To my friends and colleagues in the #Drosophila world & the #genetics world who attended #TAGC24, Schedule F is what I warned y'all about.
So let's work with @jeremymberg.bsky.social ⬇️ and make public comments against the politicization of scientific review & grant award-making at #NIH & #NSF.
This is so true - and I often feel this !!! We tried some part of the interview style conversations at #TAGC24 and it went well, but there could be ways to play around with the format to get the scientific story through.
When I first made this account, I made it to go to #TAGC24 and use it network bc my Twitter had become way too angry about the things happening in society and not about my scientific work
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Art work of Drosophila melanogaster in the center of blue circle. The circle has words that say "Outstanding Community Service".
Many congratulations to all of our Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center colleagues @flystocks at Indiana University @IUBloomington recognized for their outstanding community service at #TAGC24 #Dros24 @GeneticsGSA.
Cellular organisation of the fly’s kidney Detail of an adult Drosophila Malpighian (renal) tubule expressing membrane-bound GFP (green) in stellate cells – a population secondary intercalated cells required for transport of water – under the direction of c724GAL4, with staining of nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin microfilaments (TRITC-conjugated phalloidin, magenta) in principal cells and stellate cells. Septate junctions are stained using an antibody for the junctional component Discs-large (anti-Dlg1, grey). The image was created by tiling of three separate maximum-intensity z projections obtained using a Nikon AX R NSPARC confocal.
Beyond honoured that my image of a Malpighian (renal) tubule has won the Genetic Society of America’s Drosophila Image Award 2024 at #TAGC24 #Dros24. Especially as the award is based not just on aesthetics but the science it represents doi.org/10.1242/jcs.....
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Alexa Michaels explains a research poster to fellow TAGC conference attendees.
Hilda Frempong stands smiling next to a research poster at the TAGC conference.
Alexis Garretson explains a research poster to fellow TAGC conference attendees.
The Teaching the Genome Generation™ poster at the TAGC conference.
Congrats to the @jacksonlab.bsky.social's predoctoral and postdoctoral associates who presented at #TAGC24!
Members of our Teaching the Genome Generation™ team also presented a poster at the conference.
Thanks for hosting, Genetics Society of America! 👏
I wrote about a project I am excited about!
Why are not all E. coli resistant to antibiotics?
The blog post also includes my #TAGC24 talk.
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We have a lot of new C. elegans folks coming in from #TAGC24 and we have a critical question for you! What instrument does a nematode play? We think theremin. Let us know! Live Daily on Twitch!
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ICYMI: Here is our poster from The Allied Genetics Conference 2024, on ‘ Upgraded genome browsers at the Rat Genome Database support comparative and translational studies’. For more, please visit: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/com-menu/... #TAGC24
We got so many compliments on our C. elegans pin at #TAGC24! Here is where you can get your own. Message us for international shipping
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Thank you @GeneticsGSA for a spectacular conference last week! At #TAGC24 I gave my first talk at an international conference, unexpectedly reunited with old friends, and met so many great scientists who's excitement for science and learning was contagious 🦠
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Weeks 9 and 10 Overview
For weeks 9 and 10, we will be reading 8 papers total: 6 primary research papers and two perspectives. This works out to 2 per class meeting (i.e., 4 per week).
Each student is expected to read and be prepared to discuss every paper. However, each paper will also be assigned a facilitator. The facilitator will guide discussion and write up one page summaries in the style that Tony Long required for his section. This will constitute graded work for this part of the class. The last class session will be more open, and hopefully we'll be able to conduct it outside at Starbucks, Cafe Espresso, or similar.
For the first three days, during class, there will be three phases:
introductory remarks (~10-20 minutes);
paper discussion (2x~40-45 minutes);
conclusions/synthesis (remaining time).
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[Partial text of the syllabus] Weeks 9 and 10 Overview For weeks 9 and 10, we will be reading 8 papers total: 6 primary research papers and two perspectives. This works out to 2 per class meeting (i.e., 4 per week). Each student is expected to read and be prepared to discuss every paper. However, each paper will also be assigned a facilitator. The facilitator will guide discussion and write up one page summaries in the style that Tony Long required for his section. This will constitute graded work for this part of the class. The last class session will be more open, and hopefully we'll be able to conduct it outside at Starbucks, Cafe Espresso, or similar. For the first three days, during class, there will be three phases: introductory remarks (~10-20 minutes); paper discussion (2x~40-45 minutes); conclusions/synthesis (remaining time). [Followed by 8 paper download links, the text of which exceeds the alt-text character limit]
I'm teaching a two week stint in our graduate evolution reading class. I just returned from an invigorating
#TAGC24, and I'm super excited to be back in the lab. I'm feeling a lot of that energy bleeding into the grad course. Looking forward to the next two weeks!
3 cheers for #TAGC24! What a great meeting, and hats off to the organizers at all levels. Looks like I should have set aside an entire extra week to watch all the talks and look at all the posters I missed though.
my brain is mush, but my heart is full, after several nonstop days talking to friends old and new about the mysteries of life. it was pretty cool to see so many folks from my dev/neuro/evo communities across different species. tx Harmit Malik @barrlab.bsky.social for leading #TAGC24!
Congratulations to @kwantourage grad student Ryan Clough @cluffnstuff for receiving Honorable Mention for his poster at #TAGC24!!
Goodbye #TAGC24 ! The #libuddies had an amazing time with the science, people, and community! Many thanks to Harmit Malik and @barrlab.bsky.social for putting together a spectacular meeting!!! We ❤️Genetics! 🧬
Enjoyed a great #tagc24 with a bunch of lab folks, past and present. Everyone appreciated the breadth of genetics represented. Very well organized and supported.
An amazing talk by @BerondaM on light acclimation in plants - and the lessons to be learned from the influence of environment on “success” and how we define it in our lives and our scientific communities #LessonsFromPlants #EnvironmentMatters #TAGC24
IT'S TIME 🙌🙌🙌🙌
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And I'm not the only award winner! Thanks to GSA for giving my postdoc @reneegeck.bsky.social a DeLill Nasser award to attend and present at #TAGC24 genestogenomes.org/congratulati...
Gave a kind of scrap book talk for my Ira Herskowitz award lecture at #TAGC24. Really nice to think about all the awesome people I've gotten to work with on such cool science. I sat down and immediately thought of 3 people I forgot to mention Love the yeast community!
She blinded me with science- Geraldine Seydoux’s #TAGC24 #celegans keynote challenges the model for role of mRNAs in germline granules. Worth getting up early!
Didn't get 1 minute of downtime at my #TAGC24 poster tonight and ended up talking to people for the full 2 hours instead of just my assigned time! Kind of sad to miss all the other posters I meant to go visit, but loved all the ideas and feedback I got on where to take @yevolab.bsky.social
A mini grad school reunion at #TAGC24 with @DianaLibuda @The_Lei_Team!
Thinking that @TriggerLoop should be here…
Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.
I wish I could write my favorite quote from @needhibhalla.bsky.social but I think I'll get us both in trouble so I'll tell you my second favorite:
"I came from immigrant parents and I don't think I could do what they did, to uproot themselves and come here" 🔥💯
#immigrantstories #TAGC24
