Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD
@chemistandrea.bsky.social
Mass Spec Analytical Chemist with a love for Environmental Toxicology | Senior Research Scientist in the Snyder Lab | Proud Indigenous Latina (Quechua)
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New Paper is up!
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
Not going to lie, being a staff scientist is a very strange position to be in academia. Feels like limbo at times...
#Academicchatter
#Academicchatter
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Not going to lie, being a staff scientist is a very strange position to be in academia. Feels like limbo at times...
#Academicchatter
#Academicchatter
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The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints:
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The chemotherapy-induced senescence-associated secretome promotes cell detachment and metastatic dissemination through metabolic reprogramming
Cellular senescence, characterized by a stable cell cycle arrest, is a well-documented consequence of several widely used chemotherapeutics that has context-dependent roles in cancer. Although senesce...
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August 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New Paper is up!
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
May 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New Paper is up!
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes
academic.oup.com/jes/article/...
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It's almost #Friday, have a #frog friend.
Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus
#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro
#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Treefrogs
#herps
Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus
#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro
#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Treefrogs
#herps
May 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It's almost #Friday, have a #frog friend.
Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus
#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro
#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Treefrogs
#herps
Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus
#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro
#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Treefrogs
#herps
My final paper from my PhD has been accepted!! 🙌
I can graduate in peace next week
I can graduate in peace next week
May 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My final paper from my PhD has been accepted!! 🙌
I can graduate in peace next week
I can graduate in peace next week
Giving my plants away to other grad students / postdocs... I guess its really the end :,)
April 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Giving my plants away to other grad students / postdocs... I guess its really the end :,)
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“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.”
Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...
Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...
April 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.”
Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...
Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...
PhD thesis defense tomorrow???? What
April 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
PhD thesis defense tomorrow???? What
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A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab
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🌌 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring Exoplanets: The Search Beyond Our Solar System" takes you on an interstellar journey!
Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson.
🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...
Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson.
🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...
March 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🌌 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring Exoplanets: The Search Beyond Our Solar System" takes you on an interstellar journey!
Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson.
🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...
Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson.
🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4...
Sending my PhD defense invites to my old undergrad and masters mentors ahhhhhh I hope they're proud :,^)
March 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sending my PhD defense invites to my old undergrad and masters mentors ahhhhhh I hope they're proud :,^)
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My 1st op-ed with Devin Burris & Mark Bray (@mark531.bsky.social)!
We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists.
Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm
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We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists.
Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm
markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...
The Goal of Killing Academia: ‘Small’ Science as a First Stop
Co-written by Jordan Williams, Devin Burris, & Mark Bray
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March 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My 1st op-ed with Devin Burris & Mark Bray (@mark531.bsky.social)!
We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists.
Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm
markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...
We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists.
Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm
markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...
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A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒
Cities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature Medicine
Understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing.
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March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒
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Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪
March 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪
"Yeah I can tell you're pretty stressed. You haven't added a recently read book in a while"
March 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Yeah I can tell you're pretty stressed. You haven't added a recently read book in a while"
One week left for dissertation writing
March 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
One week left for dissertation writing
How do I write an acknowledgement section without mentioning everyone who has ever even walked by me?????
March 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
How do I write an acknowledgement section without mentioning everyone who has ever even walked by me?????
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A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience
March 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience
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Pharmacology 💊 women in STEM 👩🏻🔬 showed up & out for scientific funding! 🧬
#standupforscience2025
#standupforsciencephilly
#standupforscience2025
#standupforsciencephilly
March 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Pharmacology 💊 women in STEM 👩🏻🔬 showed up & out for scientific funding! 🧬
#standupforscience2025
#standupforsciencephilly
#standupforscience2025
#standupforsciencephilly
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
legend has it if you stay late enough on the 13th floor of the biomedical research building you will hear the strange noise of a grad student singing while writing their thesis (its me)
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
legend has it if you stay late enough on the 13th floor of the biomedical research building you will hear the strange noise of a grad student singing while writing their thesis (its me)
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New Substack! On frogs, obviously: open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
On frogs, hope and dreams of spring, plus how to make a really good frog pond
It's me, it's February, of COURSE I'm writing about frogs.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
New Substack! On frogs, obviously: open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
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What is the link between PFAS type contaminant and oxylipins? None?
Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
#epilipid #massspec #oxylipins
Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
#epilipid #massspec #oxylipins
Annotating DHA Metabolites Interfering with the Quantification of Emerging Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids
Quantitative analyses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) commonly rely on low-resolution targeted tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) due to its high sensitivity and relatively low operational...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What is the link between PFAS type contaminant and oxylipins? None?
Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
#epilipid #massspec #oxylipins
Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
#epilipid #massspec #oxylipins
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From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪
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February 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM