Meagan✨

👩🏼‍🔬 PhD and Worm fan. Used C. elegans to study Wnt signaling in neuron development | she/her

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@DrWorms Thank you Boss! We made it safe and sound (even the moss ball) 😃

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

It’s official y’all! Dissertation passed 🎉

[DrWorms @DrWorms]

Congratulations Dr Kurland!!! An awesome defense by @onegraddown
Welcome to the Illuminati, and all the rights and responsibilities therein

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

I’m at the stage of dissertation writing where you start your coffee maker in the morning but forget to add your coffee cup 🤦🏼‍♀️ #phdlife

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@thiagoarzua Congratulations!

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@mikefeigin Following so I can cite the answer in my dissertation

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@ellle_em The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher. I could not put this one down, and I’m so excited for her next book to come out (October, I think)

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@mckellogs Shower or bedtime yoga videos can help with mine. Though sometimes they come back once those activities are over. I feel you though, breathing techniques never help with mine.

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@JordanBHarrod Upfront, the worst part was the apartment deposit, so I would definitely check what your pet rules are. Her adoption fee was $50, as was the first vet visit. She came with shots/spayed, so we’ll see what those run me at her vet visit next month, haha. But, overall, best decision.

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@JordanBHarrod I only have one, and she’s on the smaller side and doesn’t eat much, so my numbers might be a bit lower

Litter - 8.99, monthly
Food - 15.99, every 2-3 months
Replacement mouse toys - 3ish
Pet rent fee - 15 monthly
Flea and tick treatment - 10 monthly ( I got mine on sale)

[DrWorms @DrWorms]

Congratulations to my friend Martin and his former (my current) grad student Wendy! Nice paper on cnd-1 in C. elegans
https://t.co/unhyT4b41P

[terrell2spirit 🪶 @terrell2spirit]

We’ve been delivering care packages since April because at the time our reservation had the highest per capita in the country by this virus. There are still so many people without running water or electricity so anything would be appreciated, even a share! https://t.co/laEeRoYs6o

[Troy McDiarmid @TroyMcDiarmid]

Love showing this table of discoveries from Chalfie n Co.’s 2015 C. elegans primer to non-worm folks.

Can now add:
-Comprehensive, lineage-resolved single cell transcriptomes
-Mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetics & behaviour
-Brain-wide imaging

What else? :)

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

Why am I procrastinating on finishing my dissertation draft. There’s only, like, 3-5 pages left, and yet... 🤷🏼‍♀️ #phdlife

[terrell2spirit 🪶 @terrell2spirit]

2. The Navajo Reservation Relief Project organized by me. This is dedicated to purchasing and delivering food, water, and necessities to our people who are considered high risk. Updates & pictures are on our Instagram @/NavajoReservationReliefProject LINK: https://t.co/laEeRoYs6o

[terrell2spirit 🪶 @terrell2spirit]

A thread of fundraisers that are helping the Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 pandemic, feel free to share & donate (if you are able to)

The Navajo Nation has the largest reservation & is the second largest tribe in the U.S. but yet are still without running water & electricity

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

Hey #AcademicChatter #phdchat any suggestions for where to look/how to apply for non-academic non-benchwork jobs (aside from LinkedIn)? Since my degree is MCDB, I’ve only got an internships experience of “real world” work.

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

The life I want to live:

[Meagan✨ @onegraddown]

@jenn_klaus @ChandlerLab @KUMolBio Congrats! 🎉