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Tanentzapf Lab

@tanentzapflab

A Cell & Developmental Biology lab @UBC working on the role of cell junctions in development, stem cells, tissue homeostasis. Same user name on Blue 🌌

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Reading a nice polished CV is useful & everything but the most important part of my scientific training, the 18 months I spent on a project that failed, which taught me resilience, problem solving, humility, & other such wisdom is nowhere to be found on my CV. So CVs have limits

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This week has been comically busy, Ive been so under the cosh that I spent 10 minutes yesterday frantically searching the kitchen for the grater & turns out I randomly put it in the fridge in my absent mindedness. Please share your best "absent minded scientist" story in comments

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Over my career I learned that whenever there was a paper, or a technique, or a finding that I thought was totally wrong all I had to do was wait & it would go away. Alternatively, I found out I was the one w/ the wrong opinion. Whatever the case I learned that time is my friend.

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📢 Mar 17: CPS Special Seminar! Join us for the in-person presentation by Dr. Patrick Oakes, hosted by Dr. Guy Tanentzapf: "Strain Signaling: “How LIM domain proteins coordinate mechanotransductionat adhesions”" 📷 Mar 17, 1pm in LSC 3 & Zoom

📢 Mar 17: CPS Special Seminar!              

Join us for the in-person presentation by Dr. Patrick Oakes, hosted by Dr. Guy Tanentzapf:  "Strain Signaling: “How LIM domain proteins coordinate mechanotransductionat adhesions”"        

📷 Mar 17, 1pm in LSC 3 & Zoom
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Guess which PI is flying today to San Diego for the Drosophila Fly Meeting #Dros25 and forgot to book a hotel room (and just found out that the hotel is now fully booked). PI brain people, it's a real thing.

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I've been doing this for 30 years & I still can't believe that when people ask me what I do for a living I get to tell them "I'm a scientist". It feels like a kid's fantasy career that they dress up as for Halloween, like "astronaut" or "pirate". Feel very lucky I get to do this

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Of all the things I find baffling about American Science the weirdest is how university based researchers work year round but (if they are lucky) get paid by the institution for 9 months of the year. A bizarre, archaic, & abusive arrangement that has somehow been normalized.

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The turmoil impacting NIH funding is a reminder how important it is that ALL countries have robust & well resourced research funding bodies to support science. The world of science can't rely on the US & the NIH to continue playing such a major role in funding key scientific work

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Friends in Los Angels. I am giving a seminar in UCLA tomorrow (Friday May 30th) at 3:30 at Boyer 159. I will be speaking about how stem cells make good decisions when seemingly every signaling pathway in the world is present in their environment telling to do something different.