Was cleaning up google drive & found my #APbio final. Switched my topic from elephants to coral-algal symbiosis the night before it was due & realized I wouldn't mind studying this the rest of my life.
A thread displaying how my ppt skills have (arguably) improved... (1/N)
High school me basically thought I could bring corals back from the dead. With porifera?! 🧽🤦♀️
Intro slide with token cancer treatment bullet point?
500(!) gallon tanks were clearly the key to all good science experiments in 2010...
Think @LajeunesseTodd would send me to the GBR for 2 months to find zooxanthellae?!
Also 3 months to process & publish results... I wish 😂
@LajeunesseTodd Lastly, in my 500k budget, I allocate funds for composition notebooks and $200 in publishing fees 💰📓
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👏TRACE 👏METALS 👏ARE 👏IMPORTANT👏! Don’t count them out because they’re in far less abundance than C:N:P! They are required as co-factors for virtually all biochemical processes #MetalsInBiology#PhycologyWithoutApology (2/N)
We explore how [Fe] alters growth & trace metal needs of 5 #Symbiodiniaceae species (spanning 3 genera). We highlight how trace metals are interwoven with the physiological inner workings of coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis. #MetalsInBiology#PhycologyWithoutApology (3/N)
. @eslam_16884 overviews rich history of bleaching monitoring on the GBR. Meanwhile, coral surveys in the #RedSea....... are starting to gain momentum!
The extreme environments of the #RedSes leverages a neat study system to investigate why “Red sea corals like it hot” 🤒
@Symbiodiniaceae@PSUScience@PSAAlgae@protistologists In attempts to keep this in synch with my talk, I’m going to thank everybody first! This collaboration was formed through the @NSF#EAPSI program and thrived because of support from my science families at PSU & in Taiwan.
Some unsolicited musings in light of upcoming PhD recruitment from the LaJ lab grad students #PhDchat@PSUScience 1/4
Different people need different types of advisors at different points in their careers. There’s no unique formula, think about what’s best for you. #PhDchat@PSUScience 2/4