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Erica Polleys
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Scientist. Educator. Assistant Professor at Endicott College. DSB repair and repetitive DNA sequences nerd. I have 2 dogs and a kid. Romance novel lover.
I have an undergrad doing a entrepreneurial competition and her company is trying to revolutionize surfboard maintenance. If you’re a #surfer please fill out Abbey’s survey. Please share!

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February 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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ok, I tried to make a starter pack on genome stability/DNA replication/DNA repair etc. Sorry if I couldn't find someone, please nominate yourself and your colleagues in comments or DMs, looking forward to connecting with everyone!
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November 12, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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AlphaFold protein structures now on SGD protein pages, now you can explore these comprehensive structural predictions directly within SGD for your favorite #yeast proteins
check it out: www.yeastgenome.org/locus/set1/p...
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
What’s your favorite use of the lac operon or the yeast Gal promoter system?

Would love to include some hot takes in a lecture tomorrow 😉
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Yesterday I learned a former undergrad submitted his thesis work to Nature and a first author publication (I actually got teary when he told me). He’s one of my best ever— great scientist, great person and no matter what happens I am so thrilled for him.
November 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
It seems academic science Twitter has moved to Bluesky, Hi!!!

I’m a new assistant professor at Endicott college and love working with undergraduates, yeast genetic assays and DNA repair and replication.
November 13, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Something I’ll always be impressed by: undergraduates have such a unique ability to use SO MANY words and yet still say absolutely nothing in their papers.
March 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I imported 19 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
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January 14, 2024 at 8:52 PM
In recommendation letter upload portals doesn’t everyone just rank their students as exceptional/top 5% etc? I feel like this is not a useful metric.

Ps. If you can’t rank a student highly, don’t be a jerk, just don’t write them a letter and tell them why.
November 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Academic hiring, get your shit together. No lie, I just had this discussion with a search committee,

them: we want someone to teach one of your biochem classes, either one, you tell us!

Me: I can teach this one really amazing b/c I already do!

Them: …but we only care about the other one!
November 2, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Kiddo hot takes as I fill out school paperwork:

T: Are you filling out the stuff from my folder?
M: Yes.
T: Are you good at filling out papers?
M: Yes.
T: Is that because you’re a scientist and have lots of papers to fill out?
💀
September 1, 2023 at 7:17 PM