Beatriz C. Mercado

Dartmouth College MCB PhD candidate| NSF GRFP fellow | Brown University NIH-PREP scholar | JJC CMB BS | BCC AS Biology 🧬 👩🏽‍🔬 🔬 🇩🇴

[Beatriz C. Mercado @Sci_Bea]

Happy to announce that I’ve been awarded the NSF GRFP ! Thank you to my fantastic advisor @DionnaKasper, and friends for supporting me !
I’m beyond happy to be a #NSFGRFP fellow !

[Dartmouth MCB Graduate Program @MCBDartmouth]

MCB Students in the Spotlight! @Sci_Bea (Kasper Lab @MsbDartmouth) is a @DartGRAD Community Fellow and has been integral in @sacnasdartmouth:

https://t.co/4DHeg3bCfP

[SCARE @MBL_SCARE]

SCARE 2024 has included amazing laboratory sessions! Thank you to all of our course sponsors that helped make these lab sessions possible!

@MBLScience
@STEMCELLTech @zeiss_micro @LeicaMicro @NikonInst @EmbryotechLabs @promega @invitrogen @Eppendorf_Group @Agilent

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

How on earth did @SciReports approve this figure as an "uncropped" blot?
#imageForensics

[Daniel Castranova @dancastranova]

New work from the #WeinsteinLab is on biorxiv! With MAJOR help from @ZebrafishMK and @aurora_kraus : The axillary lymphoid organ - an external, experimentally accessible immune organ in the zebrafish. Tweetorial below. #Zebrafish https://t.co/naiDHeQP6B

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

How to measure remaining daylight with your hand.

[Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock]

Confocal image of the zebrafish nervous system. Credit to @YAlbertPan. #ZebrafishZunday

[Abhinav Sur, Ph.D. @abhinav_sur]

🎉Exciting news! Daniocell is now accessible via ZFIN! 4 years ago, when I started working on zebrafish with @JeffreyAFarrell, I was awestruck at the immense resource that is ZFIN. Happy to see Daniocell worthy of a place in ZFIN.

[Posts Of Cats @PostsOfCats]

black cat dressed as a vampire, dignified and cool

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Stingrays like to be tickled apparently 😭

[The Dartmouth @thedartmouth]

In response to Wednesday’s protest, more than 50 faculty members wrote in support of College President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership.
https://t.co/zMpn41N82m

[Hao Yin @HaoYin20]

Mechanosensing by Vascular Endothelium

“Making Sense of Senses”

A comprehensive review of #endothelialCell Shear & Stretch sensors
Must-read!👹

Ion channels
#Piezo1 TRPV4 KIR2.1 ENaC TREK-1

Receptors
GPR68 BK2 S1PR1 H1R

Membrane structures
Glycocalyx Caveolae Integrin CD31/VE-cad/VEGFR2 PlexinD1

Any compressive force sensor?😃

Alk5/TGFβR1 also acts as shear sensors to drive #EndMT😁

@XinRuiLimEmily1 @OsamaHarraz Annu Rev Physiol 2024 @AnnualReviews
https://t.co/bNijNT8ErR

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Scientists have engineered an antibody-drug fusion that can calm immune cells that drive inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, while avoiding systemic effects linked to conventional drugs. @ScienceTM https://t.co/PHWk5eW7pM

[😡fermion, PhD @angryfermion]

spotify wrapped now on arXiv

[José Delgado, Ph.D. @jmdelgado_]

If you’re at #NDiSTEM2023 and want to learn about our graduate programs and grad life at Dartmouth College stop by booth 1442!! @sacnasdartmouth @DartGRAD @GOLDartmouth

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Sheep leaf sea slug.. 😊

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

Cat got a cold and vet recommended a warm compress for his eyes. I guess he's enjoying his spa time

[SACNAS Chapter at Dartmouth College @sacnasdartmouth]

Give a huge round of applause to our new 2023-'24 executive board ! We are all excite to continue to build community and uplift URMs at Dartmouth !

[Yaniv Lab-Weizmann Institute @yaniv_lab]

New preprint alert📢
Brain vascular abnormalities are at the root of serious cerebrovascular diseases like strokes & dementia. In this work, led by @IvanBassi3, we investigate the mechanisms regulating Neurovascular unit (NVU) development & integrity
@KarinaYaniv @IRB_Department