Travis Lantz
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undergrad Purdue 19' | @chopralab alumni | @chemsysbio PhD program | Barna Lab| 🏳️🌈⚗️🔬👨🔬 (He/Him)
Palo Alto, CA
Joined February 2018
Why: To increase diversity in STEM, academia, PhD programs How: By focusing on undergrads at historically underrepresented schools What: ~1hr Zoom panel on grad school led by Stanford Biosci/Eng PhD students for your undergrads + resources for apps, finding research PLEASE RT 1/
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I’ve had some whiskey and I need to be honest I have never done a western blot. I barely know what they are. All I really know is y’all complain about them all the time
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Joe Biden is the first actor from Parks and Recreation to become the President of the United States.
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If you fill a building with gasoline for four years, light a match, throw it inside, then declare arson is bad, you are still an arsonist.
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(dating as a phd student) option 1: date non-grad students, have your academic life barely understood option 2: date grad students, find yourself stuck in an endless loop of discussing research and academia in your minimal free time #phdchat #academicchatter
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Check it out! @cobarnes27 offers commentary in this @NYTimes article about novel therapeutic strategies to combat SARS-CoV-2!
nytimes.com
With help from computer algorithms, researchers designed proteins from scratch that can trounce the coronavirus in lab animals.
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I will listen to this song everyday for the rest of my life if Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania all turn blue
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I think im obsessed with platelets now (courtesy of Joseph Italiano Lab website)
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Rosalind Franklin's 100th birthday is this weekend. I've seen many people claim that she couldn't share the 1962 Double Helix Nobel Prize because she died in 1958. This is false. Dag Hammarskjold won the prize posthumously in 1961. 'No posthumous prizes' wasn't a rule until 1974
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If you wish to support a petition to oppose having students be caught between their university's efforts to protect them from #COVID19 and threat of deportation from ICE, here is one: https://t.co/3DLWDX4lU0
Exploiting the pandemic to wall off the U.S. and dismantle one of our greatest strengths—our ability to attract and retain the brightest minds from around the world—may ultimately cause even more long-term, self-inflicted damage to our country than #COVID19. Abhorrent.
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Today @AAAS, AERA, & I sent a public letter to NSF. LGBTQ people are underrepresented in STEM, but NSF won't commit to adding LGBTQ demographic measures to the national STEM census and ignores LGBTQ challenges in STEM. Disparities can't be reduced if we refuse to measure them.
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New Tonight: Disturbing video from @WBFO in Buffalo, NY shows an elderly man walk up to police in riot gear. An officer shoves the man...he falls backwards, hits his head...starts bleeding immediately...motionless. Why did this happen @BPDAlerts ?
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Can we start a #MAGFO movement? Make America Great For Once.
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#TheNextGiantLeap for 2020 senior Elizabeth Thayer is a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology @Illinois_Alma. Congrats! #PurdueWeDidIt #LifeatPurdue #PurdueUniversity
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