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Emily Ubbelohde
@emuthemycologist.bsky.social
PhD Candidate🎓 | Genetics Training Program 🧬 | UW - Madison 🦡 | Yeast Enthusiast🍺| Fungal Genetics 🍄 | Evolutionary Biology ⚛️ | 👽 Lab Goblin 👽 | Just a bit of a silly goose | dog/snake mom | she/her
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Hi everyone! I'm a PhD candidate in Dr. Chris Todd Hittinger's Lab who loves fungi🍄

Follow me if you're interested in fungal and yeast biology.

I currently am working on elucidating a brand new galactose metabolic pathway in yeasts (here's the first pub to the story): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Co-first author @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social now on bluesky! 🥳
July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Even on a cold winter day you can find beautiful fungi hiding among the snow 🍄
January 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Calling all artists and scientists! 🥼🎨
The 3rd Annual Darwin Day Art Contest is now underway.
Have an idea for an original art piece that relates to this year's theme of 'Adaptation'? Please join our contest and exhibit! Details and submission form here:
forms.gle/vNnQreKke4YC...

#sciart #uwmadison
January 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Happy New Year 🎉 - CanFunNet 🍁🍄 virtual meeting is back for 2025!

Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy Holidays!

#TapiocaTuesday #DogSky #Dog
December 24, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! Latest SGD newsletter! www.yeastgenome.org/blog/sgd-new...

- AlphaFold
- YeastMine
- Community wiki
- SGD’s new GENETICS publication
- New yeast microPublications
- Alliance of Genome Resources 7.4
- Give a Gift/Support SGD
- Upcoming conferences
- Happy Holidays!
December 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
No thought. Brain scrampled egg

#TapiocaTuesday #DogSky
December 10, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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So excited to be part of the planning group for this!!

If you haven't attended CanFunNet in the past, it is a great virtual conference with lots of talks and tons of trainee participation!
It's happening! We are coming back with virtual meetings! Save The Date - August 6-8, 2025. 📅🇨🇦🍄🛜. Check your emails or social media for more details. PS. Contact us if you want to receive emails! #CFN25 #SaveTheDate #FungiareBack
December 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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if this is helpful to anyone in this thread, i find this graphic very helpful when i do alt text!
December 7, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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Today, we remember the 14 women murdered on December 6, 1989, in the Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique. Their lives were stolen by misogyny, but their names and stories remain with us.

They will never be forgotten.
December 6, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Listening to the entire Pokemon Platinum OST while I do dry lab work is such a vibe

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
December 6, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Early Career Award applications are due TOMORROW (Dec 7th)🧬🐝🐠🍄

If you are a graduate student or a postdoc interested in
#evolution, apply today!

#evolBio #evolsky #evolDir
We are accepting applications for the 2025 Evolution Seminar Series Early Career Award here at UW-Madison. Deadline November 30.

evolution.wisc.edu/seminars/ear...

Please share with grad students and postdocs working in evolutionary biology!
Early Career Award Seminar
The J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting early-career evolutionary biologists from outside UW-Madison to apply to participate in an early-c...
evolution.wisc.edu
December 6, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Are you an evolution educator? Consider applying for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes and promotes outstanding evolution education resources. The recipient receives funding to present their resource at the Evolution or NABT meeting! Deadline February 3. http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM
November 27, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Applications now open for the 2025 International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2025! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Can also be used to attend #ESEB2025! Apply by January 31: https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe @evolmtg.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Starterpack of WoC and non-binary PoC in EcoEvo.
Specifically, those of us who are members of the #WoCinEEB slack community.
I'll keep adding people in the next few days.
Please let me know if I missed you!
Happy to provide info on how to join our community 💜

Please share! 🙏🏽
go.bsky.app/9iCneeT
December 5, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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@osman-lab.bsky.social < is that you > @osman_lab on 𝕏 ?

@felix_thoma on 𝕏 Apr 25, 2022
"Mitochondrial dynamics in budding yeast. A picture was taken every 3 min for 5 h. I used mKate2 targeted to the mitos, and imaged the cells in a microfluidic chamber with a Nikon Ti2e Eclipse"

need this here!
December 5, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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📢 Nominations are open now for the FEMS Outstanding Early Career Microbiologist Award!

Head over to https://fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/network-and-activities/awards/fems-early-career-microbiologist-award/ to learn more and submit your nomination before 16 December 2024.✍️📥
December 5, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM.

We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑

medium.com/@transrights...
An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender…
Downloadable file
medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...
Biological Sciences: Research Experience for Undergraduates | AMNH
Approximately eight students gather each summer at the Museum for a ten-week experience working with curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.
www.amnh.org
January 3, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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The coolest postdoc I know is now accepting applications:

🧪🔬THE WITTIG POSTDOC IN FEMINIST BIOLOGY🧪🔬

Our interdisciplinary program @ UW Madison seeks to train the next generation of feminist scientists/scholars of science

Please share widely and read more here: crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...
December 2, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Since it has come to this EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS!

Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians.

#DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE
December 4, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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We are now accepting applications for speakers from Native American trainees - if you know of someone who would be a good fit, encourage them to apply! More info in the original thread

Apply to be speaker at Full Circle here: forms.gle/dMUtGWvigrNA...
PS: We have travel funds available!
Plz share!
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Mom said it's my turn to be at the top of the MEME job que🫠
#PhDLife #academicsky #PhDSky
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM