What a fantastic presentation! Everything you’d want from a PhD defense- superb storytelling, beautiful data, and recognition of the ups and downs of science. Excellent job, @RisaMinurrit! It’s been a pleasure to collaborate with you and I’m excited for the next experiments 🪰
Congrats to @RisaMinurrit who just defended her Ph.D. Thesis today; 🙏 to her wonderful family & friends for visiting & to her labmates who threw an awesome party! Look for her preprint about her collaboration with @LeilaRieder soon. It’s been wonderful to watch her in action.
Long-shot ask: do any Drosophilists have a stock of the abo2 allele? It’s no longer available at BDSC, but we’d love to get our hands on it…! @HarmitMalik@LeilaRieder
If you're thinking about going on the faculty job market, take a look at this advice doc I just shared with https://t.co/g8QLJ3PqZl: I collected my thoughts about the whole dang thing, from finding positions to negotiating a contract, & I hope y'all find it helpful!
We’re rooting for our FIRST/IRACDA scholar Dr. Monica Thieu @monica_too_ as she competes in the first-ever “Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament” on Thursday, March 28, hosted by trivia legend Ken Jennings. https://t.co/58T5qRRBaQ via @emoryuniversity
Loved to see incorporation of climate data by setting up weather stations! This could finally be my chance to collaborate with my brother @schmidtgotreal 😂
Impressive international citizen science “Melanogaster: Catch The Fly!” shown by @GonzalezLab_BCN@IBE_Barcelona@LCATMon training to capture/ collect/report natural Drosophila populations & use PCR to identify transposable elements.#TAGC24 Building an Equitable Scientific Future
Important work by @tommyohistone--we were surprised to find that the Drosophila pioneer factor Zelda, despite targeting the zygotic histone genes, doesn't seem to be doing much at the locus!
Dr. Casey Schmidt, Emory FIRST IRACDA Fellow, presenting her research on characterization of HLB regulation in Drosophila melanogaster at the Annual #IRACDA2023 Conference.