In 10 years of studying tubeworms, we discovered novel molecular syringes, made evolutionary connections to the human gut microbiome, and founded a biotech startup Metamorphotech. Can't wait to see what the next decade has in store for us.

🚨Save the date🚨 Open House for Schrankel Lab, *Wed Nov 16th, 12-4pm* (borrowing this great idea from the amazing Tina Termini!). Drop in anytime to meet the students, learn about our work with drug transporters in development and host-microbe interactions. All are welcome!

DOES SOMEONE WANNA GET ME A XMAS GIFT?!🥹😭 these are so sweet

Thinking about doing a postdoc? Wondering what the heck we do all day?? Christoph Ziegenhain and I tracked every minute of our workdays for several weeks - check out the data and our blog post! elisagranato.com/days-in-the-li… Academic Chatter™ #phdchat

Gave my last final today! We cleaned the lab and now it’s the end of the semester! A celebration! I’ll see you ladies in January. Also… why does chemistry always work the week before you leave? 🙄

Some of them and let me tell you, it’s my FAVORITE

A key first step in mentoring is recognizing that every person you mentor is different, and none of them are you.

Interstrand crosslinking of homologous repair template DNA enhances gene editing in human cells - MCDB UCSB go.nature.com/3YaXTdD

Beyond proud to share the very first paper to come out of the richardson_lab - what an honor! Special thanks to Chris Richardson (my PI/mentor) and Julien Bacal for pioneering and evolving this project with me. 🧵

Excited to get some more writing in! I felt like this piece was very overdue :)

Record-breaking heat wave in Texas. NYC & Chicago recording the worst air quality of major cities in the world due to wildfire smoke. First US cases of malaria in decades. Climate change is the biggest public health threat humanity faces, and it's happening now.

@ the Supreme Court

Orcas have done more for social justice than the Supreme Court has this year

Had a blast working with Frontiers for Young Minds on a paper about how the menstrual cycle is a *superpower*. I wish I knew this when I was younger & my hope is that today’s young minds will be empowered by, not ashamed of, their menstrual cycles! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Microbio Twitter: What is the best way to fly domestic with 2 boxes of non-pathogenic strains (frozen glycerol stocks)? A Southwest agent was unsure but recommended dry ice in my carry-on? Fedex instead? I don't want to gamble with my collection! Stories and Retweets appreciated

Excited to share my Masters project from the Diego Acosta-Alvear! We show that the #UnfoldedProteinResponse, and in particular PERK, helps coordinate ER expansion prior to cell division. Big thanks especially to Julien Bacal, franzappa and BЯØØҠΞ MΞGHΛИ for helping me push this to the

if kamala harris becomes president it’s bc of this edit

Let’s H-🥥-🌴-🌴-🥥-G-🥥 to the polls

I love my black job 🖤