Biology PhD student @UF @Whitney_Lab
Gainesville, FL
Joined December 2018
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“Simple, compassionate validation can help frame rejection notifications as a real and socially accepted loss, thereby granting us space to grieve and offering the first round of social support we need to find closure.”
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3 years ago, my PhD applications were rejected. I couldn’t find the words to express my loss until I attended #SciWri22 as a @CASW Fellow and heard @StJudeResearch social worker Erica Sirrine speak of disenfranchised grief. Her words gave me space to heal. This is my story.👇
“Simple, compassionate validation can help frame rejection notifications as a real and socially accepted loss, thereby granting us space to grieve and offering the first round of social support we need to find closure.”
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Last week while sifting worms (Capitella teleta) in lab, I found one with 2 tails! Never seen in the Seaver lab before! #WormWednesday 🪱
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Immunolabelled my 2-tailed worm! Green=Nervous system &Ventral Nerve Cord (VNC), Red=Muscle, Blue=Nuclei. Separation of the 2 VNCs surprised me! What happened here? 🤔#wormwednesday!
ALT Antibody against acetylated tubulin labels the nervous system. Ventral nerve cord is ladder-like structure down middle of worm. This worm has 2 VNCs!
ALT Phalloidin stains the muscle.
ALT This is an overlay of the nervous system, muscle, and nuclei (labelled in blue).
ALT The two-tailed worm I originally found! This pic was taken while it was still alive. Although both tails could move on their own, only the shorter one seemed to excrete waste.
Alicia Boyd retweeted
Capitella eat marine mud. They like their mud strained. Here is the #SeaverLab getting muddy for their annelids! #WormWednesday @capitELa4 @_lauren_k__ @evopolychaeteo @EvoDeva
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Check out this great article about the cool regeneration research me and @EvoDeva are doing @Whitney_Lab! Written by the talented @_brentmfoster!
One segment at a time: Scientists at Whitney Laboratory study regeneration in marine worms palmcoastobserver.com/articl…
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Super excited to share a fixation technique that I serendipitously discovered and developed with @_AEdgar_. We hope that others will give it a try frontiersinzoology.biomedcen… – at St Augustine Beach, FL
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That feeling when you're worried your experiment failed because you don't see a positive result, but then you realize you're scoring your controls and they SHOULD look that way @EvoDeva #gradschool #gradlife #WhitneyLab
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#SeaverLab and #MartindaleLab contribute to study: "Genes with spiralian-specific protein motifs are expressed in spiralian ciliary bands" published in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0… #wlpubs @capitELa4 @longjunwu
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The Seaver lab just updated Capitella teleta’s wiki page! We added some info about its morphology, ecology and some of the awesome research our lab and others have done over the years! Check it out: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capi…
@EvoDeva @AlexisLanza @capitELa4 @_lauren_k__
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We’re celebrating the Global Women’s Breakfast this morning! Thanks to Elizabeth Kaweesa and @LoesgenLab for organizing! #GWB2020
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Coding is just like riding a bicycle would be if every time you didn't ride for a while you completely forgot what a bicycle looked like
What do you do when a neighboring lab has mannequins for no apparent reason? You set them up around the building after work with your advisor and lab mate to surprise unsuspecting coworkers. Obviously. @Whitney_Lab @evopolychaeteo @capitELa4 #gradlife #WomenInSTEM
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North Pacific bigeye octopus getting a shrimp snack and playing a little bit of tug o’ war
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Yes, that’s a real paper clip, and yes that’s a real Euprymna berryi 😍 When the Hummingbird bobtail squid hatches, it’s smaller than a grain of rice 🍚 📸 @timbriggsphoto
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Happy #WormWednesday ! Our lab works on Capitella teleta, an adorable polychaete that lives in the mud! This morning was mud collecting day for our colony (and the best weather I’ve experienced so far in Florida). @EvoDeva @capitELa4
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! I LOVE this article!! (Aka you should take a gander, because it's a great intro, and there are some super nifty photos, too)
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