It's awesomely amazing to hear from my old undergrad junior lab partner @veatchlab.bsky.social how excited they were to see my student's poster at Protein Society. Even after 30 years we still get excited about each other's science!!

Today is Loving Day! Anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in 1967 legalizing interracial marriage, without which my relationship and family would not be considered legal. Best name for a celebratory day! ❤️❤️❤️ www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...

A reminder that nominations for the Sternberg Award for the 2025 Molecular Genetics of Phages and Bacteria (Phages Meeting) is due in one week! Nominate your amazing graduating students!!! conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...

My son just came up with a great joke. "Why wasn't the RNA shivering? Because it had a CODON!" 😀 🧪

Greatest comment from a student in my PChem class (meets at 8:30 AM). "I really like it, it's like gen chem, but with physics". Boom achievement unlocked.

An amazing meeting. Strongly recommend for anyone in the general new england area!

My partner Holly is an amazing artist and scientist. She is contemplating a book about a visual appreciation of colors and forms in the natural world. This is her hand painted panel on shell chirality! Whattya think?

Justyne Odgahl successfully defended! Her paper was also just accepted at JBC, check it out to learn about allostery and DNA binding in the Lon protease! #microsky www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Giving thanks for an awesome group of folks to work with (they came up with this lab shirt), wishing you all a graceful break!

Because of the new followers, wanted to repost this! Priority deadline is this Friday (15th). Hit me up with questions!

We are looking for a new colleague to join our department, the focus is on quantitative and/or structural biology. Let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to repost or tag appropriately! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Don't forget to submit your nomination for the Sternberg Award to celebrate your amazing graduating student! LMK if you have questions #phages2024 conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...

OK, evidently someone 'fiddled' with the knobs below the stage on the microscope and now we are in a bad place for our phase contrast. Figured #microsky might have some ideas about how to get us back to happy? I'm leaning toward misaligned phase rings?

Happy Pi day everyone! As another example of a special day - we start priority reviewing of our faculty search tomorrow ! Hit me up if you have any questions: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 2024 GRC Microbial Stress meeting program is live and we have some blazin' folks - should be a little bit of something for everyone. The conference is usually oversubscribed, so please register early! Hit me up with any ?s! www.grc.org/microbial-st... #MicroSky

Just letting folks know that we're going to start reviewing for our newest faculty search on March 15 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Excited to share this first preprint from Kubra Yigit in my lab. It's a pink phenotype ya'll (pre-Barbie!). Let's see if I can thread about this...

There has to be a word for that feeling when you actually have your final grading finished early!!

Come join us at UMass! Great colleagues and banging science. LMK if you have questions about position, area, etc! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

I was settling in thus am to write the last grad rec letter on my list and realized I already had done it for this student for something else!! <insert gif of snoopy dancing>

Impromptu lab photo with weirdly warm day for November! Thrilled to have all these UGs and Grad students in the lab.

To celebrate the last Friday of 'Mole month' (10/23!), my oldest made this video game for his chem class. If you want a little break in the routine, have some fun moving around moles! paperfive.itch.io/the-mole-the...