Postdoc @MCDB_Yale @YaleMicroPath | PhD @PrincetonMolBio | BS @umich | Microbiologist, cyclist, horror movie enthusiast

New Haven, CT
Joined October 2011
“I have concepts of a plan” is my new go-to excuse for when I behind on writing
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Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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A last minute addition to your summer reading list... Coleen Murphy's book, How we Age: The Science of Longevity. Murphy's lab is focused on the process of aging, which remains one of the fundamental mysteries of biology. Read an interview with the author: molbio.princeton.edu/news/20…
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We are very excited to announce the Inaugural Quantitative Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (QFLIM) workshop at NIH in Bethesda co-organized by Jay Knutson (NIH) and Chris Combs (NIH), on November 7th, 2024. The Inaugural QFLIM Symposium will be held on the campus of NIH in Building 10, Masur Auditorium. FLIM is a rapidly growing technique in microscopy that provides unique and robust information about metabolic state, analyte concentrations, nanoscopic probe flexibility and environments and molecular proximity; it has wide applicability in cell biology and pathology. In this first year, a group of local and international speakers will showcase a variety of applications while discussing the advances made possible by the latest instruments. The QFLIM symposium will be a one day event (this year) and we are expecting ~150 academic attendees. Attendance will be capped. Confirmed speakers (with more tbd); Chiara Stringari (Keynote) Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Paris David Jameson Department of Cell and Molecular Biology , John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ammasi Periasamy Keck Institute, University of Virginia Melissa Skala Morgridge Inst., University of Wisconsin - Madison Alexandra Walsh BME dept., Texas A&M Steve Vogel NIAAA Luke Lavis Janelia Farms, HHMI Hailey Parry NHLBI Rozhin Penjweini NHLBI/LAMB Walter Philip Bleicher NHLBI Kandice Tanner NCI There will be a poster session and a dedicated vendor session. There will also be time for vendor lightning talks. The tentatively, truncated, meeting schedule; 8:15a Registration and breakfast 9a Opening Remarks 9:15a-6:30p Talks, and everything else! There will be vendor tables available. Registration will be open by September 1st. We hope to see you soon!
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Jing Yan has been named a Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution. To read more, visit mcdb.yale.edu/news/jing-yan-…
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Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: molbio.princeton.edu/graduat…
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Congratulations, @zgitai1 !! 🍾🥂
AAAS is thrilled to announce our 2023 #AAASFellows! “This year’s class embodies scientific excellence, fosters trust in science throughout the communities they serve, and leads the next generation of scientists,” said AAAS CEO @sudipsparikh. Read more: brnw.ch/21wIWyv
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Super excited to share my PhD work on 3D diffusion in live bacterial cells!
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Our notifications are blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale molecular biophysics and biochemistry account! You might want to tag @YaleMBasketball instead 🏀 Boola boola!
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Why is my 8% SDS suddenly crashing out? Is my lab too cold?
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Can bacterial *mechanical properties* affect virulence? YES! Excited this is finally out, led by @lttlAFM . "Soft" mycobacteria survive better within macrophages! Mechanical morphotype switching as an adaptive response in mycobacteria | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Santa (aka my sweet grandma) brought me a microscope for Christmas! What are some cool things I should take a look at? Suggestions welcome!
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Changing our perception of microbial skin ecology!
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The resolution from Cryo-EM is just getting so good
Opening ceremonies of the Moscow Olympics 1980.
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Super interesting backstory to some awesome work! Definitely take the “thyme” to read through!
Story time: when I started my postdoc with @WatersLabMSU in August last year, we aimed to use V. cholerae to understand how genetic interactions, including epistasis and pleiotropy, influences its pathogenesis and evolution. 1/18
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"I am strongly against the idea that you need to devote your whole life to your career. You can have a family and a life outside physics and still be successful in your field." - career advice from 2023 physics laureate Anne L'Huillier Read more: physics.aps.org/articles/v15…
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On this day in 1861, Charles Darwin was relatable.
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One of the worst parts about moving is knowing that your Tupperware drawer will never be that organized again
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