(Chem & Bio)Engineering PhD | SynBio Postdoc @UWMadison | @UPRM & @ISU_CBE Alumnus |🇵🇷🏳️🌈| Opinions are my own.
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Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
You need to come to Puerto Rico for scientific conferences! Once again, a conversation between scientists during their participation at a conference in Puerto Rico sparked a successful scientific collaboration. It happened in 2011 when Jennifer Doubna and Emmanuelle Charpentier @e_charpentier went for a meal in Old San Juan and while walking on the cobblestone streets decided to start a collaboration that later resulted in their shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. I just learned from the story that I'm posting here of another example, this time in 1979 when Charles H. Bennet @chdbennett and Gilles Brassard attended a computing conference in San Juan, met at the beach, and talked about combining quantum mechanics and information theory which started a collaboration that now resulted in them sharing this year's A.M. Turing Award in computer science, the "Nobel Prize of computer science". So, come to Puerto Rico for your next scientific conference, you never know who you might meet and start a successful collaboration for the ages!
Computer science’s ‘Nobel Prize’ goes quantum | Science | AAAS @CienciaPR science.org/content/article/…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
In response to the federal directive issued on Feb. 7, 2025 to change the Facilities and Administration rate for all existing and ongoing new @NIH research awards, UW–Madison has issued the following statement.
news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-res…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
The next @EngBioRC SPA panel is Jan 28! Please RT/share!
🧬 Are you an undergrad or Master’s student and applying to graduate school or thinking about it?
📺 Attend our panel to learn about interviews and choosing a program/lab!
🔗 Register here: forms.gle/YTPvQ8ZewGc9z7dn8
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
me, locking in and getting ready for unprecedented levels of screen time over the next 48 hours
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
Excited to announce two upcoming events from @EngBioRC's student and postdoc association!
First, next Thursday Sept 26 @ 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET we're hosting a workshop to help with writing graduate fellowship applications!
Register here: forms.gle/PGbdyYxo2mS7vndv9
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
🚨The FTC is finalizing a rule banning noncompete clauses for *all workers* regardless of income or industry. It will increase pay, new business formation, innovation -- and cut health care costs. It's one of the most important things the Biden Administration has done.
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott responds to being called the city’s “DEI mayor”
“What they mean by DEI, in my opinion, is duly elected incumbent.”
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
No one tells you that as you get closer to 30, everyone you know suddenly starts running marathons lmao
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
70% of the peaks in LC/MS data is noise, whether it is derived from endogenous or exogenous molecules. An interesting outcome from our recent analysis of the MS/MS data from over 930,000 endogenous and exogenous molecules in #METLIN at 0eV.
Only 30% total peaks from molecular ions and 70% from ISF, this 70% might explain the "dark matter" @naturemethods doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
Congrats to SIMB member @efrainro_
AIBS is pleased to announce that Alex Rich & @efrainro_ have been selected to receive the 2024 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. @Yale @IowaStateU #2024EPPLA #aibs #eppla aibs.org/news/2024/240215-20…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
Robert C. Brown, who has many inventions involving the thermochemical conversion of biomass to biofuels and biochemicals, is Iowa State's ninth fellow elected to the @AcadofInventors.
📰news.iastate.edu/news/2023/1…
ALT Autothermal pyrolysis is the Bioeconomy Institute’s latest development in thermal deconstruction of biomass into biofuels and biochemicals.
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
“The UK is not alone in recognising the importance of engineering biology…. US has announced a $2 billion package and nations including China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Israel and Denmark are also making engineering biology a strategic priority”
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
While we are sad that Efraín will be leaving us, we are also excited to announce and welcome Charity as our incoming GPSS Senate Engagement Officer!
Charity was unanimously elected to take over the SEO position from Efraín in January 2024 at our general meeting this week.
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
A breakthrough moment: America's first enhanced geothermal energy facility is now producing power! Congrats to @FervoEnergy for getting this 3.5 MW first-of-a-kind plant up & running in NV canarymedia.com/articles/geo… Advanced geothermal has enormous potential zenodo.org/records/7093330
Dr. Efraín Rodz Ocasio retweeted
IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research.
"We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)"
See it here: imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/20…
