Tara Alpert

@J_Rodenfels 😉 you've got good kids over there hahaha

@MaryPetrone10 That was meant to be positive!!! Haha I'm so sorry if it can be interpreted differently 😣

@tdalpert I'm choosing to interpret this in a positive light lol

Can't wait to meet the people from my virtual class in person and hear "you're a lot shorter than I expected" 40 times.

@MaryPetrone10 😂😂😂😂

@sarahsmaga Don't forget you can vote No AND choose a candidate besides Elder in case the recall passes!

@MaryPetrone10 I miss you guys!

@tdalpert surprise also we miss you!

Passed my defense today 😎

@IsabelOtt Stay safe New Haven!!

@GeorgeColli @NathanGrubaugh @YNHH @gkay92 Restaurants are the only location on your list where people take off their masks for extended periods.

@NathanGrubaugh @YNHH @tdalpert @gkay92 Where do these numbers show it’s from restaurants and not schools or public transportation or box stores or churches or convenience stores or gov’t buildings or anywhere that anyone could be at any given day?

Honored to be doing genomic surveillance for that state of CT

Was just on a call with a well-known virologist who noted that it now appears the UK variant can fairly efficiently infect wild-type mice. Good news for scientists; bad news for the world - there will now be an animal reservoir that will be with us for all time.

Under leadership of @GovRaimondo, Rhode Island is shutting bars and gyms But leaving schools open Because that's what the data suggests we should do washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11…

I'm so grateful to finally share the first research article from my PhD work! A huge amount of work from all the authors went into this story as well as discussions and input from many others, thank you to everyone who helped get this project finished. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Why did you become a scientist? Wrong answers only.

@NathanGrubaugh @emilybazelon @Yale @YaleSPH @YaleMed @ADPaltiel @gregggonsalves @WeinbergerDan @VirusesImmunity @SVermund @anikasinghlemar @PaulTurnerLab @Ginpitz @fcraw4d @SaadOmer3 This is so frustrating. So many of us have been working so tirelessly the past few months to expand testing options. While together, we have been slowly making progress, a few @Yale hung up on what they think is red tape are now preventing us from helping our own local community.

@Yale makes such a show of trying to be involved in local community but continuously falls short. Here is an opportunity for real, immediate, effective change that is entirely feasible. Put your money where your mouth is.

#SalivaDirect has designated 3 labs to begin testing using our #opensource protocol around the country. Many more to come very soon! Schools, at-risk communities, and people all over can start to expect affordable and accessible testing! #COVID19 #maskup news.yale.edu/2020/09/24/yal…

@nicolemmart @NIGMS @NIH @GilbertLabRNA Congrats Nicole, that's such an amazing accomplishment!!

I now have a fantastic silver lining for 2020. My K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award is officially funded by @NIGMS @NIH. Sometimes hard work and effort pays off. I am extremely grateful to @GilbertLabRNA, my advisors and letter writers for their support.

“We don't make any money out of this,” said @YaleSPH @YaleEMD postdoctoral fellow @VogelsChantal. “We just want to make sure that, you know, testing gets scaled up and becomes more available so that we can… prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.” foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/coro…

@pathogenomenick @nanopore I did send in tar.gz and they rejected - I'll just indicate the file type as hdf5 in the metadata. Thanks!

@tdalpert @nanopore Send to ENA SRA in a tar.gz, works fine

NCBI GEO and SRA only accepts hdf5 and fastq files for Nanopore data. Fast5 are a type of hdf5 file but were rejected - how are #nanopore fans handling this? Is there a conversion software? Can you just change the file extension? @nanopore