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@EAHellerPhD

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@LukeEpplin 🤣 really can't wait to hear this from mom's vantage point
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4 years
Recruitment party in my lab! I am looking for dedicated individuals interested in studying neuroepigenetics! TWO postdoc positions available, and one research specialist. Please DM if interested and I will send more details. Thank you for RT.
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Hiring 1 Research Specialist and 1 Postdoctoral Fellow. Competitive salaries. Project Title, Epigenetic regulation of Cdk5 in cognition and emotion. Let's do this.
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I am grateful to have received a lot of positive feedback from prospective predocs this recruitment cycle. Thought I'd share my standard interview, in case anyone is new and wants a template. 1/n
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@mbeisen Strong disagree. (1) 10 years ago they would not have included Katie in the prize, even if Drew have advocated for her. This prize going to the two of them DOES represent change. (2) In the current climate of dunking on academia and basic science, it is an essential message.
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It is my understanding that the Specific Aims page is the most important part of an NIH grant application. Can we envision a mechanism where Specific Aims page is submitted first, and then a full proposal is invited (a la Letters of Intent)? Why not?
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students - your PIs ability to remember decades of papers by author names is because your PI is old and was present* when the project was conceived and the paper published *as in, we know the authors irl so not that hard to remember what they did
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stop telling me that my profession is going to change that chatgpt and ai will make me obsolete you said that when we got the internet and again when we got the genome but I'm still here VALIDATING FUCKING ANTIBODIES by western blot proteins don't gaf about your internets
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New paper out from incredible team of current and past Heller Lab rockstars @SongPhd @Sonia_Lombroso @delaneykfischer Chromatin-mediated alternative splicing regulates cocaine-reward behavior 🧵
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4 years
@IjeomaOluo on @BrianLehrer with more words I need: "Martin Luther King marched peacefully and he got shot in the face for it."
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4 years
Proud of this first first author paper from my first graduate student, Marco D Carpenter!
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Penn Epigenetics
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New paper out from the @EAHellerPhD lab in @NatureComms on targeting gene expression as a potential therapeutic target in cocaine addiction using mouse models
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Academic research is imperfect, inequitable, and underfunded. Yet we keep at it, because it is a necessary and essential good. Before you tweet to discourage young scientists, consider the world without public school teachers, public defenders, social workers, and librarians.
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6 years
The more time you spend planning experiments, the less time you spend repeating them. Or as my Dad said - it doesn't matter how many experiments you do, as long as you do the RIGHT experiment.
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Undergrad In The Lab
6 years
Don't devalue the effort you spend on tasks that support your research project. Updating notebook, planning an experiment, #writing , washing glassware or making media *is* being productive. 👉 It.All.Counts.👈 #phdchat #PhdLife #Postdoc #AcademicTwitter
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2 years
One good thing about a long winter... wearing my @cureSYNGAP1 hoodie. Thank you!
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Just a leeetle excited I get to do this today @Princeton
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11 months
I think I distilled something re: NIH grant writing. EVERY section should include these four components in this order: rationale->hypothesis->approach->outcome Depending on the section, one of these four components will longer and more detailed than the other three.
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5 years
"When you are accustomed to privilege, equity/equality feels like oppression." Thank you for #speakingtruthtopower @ImogenRCoePhD #ACNP2019
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2 years
Related: Them: What do you do? Me: Faculty at Penn Med. Them: What do you teach? Me: I don't. I run a research program. Them: What kind of research. Me: Neuroscience. Them: So great that you teach nursing.
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Daniela Witten
2 years
When I tell a tech bro that I am a professor of statistics, they often immediately inform me that I am a teacher professor, not a researcher professor. I say no, I am a professor professor, I do research and teach, but mostly research. Then they tell me- oh but I’m an UNDERGRAD
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come through!
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8 months
@mbeisen CHANGE indeed. The record indicates that a female, non-faculty scientist would not be awarded a nobel. (also ngl I'm pretty psyched you replied!)
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Liz Heller
2 years
Super proud of Mike Murphy @PennNGG ! This review examines Mike's hypothesis that epigenetic changes accumulate over stress/drug exposure and influence responses to subsequent exposures. Enjoy and send feedback!
@TrendsNeuro
Trends in Neurosciences
2 years
'Convergent actions of stress and stimulants via epigenetic regulation of neural circuitry' @TrendsNeuro Review by Michael Murphy & Elizabeth Heller @eahellerphd
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Liz Heller
3 years
Recruitment! We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on rare, genetic Epilepsies and Neuro-Developmental Disorders (ENDD therapeutics team). This project will focus on the use of epigenetic editing tools for the correction of such gene deficiencies.
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5 years
This bodes well for my talk tomorrow. #SfN19
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6 years
The Heller Lab is recruiting a postdoc with training in molecular biology and genetics. Please email me a CV and references if interested. @PennEpiInst @pennbgs
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hellerlab retreat!
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4 years
I'm so excited about this I'm retweeting it twice. DM me if you're looking to set this up and want to come work in my lab.
@BohacekLab
Johannes Bohacek
4 years
Very happy to share our latest work! Frustrated with expensive and inflexible rodent behavior testing systems, we compared @DeepLabCut head-to-head with 2 leading commercial systems. But first, please turn up the volume to 11 for this trailer 🙂 #Rammstein #MachineLearning
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2 years
hot new data: significant sex differences in response (by 2-way ANOVA of sex and behavior) to my jokes
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@mike_feigin bring my anger translator
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it's recruitment time remember that successful scientists rarely come from the ivy+ the most rigorous, most impactful, the most 'famous' scientists, trained hard and were mentored well, at myriad schools eg the 2024 mins 'rising star awardee' attended mt holyoke and uconn
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work for us and move to a city with multiple championship teams even if you loathe pro sports it makes for a very happy urban atmosphere
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Hiring 1 Research Specialist and 1 Postdoctoral Fellow. Competitive salaries. Project Title, Epigenetic regulation of Cdk5 in cognition and emotion. Let's do this.
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Liz Heller
4 years
Time for me to stop using Twitter. I am finding it too toxic in this long moment of fear and losses. Please forgive me for not retweeting your important thoughts for the next little while. I will dearly miss your humor. Stay safe and #StayTheFHome
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Liz Heller
2 years
Are we at the point in the pandemic when we put emojis in work emails?
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I took enough time off this summer (I think) because I am legit excited for the semester to start instead of terrified. I hope that there are others like me. Especially in Heller lab 😬😊
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@EAHellerPhD
Liz Heller
3 years
@voM0cytosis So I think one piece that might be important to say is that once you have a baby all of your priorities will change. Maybe not forever, maybe not in the same way, but trying to imagine how you'll do your current life after you're a parent is futile. You won't be the same person.
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We are SO excited for this. @delaneykfischer ready to drop knowledge on cocaine regulation of chromatin bivalency and so much more...
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Penn NGG
2 years
NGG is proud to present our next thesis defense - Delaney Fischer ( @delaneykfischer ) of the @EAHellerPhD lab! Please DM us for virtual access. Good luck, Delaney! #WeAreNGG #AlmostPhDone
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Marco Carpenter has been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Academic Diversity at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Congratulations, Marco!
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Liz Heller
1 year
@drjess_s Rev 1: kids just finished college Rev 2: kids are in preschool and home with multiple viruses
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Liz Heller
3 years
So excited to announce the dissertation of MARCO CARPENTER! Monday, March 22nd @ 2:00 p.m. Title: TARGETING ENDOGENOUS HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS FOR THE TREATMENT OF COCAINE USE DISORDER: CONTRIBUTION OF NR4A1 AND TARGET GENE EXPRESSION
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Liz Heller
5 years
Philadelphia SEPTA bus drivers are exceptional. They move my two sons and I all around town. Navigation skills like NASA. Today my driver worked with me to switch onto the bus two in front of ours at a red light. That's dedication. @SEPTAPHILLY #iseptaphilly
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Liz Heller
2 years
My new reply when ppl ask me why I'm masked is to just start coughing uncontrollably.
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Very proud of Paola Eusebio-Severino, for her work this summer on stress and sex differences. Paola is a #PennSUIP trainee from Inter American University Of Puerto Rico - Bayamon. Here she presents her research at LANS2022. @IDEAL_Research @LeadershipAllia
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Liz Heller
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@Theholisticpsyc We frame MDD as susceptibility to environmental conditions that promote depression. Under harsh conditions, most individuals are resilient and do not develop depression. As neurobiologists, we are interested in identifying molecular pathways that promote resilience.
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UPenn's department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics is looking for new faculty! -understanding the fundamental aspects of neuro-immune interactions in health and disease -cutting-edge techniques and approaches
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Liz Heller
2 years
Thank you @PennMedicine ULAR/OAW for the 2021 Conscientious Investigator Award! Congratulations to Heller Lab scientist, Kyle Czarnecki @kczar432 , whose work to improve mouse isolation housing resulted in this recognition!
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Liz Heller
3 years
Congratulations to @delaneykfischer for receiving a 2020 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience @SfNtweets ! Great work, Delaney!
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this happened so now I'll be tweeting all day sorrynotsorry
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@dennisbhooper @HeheWaitWhut You don't make friends with salad 🎶 You don't make friends with salad 🎶
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hey thats me come through!
@PennEpiInst
Penn Epigenetics
4 months
Register today for the 2024 Epigenetics Institute Symposium: Rising Stars in the Penn Epigenetics Universe! Join us 3/18/24 to hear from Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD and Karolin Luger, PhD, as well as eight Institute Core Members! Registration required:
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Me not paying for childcare rn.
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3 years
second round of revision when both first and second authors have left the lab and R3 wants a whole figure of new data #sendhelp
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Liz Heller
1 year
Congratulations Kiara Rodriguez @kiararodz_ on passing your prelim exam and becoming an official @CAMBUpenn thesis student. It is a privilege and pleasure to mentor you!
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Liz Heller
2 years
You don't want to miss this! @TheCalipariLab speaking at 4pm today! @PennMINS @pennbgs #DOPEamine
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@xtinatucker yes please. currently very grateful for age/size appropriate Patricia Arquette in Severance and GOD BLESS most unsexy Jamie Lee Curtis in EEAAO, and always and forever Jennifer Saunders, most recently in Death on the Nile.
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unpopular opinion: citations should be based on primacy not recency [1] fr students think that 1999 is too old how many times should we 'discover' that CREB is a master regulator? or that PFC projects to amygdala? everytime there is new method? eff that noise [1] @TronsonLab
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Liz Heller
2 years
A proud day for me in lab: A trainee expresses their disappointment with grace and measured optimism. Science is full of failure. Resilience is the way.
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Liz Heller
2 years
live footage of me finishing my r01 before 9am #inventinganna #academia #imadethisgifmyselfplsclap
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Liz Heller
4 years
I'm cleaning this kitchen rug with a toothpick. How's your grant writing going? #standardduedates
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Liz Heller
2 years
If you are an unfunded fellowship applicant, I send you big hugs and this helpful reminder: [# outstanding fellowship applications >>>> $ for fellowships => arbitrary criteria determine finalists] There's little public $ for science. But if you can, do science anyway.
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Liz Heller
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budget is shrinking stipends are growing fewer scientists training #pihaiku
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Liz Heller
11 months
broke: advising junior female faculty to say no to service woke: telling male faculty to say yes E👏Q👏U👏I👏T👏Y
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Liz Heller
2 months
A dream job would be where I worked with all my friends that I grew up with in school. Plus we got sent on cool trips for work all the time. Oh. I have that job. #academiaftw
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Liz Heller
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sit on study section so you can be constantly irritated by grant writing advice from ppl who do not sit on study section
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My opening speech on @SEPTAPHILLY : hello my name is cough Liz cough and I'm not cough sick I'm recovered from cough covid and cough flu and I'll be cough cough coughing for the rest of my life.
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3 months
Join us April 3!
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I had an incredible time @UIowaNeuro last week and learned a ton from the faculty and trainees! It’s hard to put into words how grateful I am for your mentorship for the last … 25 years 😵 @TedAbelneuro 🙏
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Ted Abel
5 months
Great to have Elizabeth Heller from ⁦ @PennMINS ⁩ ⁦ @PennMedicine ⁩ visit us today ⁦ @UIowaNeuro ⁩ to talk about her creative work using epigenetic editing to study psychiatric disease! Honored to have worked with Liz in her early days in science!
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Liz Heller
4 years
My 5yo just called me out for wearing the same sweatshirt every day... How long till the lab notices? #WorkFromHome
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Liz Heller
3 years
@voM0cytosis I planned and I worked super hard to keep it all together. It was difficult. Yet the reasons that it was challenging were not at all what I predicted. How could I? Becoming a parent is life-altering. Gotta just embrace the insanity. It is fully charged with love.
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Liz Heller
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Big news! I'm finally able to take advantage of my employee benefit and enroll in courses! Now I can realize my dream of forgetting I enrolled until the final exam.
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Liz Heller
2 years
So excited for this visit!
@VICB_Vanderbilt
VU Chemical Biology
2 years
Save the date! @VCARScience hosts @EAHellerPhD : “Epigenetic Editing for the Study of Addiction and Depression” Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9 am, 512 Light Hall
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the irony of a flash mob celebration for the covid vaccine nobel
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academia basic science diversity #pennpride
@WeissmanLab
The Drew Weissman Lab
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Congratulations to undergraduate student Chloe Han for winning a CURF Fellowship for her research project: Regulation of Nr4a1 in cocaine reward! Chloe was awarded "The Endowed Dean’s Research Award" by the College Alumni Society.
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@GreeneScientist
Casey Greene
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Congratulations @qiwen_hu and @EAHellerPhD on this study examining histone marks and splicing during development! Though it was a preprint before, it is now published! It was wonderful to be a part of the team. #genomics #development #epigenetics
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Liz Heller
3 years
Anyone bragging how they 'don't have time to watch shows' is just admitting they don't fold their own laundry.
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a peaceful reprieve helps me keep things in perspective thank you Philly
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Liz Heller
4 years
Thank you @SyngapRF ! We are grateful and excited to dedicate our expertise to this important research area. I look forward to joining the efforts of @GavinRumbaugh @BateupLab @rhuganir and many others.
@cureSYNGAP1
SynGAP Research Fund (SRF)
4 years
This $130k #SRFHeller grant to @EAHellerPhD puts our grants at $1M+, sourced from #SYNGAP families & their networks. We are 2 yrs old. Thank you to all the families who contributed, especially @UFDisciple for their epic effort. Enjoy todays press release!
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epigenetics on display at the philadelphia flower show
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Liz Heller
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Recruitment! The Prosser Lab and collaborators are developing novel therapies for rare, genetic Epilepsies and Neuro-Developmental Disorders (ENDD Therapeutics team). We are hiring postdocs or research staff with molecular biology expertise. Please RT!
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Liz Heller
3 years
I think there's a trauma associated with looking at my own face this many hours a day. #zoomlife
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Liz Heller
2 years
Tracy Bale @TheBaleLab opens #MNS2022 with fascinating research on EV biomarkers for female adolescent trauma; collab with @TJovanovic_PhD featuring work by @DocKatiePhd et al
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2 years
shoutout to all caregivers fastening masks over tiny ears under tiny hats one million times per hour
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Liz Heller
1 year
Happy Friday to me! I just saved at least 45 hours of work:
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Liz Heller
11 months
This was a phenomenal visit for me. I learned so much from the exceptional trainee talks. I am extremely grateful to have spent the day with all of you!
@UCIneurobio
UCI Neurobiology and Behavior
11 months
We had an exciting day at the ICAN symposium featuring Keynote Speaker, Dr. Heller from UPenn. We would like to thank all those who attended as well as our graduate students, Post doc and ICAN Committee speakers!
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dorky >>> dead
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2 years
Updated: Peer-reviewed and still open access! @SciReports Check this out if you've ever wondered whether multiple hPTMs are truly at [yfg]. We find out that cocaine regulates hPTMs at Nr4a1 differently in male and female mice #sabv #addiction #epigenetics
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Rockstar scientist @delaneykfischer at it again:
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undergrads in the lab mtg prepping for poster symposium on monday... after the science feedback I gave the instructions for dealing with toxicity in poster sessions... lab's response "that's the most ny we've ever seen you" 😅 # #fugghetaboutit
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