It’s #FluorescenceFriday & we’re highlighting Shivangi Verma’s (Shivangi Verma) image of a #zebrafish larval brain. The larva expressing GCaMP6f was embedded in agarose & imaged using a Zeiss Lightsheet microscope. Find out more about Shivangi's research: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/08/30/fea…

Thrilled to have my story along with this image of fish brain featured by FocalPlane !🎉 Huge thanks to Vatsala Thirumalai for fostering my joy for neuroscience🧠🐟✨😍 Thank you Aalok Varma for teaching me the ins and outs of microscopy (and all the other cool science stuff)!🔬🐟✨

Hey everyone, IISER is organizing an ALL-EXPENSE-PAID mol bio workshop for underprivileged students from non-metros. Please apply if you are eligible, and share in your circles.

Congratulations to Aalok Varma of the LoogerLab at UC San Diego who has been nominated by Shivangi Verma in the #LabHeroes24 Awards! 🏆 Read Aalok's nomination & tell us about the life science superstars in YOUR lab: ow.ly/fm1t50UlyqL #LabHeroes #scienceawards #lifescience

LAB HERO, LET'S GOOOOOOO

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have ppl found any funders that support toolmaking? I want to keep making tools for people, but there is a seemingly irresistible force pushing us towards hypothesis-driven research. so far, funders don't want to hear about tech dev. insights for neuro & climate would be great tx

Congratulations to all the runners-up: Ramanuj Banerjee, Cayvenne Joseph Carag, Rosanna Parlato, Rachel Perry, Renesa Tarannum, Juliana Naldoni, Molly Kent, Rocío Gutiérrez Fuster, Christopher Lee & Aalok Varma 👏👏👏 #highlycommended #LabStars

Kariko's publishing record is not, IN ANY WAY, a rebuke of our impact-obsessed publishing system. Only in the HHMI Comic Universe are these Kariko papers low impact. In the real world this is a high prestige, difficult to achieve publishing record. And you can see if you read

Anyway I'm gonna keep making open-source plasmids from my home lab. Better than wasting time arguing over access, I'm gonna do the thing apparently some folks think is unheard of and just make IP-free biomolecules and ship globally to where it's legal to do so via paper.

🚨job alert Arcadia Science for a biochemist If this sound like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you! And please share if you know someone who might be interested

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

The indiscriminate and ill-conceived slashing of indirects by the NIH yesterday must be amended if want to restore America’s leadership role biomedical research. 15% simply isn’t enough for institutions to provide the basic infrastructure needed to run a successful lab. I say

Here’s a reason why the incoming NIH Director, health economist Jay Bhattacharya, should know cutting indirect costs at NIH is self-defeating and stupid. Every $1 invested by NIH returns $2.5. So $4B “savings” is actually $10B we lost. nih.gov/about-nih/what…

The sort of ASAP's one needs so much more of ....It is vital to do some of this kind of ASAP to stay centred in a frantic and frenetic world.

Elon Musk wants to strip out payments for the indirect costs of doing vital medical research for the federal govt — while SpaceX gets to keep its undisclosed indirect rate, which is paying out billions.

If making chemical tools for biology excites you, consider applying to the NCBS graduate program! My lab plans to hire 1–2 graduate students this cycle. More info on my lab @ dyecraftlab.com

Meet another of our #LabHeroes2024 highly commended nominees! 🏆 Aalok Varma is a postdoc at the University of California, San Diego, who was nominated for his advocacy for inclusion & gender equity in STEM 🙌 Read the interview: ow.ly/QzCi50VcKIK #scientistinterview