I totally didn’t answer the phone call inviting me to interview at Yale 😭 thought it was gonna be another car warranty spam call!! Tis the season to answer!!!

So grateful I got to visit my family (especially my abuelos) in El Salvador this holiday break! Sad to leave today but was cool to rep Yale Cell Bio on my last day ;)

It’s here! 🎉 Our study reveals both new and known #geneexpression programs involved in hippocampal memory following #adolescent #exercise, and also investigates two #epigenetic regulatory mechanisms (open access Communications Biology) 1/ urldefense.com/v3/__https://r…$

Found out initial link was broken- here’s the article: nature.com/articles/s4200…

We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!

Excited to share that some of my post bac work (with Isabella Zafra and Andy Golden ) is out in microPublication! We used CRISPR to model COPA Syndrome, a rare disease, in C. elegans. (1/2)

My recent correspondence as Yale Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) president: yaleconnect.yale.edu/GPSS/blog/eart… Earthquake Relief and Love through Action. Give what you can. Yale CBB

From the nucleus with love. Happy #ValentinesDay everyone. Enjoy the science, but don’t forget your loved ones! Photo credit: Twitter less Philipp Isermann. #Microscopy

staying in academia so i can wear a backpack into my 30s’

My gym-not at a university- has the crispr cas9 system drawn in sharpie on one of the windows????

Last night, in a historic first, Yale Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) inducted Rev. Dr. James W.C. Pennington--the first Black man to attend Yale, among other laurels--as an Alum member and called on Yale University to award Pennington an honorary degree. Read more here: yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/02/2…

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on February 27, 1973 by the American Indian Movement (AIM). nativenewsonline.net/opinion/why-ai…

called both of my parents and texted all my friends it’s snowing!!!!! (the view from my living room window hehe)

Apply to YBDIC’s #ScienceCommunication Series for #CommunityCollege, #Undergraduate, and #PostBacc students! Applications Due: March 24th at 11:59 PM (EST)! forms.gle/WToozF4UJy25ZQ…

🎉 After 2+ years of work, my first first-author paper is available now as a pre-print! We dive into the fascinating world of #psilocybin-producing fungi, exploring their genetics, chemistry, and interactions with animals. 🍄🧬🔬 #MagicMushrooms (1/11) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Excellent work by F.Ridvan Kiral, Bilal Cakir, Yangfei Xiang, and Yoshiaki Tanaka lab@UdeM is finally out at Cell Stem Cell to generate ventrally fated human thalamic organoids. cell.com/cell-stem-cell…

🚨Heads up: The Northeast Nuclear Envelope Regional Meeting (NENE) is May 17th at Yale University! 🚨 Get ready for some fascinating science and invigorating discussions! Keynote by @abbybuch Abstract submission April 5 sites.google.com/view/nene2024/…

Breaking my Twitter silence to gush about this amazing event!!! So incredibly grateful to the organizers and so excited to attend! The future of Central American studies is so bright❤️