Two at once! Congrats!

If you look at NIH reporter this problem seems to have recently changed and several (many?) new R01s for nigms have come in. I have heard that NIGMS now aims for a 60/40 split R35/R01. Also, fwiw, I am neither ESI nor a new investigator so afraid those options won’t apply for me but will for others!

Don’t want to overstate it, but as people here might know I’m also a big fan of “fundamental” or “old-school” techniques/approaches in science and an advocate of them

Just replace analytics with “mathematical model” or AI or some similar buzz word

Thanks Ilaria!

Thanks Eugene!

Thanks Natalie!!

Thanks Walter! Maybe I’ll see you at this once you open up your new lab with all that exciting work!!!

Thanks Caroline! How’s the new lab set up going? Once you’re up and running hopefully we can get you out to VAI Metabolism dept for a talk. Would love to hear more about your stuff!

With that said it does feel odd to post happy science funding news in times such as these. However this, coupled with an NoA on an R21 with @saranowinski.bsky.social really feels like a win in a time where wins are hard to come by and an important point in my career. So guess I need to celebrate?!?

This is equal parts an honor and thank you to all the people who trained me, wrote letters, my lab members etc. Really looking forward to the next four years and annual meetings.

Congrats!!!

Thanks Swathi! They both are, hope everything is well with you too!

Thanks. Sadly I wont be at worm meeting but two of my lab members will be. Newish kid at home and might be moving houses that week and all a bit difficult to line up given all the other travel I've had to do recently. Really, really, really sad to have to miss it though. Pained me to know id miss it

Thanks. This one has been a bit of a saga already, but I guess that's what happens when you're trying to push the envelope. I do think some reviewer comments on this have already really strengthened the paper which is why we pulled it to collect more data for 6 months. Its a much much better version

We are really pumped about how these new single oocyte proteomics methods can move lots of fields forward and I think this type of method development is a first for our lab and we're quite proud of it so we want to share it. Mainly just proud of the lab here, even if science times are rough.

We are in the process of testing other species, but just as an unpublished highlight we can now detect 4724 proteins in a single wild-type D. melanogaster oocyte and 3,258 proteins in a single D. rerio oocyte! Not to mention our C. elegans results (21 oocytes).