Almost there with the Winter Care Packs Thank You EVERYONE! There are still a couple of items left on the wishlist (amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls…) and still time to donate if you would like to help! Venmo me Anna-York-8.

Latest paper looking at pneumococcal stability in Saliva! Turns out it is pretty stable making Saliva a cheap and accessible sample type for pneumococcal carriage/surveillance studies (particularly in remote regions and LMICs)! Dr. Orchid Allicock🇧🇧🇹🇹 Anne Wyllie pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36409104/

How to be truly happy...surround yourself with beautiful, kind people that remind you of everything good in the world, and who inspire you to be better (each and every day, in any way you can). I am giving thanks today to all of these people in my life <3

Related to my previous post of being grateful...Thank You to all the amazing people who made this years Winter Care Pack drive a success. We were able to make over 140 packs for men, women and children in New Haven. Big shout out to Koffee? and @Yalebpa who sponsored our drive!

Excited to share our latest paper "Magnetic bead-based separation of pneumococcal serotypes" where we develop a method to enrich for serotype-specific pneumococci from polymicrobial samples such as saliva. #microbiology #pneumo cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Yesterday was a busy lab day! So belated "Happy International Women's Day!". Keep being awesome ladies <3 Thank You to all the inspirational and supportive women I have in my life. Finally a big thank you Maikel (Lab Tech) who gave us all flowers today 🌻🌹🌷

It's Disability Pride Month - let's celebrate individuals with disabilities. Keep in mind how many disabilities are invisible. #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityInStem #ImNeurodiverse

Super sad to say goodbye to Jasmine M., but so proud of everything she has achieved in her 8 week UG project. We made an awesome team and were able to find S.pneumoniae and some encapsulated non-pneumo strep spp. in saliva samples, great preliminary data! 1stGenYale Yale School of Public Health

I just completed (Summer 2023) An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching with edX! edx.org/course/an-intr…

Why does reviewing manuscripts feel so stressful!?

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! #npaw2023 #YalePostdocs

Thank you to all the postdocs in my lab for always having my back, on 'those days' when a chat, hug, hot chocolate or candy is needed you're always there! It never goes unnoticed. Dr Claire S Laxton Dr. Orchid Allicock🇧🇧🇹🇹 Chikondi Peno,PhD 🇲🇼

Be patient and kind to non-native English speaker Scientists. #PLOSBiology: The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! Thank you to Stephanie Perniciaro for always being a pneumo enthusiast (to geek out with) and for always being there to talk some sense into me when imposter syndrome is too much. I always feel better after our chats! #NPAW2023 #YalePostdocs