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Sahana Kumar
@sahanakumar.bsky.social
biological sciences PhD candidate 👩‍🔬 @umdscience.bsky.social | mucus, asthma & gene therapy 🫁 | bharatanatyam dancer 🩰

https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/sahana-kumar
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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...
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
www.nature.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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 😒
August 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Testing out these new acrylic markers with quick microbe sketches 🦠 🧪

#sciart #art
July 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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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 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Fish feed cleanse and questionable asmr. Feeding the tilapia is an exercise in dodging their enthusiastic splashing.
February 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
There is clearly a theme here 🫁 👩🏽‍🔬
February 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A good first post for ✨ #MucusMonday ✨ ALI cultures stained for gap junctions (green), nuclei (blue) and mucus: MUC5AC (orange)
February 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
A good first post for ✨ #MucusMonday ✨ ALI cultures stained for gap junctions (green), nuclei (blue) and mucus: MUC5AC (orange)
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM