Reflections

This morning I had the honor of speaking at the Kansas City March for Science. I was invited by an organizer, one of our fantastic graduate students, Cassi Johnson. It was a blustery day so the conditions Read more

With startup funds rapidly dwindling and major external grant funding elusive, this year has been arguably the hardest of my professional career. I don’t say it lightly given that other notable gut punches included switching Read more

I’ve been thinking about doing a year in review for the lab but it has been difficult to think about. It’s been quite a rough year. Last year, I was very optimistic. We had gotten positive comments Read more

One thing that shocked me when I started my faculty position was the explosion of opportunities. As a grad student and postdoc, I remember clawing for opportunities that seemed all too infrequent. Upon starting my Read more

Each year the NFL reviews which of its rules are under-enforced and identifies some points of emphasis for the upcoming season. I opened the doors to my own lab space on September 2nd, 2015 (~16.5 Read more

Here’s another BioRxiv submission selfie of authors Jenna Christensen, David Mueller and myself for our joint preprint with the Kovar Lab! We’d love to hear your feedback!

I’m happy to announce that the first preprint from our lab is live on BioRxiv! Here’s a submission selfie of postdoc Soumita Dutta and myself. We look forward to your feedback! If you’re attending the upcoming ASCB annual Read more

Many of us (Brittany Jack, Soumita Dutta, David Mueller, Shengping Huang and myself) from the lab will be attending the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in San Francisco this December. If you’re attending the meeting, please Read more

Some weeks ago, The Atlantic posted a question on Twitter asking why federal science funding was so personal for researchers. My first reaction was that we have hugely failed as scientists if the average person doesn’t know Read more