Kicking off concurrent sessions #TAGC20, "Genetic Control of Development and Regeneration (#Zebrafish)! @zoom_us tested for all speakers, @snillum1 & I will guide Q&A, 400+ attendees logged in, and go!
First talk by Daniel Zuppo (Tsang lab, UPittsburg) on foxm1 in proliferating cardiomyocytes upon heart injury.
Trx factors & beautiful stainings, what's not to ❤️! #ZFish20
Next up, Wei Wang @Planaria1@ScienceStowers on enhancers, their conservation (or lack thereof), and the variations in regenerative capacities in vertebrates.
Killifish transgenics tested in regeneration assays! #ZFish20#Killifish20?
Patti Murphy from the Granato lab at UPenn on Robo2 and Type-IV Collagen in axon regeneration is next...
...and that's how you share your beautiful PhD thesis work with 506 (and counting!) attendees in the current #ZFish20 session #TAGC20!
(my apologies if I miss any @ tagging in tweets - chairing, commenting, listening, tweeting is a bit much even from home!)
Moving to a different...scale:
Skin appendage formation decoded at the single-cell level using #zebrafish, from Lauren Saunders of the Trapnel lab in collab with @parichylab!
Handing over chairing to @snillum1, introducing Saulius Sumanas from Cincinnati Children's and his talk on what Etv2-deficient cells are up to when they can't become blood vessels. #ZFish20#lateralplatemesodermrocks
Brant Weinstein up now #Zfish20#TAGC20 on how microRNAs control lymphangiogenesis - the "other" tubes!
574 attendees now, great to see the...shoal? is growing! #ZFish20
Next up, Haoyu Wan from Ashley Bruce's lab at UToronto on actin and microtubule interactions in the #zebrafish yolk - the strings coordinating gastrulation! #ZFish20
...and capping off a wonderful and technically nearly flawless (!) #ZFish20#TAGC20 session: Kryn Stankunas from University of Oregon on the #zebrafish longfin mutant!
A good friend during my PhD did mass spec on Drosophila samples, and couldn't figure out what the predominant recovered peptides were. They overpowered everything else.
Honored & grateful to receive the @ZDMSociety award in these trying times.
The award also recognizes our amazing international trainees using #zebrafish#devbio as cardiovascular disease model, first @UZH_en & now @CUAnschutz - and our fantastic collaborators!
"Budgeting" or lab budgets are often not that complex. Salaries are pre-defined. Reagents over time sum up to an average consumption and can be estimated. And often you get help.
I always dreaded the book keeping but it's useful and gives peace of mind.
"People management" is a deep rabbit hole that many see as "learning by doing". Some is, indeed.
But workplace psychology, supervision, progress tracking et al. is done in industry & military since decades/centuries. This has language and framework. Useful to seek out.