Miriam Hood, Ph.D.

Postdoc @UCSF in Phillips Lab studying host-virus protein evolution @berkeleyMCB & @MarquseeLab Alum🐻🔍 @BrandeisU '18 🦉she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Marqusee Lab @MarquseeLab]

Check out @MiriamRHood's poster this afternoon from 1:45-3:45PM at #BPS2023 - INVESTIGATING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THERMODYNAMICALLY AND KINETICALLY STABLE SUBTILISINS TO IDENTIFY SEQUENCE SIGNATURES OF KINETIC STABILITY https://t.co/Mt3Wwujmyh

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

I have a poster this afternoon at #BPS2022 (B38) - stop by if you're interested in how sequence variation modulates protein unfolding kinetics, high throughput tools, or using proteolysis to probe high energy states!

[Marqusee Lab @MarquseeLab]

Check out @MiriamRHood and Eva Gerber's poster this afternoon from 1:45-3:45PM at #BPS2022 - PROBING UNFOLDING BARRIERS IN HIGH THROUGHPUT (897-Pos/B38) https://t.co/JF3Rv7cLLL

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

When you submit your fellowship application before the weekend so you can enjoy some downtime, but one of your letter writers hasn't submitted yet, so you just keep checking eRA commons... (they always submit on time, but my brain is really good at picturing the worst scenario)

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

But as we move to jobs with lower exposure risk it seems pertinent to consider not just the risk we face in lab, but the risk we face in getting to lab and the relative lack of ability to avoid risk.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

Getting pretty frustrated that universities seem to take age-associated risk very seriously, but not income-level. Grad students are far less likely than PIs to have the resources to stay home, avoid public transit, make use of curbside pickup, etc.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

I absolutely think that when offered you should take the opportunity to be vaccinated and I've been really glad to see all health services staff and custodial staff vaccinated first.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

This!! Learning shouldn't be an uphill battle against other's expectations of the "right" way to study

[katie❕katiefurman.bsky.social @furmank8]

Please, if your students request something (access to slides, recording the lecture, etc).. just listen to their concern. I promise that more likely than not, theyre actually, genuinely interested in facilitating their own learning - not just making it easier for themselves.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

Sage words from my mother: "Being punitive is completely counter to the idea of transferring knowledge"

Aka, please be kind to your students and err on the side of flexibility this semester, we're still in a freaking pandemic.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

@alphahelical @SotoReid_M I see an allergist off of Ashby and SHIP covers it! I had a referral when I started pre-COVID - but I'm not sure if you need one now? Happy to chat if you want more details!

[Marqusee Lab @MarquseeLab]

For anyone interested in learning with us, here is a great place to start: https://t.co/YeQbTzrZsB

[Marqusee Lab @MarquseeLab]

#BlackLivesMatter. Black Scientists matter. We are in solidarity with our friends, colleagues, and trainees. We stand in solidarity with those protesting the systemic racism that impacts Black Americans every day. We also commit to educating ourselves on how to be anti-racist.

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Science is a fundamentally human endeavor, whose purpose is to help us understand the world, better our lives, feed our innate curiosity. It is meaningless, empty, and toxic if placed above or in opposition to human rights and human lives. Humanity and justice must come first.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

Quals writing in quarantine means about 3 hours of active writing time is spread over a week and fueled by anxiety-induced baked goods

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

Okay, but does anyone know what Zoom University PhD regalia looks like?

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

My work-from-home lab set up:

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

@NRDall To clarify we were folding the cord back into its pocket.

[Miriam Hood, Ph.D. @MiriamRHood]

Very cool work from Emma Carroll in the #Marquseelab on how ubiquitination affects substrate protein stability and degradation but the proteasome!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Ubiquitination modulates a protein energy landscape site-specifically with consequences for proteasomal degradation https://t.co/aaO7zzOqEJ #bioRxiv