Now on bioRxiv - Temperature Sensitive Glutamate Gating of AMPA-subtype iGluRs 🧠🔥❄️🔬 In this preprint, we reveal how glutamate gating of iGluRs is unique from PAM-activated states (!!!), and how temperature effects glutamate gating. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I so enjoy showing my #Bio350 #Micronaut students how Pseudomonas syringae makes ice nucleation protein! Don't worry, we aren't in Kurt Vonnegut territory with Ice-9. #MicrobeTV ASM Univ. of Puget Sound

Kuzu Incik. *Chef's kiss*. Lamb shank with green beans and bulgur pilaf. Ayse's Turkish Cafe, Ann Arbor.

A note to the Indian diaspora - pace yourself with the outrage. Because, this is just the beginning. I don't know how many more times we're going to hear this ignoramous diatribe.

Another story in four parts. You can surface sterilize used soda bottles and they make GREAT baffle flasks for microbial protein production. Two orders of magnitude in savings and minimal effort to sterilize with dilute bleach + distilled water rinse. RFP in various volumes @ 37C

academia is so brutal to ECRs. my current job ends this month & my email is vanishing that same day, which is causing havoc with the journal portals where Ive got articles submitted / accepted / in production. mayb Im naive, but is it rlly that hard to give us a few months grace?

That's a $12 sandwich lunch. Crispy fried fresh pollock on a onion bun, & tartar sauce. Perks of a small city. Monahan's, Ann Arbor.

Add being a first-gen and/or from underprivileged background to the mix, & the struggle gets amplified. You need a lot of grit and luck to get through the "flood or concerns".

Is this a bait to trap people in the US?

“It is pretty surreal! If anyone told 18-year-old me that my face would be on a stamp I would have felt mocked. This is very special to come from Armenia; as a kid I used to collect Armenian stamps!” —Ardem Patapoutian Ardem Patapoutian #NobelPrize Linn's Stamp News linns.com/news/us-stamps…

There are already Halloween cookies on the shelves? How long was I asleep?

I'm too, bus. I'm too.

In an argument with my spouse - Me: I'd never say something like that to you! Her: Are you the manual of authorized human behavior?

Can't wait to start making the recipes from the book Dailt Kitchens of Marathwada. Some of them are really simple! Like, this crab soup one.

We've seen this discussion happen in multitude of ways. Similar concerns of takeover when we eat with our hands, cook our foods, talk in our mother tongues, wear our traditional garb, celebrate our festivals. If the immigrants weren't people of color, there wouldn't be any issue.

I thought it'd never happen to me. But, alas, it did. I recently turned 40. If you want a peaceful life, four pieces of advice from my four decades - respect yourself, eat well, sleep timely, & pick your battles.

Compendium of 21st century structural biology. So cool!

Dirt spices?? I think she's getting confused between cuisines from India and Arrakis.