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This month, in honor of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight 17 Black chemists you might have missed in class:
Winifred Burks-Houck was an environmental organic chemist and the first woman president of @NOBCChE. During her work at @Livermore_Lab she minimized threats to worker safety and limited the lab’s environmental impact. Learn more about her at ow.ly/UEyh50DnQEo #BlackInSTEM
Charles Drew, better known as the father of the blood bank, found that blood could be preserved longer once the plasma and the red blood cells were separated. A well-timed finding, since WWII was breaking out in Europe. Read more about Drew at ow.ly/CB5e50DnQOL #BlackInSTEM
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Here's a thread highlighting all of the amazing women featured in these #IWD2021 #WomenInChemistry cards. I'll continue to add to this thread as I add to the series over the coming weeks and months! 🧵⬇️ Image
#1: Laura Wysocki (@LauraWyz) works with undergraduate students to make fluorescent dyes that can be used as sensors or enzyme substrates #WomenInChemistry Image
@LauraWyz #2: Jessica Picone (@Jess_Ica_KP) teaches basic and advanced chemistry, including forensics, to high school students #WomenInChemistry Image
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This month, in honor of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight 17 Black chemists you might have missed in class: Collage of pictures from Black Chemists In text: Black Chemi
Winifred Burks-Houck was an environmental organic chemist and the first woman president of @NOBCChE. During her work at @Livermore_Lab she minimized threats to worker safety and limited the lab’s environmental impact. Learn more about her at ow.ly/UEyh50DnQEo #BlackInSTEM Profile picture from Winifred Burks-Houck in a blue blazer
Charles Drew, better known as the father of the blood bank, found that blood could be preserved longer once the plasma and the red blood cells were separated. A well-timed finding, since WWII was breaking out in Europe. Read more about Drew at ow.ly/CB5e50DnQOL #BlackInChem Black and white picture of Charles Drew on with a lab coat
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#BlackInChem Day 2: Although I am an analytical chemist at heart, over the years, I've drifted so much into biology that I am now building a career as a malariologist😅.

For #BlackInBiological, let me tell you about PfcPRS, the protein that was at the center of my PhD research. Image
The image above is a representation of the structure of the human version of the protein (this will be important later 😀). It was solved by the Schimmel group at @scrippsresearch using X-ray diffraction (analytical chem, FTW!). nature.com/articles/natur… (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…)
So what is PfcPRS? It is the (c)ytoplasmic (p)rolyl t(R)NA (s)ynthetase in (P)lasmodium (f)alciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite.

It catalyzes the formation of proline building blocks for protein synthesis. Image
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Here it is: the first mass spectrum that I ever collected, which captivated my young mind and never let go. In the almost decade and a half since, I have dallied with other techniques, but I always return to my first love. #BlackInChem #BlackInAnalytical mass spectrum of ethylene c...
this is from my undergraduate research in David Lynn's lab at @EmoryUniversity where I tested methods to achieve the linear polymerization of simple rings under mild conditions. #BlackInChem #BlackInAnalytical
this project was funded by the now-defunct @HHMINEWS XROP Fellowship, which enabled me to stay in science at a very critical time in my life. i will always be grateful for that support #BlackInChem #BlackInAnalytical
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#BlackinChem Thread!!

Here's how this came to be.

You may have noticed several #blackandSTEM campaigns on Twitter this summer, like #BlackBirdersWeek #BlackHikersWeek @BlackInNeuro and @That_Astro_Chic 's #BlackinAstro . #BlackinChem is no different
I saw #BlackinAstro going viral and tweeted that I would love to curate #BlackinChem (with some help) and that's when @That_Astro_Chic and I connected and got to WORK! She introduced me to @onlyayanna_ and along the way came @NatRodLopes1 @kathinated @hi_d_nq and @blackinthelab
We all got together and started dumping a LOT of ideas in our group message and eventually settled on curating a week where each day focuses on a particular subdivision of chemistry. Image
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