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Time-traveling at 60 sec/min. @Columbia .

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@SimonOgundare

Simon Ogundare

5 months

I am thrilled to finally share my commitment to @ColumbiaMed Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons for my MD-PhD training! This has been an incredible journey. I am so grateful to family, friends, and mentors who have guided me through it all. (1/14)

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@SimonOgundare

Simon Ogundare

5 months

Can’t wait for what’s next! This is a huge honor for me as possibly the first Black person to ever earn this award. Also excited to have our work recognized in this way :)

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

5 months

I am ecstatic and proud to see our graduating senior @SimonOgundare win the Bridges and Sturtevant Prize in Biological Sciences from @Columbia_Bio . Over the years Simon has become an integral member of our lab.

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

What a great lecture to kick off #SfN2023 ! Grateful for this lab and this VERY exciting work :)

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

Super excited about day one of the first annual Northeast Pain Symposium at @ZuckermanBrain !

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Simon Ogundare

8 months

Thrilled to have contributed to this fantastic project!

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

8 months

Excited to share our new pre-print where we discover behavior signatures of eusociality and social touch in the East African naked mole-rat. 1/6

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

Trial day 1 for our “Nanoscope” - our attempt to build a series of affordable, low-cost fluorescent microscopes for public scientific outreach with @BioBus and @thecns_cu . Eventually we will have lasers and filters for excitation but for now we just have some worms to look at :)

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@SimonOgundare

Simon Ogundare

11 months

Stop by my poster this morning to learn about our lab’s newest improvements to PAWS!

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

A little bit sentimental wrapping up our final @thecns_cu Encephalon Conference of my time here as an undergrad here at Columbia! In our Society's first collaboration with @ZuckermanBrain , we hosted undergraduate 'research-in-progress' talks for the first time.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Of course my scientific journey would not be possible without my scientific mentors - primarily my PIs @DrChristineAnnD and @IshmailSaboor , and so many others. I’m still grateful for you both for taking me into your labs to take on exciting research directions. (3/14)

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Simon Ogundare

9 months

I’m honored to have been able to present at the @BUMPBiology Symposium again this year. Such amazing projects and exciting collaborations!

@ZuckermanBrain

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

@ZuckermanBrain

9 months

What did the annual @BUMPBiology Symposium look like last Friday? Answer: a more diverse future of science. Proudly by their posters, each student treated attendees to a story of discovery. Learn more about the program!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

First and foremost I want to thank my family, without whom none of this journey would be possible - biologically, and in other ways :) - my dad, my mom, and my twin sister @Sarah_Ogundare for the constant encouragement, hope, and support. (2/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

I’ve relied on Ishmail and Christine’s mentorship in many ways - particularly, when we launched my joint-lab thesis project investigating the intersection between depression and chronic pain. I’m excited to follow up on this work as part of the next stage in my training. (4/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

On a separate note, I cannot acknowledge my institution without acknowledging the political climate I rejoin it in. There is a perceived separation in popular culture between science and society that excludes science and excuses scientists from politics. (9/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

I chose to commit to Columbia because of the opportunities I will have here to grow as a future doctor and scientist in such a dynamic city. Alongside, I hope to continue to keep in mind that even in these roles, we should keep striving for equity, awareness, and justice. (14/14)

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Simon Ogundare

8 months

A beautiful snow day for my @IshmailSaboor lab meeting today!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

Just finished running the #NewYorkerHalf marathon in Riverside park with @DennisJZhang1 ! We ran to draw attention to several rare diseases, especially sickle cell anemia, where awareness means everything. Increasing funding and scope for pain research is a must.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Columbia is not without controversy. And even so, globally, we still should not buy into the expectation of separation from realities we see with our own eyes (read: police brutality, racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism - ***none of which are mutually exclusive***). (11/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

The choice to deny resources - medical teams of volunteer EMTs trained to aid injured students, and limited media coverage - challenges the legitimacy of “safety,” even when these choices are supposedly in our best interest. (13/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Growing up in Nigeria unfortunately made me no stranger to systems of censorship and oppression, where the truth can also, often, be pityingly relative. (12/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

I also want to especially thank @Michelle_Jin1 for all of the advice you have provided throughout the application cycle, the nuanced perspectives you’ve shared with me about training to be a physician-scientist as well as scientific mentorship across multiple projects. (5/14)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

Had an amazing opportunity to attend the @LaidlawFoundatn inaugural conference at @TuftsUniversity : #LaidlawImpact2022 ! As a 3MT presenter, I got to talk about the carbon capture research I did a couple summers ago. So grateful for the research, the people, and the community!

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

One day… @IshmailSaboor

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

What a day! Lucky to have friends willing to lend eclipse glasses lol :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

There are countless others I am eternally grateful for, but cannot possibly list everyone. So, thank you to everyone who told me at any point in my life that “I could.” Excited for the next chapter! (7/14)

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Simon Ogundare

8 months

Had the wonderful opportunity to feature on @PlainEnglishSci during #SfN2023 and discuss the lab’s current work developing tools for unbiased behavioral pain scoring! Excited to see this episode out now.

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SfN Shorts Part 9: Pain, ALS, and Glaucoma

In Plain English: Science Made Simple · Episode

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

I have made this mistake myself - painstakingly trying to believe that science could occasionally be distinct from global politics. However, it is not in spite of scientific thinking, but through it that we should hold false narratives and “relative truth” accountable. (10/14)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

🔬🥼🩺 #doubledocs (8/14)

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

I’m super excited to have played a part in this fantastic paper! Congrats to everyone involved here!

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

1 year

Also, very proud that two undergraduates from my lab, @SimonOgundare and Justin Arnold, are co-authors on this study with significant contributions. Justin is now in medical school at Northwestern and Simon is in route to an MD-PhD at a lucky school to be determined.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Unfortunately almost all of my friends are twitterless or anonymous :( but needed to thank the brilliant and inimitable @DennisJZhang1 for all the late night convos and data blitzes - absolutely my scientific buddy and one of my closest friends. (6/14)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

So grateful to have the opportunity to present at the National Public Interest Technology Conference at @CUNYResearch ! Our team developed the first national database for indigent burials — a process that contributes a unique slice of data from an underrepresented demographic.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Excited to see this work out in the world! Was a huge effort and very excited to have played a role here 🥳

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

5 months

1. Excited to share our improvement of pain testing in rodents. No more back-breaking inconsistent poking of mouse paws. We present the ARM (Automated Reproducible Mechano-stimulator). 1/7

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

The SqueakR suite also features an #rshiny dashboard to view experiment metadata, and plot the same visualizations without any code! #rstats

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

Can’t think of a better way to turn 21 :)

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

So glad to be a part of this exciting work!

@justin_burdge

Justin Burdge, PhD

1 year

Excited to share the @IshmailSaboor lab’s advances in PAWS and beyond… All possible due to @AnissaJhumka , @SimonOgundare , @Will__Foster , Wadzanayi Mayiseni, and Ashar Khan.

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

Just published my first R package on CRAN! Introducing SqueakR: a free, open-source experiment superstructure for @DeepSqueak_USV !

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

Can’t wait to share some of this work in DC!

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

11 months

For those of you attending #SfN2023 , be sure to check out some of the ongoing work in the lab. In addition to my SFNova Lecture, we have six poster presentations shown below with details.

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Simon Ogundare

8 months

Can’t wait!!

@IshmailSaboor

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

8 months

Walking in from apartment to work on a snow day. Should be a fun day including @SimonOgundare ’s lab meeting, @dacolon ’s seminar, and a visit from @alison_j_barker .

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

So glad we were able to organize another year of Encephalon! Here’s to many more CNS conferences in the future.

@thecns_cu

The Columbia Neuroscience Society

1 year

An incredible lineup of speakers for Encephalon: #Nuance . We were so honored to hear from professors @LilaDavachi , @BrisbaneDarcy , and @STRscience for our education panel, and Neurobiology PhD students @shivanibigler and Bovey Rao for our grad student panel!

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

We had valuable talks and engaging conversations from Drs. Steven Siegelbaum, Daniel Salzman, @IshmailSaboor , and @bjmarlin . We spanned not only their exciting science but also their careers, challenges, and advice for undergraduates aspiring for a career in science.

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

The source paper if anyone is interested - this is a fantastic article and hopefully we will come close to recreating the device the authors built!

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A low-cost smartphone fluorescence microscope for research, life science education, and STEM...

Scientific Reports - A low-cost smartphone fluorescence microscope for research, life science education, and STEM outreach

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

Almost forgot. Photo creds @Will__Foster :)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

SqueakR is designed to streamline data processing by saving all calls extracted from DeepSqueak to a single experiment object, which load into @rstudio at any point to add new data, compare call features across experimental groups, and generate informative visualizations.

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@SimonOgundare

Simon Ogundare

8 months

So excited about this work!!

@VAbraira

Victoria E. Abraira

8 months

Congratulations Aman and @SpinalCordMark on some awesome science! check out this pre-print on how the dorsal column nuclei scale the pain experience. Great collaboration with Yoshida lab (Burke) @eazim @IshmailSaboor !!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

Special thanks to @MrCoffey_PhD and @johnfneumaier for your guidance on visualizations while developing this package and for making DeepSqueak available!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

DeepSqueak uses machine vision to dissect out the features of vocalizations in rodents, and can automatically detect and group calls based on certain features in order to develop a language structure.

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

Overwhelmingly grateful for my CNS co-presidents @DianaGillyS and Haroon Arain for spearheading this collaboration alongside ZI Undergraduate Liasons Matthew Lee and Shujun Xiong and the ZI Public Programs Team, and for the opportunity to speak on some of my own work.

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Simon Ogundare

3 years

Really interesting study! Behavioral and dopaminergic signatures of resilience

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@IsabellaSucci @leahthePhDya @Will__Foster @MDSchaffler @IshmailSaboor This is so exciting!! Congrats :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

Thanks Christine!!! I’m so excited for what’s next!

@DrChristineAnnD

Christine Ann Denny

@DrChristineAnnD

5 months

So so proud of @SimonOgundare !!

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

@faithinneuro Congrats Faith!! A huge milestone this is so exciting :)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

If you’re interested in supporting our efforts with Nord @RareDiseases and Next Step @nextstepfund , please consider donating to our fundraiser, Columbia Runs 4 Rare right here:

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Columbia Runs 4 Rare!, organized by Dennis Zhang

Rare diseases affect ~30 million Americans, or roughly one in 10 people. Many of these conditions a… Dennis Zhang needs your support for Columbia Runs 4 Rare!

www.gofundme.com

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Simon Ogundare

3 years

Welcome to Twitter @Sarah_Ogundare !! :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@YasmineAyman20 @DrChristineAnnD @IshmailSaboor Thank you so much Yasmine! CNS folks going places 🫡

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

Can’t wait to dig more into this!

@scientistjonas

Jonas Håkansson 🦇

@scientistjonas

6 months

New paper alert! We combine @DeepLabCut and DLTdv for accurate AI based 3D reconstruction of bat flight. I will post more details this weekend. From me, @brooke_quinn1 , @Abernightingal , Sharon Swartz at @Bats_at_Brown , and @AaronJCorcoran .

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@blhs24 I wish I couldn’t relate to this but unfortunately I had this exact experience a few weeks ago 😭

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@dr_alexharris Thank you! Very honored :)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@jessiburd @VikramGadagkar @Marc_F_Schmidt @IshmailSaboor Congrats!!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@Jared_Boyce Congrats!!! So glad I got to watch this.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@ChrisHykiel Will do regardless of the former !! Miss everyone back in Surrey.

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@dr_alexharris @ColumbiaMed Thank you! Excited to stick around the city for a while longer

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@akaye @ColumbiaMed Thank you so much! Hope our paths cross in the near future :)

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@ChrisHykiel Absolutely! Looking forward to visiting soon :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@NourMimouni5 Thank you so much!

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

@Jared_Boyce @AACAP Congrats!! Hope to see you soon!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@AZAAllsop @ColumbiaMed Thank you! Hope to catch up soon :)

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

@faithinneuro Congrats!! All the best!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@psalmotoxin Thank you so much!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@ChinoNwakama @ColumbiaMed Thanks so much Chino! Let’s catch up soon!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@Dennis_J_Zhang 🥳🥳🥳

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@YasmineAyman20 @thecns_cu So glad to hear you speak Yasmine!!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

A bop!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@DennisJZhang1 Wooooo!!! Can’t wait to finally hear this brilliant story in person soon :)

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Simon Ogundare

8 months

@IshmailSaboor Thank you!!

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

@Jared_Boyce Looks great!

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@iaahmed123 Thank you! Very excited about this

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@Mo_AndMore @DeepSqueak_USV @mrbernny Thank you!

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Simon Ogundare

6 months

@Jared_Boyce Woooo!!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@faithinneuro @carolinejia22 @kaymtye Congrats!! So glad I got to see your poster!

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Sarah M-O

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5 months

So proud of you!! :) you'll continue to roar lion roar for your entire 20s I guess

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Simon Ogundare

1 year

@faithinneuro @sciencemassa @rocaqu11 @UCSD_CoB @kaymtye @andreatran01 @ucsdbiosciences @OliviaEide7 Congrats Faith!!! So excited for what you do next :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@MBO_Ogundare @IshmailSaboor @Columbia_Bio Thank you! Can’t wait to keep pushing :)

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

@IshmailSaboor @SfNtweets Wooooo congrats!!

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Simon Ogundare

11 months

@ChrisHykiel Oh you know it!! So widely recognized :)

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@VAbraira Congrats Aman!!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

And let’s not talk about the way this drawing was *this close* to being the package icon for SqueakR 💀 #rstats

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Simon Ogundare

5 months

@mariam_s_aly @ColumbiaMed Dr. Aly!! It’s so good to hear from you. Thanks so much and hope we can keep in touch!

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Simon Ogundare

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@Jared_Boyce Thank you! Hope to catch up soon!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

@IshmailSaboor So cool!

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1 year

@IshmailSaboor Congrats Britt!!

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@ChrisHykiel Couldn’t have asked for a better origin story haha

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2 years

@IshmailSaboor Yayyyy!!! Congrats Tori!!!

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Simon Ogundare

2 years

This is incredible.

@lining_yao

Lining Yao

2 years

Inspired by nature, sourced from nature, designed for nature, and published in @Nature ! Biodegradable morphing robots are "gone to earth".

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2 years

@MelCooperPhD It was amazing! So glad I could attend

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@Jared_Boyce Looking forward to it too!

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@Jared_Boyce @UWMSTP @uwsmph Congrats!!

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