Daniel Williams

NYSSLS in Bloom! STANYS Spring Conference is starting NOW! @STANYSorg So happy to see so many old friends! Hope to see many of you at my session at 10 am on Microplastics @NYSMTP @nyseagrant

Ques for c. elegans researchers One of my students noticed a weird worm that appeared to be leaking all of its guts out of the vulva. We'd expect to see this out the anus, this might be important based on SS work, but we weren't sure if it was common. Pls help Tnx @NYSMTP @STANYS

IMHO HS Sci Research should not be about contests or prizes. The learning curve for @nanopore sequencing has been steep. We wanted a quick easy way to go from FASTQ to Phred, so a student coded one! -Research INSPIRING ss to EXPLORE & SOLVE problems @NYSMTP @STANYSorg @DNALC

TFW, you get a student excited about a project. She works on it for 6 mos. gets GREAT results & only then you realize you gave her the WRONG protein file to simuate binding. She's very excited about doing the REAL project now! -Learning experience @STANYSorg @NYSMTP @buildmodels

@joshtimlin @Anthony_John824 Ahhh a "phenomena" for our students to examine! #NYSSLS

@Anthony_John824 I agree this is part of the reason.

More moisture in the atmosphere for storms to tap into would be my guess.

Did a post mortem on the 26 blizzard in my Shelter Island Marine Sci class used 500 & 700 MB historical data for interpretation & analysis NOT just look at a GFS surface map TY online meteorologists for your TIME & EDUCATION! YOU help INSPIRE scientists @AccuRayno @nynjpaweather

Thank you @portjeffrotary for inviting me to speak about our Environmental & Educational programs @ #LISEC LI Seaport & Eco Center. I'm excited about working together! Getting kids outside, learning about their local ecosystems, DNA Science and creating Environmental Stewards!

@KuhnboBio We had something similar in my DNA summer camp! We got the parasite DNA instead of the bug! Wonder what we'd find if we kept resampling the DNA extracts w many types of primers! Oh, if we only had unlimited time......

Turned out to be Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus, a thorny headed worm. That’s an odd thing. Then we learned this worm infects Robins and that A. vulgare is an intermediate host! We must have extracted DNA from it in tissue extraction. Very cool. New project next year for someone. 😊

Today a student of mine working on a project was doing routine CO1 screening of A. vulgare pillbugs against haplotypes. She had one come back at only 50% match. So she blasted it…

HS student using @pioreactor to track yeast growth when treated w various levels of caffeine -eventually for directed evolution of caffeine tolerant mutants Blue = Control Red = low conc. Green not the highest caffeine -but maybe the sweet spot for selection? @NYSMTP @STANYSorg

EXCITING day in our Lab! SI HS Ss have been learning how to use @nanopore DNA sequencing technology We've tried & failed many times We just got our longest high quality read @ 73,000 bases! It's 100% coverage & 100% similarity to staphlococcus aureus! @DNALC @STANYSorg @NYSMTP

Last night was Shelter Island's 61st annual Science Fair! My 20th -this is the most NextGen thing we do! Ss select topics that interest THEM vapes/cosmetics/microplastics make claims, design valid experiments & justify their claim w data analysis They were amazing @NYSMTP @stanys

And while you are in Port Jefferson -stop by the Bayles Boat Shop #LISEC & see the progress we are making on the replica armed Whaleboat the "Caleb Brewster" as we celebrate America's 250th! 🎆 Make sure to get your #LI250 passport stamped! @PortJeffNY suffolk250.org

Exciting News! We are bringing our DNA Barcoding summer camp up Island to @PortJeffNY through the PJ Village Center & the LI Seaport & Ecology Center #LISEC -This 2 wk summer camp gets ss to do HANDS-ON field work & cutting edge DNA lab techniques! @NYSMTP @STANYSorg @DNALC

Where does antibody diversity come from? A million genes? Proteins molded fr antigen shape? Interchangeable parts? Ss brainstormed ideas then worked through buffet style gene/protein menus to make unique antibodies! & they picked on my tracing...@3DMolDesigns @STANYSorg @NYSMTP

Long-term investigation in Shelter Island Marine Science. Last month we collected water samples from 3 different locations. The students filtered the water & are now examining under the microscope to see if its potentially microplastic. @nyseagrant @NYSMTP @STANYSorg

Right after the Bio Breakfast, come join me to explore the Chemistry of Protein structure @ session F-17 "Folding & Molding" upstairs in the "Directors Room" -See you there! @STANYSorg @NYSMTP @3DMolDesigns

About to start my first workshop of the weekend! Hope to see you there! @STANYSorg @NYSMTP

On my way to Syracuse for some of the best PD of the year! @STANYSorg Can't wait to see old friends & make some new ones! Personally, I'll be presenting 4 workshops and running the @3DMolDesigns booth! Hope to see you there! @NYSMTP

We are all set! Can't wait to see everyone later today! Stop in at booth 202 and get your free virus model (it also has augmented reality!) @3DMolDesigns @STANYSorg @NYSMTP

What's even more cool? I name every computer in the lab after famous scientists....I didn't realize until AFTER we started our DNA Sequencing reaction-but how appropriate that we choose THIS computer! @RFS_Science @DNALC @NYSMTP @STANYSorg

Today, on Shelter Island, we completed our first ever DNA SEQUENCING experiment! @oxfordnanopore 16s Barcoding -culminating 2 years of student work hopefully confirming PCR results (watch this space) we had lots of mistakes, so maybe wait for trial 2 @NYSMTP @DNALC @STANYSorg