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University of Chicago PhD | Chemistry | Biology | Molecular Engineering

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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Big birthday shout out to my brother @johnsummit ! I think it’s time to bring this haircut back…who’s with me?
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Only pic taken all weekend .. semi family pic @BrokerTamara and blurry @johnsummit in the back
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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With collaboration with Dr. Dana Ishay-Ronen's lab @SHEBA_ , I am obsessing with how COOL these human Airway #organoids are.. look at them spin in real time! The cilia grow on the outside of this organoid causing it to spin. #lungorganoid #COVIDresearch @UChicagoPME
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Shameless brag my brother @itsjohnsummit accountant turned house music DJ/produce just reached the top of the charts TWICE! And both during the pandemic!! Even covid can’t stopped this! 🔥🔥🔥
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Finally started the application to submit my first "first author" paper!!! #phdlife #fingerscrossed #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
A formation of a colon organoid in my #microfluidic platform that is able to automatically culture and image over the weekend with no human intervention #organoids #UChicago #FridayFeeIing
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
A question I got during my presentation yesterday was whether you could freeze & preserve human #organoids and the answer is yes! They freeze and thaw as easy as immortalized cell lines! Today I’m waking up 2 patients #PancreaticCancer organoids to start some more experiments🤗
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Formation of a human endoscopic (derived from a fine needle aspiration!) #PancreaticCancer #organoid in less than 24 hours #microfluidics #biomedical #Engineering #CancerResearch
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
Anddddddd I’m Dr. Schuster now! (Also my face when the cork hits the ceiling 😂)
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
@johnsummit I would disagree and say it is either immediately or never LOL
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
Married ✅ Thesis Defense schedule for November ✅ New job already lined up ✅ 2021 has been a good year!
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Such an awkward time to have allergies right now
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
One of my favorite things about my research is the ability to receive real time analysis and feedback ... here is cancer #organoids before and during a chemotherapy treatment #microfludics #UChicago
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
2 years
Between dancing my face off for my brother @johnsummit followed by living out a 20 year old dream of rocking out to @GreenDay … it’s safe to say that my legs will be in recovery this whole week… Honesty shocked I had my voice today still!
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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I’m suppose to be starting a two week long experiment today, yet instead Im putting my little #organoids to sleep. As a PhD students in my final years, it pains me to stop my experiments but I know it is for the better. See ya soon my friends! Hopefully emphasis on the “soon” 😬
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Can’t get over the beautiful fall colors on campus #uchicago #chemistry #phdlife @UChiChemistry
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Sometimes taking a break from editing a manuscript is well needed as you find new grammar/structure mistakes never seen before like using the same word 3 times in one sentence ... my high school English teachers would be so ashamed! 🙈😂 #phdchat #AcademicChatter
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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The new and old @UChiChemistry #womeninchemistry WIC board ... ready to take on a new school year full of new opportunities of mentor ship, encouragement, and a community of support between the women in the chem department ❤️👩‍🔬🧪
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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The organization I volunteered for during my graduate career sent me a graduation gift - 🥲 so sweet
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
The @UChiChemistry holiday party is usually the highlight of the year and it’s sad to not have it in person, but nice to see the creativity and care put into turning it into a virtual event like handing out little goodie bags with some awesome uchicago swag! 💚❤️
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
The day is finally here... time to defend my thesis this afternoon!
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
One week until I defend my thesis … so many emotions 😬
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
@fMRI_guy My name is Brooke and I am a #chemistry & #bioengineering PhD Student at #UChicago working on an automated high throughout #microfluidic device for #organoids #WomeninStem
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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@loleen_berdahl @AcademicChatter This is Frankie. She was equally displeased when I kicked her off the desk to make room for all of my work stuff. #academicswithcats #quarantinecats
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Taking a moment to pray to the science gods, that one of these devices I made decides to work properly today! 🙏
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
A failed experiment feels 10x worse when you spent your weekend on it
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Dear @UChicago , the sidewalks on 55th by the football fields seriously need to be salted. They might as well be an ice rink right now. ⛸Sincerely, the student that would love to make it to lab without breaking their arm ❤️
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
2 years
Took a break from #ASCO22 to celebrate my winter PhD graduation in person .. officially official #PhDone
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
Is it common when writing a research paper to come across a recently publish article that has a title super similar to what you are doing.. briefly have a heart attack over it... then read the paper to find out no it is not a threat.. or is it just me😬
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Shout out to these ladies in chemistry for a) teaching my clumsy self how to skate b) enduring an after lab skate on this chilly Chicago night @sbrown314159 @michellerbrann @UChiChemistry #wic #WomenInSTEM #phdlife #lifeoutsideoflab
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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@bigdinkel @johnsummit Honesty never… that was all me 😂
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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#Tbt to just this past Tuesday to when I drove through Chicago high ways covered in snow just so my #organoid experiment wouldn’t die #lifeofagraduatestudent #phdlife #AcademicTwitter
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Starting a new manuscript this week after just submitting one last month...
@svscarpino
Sam Scarpino
5 years
How to win at academic Uno
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Making data figures drains me of every ounce of the little creativity I possess #phdlife #feellike #parttimeGraphicDesigner
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Getting ready for my @GIBCO webinar this morning and I already have an audience 🤗 ... few more hours until we air! 🔬🧫🧬 #cellculture #organoids #microfluidics #3dcellculture #CancerResearch #academicswithcats 🦁
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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@ScientistSophia @AcademicChatter me too! my first thought was like "wait how do they know?" and maybe it is common to work in a lab ... then I remembered the song #MonsterMash 😂😂😂
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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@Sydonahi @WomenScienceDay @AcademicChatter To cont. the #WomeninSTEM thread, I’m Brooke a 4th yr PhD student working on #organoids and #microfludics in relation to Cancer at @UChicago , I’m also on the board for #WomeninChemistry !
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
2 years
Sad day when guns now have more rights than you do 💔
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
Gah getting both my flu shot and Covid booster in the same arm was the wrong choice
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
To anyone that has asked me during my 5 years of graduate school "when will you be done?"... this is MY LAST MONTH 🥳
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
My lab just published an ultra-multiplexed microfluidic system for high-throughput single-cell analysis in precisely defined dynamic signaling environments... compatible with 2D and some 3D hydrogel environments such as #neurospheres !! #ScienceAdvances #microfluidics
@SavasTay_UChi
Savas Tay
6 years
finally!
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
@steveczimmerman @MarkTChem Yes, that’s right. After your class, I added Chemistry as my major and now finishing my PhD in Chemistry at @UChicago !
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
I feel so fortunate to work among and learn from such amazing Post Docs in the Tay Lab... and Nir is by far one of the best! Congrats @NirDrayman ! Everyone needs to check out his new paper in science introducing the repurposing of Masitinib for COVID
@SavasTay_UChi
Savas Tay
3 years
Our SARS-CoV-2 drug screening paper is finally online! Congratulations to @NirDrayman and to rest of our amazing multi-institute team. This was a truly collaborative effort, and we hope the results will lead to developing better treatments for viral diseases.
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
My baby boy will be 1 this Saturday ... where did the time go 😭 #tbt #AdoptDontShop
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
In honor of #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience , here is a flashback photo from my first ever research experience: stem cell research at @Illinois_Alma Vet Med School to today in a molecular engineering lab as a PhD student #WomenInScienceDay2021
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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First #organoid experiment of 2020! With some patient #PancreaticCancer organoids ... just a quick test on some new chemo therapies before I scale it up in my #microfluidic platform.. learn more in my @GIBCO cell culture presentation Jan 30!
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
First day back into lab ✅
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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So proud to be part of such a innovated lab, congrats to my PI @SavasTay_UofC for being named @AllenInstitute Distinguished Investigated .. also we are currently recruiting new grad students and post docs! @UChicagoPME
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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It's finally HERE!! My first public presentation (through a live webinar) on my research is schedule this Jan. 2020. Hosted by @GIBCO @thermofisher Please registered here: #organoids #microfluidics @UChicagoPME #AcademicTwitter @OpenAcademics #scicomm
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
Even though the number keeps shrinking, I still get shocked reactions about how many years left of graduate school I have. They never consider the fact I am enjoying myself, happy to be here& appreciate the opportunity to learn and grow as a scientist and professional. #PhDChat
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
I have to admit I could get use to being able to control the temperature of my workplace
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Endoscopic (FNA) patient derived #pancreaticcancer #organoids growing on my #microfluidic platform... they move around so much they look like they are dancing 💃 🕺 ...One day I will learn how to properly format videos for twitter .. today is not that day 🙈
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
I swear the trick to using matlab is finding the right way to word your question on google to find the function you need
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Finally!!
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
4 years
BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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Finishing off my week with a bit of file organization and came across this neat little video of #PancreaticCancer #organoids growth #phdchat #microfluidics
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
Preparing for my Monday experiments by double fisting cold brew and a large ice tea #gradschool #phdcandidatelife
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Last week was hard. From the unexpected lost of a family member, the isolation of shelter in place and further extension of it, and then being forced to cancel our June 2020 wedding... my silver lining & “wedding cancellation present” meet our new adopted pup named Maverick!
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Quarantine day 1: already miss my lab desk chair. Wayyyyy more comfy than my at home office chair 😭
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Enjoying one of our last summer nights 🖤🌃
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
In case anyone wants to know what I spent my first post-PhD pay check on …
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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New coworker completely slacking on the job #academicswithcats
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Trying to squeeze 32 terabytes of data into one paper #phdlife #imageanalysis #organoidresearch
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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someone please come and throw away my drawer full of unidentified electronic wires because I apparently have no will power to and believe there will be a scenario where I will need them some day 🙈
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
When the new coworker tries to steal your desk ...
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Just learned a scientist named her cat “Cris-prrrr” and I immediately felt like I have failed at naming my own cats #CRISPR
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Having a string of failed experiments hurts so much more in your final stretch of your PhD than in your first years #sendgoodluckmyway
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
Finally cleared my 500+ unopened emails notification and it feels so good!
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Feels like I am working at 9 pm not 5 pm
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
As a scientist, I never understand the stigma of #GMO vs #nonGMO foods.. there seems to be so much misconception on what it means. I also bet there are so many non GMO advocates loving the impossible burger without even realizing how it was made
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
Little bro’s new label 👏👏👏
@johnsummit
John Summit
3 years
OFF THE GRID @offthegridrecs so stoked to finally announce my own record label/event brand. as my sound has grown to be all things house & techno, i knew it was time to make my own imprint with nothing off limits.
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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When a scientist, a pilot, and a DJ are quarantine together ...
@johnsummit
John Summit
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the summits were born to dance
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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I swear all of my best scientific brain storming comes right when I am about to leave lab, even wore athletic clothes to lab today to get myself to the gym, yet it looks like I will skip 🙈 as I find myself invested into new scientific ideas!👩‍🔬 #phdlife #MondayMotivaton
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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@ayeemach 🙌🙌🙌... reminds me of how my school increased our "student life fee" almost $400 this year (for a lovely grand total of ~$1700 a year) ... for what who knows! 🤷‍♀️
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
I ordered grocery delivery for the first time and it was honesty the best .. I was able to work late and get this homemade meal made 😋
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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Halloween as an adult with no children ... Obligatory torture your pet day 🦁
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
ate ice cream at 9 am while prepping for a group meeting presentation... just like a donut right?? #TGIF
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
@samanthaiam Post a picture of your pet and what your pet is named after
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
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TOMORROW! I will be airing my webinar on my research on #organoids , #microfluidics and #automated #highthroughput #3Dcellculture with the ability to ask question live after my presentation! Click the register to attend online! @GIBCO
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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What a crazy day in age when you get the most customer service by tweeting at a company or browsing their Twitter than you do through their website or by calling
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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My husband made a homemade pecan pie to drop off to his grandpa for Christmas and the cat ate it 🙈 a subtle reminder that 2020 is still not over yet 😂
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
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My lab has the prettiest sunsets #nofilterneeded #phdlife @UChicago
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
Some tumor organoids happily growing in our newly engineered device
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
After many years in the making, my side project with the hope to make #organoid analysis high-throughput and easy for all to use… we can finally introduce OrganoID .. thanks to @JonoMMatthews for teaming up with me and making this dream become a reality!
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Of course my cat waits until it's my turn to talk on zoom and starts chirping, jumping up and down on my desk, and rubbing her face on my monitor all as I tried to present a paper 🤦‍♀️ #academicswithcats
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
How I feel after a long week in lab ... #TGIF #phdlife #AcademicChatter
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
The cells I was growing out for an experiment all died over the weekend ... happy Monday to me! 😑
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
The views from my building make long days in lab so much better 🌆😍 @UChicagoMed @UChicago #sunsets #chicago #medicalresearch
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
@steveczimmerman CHEM 236 seems to cover very different topics than when I took it 8 years ago 😂
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
do you ever read a reviewer's comment and be like "oh yeah I totally know what you want", but then the more you re-read it, you get more and more unsure until you are left just staring at your computer screen not sure how to fix it #currentstatus #sendhelp #AcademicChatter
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Taking advantage of all the opportunities my university has to offer and giving up 3 hours of my Tuesday nights to further expand my education #phdlife #stembusiness @polskycenter
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
5 years
Feeling so much more like a professional scientist with my customized @UChicago lab coat ...
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
@HannahWShows @jenheemstra I totally agree @HannahWShows ... and when they ask how long is your thanksgiving break and winter break are and you have to explain to them that your role is more of a employee than a student! #PhDchat
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
6 years
Scientist & Grad Student by day ... Stray cat rescuer by night #howcouldisaynotothatface #lifeoutsideoflab
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@BrookeSchuster
Brooke Schuster, PhD
4 years
A great summary of the awesome research done in our lab ... included are some “behind the scene” footage of one of my #organoid experiments too! Video by @JonoMMatthews @UChicagoPME
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Brooke Schuster, PhD
3 years
When you mention that you have been craving mussels … and your SO delivers 🤤🤤
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