A photo I took of a brown bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska was chosen for the cover image of the January 2024 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The photo was chosen to accompany an awesome article on brown bear population genomics from Michael Westbury’s group. Check […]

In addition to the recent press coverage that our iScience paper has been receiving, I was invited on to Science Friday and Oregon Public Radio’s Think Out Loud to discuss our research on bears! Check out the interview audio and transcripts below! Science Friday – What We Can Learn About Diabetes From Hibernating Bears OPB

Our team recently published an article at iScience in which we identified eight serum proteins likely involved in the control of insulin resistance in hibernating grizzly bears. Check out the open access article here! Abstract Understanding how metabolic reprogramming happens in cells will aid the progress in the treatment of a variety of metabolic disorders.

The final chapter of my dissertation has been published at Genome Research! In this paper, we use an integrated functional genomics dataset to identify key mechanisms underlying snake venom gene regulation and to investigate the evolution of venom systems. Check it out here! A press release for this article can be found here. Citation Perry,