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This fourth floor native is known for their green thumb and can often be seen hanging out on their breaks in their carefully curated garden.
Who is Tyler Ralph-Epps?
A term for a volcano that has not erupted for many, many years
What is dormant?
Named by Japanese game developers, this popular video game character inspired the name of this gene which plays a key role in limb development, body patterning and neural tube formation
What is the SHH/sonic hedgehog gene?
In the 1890s, Ivan Pavlov a Russian physiologist trained a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell. Through this classical experiments, he demonstrated what learning process?
What is classical conditioning?
This faculty member's office number is Rm2109 BSB
Who is Dr. Joy Alcedo?
A student who is currently the mother to many, MANY Tenodera sinensis, aka chinese mantisis
Who is Anja Zlatanovic?
A term used to describe the bottom-most organisms in the food chain whom break down organic matter into smaller compounds
What are decomposers?
The phenotype associated with the gene SLC24A5 in zebrafish where this mutation is well-documented, causing irregularly shaped melanin granules
What is the "golden phenotype"?
Isaac Newton, mathematician, astronomer and physicist extraordinaire described this law that stated "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"
What is Newton's third law of motion?
This faculty member's name is so nice that we see it twice on our first floor faculty directory
Who is/are the Dr. Kashian(s)?
This student is currently the president of the BSGSA
Who is Mohamed Chakkour?
An electrostatic attraction between two polar molecules, where the positive end of one molecule is attracted to the negative end of the other
What is dipole-dipole interactions?
A mutant phenotype of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans that are shorter, wider, and move more slowly than the wild-type worms
What is the dumpy phenotype?
A net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object
What is buoyancy?
Last retreat this faculty member made us all laugh by saying "diamonds are forever, but so are herpes"
Recently, the Detroit Free Press featured these 2 graduate students from our very own department on the front cover on a featured story titled "Stalking Microplastics".
Who are Ali Shakoor and Murtada Oshinuga?
A scientific tool that helps identify organisms or objects by asking a series of yes or no questions about their physical/observable characteristics
What is a dichotomous key?
In fruit flies, cheapdate is an allele of the memory mutant amnesiac which has been postulated to encode a neuropeptide that activates the cAMP pathway. This mutation makes the flies much more sensitive to what compound?
What is ethanol?
This term describes the maximum population size that an environment can sustain given the available resources
What is the carrying capacity?
This professor is "one in a million" and also 1 in 70 as they were recently appointed distinguished professor by the Board of Governors! There have only been 70 such appointments Wayne State University since 1959.
Who is Dr. Greenberg?
This student has a whopping 38 characters in their name making them the student with the longest name within the graduate student population.
Who is Kasun Madhuwantha Rathnasinghe Arachchige?
What is differentiation?
The name for a pear shaped projection that yeast make when they are ready to mate rhyming with "woo"
What is a shmoo?
The ruling planet of Taurus and Libra, this planet is the only planet that spins clockwise on its axis and has more volcanoes than any other planet in our solar system.
This faculty member's coffee shop pseudonym is Dr. Pepper
Who is Dr. Friedrich?