professor/ Distinguished Scholar available in my department. The Endowed Chair is expected to be a scholar/teacher in biology (areas include molecular biosciences, biotechnology, biomedical, organismal, or environmental research). Link below:
https://t.co/OuvWVfVlzs
Ceanna Kinney, a junior English student, Ashna Mahtani, a sophomore Biology student, and Keirsten McFadden, a senior double majoring in Criminal Justice and Psychology are all members of the ECSU Honors Program and will present at the conference April 3-6 in Jacksonville, Fla.
Always great to share PTC with others #ECSU. Plant Sci/Hort students from @COA_DOLPHINS placed African violet leaves ๐ into sterile culture๐งซ๐ชด. Also started potato ๐ฅ microtuber formation. Thanks to #undergrad Carmen. More collab with Dr. Buabeng ๐๐ผ. #ECSUVikingsScience
We had a great time at #ERN2024. Congrats ๐๐ to #undergrads Jacqueline H. and her co-author, ๐ Robert C. on the poster presentation on WFP shoot organogenesis (๐ข๐ฃ stigmas) ๐๐งซ๐ชด #ECSU. Took some time to also see the sights of DC ๐ท. #ECSUVikingsScience#hbcu
Drs. Adedeji and Young at Open House #ECSU. Thanks to the students and parents who came by ๐๐. Lots of questions about our programs. We did some hands-on๐ฌ (TC Venus Flytrap and the fruitflies ๐ชฐ they eat). Able to provide plantlets ๐ชดof Kalanchoe. #ECSUVikingsScience
Community outreach to Port Discover by the Natural Sciences Club #ECSU. Grad student Kanisha and undergrads: Cai'yah, Sydney, and Yasmeen did a program on salt ๐ง effects on germinating seeds. Data will be collected over a week. Tied to climate change ๐ #ECSUVikingsScience