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Sahana Kumar

@sahanakumar.bsky.social
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biological sciences PhD candidate 👩‍🔬 @umdscience.bsky.social | mucus, asthma & gene therapy 🫁 | bharatanatyam dancer 🩰 sites.google.com/umd.edu/sahana-kum…

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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Check out this post @eselland.bsky.social, Becca Blyn and I wrote for Science Policy in a SNAP with @snapcoalition.org, on WHO and its role in driving global infectious disease policy! (Coming to you at a good time with the cruise ship outbreak 👀) 🧪👩🏽‍🔬
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Emily Selland, PhD (she/her) @eselland.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Becca Blyn, @sahanakumar.bsky.social and I combined our backgrounds to dive into the science-policy of infectious disease control, which is now out in Science Policy in a SNAP! medium.com/science-poli... @snapcoalition.org #WorldHealthOrganization #InfectiousDisease #SciencePolicy
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Who is WHO? The World Health Organization is a Pillar of Science Policy Regulations
Written by SNAP members Becca Blyn, Sahana Kumar, & Emily Selland, who contributed equally to this piece.
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
🧪👩🏼‍🔬 Excited to share that a part of my PhD work on mucus targeted gene therapy for asthma is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AAV-mediated MUC5AC siRNA delivery to prevent mucociliary dysfunction in asthma - Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy - AAV-mediated MUC5AC siRNA delivery to prevent mucociliary dysfunction in asthma
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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Today’s #SundayFishSketch is my nemesis, the cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni. The sex determination system in these guys is the source of at least 3 of my current headaches 😒
Pencil drawing of Astatotilapia burtoni, a blue male.
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Testing out these new acrylic markers with quick microbe sketches 🦠 🧪 #sciart #art
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
👩🏼‍🔬🐠
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is clearly a theme here 🫁 👩🏽‍🔬
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Sahana Kumar @sahanakumar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A good first post for ✨ #MucusMonday ✨ ALI cultures stained for gap junctions (green), nuclei (blue) and mucus: MUC5AC (orange)
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