I found out this morning I was awarded the Don Tucker Memorial Award for best graduate student presentation at my first ever in-person conference! Off to a good start I would say!

It’s official! My application for a F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award was selected for funding! I was awarded 3 years of funding to study the role of c-Kit in the homeostasis of sweet-sensing taste cells. Thanks to @Barlow_Lab for all the support!

Congratulations to CSD's first appointees to the NIH T32 for 2021-2022! 🎉🎉🎉 Katie Alemany @K_Alemany Hannah Moran @hannah_moran Kyle Northington @nudibranchfan Tina Piarowski @TPiarowski Chris Schaaf Wolf Schleicher

The methods paper I co-first-authored has officially been published! Check it out if you’re curious how we generate taste organoids in the @Barlow_Lab jove.com/video/62300

Although I wasn’t awarded the NSF GRFP I’m very thankful for the recognition of honorable mention and overwhelmingly positive reviews. Thanks to all who supported me through the application process!

Colorado friends! I’m currently fostering a cat that needs a home soon. She’s the sweetest, cuddliest and friendliest cat I’ve fostered. Please share and send me a dm if you/ anyone you know is interested!

Why vaccines against SARS-CoV2 are likely to work. Complex immunology communicated clearly and crisply. Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity and Ruslan Medzhitov @RMedzhitov are leading immunologists. Read, translate into each of our languages, and disseminate. nytimes.com/2020/07/31/opini…

Not even a global pandemic can slow down this crew. Congrats to our CSD first year students on capping off their third rotations with a great session of rotation talks. I'm excited to see what they do next!

I’m very happy to have decided on my thesis lab! I’m looking forward to doing some really cool science👩‍🔬🔬

Found out today that the final version of the paper I wrote as an undergrad has been published in the completed journal issue. It now has page numbers and everything! Hopefully this is the first of many first-author publications 👩🏼‍🔬

Happy Holidays from the @m_konigshoff @Eickelberg_MD labs to y’all!! Fantastic holiday party of our Division @CU_PSCCM @CUAnschutz tonight at #cableland in #Denver. You’ll notice our color code. #teamwork #bestteams @com543 @SchmidtLab @CUmucus @holguinf01 @ShantaZimmer @DenPulm