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Irini Topalidou received the GSA Mentorship Award for her contributions to mentoring in the C. elegans field. https://genestogenomes.org/being-a-staff-scientist-offers-c-elegans-researcher-the-perfect-balance-between-research-and-mentorship/
Congratulations to all the awardees and stay tuned for more profiles of 2026 GSA award recipients!
Aaron Mitchell received the George W. Beadle Award for his work in molecular mycology and developing and disseminating new tools to study C. albicans. https://genestogenomes.org/building-tools-and-a-community-how-a-yeast-geneticist-transformed-medical-mycology-research/
Judith Kimble received the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for her work on discovering the first stem cell niche and lifetime achievement in genetics. https://genestogenomes.org/a-lifelong-quest-to-understand-how-a-cell-becomes-an-organism/
Aaron Mitchell, recipient of the 2026 George W. Beadle Award, built an entire career around developing and disseminating new tools to study pathogenic fungi and training the next generation of mycologists.
Last year, I made 26 batches of homemade yogurt and ate probably over 350 yogurt and granola breakfasts (or some variation of that). Since I left the world of laboratory bench work, the kitchen has…
I have a microbiology blog and my most popular post is about how I make yogurt. Recently, I've been getting an email or comment every few days from a random person asking me a really specific thing about making yogurt. I honestly didn't imagine I'd be spending this much time answering yogurt questions when I wrote that. 😂
But seriously, I'll probably plan to do more experimenting with my yogurt protocol and write up a FAQ at some point. Drop your top yogurt questions below!
Seems like all I'm doing lately is reading microbiology books and writing about what I learned on my blog. I finished Everything is Tuberculosis and it was quite a fascinating read. https://microbialmenagerie.com/five-things-i-learned-from-reading-everything-is-tuberculosis/
Friday productivity hack: Go to the library to write so I can use the guilt of being on my phone or scrolling social while taking up a table to stop me from distractions
My email autoreply is basically like "I'm not around for the next couple days, but I'm not sure how long exactly. Because I assume schools will be closed (for currently undetermined amount of time) and I'll be shoveling 2 ft of snow."
Also me: trying to get some work done during a naptime today (Sunday) because I don't want to get too behind!
Every time this gets me.
I pick up my phone to see I have a notification - it's a message from preschool. My heart sinks, fearing an illness and they want us to get him early or something worse.
Then I open it and see a picture of cupcake ingredients. They're asking if it's okay he has this because they're celebrating a birthday.
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I'm doing a bit of research for something I'm writing on NF-κB and came across this gem of a paper. I am having this struggle right now. 😂
(Excerpt from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867416317263)
