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Gregory Konar PhD

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@VanderbiltU PhD '25 | @JohnsHopkins '18 | Characterizing Senescence in Zebrafish Retina Regeneration | Bowling Enthusiast ๐ŸŽณ (HG/HS: 300/814) | (he/him)

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And away we go! Excited to welcome 20 amazing high schoolers today and spend a week teaching them about all things eye and regeneration related through VSA and Peabody College ๐Ÿ˜

And away we go! Excited to welcome 20 amazing high schoolers today and spend a week teaching them about all things eye and regeneration related through VSA and <a href="/vupeabody/">Peabody College</a> ๐Ÿ˜
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The side effects of asking your students to create a comic strip for a "Stem Cell Superhero" is sometimes you live to become the villain ๐Ÿ˜†

The side effects of asking your students to create a comic strip for a "Stem Cell Superhero" is sometimes you live to become the villain ๐Ÿ˜†
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More teaching!!! Excited to welcome my 7th and 8th graders for a week of Weird Food Science through Peabody College PTY! In this lab, eating your experiments is encouraged ๐Ÿ˜

More teaching!!! Excited to welcome my 7th and 8th graders for a week of Weird Food Science through <a href="/vupeabody/">Peabody College</a> PTY! In this lab, eating your experiments is encouraged ๐Ÿ˜
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In today's classroom adventures, the students unionized against me over maraschino cherries and dove hands first into one too many mangoes during our daily experiment ๐Ÿ˜‚ all in a day's work for the average class of 13 year olds!

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Bowling!! ๐ŸŽณ When I'm not in lab there's a 95% chance that you'll find me at the lanes! My team is pretty darn good if ya ask me ๐Ÿ˜ (league Champs and house record for single game team score and series score)

Bowling!! ๐ŸŽณ When I'm not in lab there's a 95% chance that you'll find me at the lanes! My team is pretty darn good if ya ask me ๐Ÿ˜ (league Champs and house record for single game team score and series score)
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One of my fabulous undergrads, Kyle, presented his research on SASP trends in retina regeneration today!! He's revolutionized our labs' usage of bioinformatics, and I couldn't be more proud of his hard work!!

One of my fabulous undergrads, Kyle, presented his research on SASP trends in retina regeneration today!! He's revolutionized our labs' usage of bioinformatics, and I couldn't be more proud of his hard work!!
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I think I heard more touchdown horns tonight than I have heard in my last 4 years of living nearby campus and I LOVE it #ATFD โš“๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ

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Come check out my dinner talk on my travels in Iceland 1/15/25!! Icelandic style cuisine served for dinner! I can't wait!! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ