Congratulations Dr. Douma!!! Absolutely AMAZING TEDx talk from Lauren Douma, PhD 👩‍🔬 this weekend! Beyond proud 🥲FLORIDA FLORIDAMedicine FLORIDAexplore #circadian #Gumzlab

🎉Congrats to the 2024 Excellence in Science Awards recipients: Holly Ingraham UC San Francisco, Pilar Alcaide Tufts School of Medicine, Mariana Byndloss Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The awards honor women scientists' excellence, leadership, and mentorship in their research fields. hubs.ly/Q02s51Zx0

Happening now in 104BC: Renal Young Investigator Award talk by Daria Ilatovskaya #APS2024

Kidney transplant updates 🤯Enzymatic conversion of human blood group A kidneys to universal blood group O | ⁦Nature Communications⁩ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to *Dr* Brittni Moore, PhD on an outstanding thesis seminar today!! #ProudPI

Gut microbes posttranslationally modify IgA1 and thus contribute to the progression of IgA nephropathy...yet another reason to be obsessed with both akkermansia muciniphila and kidneys

(thx to Brittni Moore, PhD for the heads' up on this paper!)

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats to Jiaojiao Xu, the 2024 Winner of the Paul Ehrlich Research Award!! #ProudPI
hopkinsmedicine.org/som/kudos/youn…

Excited to share our latest single cell multi-omic & spatial metabolomic work using SHARE-seq split-pool barcoding to profile regional kidney anatomy led by Haikuo Li!
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Published today: work led by Research Associate Jiaojiao Xu, together with an awesome team of collaborators, shows that an evolutionary conserved olfactory receptor is expressed in the vasculature and mediates sex differences in blood pressure  science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🎉We are excited to announce Dr. Aylin Rodan as the new Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension at University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine! She succeeds Dr. Alfred Cheung after 15 years of service. Starting July 1, 2024. 🌟 Congrats Dr. Rodan and a big thank you to Dr. Cheung! #nephrology #MedEd #uofu

The use of markups such as bracketing, indenting, highlighting, bolding, italicizing, etc., is not allowed anymore in NIH Resubmission applications.
I personally liked when changes in the applications were properly marked...
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Student stipends are rising, but NRSA and NSF fellowships is not keeping pace. NIH requires that the difference can't be paid from standard grants. Many labs cannot take PhD students, even with fellowships, as they have limited discretionary funds. Question for the community../1

reposting for #ScienceValentines

Roses are red
Violets go in vases
One thing I know is
GPCRs are better than kinases
#ScienceValentine

🤯🤯🤯 Discovering the true form of the kidney filter (slit diaphragm) using cryoET ! Contrary to common belief, it resembles a complex mesh rather than simple finger-like structures. The molecular architecture of the kidney slit diaphragm 🤯🤯biorxiv.org/content/10.110……

The strangest case of my primary care career began with an electronic patient request.

I get these a lot. 99% are med refills, forms, or questions about symptoms. This was different. My patient felt fine. But, he was worried he’d be sent to jail…

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Today, I found out that I get no paid maternity leave. My husband, who works for a corporate firm, gets 4 months of paid paternity leave.

Thankfully, I have incredibly supportive mentors. But academic institutes need to do better to patch up the leaky pipeline 😢
#momademia