Electrophysiologist
Joined August 2019
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As a manual patch clamper, I’d say this is spot on
#AutomatedPatchClamp vs #ManualPatchClamp
#ephys #electrophysiology #ionchannels #labautomation
Thanks to @DJGould94 for original #meme
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#OnThisDay in 1914 English physiologist, Sir Alan Hodgkin was born. Hodgkin won the @NobelPrize for #Physiology or #Medicine in 1963, alongside Sir Andrew Huxley & Sir John Eccles for their analysis & mathematical description of the basis of the nerve impulse and its propagation.
Gonna have to throw on the trilogy now
James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone in “The Godfather” and to television audiences as the dying football player in the classic weeper “Brian’s Song,” has died. He was 82. apnews.com/article/james-caa…
Well, all packed and ready to move to Boston tomorrow. Anyone have recommendations on food in Cambridge?
Pro tip - keep up on your plasmid inventory or you’ll end up miserable in your last days in lab, like me.
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For PhD students it's a good idea to gamble on new PIs, on average they are more into it. I often see that the first graduate students that join a lab end up being really successful.
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if I’m reading recent SCOTUS abortion decisions right, I can force conservative justices and Republican legislators to rear botfly larvae under their skin for me and hold them liable if they don’t mature properly – at Berkeley, CA
How about they do this study again using data from 2022 and see if we even fall in the top 10.
Rochester was recently named No. 3, just behind Pittsburgh and Oklahoma City, on a list of cities with the most affordable housing in the world. #ROC
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The one day we finally prep dinner in our slow cooker, the power goes out? It’s like there is a higher power telling me to get takeout tonight.
Love that that @URochester_SMD @urmceducation solution to students not being able to afford rent/food is to have them go to a food pantry.
But not pay a livable wage… in fact, the PhD stipend only increases 2% for the next cycle, in a year where we experienced 8.5% inflation🤡
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NIH just announced an update to the NRSA stipend levels, taken as gospel by most institutions. With increase of less than 2% and inflation hitting 8.5% in United States last month, postdocs are effectively taking a 6.5% pay cut. Truly upsetting!
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipends, Tuition/Fees and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2022 dlvr.it/SNdSg8
I really don’t think that this school could spend any less money/time planning “graduate student appreciation week” events.
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Congratulations to Tyler McCullock, PhD on successfully defending your thesis. Great talk, great work, fun day.
MacLean Lab representing strong! Come visit posters B320 and B325 in Ligand-Gated Channels poster session to learn some awesome work by these two on ASICS! @tyler_couch @berg1029
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Finding the person responsible for me not doing my work
@OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #academictwitter
