A laureate and a trend setter #worm25

C elegans can sense sound AND serve as a genetic model for an understudied form of human hearing loss! As the moderator mentioned- what CAN’T worms do?? 🤩 🪱 #worm25

Worm meeting bucketlist:
✅ Photo with Nobel laureate (and @manduh21.bsky.social)

Thank you Dr. Ambros, for spending time with early stage scientists!

I love this community 🪱 #Worm25

The fast approaching June K99 deadline is getting to me but flowers and NA rose from my husband are helping with the final push 🥹 🌺 💪

I’m in Malaysia for 2 weeks meeting my husbands family. We decided to be adventurous last night and booked a rainforest resort near his hometown in Seremban. Finishing our Nasi Lemak breakfast and going to unplug for the next 24 hours 🔌 🏊‍♀️

Introduction: I’m Liz, I recently finished
my PhD in sensory biology using C. elegans. These days, you can find me in the dental school, studying sensory innervation of the oral cavity.

Here’s a recent photo I took of pain-sensing neuron endings (in green) penetrating the tooth pulp and dentin.