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A huge congratulations to Cagla!! So well deserved!!!

My incredible mentor is going to be a PI! I can’t imagine anyone more deserving or qualified to train the next generation of scientists 👩‍🔬

I’m so honored to receive this year’s U.S. National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman award, the highest honor in the USA 🇺🇸 to early-career scientists and engineers + $1M to advance my research. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this possible, and congrats to my fellow awardees!

So proud of Leslie! She is doing some really cool work bringing the Evans and Eroglu labs together!

A time was had!!

What a wonderful opportunity connecting to share our science and commitment to shaping the next generation of diverse scientists.

Until next time CZI!!

So honored and excited to be included among this incredible network of scientists taking on tough and risky problems in basic science! Thanks @hypothesisfund and Devaki Bhaya for the support! Let’s go, choanoflagellates - the The FUNR Lab team is ready!

So proud of this beautiful new work from Dan Dou, and so grateful to Virginia Lee for inspiring this study!

Get your HHMI NEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholars apps in!!!! The 🐐 is saving a spot for you right next to Chantell Evans

And then this email my box today!! I'm extremely happy and honored to announce that I've been awarded TENURE and promoted to Associate Professor at Duke University! Huge thanks to my lab, mentors, Duke Biology, and the amazing community that supported us through this journey! 🍾🍾 #BHM

'If I could go back in time & give my younger self a message, it would be to trust the process, to believe in your purpose & to know that you're worthy to be in every room...' – Hanna Gray Fellow & @PSUSCience faculty member Melanie McReynolds (@dr_ohsopretty)

Check out this 1-day online American Society for Cell Biology event organized by Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD & me on liquid condensates in brain cells 🤓

Keynote speaker: Pietro de Camilli.

Abstracts for talk consideration are accepted until this Wed. We will pick ~20 short talks!

ascb.org/meetings-event…

#DukeBrainJobs w/ Silva Lab at Duke **and** Chantell Evans!

Thrilled to announce that I have accepted a TT faculty offer at Vanderbilt University in the Dept. of Pharmacology Vanderbilt Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute Vanderbilt Brain Institute, starting in September 2024!! 🥳🥳 We will study mechanisms of somatosensory circuit assembly for touch…

🚨 JOB ALERTS FOR MY LAB!
-SRA1: sadly, my SRA is moving on to the next stage. Looking for an SRA to assist the lab with research related risk factors for aging/ADRD in the Black community. (link below)

hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/jsp…

The Silva and Evans labs are looking for an admin assistant to manage organizational operations and programmatic activities. Link to the posting is below!

It’s that time of the year again, and departments are gearing up to recruit top diverse faculty to their academic institutions. Here are 8 key tips to ensure you secure that talent:

Check out our newly published research article in
Nature Communications about synaptotagmin 1 oligomerization via liquid-liquid phase separation. Great collaboration with Sayantan Mondal, Emma Watson Roberts, QC, and ChapmanLab.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

All the graduate students struggling right now, and all the PIs in admissions commitees and those writing off students because 'they don't have it in them' need to read this. For some, the journey is harder, but with the right support and mentorship, they CAN make it.