Sarah Lusk, PhD

This Friday!!

On our way to #IZFC2024 🇯🇵 🐟

What a nice start to the week! Feeling super lucky to get my undergraduate loans forgiven through performing research @PapeOhsu @NICHD_NIH #NIHLRP An amazing program and I owe a big thank you to my mentors and letter writers!! 😮‍💨

@BlockInTheBack @PapeOhsu @NICHD_NIH Thank you!!!!!!!!

@TheRealSlusk @PapeOhsu @NICHD_NIH This is fantastic news!!! Congratulations!!! So well deserved!!

@nathangburns @PapeOhsu @NICHD_NIH thanks!!

Excited to share our latest work! Led by Emma J. Brennan, we provide in vivo evidence distinguishing Gephyrin's synaptic role from its enzymatic role. What an incredible experience! @monklab1 @VollumInstitute link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Increased Netrin downstream of overactive Hedgehog signaling disrupts optic fissure formation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_devbio

Excellent excuse to escape Portland for the day @UODevBio symposium 🔬Featuring a small @UofUGenetics reunion with @GabKardon !!

"I caught it in the pet shop." @keirballa @james_gagnon &co show that #zebrafish from the pet trade harbor many microbes that can be transmitted to experimentally tractable lab zebrafish for further study (incl the first zebrafish #birnavirus) #PLOSBiology plos.io/3yJBRba

It's Election Day! Voting in Oregon feels so ✨GOOD✨ I'm turning in my ballot. ✅Mail it. Your ballot needs to be postmarked TODAY. Check USPS collection times. ✅Use an official drop site. Ballots MUST be received by 8pm! OregonVotes.gov/dropbox #TrustedInfo2024

Schmoozing 🚲 🧠

@grahamallie1 @UnivOfKansas Congratulations!!!

I'm glad to announce that I will be a postdoc no more! Why, you ask? It's because I'll be starting my lab at the University of Kansas in the Molecular Biosciences Dept this Fall! @UnivOfKansas #NIHfunded Stay Tuned!

News: NIH to increase pay levels for pre- and postdoctoral scholar NRSA recipients at grantee institutions nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Portland scientists: come join me next week to learn about pay transparency movements across the country!!

Our notifications are blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale molecular biophysics and biochemistry account! You might want to tag @YaleMBasketball instead 🏀 Boola boola!

Planarians require ced-12/elmo-1 to clear dead cells by excretion through the gut dlvr.it/T0t9pb

Today is our last bargaining session of the year! Join us online or in person to support your BTeam who will put forward their wages and benefits proposals ✊️✊️

A collective action story in three parts

An absolute tragedy in Chicago today, with more to come. We are heartbroken and outraged that this massacre continues while building owners do nothing in the face of clear data and ample solutions. We send our sorrow and gratitude to all the collision monitors and advocates.