A busy, exciting few days at Purdue w/ GREAT seminar visits from Hank Seifert @medillschool.bsky.social & @copperbae.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social! Thanks, Hank & Michael, for excellent scientific discussions. Big thx admin & IT staff for help w/ visits, & to all who participated.
Review @cp-immunity.bsky.social @uazhealthsciences.bsky.social
Plasma cell ontogenies, functions, and lifespans
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For me, it was the first paper establishing the lab's identity. What was it for you?
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Graduate students, this one’s for YOU!
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The 2027 ASM Awards & Prize nominations are now open! Make a difference in the career of an outstanding microbiologist by nominating them. There's an Award and Prize to honor scientists at every career level and in every field of the microbial sciences: asm.social/2Sg
Well, great season by the Duke Men's and Women's Basketball teams this year. It stinks for them to both be up big and lose on the same day, but that's why it is March Madness.
That hurt my heart watching that.
U of A did a story on our Costco 100k ride and how it sparked some science!
medicine.arizona.edu/news/2026/lo...
seems once again relevant @norlander.bsky.social
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Last chance to register! Learn how ungrading in CUREs increased engagement & learning outcomes in advanced lab courses.
📅 March 27 | 12 p.m. ET
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Excited to share our story published today @nature.com!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read about how we uncover the molecular mechanisms that enable Cas9 to bind and cleave negatively supercoiled ((-)SC) off-targets!
Have a quick read of some of the key events in the thread below🧵:
If you back cut people on the road, I hope you stub your toe today.
SWEEEEEET 16 for Duke Men's Basketball
What time zone is the mini even on…you on Sunday already!?!
Yeah, that was close
They only released the East so far, but they didn't do Duke any favors...
NSF out here throwing haymakers late at night :(.
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Yes, the one and only. She was my partner in crime for the day :)
oh for sure!
Had a really cool day advocating for microbiology research with @asm.org on the hill today. Staffers and the politicians I met with were very open and welcoming. I’m remain hopeful we can make a difference.
Hill day with @asm.org, let’s gooooo!!!
If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.
As editor in chief of @asm.org #mSphere sometimes I need to work at home on papers submitted to the journal. Knowing that we have a dedicated scientists who read our papers makes all the work worth it. Here's one of our dedicated readers
If you know someone who has had a stroke, a colleague and friend of mine, along with a stroke survivor, made a website on how to navigate the situation.
www.rebuildafterstroke.org
STEM Black History Fact 28/28
Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy.
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STEM Black History Fact 27/28
Dr. William Montague Cobb was a founder of modern physical anthropology and used anatomy to counter scientific racism.
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