I am so excited to share my FIRST, first author publication, “An intra-tumoral niche maintains and differentiates stem-like CD8 T-cells,” published today in
@nature
, detailing the project I’ve been working on in
@HaydnKissick
’s lab.
What an incredible day—my defense is complete and I am
#PhDone
!!! Thank you so much to my whole village who have supported me through this journey, and particularly to my incredible mentor,
@HaydnKissick
, who has championed me through thick and thin.
#doubledocs
#halfwaythere
the only way to wake up on the morning of your defense: coffee in a cup with your paper printed on it (thanks to
@s_wilkinson88
) ✨ ready for an exciting day!
It now costs almost $5000 to have a dependent on my student health insurance (an increase of over $1000 from last year). And we wonder why its hard to recruit and retain women/mothers/parents/non-independently wealthy people in science/medicine.
#WomeninSTEM
@mothersinsci
🤬😤
Very excited to be defending my dissertation in a little less than two weeks! What an incredible journey it has been — major thanks to
@HaydnKissick
, my committee, and our entire community. Message me if you’d like the zoom info! ✨
@CancerBioEmory
@laneygradschool
@EmoryMSTP
I am thrilled to have been selected for a PEO Scholar award, which supports women pursuing doctoral level education. A huge thank you to
@PEOsisterhood
for supporting women as their mission (and to my mentors who supported me!
@haydnkissick
@acorbe2
@bonsalljoanna
)
@emorymstp
🎉
The latest
@HaydnKissick
lab paper is out! I am delighted to have worked w/ my mentor, friend, and role model
@JennyCarlisleMD
as co-first authors to share our latest work in
@JITC
, detailing features of patients' peripheral and intratumoral response to
#ICB
in
#RCC
.
a very
#doubledocs
kind of day: on the last day of my first rotation back in med school, email notification that my PhD was officially conferred this month.
already missing the lab and working hard to dust off my M1/2 knowledge 😅, but grateful to be back with patients!
advice for new and aspiring
#gradstudents
: choose the kind of PI who offers to babysit your 9 month old because your internet and power are out and you’re supposed be giving a seminar presentation. the end.
(not so subtle
#subtweet
that
@HaydnKissick
is the best there is!)
that feeling when you get the official acceptance email for your paper on the morning of your committee meeting ... hoping this bodes well for this afternoon's meeting! 🤩
#doubledocs
#phdchat
#phdlife
So excited (and nervous) to granted an oral abstract presentation at
#SITC2019
and humbled/honored to be supported by a young investigator award! Catch me 11/8 in the basic research rapid oral abstract session. Thanks
@sitcancer
!
#DoubleDocs
#WomenInScience
Early on in
#COVID19
, I wrote about how the forced "pause" of spring shutdowns helped teach me some lessons about balance in my life. I am excited to share these reflections in this month's
@AcadMedJournal
!
feeling especially grateful for the joy this little one has brought to our world this year. merry christmas, twitter friends! wishing you all the best and the brightest ✨
Scenes from a fantastic weekend at
@JointMeeting
— always such an inspiring gathering of physician scientists at all stages and so exciting to see how much growth we’ve had from
@A_P_S_A
this year! And even better to be there with a great
@EmoryMSTP
crew!
#physicianscientists
Excited to share my poster ⬇️ at the
@mdphdcon
today and really enjoying all the other posters & presentations. Thanks to
@CU_MSTP
for putting on a great virtual meeting and
@EmoryMSTP
for supporting my attendance/presentation!
#doubledocs
#mdphdcon2020
a little 🥂 to accompany some editing while I wait to head home from the 2022
@A_P_S_A
leadership retreat — all the exciting initiatives planned for this year and the collective passion for
#physicianscientist
training is always something to celebrate!
started our PhDs together, had a lot of adventures along the way, and we’ll call this ending on a high note. cheers to a week of great science and plenty of fun at
#KSCancerImmuno22
!
@KeystoneSymp
@WhistlerBlckcmb
So excited that
@CCR_AACR
selected our image for the cover image of their most recent issue. Image shows TCF1+ stem like CD8 T cells in aggregate with MHC-II+ APCs in immunogenic prostate cancer -- read more in our paper with
@davidjeinstein
@HaydnKissick
What a treat to be able to zoom into the beautiful & brilliant
@jacepeabody
’s PhD defense! Grateful for this aspect of the zoom life meaning we could all tune in from far and wide. Incredible body of work and excellent presentation. Way to go Dr. Peabody Lever!!
#doubledocs
My favorite new equipment purchase for the lab – a travel crib to go in my office so my graduate student can bring her 9-month old little girl to work when necessary and I get to play with her while her mom gets some work done. Win-win!!
I am so grateful to be recognized as
@laneygradschool
GDBBS Student Mentor of the Year this year! Most of all though, I think this award testifies to the investment my mentors have made in me and to the incredible accomplishments of those I've been fortunate enough to mentor.🥂
woke up in a winter wonderland after a long travel day yesterday — and so excited to be at
@KeystoneSymp
Cancer Immunotherapy in Whistler and can’t wait for all the exciting science that will be shared this week!
@hsafaMD
As a learner, 💯 agree. Most of the time, if I’m asking, it’s because I already tried to look it up and there’s still a gap in my understanding that I’m hoping to fill with the experience and knowledge of the members of the team more senior than myself.
My mom got her first dose of the
#COVID19Vaccine
today, and I know it’s several weeks and a second dose before optimal immunity, but the relief of knowing she’s on her way to being protected is immense. I feel like I can breathe again.
#ThankYouScience
embracing that M4 life with a little sunday family dinner al fresco. venison bolognese from scratch, a little capezzano carmignano, smores, 4yo shrieks of joy, and a healthy dose of ignoring my
#Match2024
anxiety 🙃🥰🍷
Hey
#MedTwitter
! Crowd sourcing--do you know of any opportunities for
#trainees
to publish short, narrative style writing pieces?
Thinking I'd like to read (& contribute to) a collection of reflective experiences, esp as
#meded
is in flux during
#COVID19
#MedStudentTwitter
I can’t imagine a more perfect pick than
@KimrynRathmell
for this role. Congratulations to a truly inspirational
#physicianscientist
, leader, and role model for
#WomenInSTEM
(& all of us)!! Already looking forward to all that will be accomplished with your leadership at
@theNCI
!
Couldn't be more proud of our fearless Chair, Dr.
@KimrynRathmell
, who has been appointed Director of the National Cancer Institute! We wish you all the best in your new role as
@NCIDirector
!
Read the official press release from the
@WhiteHouse
here:
today i went 4 for 4 on a blind tasting and i somehow might be almost as proud as the this day last week when i defended my dissertation, which I realize may be wildly unreasonable but nonetheless
#phd
#oenophile
#PNW
#oregonpinot
#postphd
#vacation
🚨LOST DOG🚨 Our dog, Smoltz, got out this weekend while friends were watching him. He’s a tan/apricot standard poodle, microchipped. Please be on the lookout for him, especially if you live on the westside of Atlanta in the Moore’s mill/bolton area where he was last seen.
Thank you to my incredible mentor
@HaydnKissick
for filling in for me at the GDBBS banquet while I was speaking over in the
#Emory2O36
dome last night -- wish I could've been two places at once. It's a busy and exciting week at
@EmoryUniversity
to say the least!
@CancerBioEmory
Student Carey Jansen
@careyjans
won the Student Mentor award which was accepted by her Advisor Haydn Kissick
@HaydnKissick
, presented by GDBBS' new director Nicole Gerardo
@NicoleGerardo
.
Our first APSA Trainee Spotlight: Carey Jansen (
@careyjans
)! Carey is an exemplary MD-PhD trainee making a difference in her field and in the education of her peers. See her amazing accomplishments here!
"The structures, dubbed immune outposts, seem to improve people’s chances of surviving cancer – and may be turned into a new treatment if they can be encouraged to form artificially."
So neat to see our paper profiled in
@newscientist
!
@HaydnKissick
@WinshipAtEmory
Excited to be a student of the
@sitcancer
WIN leadership institute for the next two days. Wish we could be together in person, but so ready to soak up some wisdom from so many powerhouse women in immunotherapy
#SITCWIN
#WomenInMedicine
my fortune from lunch on the first day of my M4 year — hoping this means good omens for all that is to come this year. surreal to think it’s finally here!
#M4year
#Match2024
#doubledocs
I feel so invigorated after this weekend! What a joy to meet
@A_P_S_A
colleagues in person and build a nationwide network of physician scientist peers. I had so much fun chatting at my poster and moderating the PSTP panel this morning.
@JointMeeting
It’s time for
#SEMSS2022
! Love being able to attend our southeast
@A_P_S_A
regional meeting — a great time to reconnect with friends and colleagues around the region, meet new ones, and hear some great science. Big thanks to
@UABMSTP
for hosting this year!
@SEmdphd
Calling all
#doubledocs
trainees! Sign up to lead a Journal Club for undergrads underrepresented in medicine & research via
@A_P_S_A
's
#VirtualSummerResearchProgram
on a paper of your choosing.
Link for Sign Up by June 1:
"She taught me that there’s not one or the other."
"Her openness about succeeding as a mother was one of the most important things I’ve learned."
@VirusesImmunity
is
#goals
in SO many ways. Thank you for your example, your advocacy, and for your leadership!
#womeninSTEM
"Be pregnant and go on interviews. If they don’t welcome you with open arms and offer childcare options, they don’t deserve you." Don't miss this great piece featuring
@VirusesImmunity
, advocate for
#WomenInSTEM
and amazing
#SciMom
role model. By
@scchak
Congratulations, Dr
@nataliya_pro_
on a stellar PhD and fantastic dissertation defense! So grateful and proud to have been “lab twins” and shared so much of this journey with you in
@HaydnKissick
’s lab. Cheers to you, my friend!! 🥂🥂🥂
Such a fun first night of the
#emory2O36
kick off! Honored to be here talking about the incredible things happening at
@WinshipAtEmory
with
@RamalingamMD
in “the podcast experience” dome 🎙
Being in the final year of your PhD = recurrent nightmares about hard drives of data failing... time to go make sure everything is backed up🥴
#phdlife
#doubledocs
My PI from undergrad just returned from a trip abroad, has a sick child,& I’m sure many other important things to do & he still dropped everything and did me a favor last minute >4yrs after I left his lab. That’s lifelong mentorship, y’all
#grateful
#doubledocs
#mentorshipmatters
Excited to be presenting a virtual poster today & tomorrow at
@AACR
Radiation Science and Medicine about collaborative work (
@zach_buchwald
lab +
@HaydnKissick
lab +
@MohammadKhanMD
) on immune cell organization in brain metastases with and without radiation.
#AACRrsm21