Ian Will

Graduate student researching behavioral manipulation by parasites. Focusing on the fungal pathogen #Ophiocordyceps.

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB Thanks everyone!!

[🐝🌻Nash Turley🌻🐝 @NashTurley]

A sneak peak of the Naturistic video on the science of #ZombieAnt that premiers tomorrow on YouTube, Wednesday 10AM Pacific, 1PM eastern.
https://t.co/kDVOQiZCiH

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@fungolution @CharissaB ahh jealous. Maybe I'll have to ask for a sample once my corn starts getting along a little farther 🍄🌽

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

Plants talk and defend themselves with a dynamic lexicon and arsenal of chemicals - sometimes biosynthetic enzymes offer a way to make predictions about these compounds. Sometimes, not!

New methods to study the impact of non-canonical players in metabolite regulation can help!

[Dr. Jordan Dowell @Dowell_VOC]

Looking for a great read that will make you think about the interdependent nature of plant volatile metabolites?

Check out my newest publication w/ @plantevoecophys

https://t.co/Ky5sXLkbAr

[Thienthanh Trinh @thienthanhtrinh]

Wrote this when I first started grad school. It’s about struggling to communicate my science with my parents who speak a different language. Now that I graduated, I figured I would get it out there. Thanks @xylom for the platform! #FirstGen #WomeninSTEM https://t.co/KAh2MZ5D01

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB Thanks all!

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@HenrikLicht @CharissaB Thanks for the shout out, Henrik! We actually do a little comparative RNAseq too

[Dr. Jordan Dowell @Dowell_VOC]

This brilliant newly minted masters is on the hunt for a job! Any leads would be incredibly helpful she loves fish, fungi, and fieldwork!

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@Dowell_VOC @UCFBiologyDept Well, shit.

I do appreciate that you think I might graduate someday though.

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@lovettbr @CharissaB @another_ant_guy @thienthanhtrinh @kasson_wvu @zombieflied @naubinhorth @zombieantguy @hyphaltip @UCF @HiDrNic @fungolution @FuSchmu @UCFSciences Oooh, wild. And thanks for the tip about the name, we can try to update that in the proofs!

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB @another_ant_guy @thienthanhtrinh @kasson_wvu @zombieflied @naubinhorth @zombieantguy @hyphaltip @UCF @HiDrNic @fungolution @FuSchmu @UCFSciences Thanks everyone! And thanks to a great team of coauthors!

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB @kasson_wvu @another_ant_guy @thienthanhtrinh @naubinhorth @zombieantguy @joaofungo @zombieflied @fungolution @mbeisen @hyphaltip @VeraIDRos @FuSchmu I second this! We had to wear a lot of hats and reach into different specialties of biology to propose these hypothetical scenarios by which (putative) fungal effectors and ant responses might connect. It'd be great to hear what different expertise and perspective brings.

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB @another_ant_guy @thienthanhtrinh We have an exploratory ‘omics project that might benefit from a broad range of eyes on it, and, we hope already offers food-for-thought on parasitic manipulators.
But, I'm also a fanboy of peer-review and the pedantic gears of the scientific process, so feeling a bit conflicted.

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

Authors and readers that use #bioRxiv - I'm curious about your thoughts and experiences, has the platform been useful and do you recommend it?

Our team (including @CharissaB @another_ant_guy @thienthanhtrinh) is considering uploading an early version of a manuscript to bioRxiv.

[Helen J. Huang @HelenJHuang]

1st vids using @DeepLabCut for zombie ant #biomechanics! Wasn’t going to pass up a chance to collaborate with @CharissaB and learn to use #DeepLabCut ! Thanks @shirazi_en for these 1st tries. Hope to get some $ to devote more effort into this!🤞🏼😉 #UCF @UCFCECS @UCFSciences

[Ian Will @IanGWill]

@CharissaB @GeneticsGSA @UCFSciences @UCF Thanks all!

[Ryan D. Ridenbaugh @RDRidenbaugh]

The Sharanowski Lab @UCF is looking for an MSc. or Ph.D. student interested in Molecular Phylogenetics or Bioinformatics for the Fall of 2019. Applications are due January 15th (It's last minute I know!). If you have any questions feel free to message me! https://t.co/ZVpgaSiNEZ

[Sasha Hararuk @TheOtherDrKoval]

I am looking for grad students to join me at UCF in Orlando in Fall 2019. Please DM if you’re interested in studying carbon cycle dynamics (through models), or RT if you know someone who'd be interested. Application deadline for graduate programs at UCF is January 15.