Victoria Yang

どんな #ポケモン会えるかな ？ #ポケモン30周年 #PR @poke_times

Honestly, I'm so incredibly lucky to get to work with Joe, who has been a major scientific inspiration to me and an amazing UROP mentor who taught me so much. Thanks to the rest of Zhang lab too for being so kind and helpful throughout my time there ☺️

And it's here!! Protein delivery hot to go 😉 pick your cargo + receptor target, and load everything up in vitro with SPEAR! Huge thanks to @zhangf for the opportunity to work in his lab as an undergrad, and even bigger thanks to @kreitz_joseph for his dedicated mentorship

Targeted delivery of diverse biomolecules with engineered bacterial nanosyringes go.nature.com/46OFcoj

Injecting old mice with an RNA molecule seems to reverse some signs of ageing — helping them to live longer, regrow hair and maintain their physical and mental abilities go.nature.com/40DcJhH

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Sometimes it can be so hard to gather the courage to talk to professors or postdocs as a first year..! But yesterday, I sent 3 cold teams messages and got replies/scheduled chats from everyone within 30 minutes 🤩 Moral of the story: reach out!!!

My supervisor during lab meeting: Victoria spearheaded this experiment, valiantly Me (in my brain): Huzzah :D

@kkaybestie Movie watch when 👀

Haikyuu is unironically my favorite anime

Love the dormspam culture of adding tl;dr to the start of emails Feels like effective communication -- it's like an abstract for an email LOL

I mean it makes sense cuz they are both icosahedrons...

Looking at an image of an AAV capsid like hmm, why does it feel so familiar?? I WAS THINKING OF A FREAKING D20

Shaking a bottle of yakult thinking: wow a vortex would b so convenient rn

I was like: OMG I CAN SEE WHERE THE SCISSORS ARE CUTTING 🤩

Life changing development: I got a pair of left handed scissors today and it was!! So cool!!! Considering starting a lefties in bio advocacy group where every lefty gets left handed scissors and TC hood setups

The only downside is that this involves mentally deconstructing the experiments such that each reagent is in a separate well along the same row Eg for a PCR w/ varying [primer concentration, template]: np.array([[0.1µM, 1], [0.1µM, 2], [0.3µM, 1], [0.3µM, 2])

To help myself better visualize matrix operations in intro ML, I have resorted to thinking about matrices as experiments in 96 well plates Each row is a setup and each column is an experimental condition 🤔