Such a fun and exciting week in Phoenix for #SAEM24
Thank you to the amazing MSA program for the opportunity to meet incredible people, from fellow med students to field legends. Can’t wait to return in costume for dodgeball and SONOgames!
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Today was a very special day - vargas-pi, one of my very first lab members, gave her very last lab meeting. Her parents joined and cooked a phenomenal meal for the whole team. I could not be more proud of Alex as she starts her next phase- MD/PhD 🤩🥹🎉

Pleasure to present with my peers Yonatan and Justin our project on research and URM students at the CDHE Summit!

My lil buddies are happy to see me :’)

(they get a little dopamine spike when I walk in the room)

Successfully ran 4 diff experiments this morning, I’m feeling unstoppable 😤

The Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry (BBC) Conference was pleased to offer 60 TRAVEL AWARDS to help defray the costs of attending the meeting, including waived registration fee, a travel stipend, and lodging! To learn how you can apply for 2025, visit:

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another long day of enduring pain (mouse bites)

This next cohort of mice are Latinas, I will not explain further

entering my barista era

post-surgery second dinner >

Running to lab and immediately putting on PPE, not it

me: “I love baking bread because you can’t really mess it up”

Yet my last loaf was bland and my rolls this week are dense as h

This snow isn’t stopping me from acquiring this data 😤

🎉🎉Years of hardwork & here presenting you all an interesting story published in Cell Metabolism about #fats & #sugars in our #food - how they are sensed & why we eat more #research cell.com/cell-metabolis…

sometimes I skip breakfast in solidarity with my fasted mice. we suffer together 🤝

pro life tip: don’t drop the hard drive with all your data

so turns out Silvia is actually 4’9, which technically makes her a dwarf

How does the brain integrate sensory and nutritive information to guide food preference? Work led by N. Nyema with Aaron, vargas-pi, Kevin Myers on the sex-depenent role of AgRP neurons in mediating flavor-nutrient associations is out in Molecular Metabolism.

I fear the Pavlovian conditioning is working on me too

Congratulations to #SSIB2023 NIVA winners vargas-pi Isadora Braga Rebeca from Monell Center Penn. New investigators New Investigator Advisory Board @ SSIB & SSIB look forward to making your virtual attendance a great experience!! 🎉🎊👋🏻 #WomenInScience #Diversity ONE DAY TO GO 👩‍🏫🧑‍🏫