@olsenlabmcw.bsky.social. Professor and Director of the Pharmacology PhD Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Sharer of insights and opportunities.
Milwaukee, WI
Joined July 2018
- Tweets1.7K
- Following809
- Followers794
- Likes4.4K
Pinned Tweet
Graduate school interview season is approaching.
After ~12 years of interviewing PhD and MD/PhD applicants, I’ve noticed some common interview mistakes that hold otherwise strong candidates back...
#GraduateSchool #PhDLife #MDPhD #GradSchoolTips #AcademicTwitter
👇
Thrilled to share that @mantschjr and I have received NOA for the PRISM T32 (Pharmacology Research on Individualized factors in Substance Misuse) award!
Trainees will gain unique research experiences and engage directly with affected communities.
Today, I would like to celebrate Christy Duvauchelle, PhD and Cece Hillard, PhD for International Women's Day (although I'm a day late). They are two amazing mentors of mine who have greatly helped shape my career.
Is Penn Vector Core still offering services for external users? If not, what are some reliable sources to have custom high purity AAVs for in vivo use made? #Neuroscience
Chris Olsen retweeted
The @mcwgradschool will be hosting a #TownHall this Thursday - for more information, please email dperea@mcw.edu
My wife’s commute soundtrack this morning: “Danger Zone.” Even by Wisconsin standards, that feels about right.
4. Not articulating motivation or long-term goals.
Many applicants say they “like research” but struggle to explain why a PhD or MD/PhD is the right training path for them. Strong candidates can articulate their motivation, even if career goals are still evolving.
Apply to join us for this immersive research program!
Are you or do you know a current undergraduate student who wants to pursue research? Our Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) application is now open!
Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/….
Dissertation and seed grant opportunities through the Brain Injury Association of America: biausa.org/professionals/res…
Chris Olsen retweeted
MCW Pharmacology & Toxicology celebrates the exceptional women in our department on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience #mcwpharmtox
Fantastic seminar by @kwanalexc yesterday as the last @McwPharmTox seminar of the calendar year. It was great to see this and other work from his lab.
Our latest study - psilocybin evokes structural neural plasticity, and we wanted to know how this maps onto pyramidal cell type-specific circuits to produce behavioral effects. 🍄🔬🧠
Link to @biorxivpreprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao.
On this Veteran's Day, I encourage you to support the Military and Veterans in Parks Act. rei.com/action/network/campa…
One more call to join us for the biomedical PhD program fair tomorrow. Registration information below.
Join us on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 4:00 PM CT to learn more about MCW’s various biomedical PhD programs! #academictwitter #phd #biomed #MCWKnowledge @mcwgradschool
We also have Interdisciplinary and Neuroscience programs.
Register here: bit.ly/MCW-BiomedFair2024
And if you just want to take a shortcut to apply to our programs, click here: bit.ly/MCW_Apply
Chris Olsen retweeted
Please RT!
We are very proud to announce LSFM 2025! The light-sheet conference/workshop will be held this year June 1st-7th, 2025, at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) @MDIBL in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Application portal open now!
Application deadline (rolling) May 12th, 2025.
Limited financial assistance is available.
mdibl.org/course/lsfm-2025/
This is the only comprehensive conference/workshop of this length in the US.
This year, the conference will be 1.5 days and the workshop will be 4 days (more time on the systems!).
Workshop space is limited. First come!
Confirmed Speakers;
Reto Fiolka @RetoPaul - UTSW - Keynote
Steve Ross @NikonInst -Nikon Instruments
Simon Watkins @simoncwatkins1 -University of Pittsburgh
Claudette St. Croix @ClaudetteCroix -University of Pittsburgh
Kate McDole - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Holly Gibbs @holly_c_gibbs -Texas A&M
Anna-Karin Gustavsson @gustavssonlab -Rice University
Stephanie Kramer - Case Western Reserve University
Ruixuan Gao @Ruixuan3 -University of Illinois, Chicago
Bingying Chen @bingy_C -UTSW
Fabian Voight @voigtvision -Harvard University
Stephanie Rudolph @StephRudolphLab - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Melissa Cooper @MelCooperPhD -NYU Langone Health
Doug Shepard @DougPShepherd -Arizona State Univesity
Doug Richardson @Harvard_CBI -Harvard University
Emmanuel Reynaud @ReynaudEmmanuel -University College Dublin
Kara Cerveny @kara_cerveny -Reed College
Carsten Wolff @carsten_wolff -MBL
With more to come!
Confirmed vendors: 12 systems!
3i
ASI
Leica
Bruker
MBF
Zeiss
Miltenyi
LifeCanvas
LIT
Hamamatsu
Abhishek Kumar (co-organizer) - MBL
Kate McDole (co-organizer) - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Gary Laevsky (co-organizer) - Princeton University
Chris Olsen retweeted
Going to be an amazing year for expanding microscopy resources at MCW. First to arrive is the light sheet, next up is the @Abberior FACILITY line STED microscope and @AndorTechnology Dragonfly 620 SR with STORM/TIRF. Can’t wait to see how this will help researchers on campus.
Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #FollowFriday! I direct a PhD program in Pharmacology & a microscope core, and our lab's research is on substance use disorder. Looking to connect with more people with similar interests. New light sheet was installed by @edwardlachica3 this week.