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It rained, Biden is President, Kamala is Vice President, I’m overwhelmed with how much safer I feel for my lab members from different countries, for my family and friends of color, for friends who can live a little less in fear for loving who they want. The tears are flowing.
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The UC Davis Dept. of Plant Biology is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Plant Developmental Biology! Please consider applying and RT! For those of you in the know... this was the home of Katherine Esau - and I vouch for excellent potential colleagues:
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A postdoc position is available in my lab! If you have experience in microscopy, roots, microbes or high throughput anatomical phenotyping - please apply! Please RT.
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I am so proud to announce our most recent publication (and magnum opus)-a true collaborative effort-not 1 but 5 co-first authors! A brainchild of
@kaisakajala
who executed technical skills, vision and leadership to explore cell types in tomato roots
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Finally online at Cell Reports!!! Shulse et al.!!! 2019 - High-Throughput Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling of Plant Cell Types
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@KarenGrepin
DAY 12!!!!! Wow. Although I am super sad to still not be able to go home to Canada, the 14 day quarantine obviously still serves a purpose.
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I am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! and the press release is here: This was an epic effort led by the incredible
@dorota_kawa
and many more +
@HarroBouwmeest1
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I've got a postdoc position open in my lab. Do you work on moss, single cell transcriptomics or plant developmental genomics? Consider applying for this position - more here:
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Wow - what an incredible day
@HHMINEWS
learning the ropes as an Investigator, meeting fellow cohort members and the HHMI science support and administrative team. It was an extra honor to join with fellow plant biologists
@Dinnenylab
and Mary Gehring. Thanks for supporting 🌱HHMI!
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After 5 months, I finally have my own space to work at home. It has a door that locks, a view, and I have been in tears multiple times- grateful for silence, and a space to feel like just a scientist, for a short period of time. Helps me be more patient as a parent too.
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I hereby introduce the world to a newly minted PhD from the Brady lab
@rodriguezmDNA
Dr. Joel Rodriguez-Medina. He pulled his thesis together in record time, w/ an enormous chapter #, he has been a rock for the lab & has learned so much. Thank you for letting US work with you!
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One of my sabbatical goals was to organize my seed stocks. With 4 weeks to go, I have found a genius solution that occupies my preteen kid and his friends who are too old for summer camps, but interested in making $. And saves me the agony of inputting all that info.
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Hey
@ucdavis
- implementing paid parking is not the best idea. My essential lab workers, if not able to ride, will need to take the bus and put themselves at increased risk of COVID.... This new policy means an increased risk of exposure to all who come to campus..
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1/7 Officially published-The Plant Journal: Elevated CO2 is a serious issue facing global agriculture. Here, we explore genetic variation between a wild, drought tolerant Solanum species, S. pennellii and our favorite, delicious S.lycopersicum (tomato).
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The deadline for applying to the CSHL Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science is coming up soon (March 15) - check out the great lineup for this foundational corse in plant biology - please retweet!
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The newest paper from our lab is officially published!
Characterization of growth and development of
#sorghum
genotypes with differential susceptibility to
#Striga
hermonthica
@dorota_kawa
@b1gam1
@HannahVahldick
@koalaspirit
@HarroBouwmeest1
@bradylabs
#openaccess
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Learn about how suberization in the tomato root is in the exodermis and NOT the endodermis (!!!) - its gene module and function with the environment + a tomato single cell root map: and UC Davis press: by the great -
@acantopastor
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Let's collectively train plant biologists in more quantitative approaches- specific recommendations on training and collaboration at all levels from 38 plant biologists across the world:
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I'm very excited about our collaborative publication in Science yesterday! A twist on this tweet - I'll guide you through the science in short format ;) Evolutionary flexibility in flooding response circuitry in angiosperms
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Postdoc position alert - in Alex Cantó-Pastor's NEW lab at Yale. While we will miss him greatly, a new postdoc will be sure to benefit from his mentorship and will get to participate in a very exciting project at the intersection of development and immunity.
@acantopastor
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25 Inspiring Women in Plant Biology | Plant Science Today. What an incredible group of women.
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I went inside my department and saw my postdoc
@tealticket
, just by chance in REAL life, for the first time in 10 months. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried - never underestimate the power of human interaction! 🤞🏼to rapid vaccine rollout and more human interactions soon.
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Check it out!!! Published today!!!! Real‐time whole‐plant dynamics of heavy metal transport in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana by gamma‐ray imaging - Kajala - 2019 - Plant Direct - Wiley Online Library
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Today is my TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY as PI! Thanks to Mallorie T-T,
@mwdorr
, Li Pu,
@a_gaudinier
@twtoal
@mdelucas80
@milyron
@mdelucas80
@peter_etchells
@CManzanoF
@kaisakajala
@rodriguezmDNA
@melletang
@DNAgibson
@sudogenes
@monaj00n62
@tealticket
AlexCP, LidorSM and so many more!
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I had the pleasure of giving a public seminar at the University of Queensland. Bonus - one F1 stayed for the whole talk 🥰 - Brisbane biology is awesome btw!!
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A wonderful read- Demonstrates how a straightforward path is not necessary for success. Thank you Neelima for so honestly sharing your story... proud to be your colleague. Perennial Explorer: A Profile of Neelima Sinha | The Scientist Magazine®
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Check it out! An Assistant Professor position in Plant Systems Biology in my dept. at UC Davis.
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It's finally out in Cell Reports! Congrats
@sudogenes
@rodriguezmDNA
+
@MarineMicroGirl
@colepbio
@diane_dickel
and so many more esp. M. Savageau! VND7 acts as a molecular switch in xylem differentiation - using single cell seq + more!
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I want to give a public shout-out to my lab. They are awesome, and have dealt with these past 7 days with grace, compassion, flexibility and solidarity, despite overwhelming uncertainty&anxiety about their families/projects/futures. Thank you.
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2017 was a year of mourning
@sharon_b_gray
, healing and re-evaluating. In this new year of 2018, we are starting off with a brand-spanking new website (), fresh strategic plans and super fun science! Best wishes to all for productive and peaceful 2018!
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Celebrating Philip Benfey at Benfeyfest!! A wonderful day remembering our days together, the big finds and all the mentoring.
@RossSozzani
@teva_vernoux
@ErinSparksPhD
@Anjali_IP
@jmvannorman_ucr
@JoseDinneny
@Rootstrapping
@tlong_ncsu
@ColleenDrapek
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Very excited to announce the 2nd International Plant Systeoms Biology meeting!! Virtual, of course, talks will be selected from abstract submissions, online poster session!
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Proud to say that this was in large part driven by my boss Richard Michelmore and many faculty/staff
@genomecenter
via
@NYTimes
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I love taking notes. Good tips! This Diagram Shows Cornell's Revolutionary Method For Taking Notes
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Beyond proud of Drs. Gaudinier and Turco. Fiercely intelligent, creative and disciplined. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for these 2 leaders.
@sudogenes
@a_gaudinier
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So proud of
@a_gaudinier
on the occasion of her publication. Can’t wait to see what is up next for her. . Thanks all for the most wonderful collaboration -
@SpicyBotrytis
@melletang
, D Ware, M Frank, B Shen et al!!!
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I'm looking for a postdoc (co-supervised with D. Segal) for a 2 year synthetic biology project funded by the USDA-BBSRC. Applications close Feb. 12. More information here! Please RT!!!
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I am so honored to be profiled by
@RachelMShahan
- I can’t quite believe it!!! 👇
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The field of developmental biology is in transition. Provide your input on funding, collaboration, pedagogy and more. Be part of the change and complete this survey to usher dev bio into a secure and transformative future , and retweet! - . .
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Just opened my Reference Letters folder and realized I have written about 375 letters in the last 10 years!!! WOW! But am also super grateful to all those who have written for me!
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New preprint from the Brady lab!We identify a constitutive phosphate deprivation response in S. pennellii mediated by Zn over-accumulation. This response in tomato can occur when BR signaling is enhanced
@Demirer_GozdeS
@DNAgibson
+ Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein
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On this Thanksgiving - I am grateful to share this paper with you! Started as a long term collaboration with
@SpicyBotrytis
who has been my sounding board and a crazy idea generator since 2009; who noticed interconnections with primary carbon metabolism
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It’s grant writing time. That, dear Twitter-verse, is a clean and dusted desk.
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This👇is disgusting.Homeschooling during the pandemic while having full work responsibilities is soul crushing/beyond exhausting. PLEASE, when you review grants, think OUTSIDE of your privileged bubble. Your anonymous words and actions can be destructive and perpetuate prejudice.
Just received NSF reviews back for a grant submitted in June 2021. Was told that I wasn't as productive as I could have been on a previous grant that started in 2017 as only 3 pubs by 2021. In the middle of a pandemic. When I homeschooled three children for a year.
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I am very excited to share
@dorota_kawa
‘s vision for how biotic organisms interact with root cell types. Please check it out, and marvel at her beautiful illustrations. Root cell types as an interface for biotic interactions: Trends in Plant Science
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To the UC Davis student (presumably) who helped pick up my son when he fell off his bike on the way home around 3:15 today on Alvarado and Sycamore - THANK YOU! You are an excellent and kind human being. Please RT so he knows :)
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Yaaaaaaayyy!l
@melletang
on winning the Conn Award in Biochemistry! As always
@SpicyBotrytis
and I are so proud of you and honored to work with you!
@ucdavisbiology
@genomecenter
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@kaisakajala
many congratulations for your well-deserved award on mentoring undergraduates at UC Davis!!! We are all so proud of you! 🎉
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In grad school/postdoc, a return from vacation to work was always a satisfying feeling and reinforced my career choice. Same as a PI, coming back to my enthusiastic, inquisitive and creative, open-minded lab after days away = my job = my passion!
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Anyone with me? Is there going to be a shutdown in Davis? How will that impact my lab and their projects? My childcare? How will I finish grants? Is exercise with friends outside ok? How do I make the holidays special in this state? ANXIETY.
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Our project to solve a fundamental plant disease in sub-saharan Africa is now public + honoring
@sharon_b_gray
!
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Are you thinking of your conference plans for 2023 yet? Well - the website for the International Conference of Arabidopsis Research 2023 in Chiba, Japan is now online! Check it out and consider attending!
#ICAR2023
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Best welcome ever! Curling in Umea! Can’t wait to speak to everyone tomorrow!
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Remember that whole home office just for me with a LOCK that I was raving about several weeks ago? My kids figured out how to pick the lock. Frustrated but also impressed with their work ethic. 🤣🤣
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Delegate more - said
@PlantDevo
- and I have! So awe-inspiring to watch my lab members creativity, professionalism and team work lately. They are becoming mini-PIs and leaders in front of my eyes.....
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“The drop in female labor-force participation was quite dismal and not surprising with the return back to school not happening,” Wrote a tweet today about this &erased it bc it was negative. But I’m drowning. So far behind&overwhelmed - via
@NYTimes
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It's official!
@kaisakajala
is leaving to start her own group! We will miss you but can't wait to see what is next for you.
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I woke up this morning to an article titled "Tensions ease...". It made me MAD. Perhaps it meant that there was no more violent oppression of peaceful protesting; but, doubt it. I don't want ANY tensions easing until there is liberty and safety for BIPOC-I. Want. Change. Now.
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I sincerely value the power of a good mentor - I am sure that no matter what stage of career we are, we need someone to run ideas or problems by. I am so grateful to have several, but especially, one who always gives me critical insight and makes me feel better.
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The pandemic is hard, especially for foreign postdocs. Isolation from loved ones even when family in their home country are sick/dying, near solitary existences.. but today
@dorota_kawa
@CManzanoF
@acantopastor
were together, Dorota is back, 50% lab occupancy, tears of joy. 🙏
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So excited to have him at the helm!
Plant scientist Blake Meyers named as new director of UC Davis Genome Center
@genomecenter
@ucdavisbiology
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I escaped my house - air quality only 115! I celebrated by taking my kids with me to pick tomatoes 🍅 from our field.. bonus for lab members who need seed - I’m DESPERATE to leave my house these days!!!
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I’m so excited to see this officially published. Collaborations with friends
@teva_vernoux
@Bishopp_Lab
are the best!!! Also - another great study which involved our Y1H core
@genomecenter
Check it out! 👇
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Congratulations to
@jnmaloof
for winning the
@ucdavisbiology
Teaching award! Your teaching has been inspirational to me, and to so many students! B
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Working on plant genomes? Have something to share? Be part of The Plant Cell’s upcoming Focus Issue on the Biology of Plant Genomes! Inviting a diversity
of topics within the theme Deadline- Sept 1.
@ThePlantCell
@DiversifyPlants
Details at
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Long overdue lab event and the first escape room for many of us!! We have lots of new people - super fun to spend some non-science time with them!
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One year post-pandemic, I’m reviewing my lecture videos from March 2020. I can guarantee you that I look younger, healthier and skinnier 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Not that it matters - but it stopped me in my tracks!
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There is no “raining ash” emoji. Emoji-designers need to up their game in response to climate change. 😞😞😞😞😞. No words for how sad and scary these last weeks have been in California.
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In this 5th quarter of the pandemic - I look back to material I prepped for my classes in March 2020. I vividly remember the stress/panic. But today, I look at this material, and think - WOW you had so much more time and energy stored then.
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Paper writing day!!! Taking advantage of all the amazing work spaces in my new house 😄(it's the end of the day). Cheers!🍻
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Opening ourselves up to criticism on documents or presentations can be humbling, exceptionally valuable and rewarding. One of the things I am most proud of our lab for is our meetings where we collectively critique. Super smart, caring and strategic input abounds!! ❤️🌱
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We are near the 1 year anniversary of the death of my mentor, Philip Benfey. Several of his mentees and colleagues shared our personal insights into the person Philip was - his actions, vision and leadership that enabled spectacular science and training
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Congratulations to our newest PhD candidate - Kevin Morimoto passed his QE!!!
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A new preprint from the Brady lab! Microbes, sorghum and Striga! 👇
Check out our latest
#preprint
! We found that microbes reduce Striga parasitism in sorghum by blocking haustorium formation in Striga and inducing suberization and aerenchyma formation in sorghum roots.
@bradylabs
🧵👇1/9
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This Canadian girl is super homesick. How delightful to give a talk
@QueensUBio
and see familiar faces join in from across the country. So grateful for all my exceptional Canadian education with exceptional people.
@jacquimonaghan
@SylvaScience
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Using quantitative genetics in both tomato and Arabidopsis to identify genes that regulate root angle - EO PDF in G3! An excellent collaboration with
@SpicyBotrytis
@Rootstrapping
@phytomorph
@BAR_PlantBio
@twtoal
@milyron
@DNAgibson
@kaisakajala
+more
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4 of the 6 plant biology
#hhmifacultyscholars
Super excited, grateful and awestruck at the science presented today
@JoseDinneny
@ehaswell
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I’ve been off internet for the week and just saw that so many of my friends, collaborators and colleagues are new AAAS fellows! I ❤️
@ucdavis
! Congrats!
@SpicyBotrytis
@phylogenomics
@jrossibarra
Stacey Harmer, Valerie Eviner, Pablo Ross 🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉
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ICAR 2024 in San Diego!!!! A beautiful place coupled with great science - what more could you ask for?
@Slotkin_Lab
and Mentewab Ayalew of NAASC announce ICAR 2024-San Diego during
#ICAR2023
! Followed by announcement of ICAR 2025-Ghent, Belgium! 2 years of great science coming up
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A verdant stripe of tomatoes in the Jordanian desert. No one could understand why I was so excited 😆
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Absurd moment of plant bio nerdy happiness - my autocorrect just changed a word starting with my to MYBs. ;)
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For my son - if I could meet anyone in the world - who would it be? Katherine Esau - a plant developmental biologist who was far ahead of her time. Cue... history lesson!
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A short nugget describing our latest article in Plant Cell. Thank you Patrice Salome!
IN BRIEF: The Shape of Rings to Come: Systems Approach to Xylem and Phloem Formation in Arabidopsis
@likeyoda1
@bradylabs
@peter_etchells
@MSCActions
@N8agrifood
#VascularDevelopment
#PlantBiology
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Check out this 👇
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Kaisa Kajala , first author of Real‐time whole‐plant dynamics of heavy metal transport in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana by gamma‐ray imaging
@kaisakajala
@wileyplantsci
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@PlantEvolution
@timeshighered
@jdfriesner
(and
@ehaswell
and Blake Meyers)& I are discussing potential metrics/quantification for plant bio. On an anecdotal note; I am unable to maintain the same productivity in research, teaching and service. I am making conscious decisions to focus on lab members+kids.
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I am so proud to say that she has been one of my mentors. Success, persistence, fearlessness and of course POWER!!
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