Congrats to all the #AQLM2026 participants, especially our very own Isabella Silveltri, for finishing this amazing course! I highly recommend this to anyone interested in learning more about microscopy - these MBL courses are life changing!
I chat with the barista's at Starbucks about our research and they've taken to drawing cell related things on my coffee (one even visited the lab)! I present to you all a cilliated cell on my Frap!
Who says science communication can't be fun or tasty?!
Some of my favorite Vandy people highlighted here!
Pizza, popcorn, and The Princess Bride.
Some Tuesdays just need to be a lab movie night!
I would much rather have early-career researchers like myself have a higher chance to actually get a grant than get a grant that's frontloaded. I likely cannot spend it in a year anyway, unless we can now just buy expensive capital equipment like microscopes and mass specs on them, which I doubt.
Even then, it makes more sense to have it spread out over a few years so we can spend it on personnel, which makes more sense.
Also, I'm not hiring 8 people at once, even if I could
Couldn't think of a better candidate to be on the ASCB Council!
Is PI life modifying a grant proposal as you're finaling last minute things for your brother's wedding in T-minus 16 hours?!
Just have to make sure I don't bring up signal transduction in my speech or childhood stupidity in my grant!