Aging scientist. Worm expert. Community-engaged teacher. Lab at Northeastern University. I watch worms die to learn how to live.
Lab: apfeldlab.mystrikingly.com
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-5671
Javier Apfeld
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wormtagdb.rc.duke.edu is such a useful tool! 😍
I searched a few genes we are studying and found 3 strains that are going to be super useful for various projects in the lab. Already ordered these strains from the #Celegans Strain Center @cgc-worms.bsky.social.
It is also genuinely thrilling and exciting to discover something new. Every time when it happens, when you can feel all the fog clearing and the insight emerge is magic, like everything clicks into place. That pure feeling keeps me wanting to do research more than anything else. It’s the best.
Fun read!
Another classic example is Cynthia Kenyon's discovery that loss of the insulin receptor DAF-2 extends lifespan in C. elegans, which came out of the control for a clever mutant screen in which progeny of single F2s are sent into dauer with daf-2(ts) to track lifespan of the parent.
The GSA gave me the opportunity to write an article in GENETICS reflecting on my journey as an immigrant in the USA and how those experiences have shaped my life and career. Thank you to all of my mentees, friends, and family who have supported me along the way 🙏
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What do I hope to accomplish by being a curiosity-driven scientist? To paraphrase the poet A. E. Housman:
The purpose of science, art, and law is to set back the frontier of darkness.
There is no rivalry between the studies of Arts and Laws and Science but the rivalry of fellow soldiers in striving which can most victoriously achieve the common end of all, to set back the frontier of darkness.
A.E. Housman's introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, 1892.
Major lab website update: my profile picture is no longer from a previous geological era.
ht to Max Heiman's @heiman.bsky.social thoughtful and lovely thread on A. E. Housman advocacy for basic curiosity-driven discovery research.
