Validating all my lab hoarding instincts, we just came up with a use for these tiny glass Petri dishes that I saved from the Botstein lab lo many years ago. Turns out the shipping date on the box was 1960 to Stanford, so now I’m very curious who David got them from!

Final schedule posted for the Pacific Northwest Yeast Club regional meeting! No registration required, so you can just show up Friday (directions on website), with or without a poster. Thanks to Sunrise Science and Fred Hutch for sponsoring food/drinks! https://www.pnwyc.net/schedule

Lab milestone: we ran out of sterile toothpicks! The cause is this photo, which is a mixture of GFP labeled & wt yeast. You can zoom in to see a nice “single colony” that’s really a mix. You get away with one streak most of the time, but an extra colony purification is safer!

Awesome new addition to my office plants collection: a bioluminescent petunia! It’s not quite as bright as the picture shows, but it’s totally visible. Thanks @bkmartin for coordinating the bulk buy!

3 cheers for #TAGC24! What a great meeting, and hats off to the organizers at all levels. Looks like I should have set aside an entire extra week to watch all the talks and look at all the posters I missed though.

Yeast zygote airport art on the way to #tagc24

What fun to be the guest speaker at the Master Brewers Association Western Canada District BC Winter Technical Session! Got a private tour of the super cool Molson Coors brewery in Chilliwack too. These are the yeast tanks! That’s probably the most yeast I’ve ever been in the presence of!

So far my most impactful action as interim chair has been making a pets channel on the department slack. Mitzi is not impressed.

Found these awesome tetrad earrings at a craft fair this weekend, just in time for my lab holiday party.

Pretty awesome to get a custom beer made in your honor when you step down as chair. Congrats, Stan! (The QR code even goes to the yeast 2 hybrid paper!)