jessie garcia

“Whether or not I reach my goals in life depends entirely on how well I prepare for them and how badly I want them.” - Dr. Ronald E. McNair

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

And the Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to PROTEINS!! Chemists, put proteins in your flasks! #biocatalysis

SWEET 16 GAMEDAY! vs. Marquette | 7:09 PM ET | CBS #GoPack | #TriangleBMWDealers

A great start to the new year! @piercelab Total Synthesis and Microbiological Evaluation of Leopolic Acid A and Analogues | ACS Bio & Med Chem Au pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

But why

Germans really like paprika on their chips

A huge day for the Baker Lab! @KaylieDonelson non-targeted PFAS work @ScienceAdvances and @JessieChappel review detailing statistical & informatic lipidomics approaches @AnalBioanalChem were released on the same day! 🎉 science.org/doi/full/10.11… link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My article is now out in @Nature! It’s been ~1 year since my post about the flaws within 2 high-profile articles that claimed 33-68% increases in crop yield. Our paper describes common issues & suggests yield-testing criteria for future pubs. A thread🧵 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Yalla bye!

@ErinBakerIMS Dr. Baker I’m so sorry this happened 🥺 My thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected

Sometimes there are no words😢 My group is physically okay but the active shooter was in our building yesterday so we hid for multiple hours until evacuated by the amazing police! Our hearts are broken for the lost faculty member! #UNC students, please let me know if I can help💔

If I say “coffee” in Germany with a NY accent people literally don’t understand me. I have to say cahhfee

Is that too American of me?

It took me way too long to realize that there’s a Starbucks 10 min walk from my apt. in Germany

Hello again my huge following! We're back with another awesome paper highlight from Julia Belk et. al during her time at the @Satpathology lab in Stanford. I'm implementing #s to infiltrate the immunology twitter space. #Tcells #Tcellexhaustion #CellTherapy #Immunology.

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome. The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution. Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell. When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part. The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival. The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie: “Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (scienmag.com/artificial-cel…) nature.com/articles/s4158…

@christian_mcam Hi! Welcome to actually using your Twitter 😃

Alright, so time to actually start using my twitter! I've decided to start a weekly tweet series to be more intentional about reading key papers in my field, and I hope you all can learn with me and also reply with some feedback/suggestions for future literature tweets!

This #PrideMonth, it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influential such persons in early America. An abolitionist minister known as The Public Universal Friend. 1/

It was a pleasure to work with Dr. Jeanne Hankett on this microplastics project during my @BASF summer internship! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s…