Anishka spent summer 2025 in the lab, learning lots and teaching us tiktok dances (against my will). She presented at SOT2026 and did fantastic! 🎉

Here’s a quick way to make sure that your elected representatives know to NOT to support multiyear NIH funding which will significantly reduce the number of new grants supported each year.

Mandatory fun!

Festive colonoid! RNA fish - drosha, dicer1, ago2

Happy bunch of human colonoids transfected and expressing GFP

Goblet cells having the time of their lives (muc2, green)

Lito’s last conference as an undergrad! 🎉 #SOT2025

HEADS UP: If anyone is submitting an app this week or soon, check with your grants office to make sure they have language that allows them to correct indir cost recovery if the 15% level is modified. It is likely that they will be on top of this, but it's possible to lock in the low rate by mistake

New Mexico: In 2024, 3 schools received a total of $104 million in NIH grants. Of that, $68 million went directly to research and $36 million went to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $10 million, a loss of $26 million.

If you are female PhD faculty in #GIresearch ( #basicscience or #translational), we invite you to join WINGS, Women Innovating in Gastrointestinal Science, a community for career development, mentorship & networking. Please fill out the form on our website and RT! bit.ly/4fHBWfj #GISky #Gastrosky

If you have to be in the lab today, at least have some cake!