Veronica Anjali Davé

Biologist studying how our immune systems face viral infections, trying to sit down before fact as a little child.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@drugmonkeyblog and I think some people aiming for industry use a postdoc as an accessible place to continue to do some science while job searching because going through an industry job search process while also doing their final PhD year is difficult.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@drugmonkeyblog Yes, I agree. As it stands now, a PhD seems like a practical stepping stone to an industry scientist job and those who don't hold one might have a hard time being promoted out of a technician role. but I don't think it SHOULD be that way.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@HenryYin19 I agree with your advice... but it's unfortunate that the onus is entirely on brand new students to somehow do the detective work, often quietly and at risk of offending people, while those with seniority refuse to disclose what they know or to hold anyone accountable.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@jbcarmody Thx for sharing. It seems to me the expected amount of training for PhDs to be considered "competent and competitive" also grew. I guess these formal and informal shifts in expectations increase the # of clinical and scientific laborers working at low pay.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@jbcarmody Meanwhile, where do academic biomedical researchers fit in? Were they (we) deemed unable to contribute to advancing the field because they (we) don't have clinical expertise? Seems like a misguided idea that 1 person can or should be an expert in everything.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

Thanks for writing this summary of sentiments I share but didn't know how to articulate as clearly.

[C. Brandon Ogbunu @big_data_kane]

“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.”

New for @sciam, regarding debates around the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology

https://t.co/0WYpGAISzp

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@edhollox It’s (imo, appropriately!) high by US standards as well. The federal levels for NIH competitive fellowship recipients are here:

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@WashUGradWkrs $15 lets them start out low and then gradually increase until students are paying hundreds out of pocket. At UW I had to pay ~$150 every quarter for various fees. We were told this is standard across PhD programs— not so. ASEs should not be nickel and dimed by their employer.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

This is a huge loss. Stephaun Wallace's work was so meaningful bridging gaps between the community and vaccine and STI fields. His voice and leadership was important to me personally in @fredhutch BIPOC Caucus meetings during the hard times of 2020. RIP.

[Tat Bellamy-Walker @bell_tati]

My latest @seattletimes: Seattle medical and ballroom communities mourn loss of Stephaun E. Wallace

“Ask someone, ‘Was Stephaun your father?’ @idebelle76 said. "And hear the response from the people that he loved.”

https://t.co/ay7JKff2QN

[Journal of Experimental Medicine @JExpMed]

New work from the labs of @JennyLund15 and @PrlicLab @FredHutch shows that the immune cell compartment in human genital skin expands and contracts following HSV-2 reactivation, and includes cells recruited from circulation and proliferating cells. https://t.co/im2YZjCJUT

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

Happy to share this work that spanned the pandemic and 3 first-authors. Via high-parameter flow cytometry on genital skin biopsies just 10-20 mg in size, we found evidence of T cell expansion w/out exhaustion in recurrent HSV-2 ulcers. Grateful to the team and the participants!

[Jennifer Lund @JennyLund15]

Check out our new publication! We looked into the effect of recurrent or episodic infection on tissue T cell abundance, phenotype, and function. The field has a learned a lot from LCMV, but that certainly doesn't model all types of infections important for public health!

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@DubiousCA @Dianes_Willie (edit to say the Cedar fire, 2003. wrong portion of 8th grade).

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@DubiousCA @Dianes_Willie From San Diego originally. The first time that I experienced school closures for smoke and ash fall was when I was in 8th grade in 2004, I remember it vividly. After that, most of my years of school had at least a few days of closure for wildfire smoke.

[Jennifer Lund @JennyLund15]

It's been online for awhile already, but check out our new publication! We demonstrate an early and innate-like role for memory T cells in protection from mucosal virus infection: https://t.co/vuacYOTCLf

[Dan Tyrrell @danis1337]

No K99 award has been made to someone at an HBCU and only 2 R00 awardees have started labs at HBCUs.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@geomathMEW @etdundon Wow what a bummer. I think the imported doors are beautiful. It would be cool if preservation efforts could also think towards the future. Like imagine that imported door is still there in 100 years? Then suddenly that door is an eccentric piece of history with a cool backstory.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@drugmonkeyblog Mostly observed the perfunctory way, but I personally wish many things about the biomed trainee experience and expectations were more formalized. The informality of it is all well and fine until something goes sideways.

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@JustinTaylorLab Nice, thanks for this! Do you think we should prepare tetramers in 50% glycerol in general, or does that need to be assessed per tetramer? Do you happen to know if NIH tetramer core provides their stocks in glycerol or another buffer?

[Veronica Anjali Davé @etryn]

@HarmitMalik ☹️ Yesterday as I felt a migraine set in when I got the news that my dog's surgery went great, I finally learned that my relief-based headaches are called "let-down headaches". A website told me to just avoid stress so that I can avoid the relief associated with stress ending 😂