My pombe (fission yeast) didn’t mate 😌
Preparing a different medium for mating, giving them some B vitamins 😉
Yeast needs vitamins, I also need vitamins 🤔

#Pombe #Yeast #Science #Experiment #Vitamins #Health

A beautiful Western blot that I did with new undergraduate students 🥳

S. pombe nmt1 (81) promoter worked well to repress gene expression 🧐

#Science #WesterBlotting #Protein #Pombe #Promoter #Photography

I spent the day running experiments with yeast (S. pombe) instead of sitting in front of a computer 😊
I wondered how much yeast (S. cerevisiae) is in this cloudy IPA, looks like way more than I used in my lab today 🤔

#Beer #IPA #Yeast #Pombe #Science #Photography

#FlocculationFriday

A few S. pombe strains don’t flocculate 🤔
My favorite mutant doesn’t seem to be great for brewing beer 🤔
My research doesn’t have anything to do with brewing, though 🤔

#Yeast #Pombe #Beer #Science #Philadelphia #Flocculation #Photography

Tomorrow is the deadline, the office staff told me that the NIH grant application system has been a bit unstable, my brain is also a bit unstable because of sleep deprivation, so I made some agar plates to clear my mind, it seemed to help 🤔

#Grant #Proposal #Science #MentalHealth #Writing #Agar #Yeast #Pombe

#ThursdayThoughts

While running last-minute experiments to support my proposal, a student in a neighboring lab said he’d never seen me “doing science” before. I'm sure he meant “doing experiments,” but I do feel I'm “doing science” when I'm doing experiments, rather than working (on science) at a computer🤔

#Science #Yeast #Pombe

Belated introduction after more than two years on Mastodon 😊
While I post a lot about #Nature, #River, #FlyFishing and #IPA, I use the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe for my research. At some point, I plan to brew #Beer🍺

#FissionYeast #Pombe #Science #SchizosaccharomycesPombe

Got some pink yeast 😊

Can we make pink beer if we use this yeast strain ??? 🤔

The ade6 gene mutation causing red pigments for this color change in the fission yeast S. pombe 😉

#Pombe #FissionYeast #Yeast #Science #Beer #Pink

#TetradTuesday

Did some tetrad dissection of fission yeast (S. pombe) spores on Friday 😊
Today, they are showing pretty colonies 🥳

Tetrad = four spores produced after yeast meiosis

#TetradDissection #Tetrad #Spore #Yeast #FissionYeast #Science #Pombe

Did some yeast (S. pombe) tetrad dissection 😉
It’s pretty meditating on Friday night after Happy Hour ☺️
Hoping to get some nice results 😊

#Yeast #Pombe #Tetrad #Science #Genetics #Meditation #HappyHour