Riëtte Van Biljon

Sending our highschool interns off into the wide world to keep doing science! All of the best to Elise and Allan going forward! @Painter_Lab

**we had to wait an entire 8 months for a study to wrap up before we could properly clap back to this* BUT A LOT OF STUFF GOES ON HERE. 🧵

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@JPeterMcgee Relatable😅. I spend at least some time every day begging transfections to grow

Update: celebrated too early. Had to use all the DNA I got per line and both sets of genotyping PCRs are inconclusive for different reasons 🙃 science is fun sometimes

When you make an accidental mistake in prepping gDNA, continue anyways, and despite very low concentrations the nanodrop still gives you that sweet 160 curve (these are transfections I can’t easily get more cells 😬)

If I were to invent my own sequencing technology I would name it NASTY-seq (Not Another Sequencing Technology Y'all). Thank you.

@JPeterMcgee Definitely not the worst mistake. Just today I threw my western membrane in the trash and lovingly put my leftover milk on the rotator in the fridge. (Thankfully the falcon tube was shut and the western turned out ok😅)

Hey kids just a reminder that everyone can make simple mistakes now and again, like plating two different transformations on the same plate 😬 (I “rinsed” both tubes with LB Broth and plated them separately with plenty of colonies on each plate so not the end of the world ~yet~)

What do you think are the main shortcomings of high-throughput omics measurements? How can we overcome them? I think a major shortcoming stems from the tendency to measure what is easiest rather than what is biologically most relevant. nikolai.slavovlab.net/high-throughpu…

@cobbold_simon @Painter_Lab No she is represented by all the sexual stages in the mosquito, just zoomed (hah) out because she's a PI 🤣

@BiljonRiette @Painter_Lab Awesome! Heather is being taken away by a mosquito. Is there a cryptic Christmas message in that?

Our little Holiday masterpiece for the office door competition- featuring the lab, our many lab pets and of course, the parasite stages that best represent us ❤️🎄

@ellierboardman @MicrobiomDigest Since it's a Bio-Rad thermocycler, what about Brad? The rest could be Kyle, Steve and Kevin.

@MelodyWYY @Melterialsgal If you can, try and talk to people actually in the lab, as many as possible. It's hard for multiple people to hide serious problems in the environment. The other piece of advice is to take your time. Don't jump to join a lab because you might lose your shot, explore your options.

@Melterialsgal About to begin applying; utterly terrified of this after I worked as a research assistant for an abusive PI. Any ways to avoid this other than quitting? Would ultimatums of leaving regardless, ever work?

1st official Painter lab photo at #MPM2022! @Painter_Lab

Was great to finish off the "getting sexy" session at #mpm2022 this year with our work on a parallel multi-omics dataset for P. falciparum gametocytes! @Painter_Lab @LlinasLab

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors? Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part! PI: OK! Field assistants 👇🏿

@TheStrugglingS4 @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics @PhD_Genie @ThePhDPlace @thephdbreakdown @MasterAcademia_ Half of one ( when I did it a couple years ago).

How many supervisors do you have for your PhD🤔? P.S. .....I have 4 😅 @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter @OpenAcademics @PhD_Genie @ThePhDPlace @thephdbreakdown @MasterAcademia_

@JPeterMcgee @penn_state Ask them why you have to pay for parking while you're at it. And the ridiculous little "fines" they love giving out on snow days and weekends.

Hey @penn_state, want to fill me in on why grad students need to pay to use the gym facilities this summer? I don’t understand why grad students are charged for everything when we give the school so much. I don’t have extra money & work out to help combat my ~clinical depression~

@GingerMEdwin @FP_Champagne @UAlberta @UBC @UCalgary @DalhousieU @UManitoba @McMasterU @queensu @usask @WesternU @UWaterloo Probably in the lab doing the work instead of just discussing it.

@FP_Champagne @UAlberta @UBC @UCalgary @DalhousieU @UManitoba @McMasterU @queensu @usask @WesternU @UWaterloo Where are the women?

Supporting world-leading science and research is a key component of our agenda. Yesterday, I met with the top 15 research-intensive universities to chat about how science is a core component of the innovation pipeline and how we will continue to strengthen our research ecosystem.

@KellyTRios Very cool and immediately relevant to the field! Good job getting this out there!

My first first-author research article from my PhD with @LindnerLab is now online! 🥳 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… Us rodent malaria researchers routinely use sulfadiazine to select for sexual blood stage parasites in the host, but we asked if this drug exposure affects transmission.

The first Corces Lab paper is out today! We've released a step-by-step guide to bulk ATAC-seq @NatureProtocols. This was definitely a labor of love by stellar postdoc Fiorella Grandi. nature.com/articles/s4159…

@sabrina_absalon @Painter_Lab Thank you Sabrina! It's a very exciting moment for sure 😁

@BiljonRiette @Painter_Lab I love positive transfections it is an absolute rush of joy. Congratulations

Auspicious times in @Painter_Lab ! 1st two positive transfections, on the way to establishing lines! #watchthisspace