Elise Tookmanian (she/her)

NCI Communications Fellow in @NCIEpiTraining 📝 PhD in Chemistry🦠 soccer, climbing, & fermentation 🏳️‍🌈 opinions expressed are my own 🐈

[Sáenz Lab @LabSaenz]

Why make many lipids? The importance of some lipids is only apparent under certain conditions. In our paper, @tookmaniac shows how hopanoids can help bacteria to survive variable soil conditions, despite being dispensable in plant symbioses. https://t.co/u1wPxE19vN @Ra_MicroSci

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

I'm so proud of this article I wrote on data science! Always excited to share what I've been learning from DCEG scientists and comms team! @jloukissas @justine_e_yu @mkstello9

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

😊😊😊

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

@James_Saenz these are a little TOO good tbh 😂

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

my friend @siobhanmacardle wrote this amazing piece! it contains my favorite fun fact that she taught me! looking for more? check out her insta @periodicallydrinkingchemicals.
Feeling wine: The science behind our perception of tannins https://t.co/fD8YN5JWru via @caltechletters

[Jennifer Loukissas @jloukissas]

Got 10 min? https://t.co/xNc3TH4F8E

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

I loved writing this research highlight & making a factoid (w/ help from @justine_e_yu, @jloukissas, & MK) on this interesting analysis by @psaintmaurice et al! So cool to see the importance of this work recognized by outside media. One more reason to dance in my kitchen 💃

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

Thanks Chelsey for the mask reminders! I also like the Graf Lantz masks with filters, but I am restocking on surgical masks for 2022.

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

Excited to be attending the NSPN Symposium for the second year in a row today. Looking forward to learning a lot today! #NSPS2021

[National Science Policy Network (NSPN) @SciPolNetwork]

We are so excited to be hosting our 4th #SciPolSymposium virtually Nov 19-20! The theme this year is all about the ongoing #ClimateCrisis and the many implications for food & housing insecurity, #PublicHealth, shared resources, & more!

Register at https://t.co/FDCZmZIu0W 🌎

[Caltech Letters @caltechletters]

"Development of these new educational tools could not only facilitate more effective remote teaching during the current pandemic, but also expand the capabilities of future classrooms to tackle persistent challenges." -- Shannon Esswein

Link to article: https://t.co/LgxArZsEGY

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

Stoked to see this database live and publicly available! Working on the user interface with @andradekc25 & others was such an eye-opening and rewarding project.

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

@LMT_Spoon @MicrobialFuture @phylogenomics bbs!!!! 🐣

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

rewashing my only spoon is the most sisyphean task

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

So lucky to be on such a welcoming and smart team! I love learning from them 😊

[Jennifer Loukissas @jloukissas]

My team!! 4/5 together, one virtual. This is what science communications, #womeninSTEM looks like! @tookmaniac @justine_e_yu @NCIEpiTraining

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

@DearBacteria ugh I miss you!!!!!

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

I forgot that my thesis is out in the world and thought I would share. Come for the endearing acknowledgements, stay for the chem bio project idea that someone should def steal from me for fun? https://t.co/hEswhXzmQy

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

what beautiful colonies

[Florence Schechter @floschechter]

so consciously i know this is a clementine cheesecake with white chocolate drops, but my biologist training is going BACTERIAL COLONIES ON AGAR DO NOT EAT

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

@LMT_Spoon mouth pipetting Pepsi in a chili's is peak child scientist

[Elise Tookmanian (she/her) @tookmaniac]

TRULY TERRIFYING STUFF

[NIH History Office @historyatnih]

Thanks to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel about Dr. Frankenstein, the mad scientist is a worn cliché in horror movies. But mouth pipetting is the horrifying image in this 1938 photo of Dr. Hugo Bauer working on the antibiotic sulfanilamide @NIH.