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Biomedical scientists love to complain about the government underinvesting in research but the real champion of underinvestment in research is the pharmaceutical industry a $1.5 trillion/year behemoth w/ 20%+ profit margins that has been free riding on public research for decades

Excited to share the latest work from our team published today in @SciImmunology We demonstrate that a viral protein can be engineered to rewire signaling pathways in T cells to activate STAT5 and determined that it prevents T cell suppression! Full text: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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It's New Instructor Week here at DFB and we're so excited to introduce you to the freshest members of our team. Over the course of this week, everyday you will get to meet one of our new instructors and learn about their research and backgrounds. #NewInstructorWeek

DFB is recruiting new instructors! We're looking for UM affiliated grad students and post docs who are passionate about educating the next generation of Developmental Biologists. Please share widely.

1. Yesterday in lab meeting we discussed the proper etiquette for how to ask for reagents. Obviously if a reagent is published it should (& in my lab will) be sent no matter how the request is made. BUT its professional courtesy to do so in collegial manner. Here's a rough guide:

@TrumanLab CellProfiler is the best

Can anyone suggest software that can count the number of foci of a fluorescent protein per cell for yeast? Hopefully something that is easy to use and won’t break the bank 😂

Neutrophil recruitment in muscle blood supply. SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins administered via the nose in mice can interact with macrophages in the lungs, which draws in neutrophils, contributing to lung #inflammation. #Covid #Immunology elifesciences.org/articles/86764…

1. My top imaging trick to trainees is that before they spend any time taking pictures of the data they just sit there for a while & look at the stuff. Like seriously, sit back, crank some tunes, get cozy & spend some quality time with your slides.

It Happened To Me: I Thought I Was Too Cool To Care About The Eclipse Last Week But In Doing So I Denied A Fundamental Truth About Myself (Loving Being A Part Of Things) And Now It's Today And I Don't Have Glasses

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Complain all you want about peer review @FrontiersIn, but its current manifestation is the logical extension of a toxic, dysfunctional and irrational publishing culture that treats papers as currency and continues to propagate the lie that "peer reviewed" means "valid".

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@ardemp @NobelPrize Seeing as the normal 2nd career option for laureates (becoming a neuroscientist) isn’t an option for you, medicine seems like a decent fallback