Irene Long is an American physician. She began working NASA in 1982 and became director of Biomedical Operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1994. She was the first woman to become chief medical officer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 2000. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth

Can topoisomerases untangle my life

Having less kids

W-STEM's annual speaker event will be held this Friday, the 8th of March from 11 AM to 1 PM in SSB 150. This year's speaker is Ridhi Tariyal, CEO and co-founder of NextGen Jane, a health company changing the way women engage with and access healthcare.

For #InternationalWomansDay W-STEM UC Merced UC Merced hosted Ridhi Tariyal, CEO and co-founder of Jane. Her company is revolutionizing the way women engage with and access healthcare. We were honored to have her!

The future is now

One day after #EventHorizon announced their picure of a #BlackHole, we finally managed to image a #protein ring using #AFM yesterday - there is a factor of ten sextillion (10^22) between the scalebars of those two images.

Dr. Berhe is amazing! Watch her TED talk!! aaberhe.com/2019/04/19/asm…

This is how a stem cell biologist does the #BottleCapChallenge #bottletopchallenge #PhDChat #AcademicTwitter

Biology: Leave the multiplication and division to the cells.

We love this beautiful campus and all of the mind blowing sunsets UC Merced has to offer!

Waterbear riding a Volvox! 📸 Penny Fenton

Call to action for NIH: Eliminate racial funding disparity now. Step-by-step instructions by Stevens et al. - If still difficult to understand, please consult their "metaphoric illustration depicting current funding procedures" cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

discussed Poisson statistics in class this week so I tested the predictions of the Poisson distribution with an experiment on a class example--chocolate chip cookies.

With all of the craziness going on, I have so much peace knowing Dr. Berhe will be working in DC! She is an inspiration!

.@lovely_bionerd’s dissertation work is preprinted: doi.org/10.1101/2021.0… & she's co-written a review on DNA repair mechanisms and their impact on tissue maintenance +regeneration in planarians:doi.org/10.1016/j.semc…

Looking forward to giving a talk at #Flatwormfriday !

Me trying to use a script someone else wrote

What is a (validated) biomarker of cell motility in fixed tissues? I can’t think of any. Can you?