👩🏽‍🔬Proteomics, MHCs. PhD @MITdeptofBE, @UWMadison_BME alum | Currently starting a startup- follow along on IG @laurenstopfer 📷

Joined June 2011
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Officially earned my PhD from @MITdeptofBE! Here’s 1 lesson I learned in each year of grad school:🧵 1. Pick advisors that care about you. Not just the science, but your happiness & life goals. Your life WILL fall apart ≥1 time in grad school & you will need advisor support.
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Anyone have suggestions for a reputable CRO who does IF on mouse in vivo samples?
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Heading to Barcelona 💃🇪🇸 tomorrow to give a lecture at the @EMBO targeted proteomics course! Looking forward to meeting the attendees & chatting mass spec!
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Helping get the @AethonTx lab off the ground & getting back into the lab full time attacking new [hard] scientific questions has re-energized me in a way I didn’t know possible. JOIN THE STARTUP. TAKE THE RISK. You’ll feel 26 again 🤓
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When the startup matures to the point of getting a front door sign 🥹
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The best training for a startup is to do everything yourself in academia, and to outsource everything in industry. In a startup, time vs money is a constant balancing act
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Has the @tronmainz cell line portal been down for anyone else? celllines.tron-mainz.de This is my favorite resource and I’m feeling lost without it working… HELP!

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when your partner does not understand your life as a mass spectrometrist
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Starting a #startup update: 6 months later, the lab is open for business 🤓 The amount of steps between signing a lab lease to actually starting the science is wild but looking around today, I can’t believe how far we’ve come. PINCH ME!!
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Something special is beginning here, I can feel it ✨#startuplife
Week one in BioTech is complete! ✅ And the Polaroid collecting has begun…
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I have been scheduled on 7 different cancelled flights from CLE > JFK/LGA over the past 48 hours from @Delta and @AmericanAir. At first it was weather, but now it certainly is not. Send funny jokes my way 😭
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Today, our Ascend #MS finally came to life… ROCK ON!🤘 In <4 mo, we’ve turned a lab storage room into a top-notch MS room, with no delays/issues, despite countless teams/vendors required to finish construction & get all the pieces in place for today. I’m thrilled! #startup
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Starting a #startup day 141: Mass spec delivery! Getting a brand new MS is always exciting, but today is extra special bc this is my first experience building an MS lab solo, and completely from scratch. PINCH ME!!!
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If you think you may start/join a biotech #startup someday, I recommend being EHS rep for your PhD/postdoc lab. Realizing now as we set up @AethonTx how fluent I am in safety/waste lingo! 🗑️♻️
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This gets to what I always say to the scientists around me: giving credit to others is free, so why not be generous.
I recently interviewed a strong candidate. She generously credited other researchers whose methods enabled her research. This created a strong positive impression about her. Deservingly crediting others does not diminish our contributions. ◼️It frames them in a helpful context.
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Starting a #startup day 122: Hardhat tour of the construction in my new mass spec room 🤓 Most startup lab spaces can’t easily accommodate the HVAC needs of a mass spec, so extensive construction is required. It’s SO exciting to see the room nearing completion!!
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“What job are you doing after your defense?” 🫠
Preparing for my PhD defense and wondering: what was the most difficult question you were asked? #AcademicChatter #phdchat @PhDVoice
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Lauren Stopfer, PhD retweeted
I’m delighted to share our @NatureCancer paper by Anne Kraemer et al. nature.com/articles/s43018-0… Our objective was to investigate whether there are substantial differences in the antigenic landscape presented in tumors that are T cell inflamed versus those that are non-inflamed.

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Fun event last night with Alexandria at their NYC life science innovators dinner- great mix of startups, vc, philanthropy, & academic founders. Also the tuna and caviar eclair was 🤤
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Starting a #startup Day 86: retail therapy (shopping for lab coats) The real question is… cuffed or un-cuffed sleeves? I have a strong opinion…
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