Gus Waneka
@GusWaneka
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Molecular evolution, PhD candidate at Colorado St. Uni. Interested in the evolution of DNA replication/repair machinery - especially in plants! also🎹🎨🎲🍅🍺🐟
Joined August 2009
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
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Abstract. MutS HOMOLOG 1 (MSH1) is an organellar-targeted protein that obstructs ectopic recombination and the accumulation of mutations in plant organella
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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
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"Opinion: Graduate workers at CSU are underpaid and overcharged" via @denverpost by GWOC's own Ben Freedman! #EndStudentFees #GWOCisMyUnion
https://t.co/utrhKlolfv
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Our minimum monthly stipend of $1,740 is also notably lower than the $2,035 average of our peers. Not only are we paying double the fees, but our income is significantly below average.
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Something to consider when setting up your next food hang. Apparently black bears are super athletes
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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!
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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
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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 🙏
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Very happy to have this published in my fave society journal @MolBioEvol. Congrats to @JumpingGenomes on a huge effort!!
…and now published in MBE :)
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CU Boulder is waiving fees for GRAs and GTAs. Can we do this too @GradSchoolCSU? https://t.co/eos7USWzef
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Just over two years after the completion of the 2019 report by the Graduate Task Force on Stipends and Benefits, CU Boulder is addressing the task force's top
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The best part of doing molecular biology is dumpin' the leftover liquid nitrogen on the ground.
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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
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Huge thanks to @SloanEvoLab, @jchavird, Josh Svendsen, and @TaiowaM for making this such a fun project to work on!
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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
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Check out which animals have a mitochondrial targeted mutS homolog. This may go a long way to explaining variation in mito mutation rates. Courtesy of @awesome_biology and @lavrov_dv
Dynamic evolution of the MutS family in animals: multiple losses of MSH paralogues and gain of a viral MutS homologue in octocorals https://t.co/feBmfMDC3M
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I always awkwardly struggle to get to the end call button on video calls. So I made this
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Yey basic science!
People should stop calling SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines a ‘miracle’. These vaccine are not miracles—they did not drop out of the sky. These vaccine are the result of decades of basic research. Everyone who likes the idea of vaccine miracles should support funding for basic research.
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Why do two endosymbionts sharing the same job in the same insect bacteriome have radically different rates of genome evolution? Excited about our collaboration led by @GusWaneka with @yumaryvasquez and @symboevo just out in GBE! https://t.co/LjirjJNQcT
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bioRxiv viewer https://t.co/zfhBXE6nPw Great paper with a great backstory from our lab!
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