When I was about to start looking for potential advisors for my PhD, I sat down to think about what I wanted in a graduate experience, lab, and advisor and what I valued. I asked advisors the following questions before deciding whether to rotate and/or join: Infographic👇

First Friday with a slight twist 💙🩶

Imagine hearing this story and then deciding the best thing to do is nothing.

My first review paper. Took a lot of blood, sweat and internet data (a big deal in Nigeria) to complete. Mycobacterial Genetic Technologies for Probing the Host-Pathogen Microenvironment | Infection and Immunity. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…

Dark plumes of smoke from wildfires in Quebec are destined to reach the East Coast and the District this week. Here’s what you need to know about the health effects of wildfire smoke and how to protect yourself on days with poor air quality. wapo.st/45SUdlV

CONGRATULATIONS! Enya Dewars 🇵🇭🇯🇲 🧬 Rachel Meade, Ph.D. 🧬 Vianna Martinez (she/her) AND #LATANYACOKE!

Closing out week 2 of Early Start with student led journal clubs! It’s always good to parse through papers…especially if you can do it with the authors!

The MX Biobank paper is out today in nature! This is the first national-scale genomic database in Mexico and the largest independent project led by my lab Cinvestav since I returned to my home country to help building local capacity. rdcu.be/dojZ5

The only other presenter to give us a marker-to-board chalk talk was another Duke post-doc. Duke University Postdoc Association wow us every time! But you better believe @MarcoTPGontijo represented the 2nd yrs just as well! Thank you both, Marco & #TaliaHatkevich, for sharing your science with us!

An interactive holiday spectacular ✨

Can’t wait to share my work from over the past few years!

Congratulations to UPGG's Dr. Rachel Meade, who defended her thesis on Friday! Thesis title: “Host-Pathogen Genetic Factors Mediate Tuberculosis Disease Outcomes.” Up next: Associate at Analysis Group’s Health Economics & Outcomes Research Practice in San Francisco, CA.

Tuberculosis kils more than a million people every year. We can #EndTB #WorldTBDay

Sharing again because this graphic really helped me to frame the skillset I acquired throughout grad school for professional documents 😊

Isn’t this attack rate rather high for TB? “The health department detected 14 TB cases at a single-room occupancy hotel. 9 TB patients have been hospitalized & one has died, according to the health department. As of Monday, about 175 people had been exposed to TB as a result

Happy to share the abridged first chapter of my dissertation: A deep dive into the known genotype-phenotype associations in mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis! Interested in complex host models and genetic variation during infectious disease? This is for you! 🧬