Interesting.... some were surprising.

Associate Director or Director of Chemical Engineering Laboratories has a nice ring to it, dont you think? If you would like this to be your next job title, the Northeastern Univeristy Chemical Engineering Department is hiring! Apply in the link below🔽 ow.ly/RW2B50Kx5Hc

Congratulations to Krystyna Krystyna Traverse for winning 1st place & the People's Choice Award & Lauren Lauren (Northeastern University Bioengineering ) for winning 3rd place at our Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University Research Showcase! Well-deserved - it has taken incredible talent, skill, and grit to do what you have done!!!

The moving story of the glassblowers, Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka, who crafted the beautiful and exquisite replicas of flowers and plants all in glass: youtube.com/watch?v=rHOx5H…

Quote shared with me: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman

Dainty snowdrops along a path in the woods... life emerging from dormancy and a welcome sign of spring 🌷

Rachel Tam, ChE 2024 Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, created this 1-pg summary for our Biochemical Engineering midterm. I was admiring the artistry, beauty, & compactness of her study sheet. She gave me a copy of this & the one for the final as a parting gift after the final exam! 😄

My sincere thanks to the Graduate Student Organization and the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept at Notre Dame for your warm hospitality and engaging conversations. I really enjoyed the visit - what a special place & community 🥰

Applications are open for the #3MT competition at #PlantBio2023! Test your #scicomm skills by presenting your research in just three minutes. Finalists will receive travel grants to present on the plenary stage at PB23 in Savannah! Apps close June 4th, plantbiology.aspb.org/three-minute-t…

Several beautiful deers foraging on acorns dropped by squirrels in the trees above...

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (Katalin Kariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her

Can you tell where I am based on the mural behind me? ; )

Congratulations to Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons (Carolyn Lee-Parsons ) and her students Lauren F. Cole-Osborn and Emma Meehan for being published in Plant Direct (Issue 6, Volume 8)! 🌿 You can read their research here: buff.ly/4caOk5U #nucoe #PlantDirect

Catching up with writing and sharing our work - here are a few of our papers recently published with Lauren: The role of the Golden2-like (GLK) transcription factor in regulating terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Another paper recently published with Lauren: Critical parameters for robust Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation and quantitative promoter assays in Catharanthus roseus seedlings onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pl…

NEW ONLINE: Characterization of the ZCTs, a subgroup of Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factors regulating alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus link.springer.com/article/10.100…

More catching up on writing & sharing our research with Krystyna Traverse Samuel @Childs_Lab - see paper below "Characterization of the ZCTs":