Just wrapped up another exhilarating week at Hopkins Marine Station for Embryology 2024 with @lab_lowe and @Vane_Barone, one of my favorite places on the planet.
Our first preprint is out! Led by Rohith Rajasekaran (@born2raisecell): “A programmable reaction-diffusion system for spatiotemporal cell signaling circuit design”
A visually stunning toolkit to build cellular radios that probe or control cell biology.
https://t.co/RA18asTEBQ
PCR is an essential technique that allows us to make copies of a piece of DNA in a test tube so that we can use it for countless different purposes (including DNA cloning -- see yesterday's video!).
@ExploreBiology@Definitely_Ben@lnbooth@rebeccakonte
https://t.co/X9gsrfyLJo
Congrats @Eliott_Flaum - 2nd year biophysics grad student in lab on passing her quals exam in flying colors. I am thrilled to have you in the lab! For celebrations, lab folks tried to rent a dog (Ellie loves dogs); apparently not possible. But on twitter, I found a cute dog.
(1/n) Latest pre-print. Can an adult living animal "shape shift" or morph right in front of your eyes? Led by incredible post-doc @Viveknprakash & brilliant theory graduate student Matthew Storm Bull https://t.co/ibQwCqcVWx Come for the movies; stay for "fracture mechanics"!
Graduation is a really special moment. Here we are right after the hooding ceremony for Haripriya, George and William @wgilpin0 - the smiles on everyone’s faces tells stories from the last 5 years. Congratulations!
A very special day; since the three latest graduates from PrakashLab will be leaving for new avenues. I want to share my gratitude to families that support us. So honored to meet George Korir, William Gilpin @wgilpin0 and Haripriya’s family who join us from near and far!
These aren't club lights or glow sticks, they're #glowworms. These insects, more commonly insect larvae, glow through #bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by a living organism.🐛#Science
Congratulations Dr William Gilpin - @wgilpin0 what a spectacular PhD defense. A combination of beautiful science presented elegantly. And that patiria miniata cake is out of this world! I am so proud to have worked with you William.
Congratulations Dr. Haripriya Mukundarajan. What an amazing defense talk - I am so proud of everything you have achieved. The mosquito cake was just the right way to end the event! Thanks everyone who came.
Very excited to share our most recent work at the @PrakashLab. Read on to find out about vertical tracking microscopy and "hydrodynamic treadmills" for single cells! https://t.co/kh7Qlg2Doe #Microscopy#Plankton#MarineBiophysics
Ingenious work led by my colleague @deepak_me90 in the @PrakashLab to build a whole new type of vertical tracking microscope... Literally everything you put it in, from grains of sugar to single celled plankton, yields a new surprise. https://t.co/TubO211cJf
Congrats @rebeccakonte - resident artist in lab - who just won the NSF Vizzies Challenge 2018 (Expert’s choice award) on her work depicting “Anatomy of a bite” - done prior to joining the lab. We are all so excited; mosquitoes can be beautiful (& deadly) https://t.co/d6z23gMUIB
@o_imperishable @khannakanika111@PrakashLab Hey! Unfortunately, no one has finished a Hindi translation for the newest version, but we do have completed translations in Marathi and Kannada. Could they be of any use?
Thanks for all the volunteers and behind the scene logistics to pull this off. Excited for the kids will explore next. Big shout out to @rebeccakonte@ckurihara who pulled through last minute to join - not sure what I would have done without them.
A phenomenal day filled with child like laughter, joy of discovery and diving into the microcosmos for the first time for many kids. Thanks #Dofest and @EmCollective for engaging us with the kids.