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Bryan C Mounce

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3 years

When we really really really need the experiment to work, Britney goes in the incubator.

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New equipment in the lab. Why buy a fancy microscope with a screen when you can use a USB eyepiece instead? I love this!

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We've got a whole new set of pipets in the lab now. Luckily, they fit on our pipet holder perfectly.

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4 years

Who did it better? The bunny...

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6 years

I never expected my vortex to roll its eyes at me.

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How it started. How it’s going.

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Introducing the lab's super secret surprise project: We've been working on a vaccine! We have yet to start any trials but we know from our experiments that these are 0% effective against virus but 100% cute. Now time to start scaling up production.

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3 years

Obviously needed to relabel some things in the lab... Did I spend way too much time on this? Yes. Do I have any regrets? No.

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5 years

Times are tough. Grant money is hard to come by. So we've started making our own lab equipment. The calibration isn't great and it takes special tips but this pipet makes up for it in adorableness. 🧶🧶

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3 years

As Pride Month draws to a close, these tiny yarn creations would like to remind you that: Science is for everyone. Virology is for everyone. Love is everything. & #ASV2021 is July 19th to 23rd!

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4 years

Best way to end a long day? Making tiny yarn beakers of course. And using all the colors of yarn.

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5 years

I think my yarn viruses are pretty much my thing but for the department Secret Santa, I needed to gift to a bacteriologist. So I made some bacteria and squid, which these bacteria colonize. Nothing says happy holidays like squids and Vibrio fischerii!! 🦑🦠🧫

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5 years

It took a while but we finally isolated a novel coronavirus! Fortunately this coronavirus doesn't cause disease... They just wear their little crown and play in the lab.

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4 years

Happy Friday. 🙃

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4 years

How does the COVID vaccine work? A story in yarn.

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To enhance our productivity in the lab, we got a new multichannel pipet. It requires special tips but overall it does the job really well and we got a great deal on it!

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2 years

I won an award and I'm pretty proud of it. It's the LUC SSOM Junior Scientist of the Year. I'm really thankful for this.

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5 years

Crazy times mean that even this little virus is hoarding toilet paper.

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4 years

Our little virus buddy made new antibody friends! They hug super tight.

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5 years

My pile of viruses to travel with me to Italy for the Viruses and Cells GRC.

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5 years

@florian_krammer Levenhuk M300. $90 on Amazon. You can get higher resolution ones for more but this works well for our purposes.

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4 months

I made some new microbes, including my first attempts at fungus and Clostridium!

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5 years

Even the little viruses are getting in on wearing masks now.

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2 years

All of the lab's cloning is working now! I wonder why... 👀 👀 👀

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4 years

We bought a miniature incubator for various little tasks in the lab. We didn't expect this. We affectionately refer to this as the lab's new Easy-Bake Oven.

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5 years

73 yarn viruses to accompany me to #ASV2019 this weekend. Lots of sizes, shapes, and colors representing the diversity of viruses we study and the people studying them. Looking forward to meeting new people and learning a lot! Come say hi!

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Masks are great for everyone.

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4 years

In our continued social distancing effort, all tiny viruses are asked to maintain a space of at least 600 nm to other tiny viruses. Thank you for your cooperation.

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3 years

Western blots, chromatograms, photoshoots... Get you a lab who can do it all.

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5 years

The lab has its FIRST PHD STUDENT! Welcome Mason, who officially joins today!

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5 years

Preparing some fuzzy viruses for a trip to Italy for the Viruses and Cells GRC. Still playing with different colors and styles and will have even more when ASV rolls around!

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5 years

Twitter Milestone: 2000 followers. That's pretty cool! Apparently my tweets are okay. To celebrate, I'm not going to buy myself a fancy thing or do a stunt. I'm going to send yarn viruses to 5 random people! Any takers? 😁

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6 years

After some optimization... 3D printed freezer boxes! With the polyamine logo, of course. It's really fun to see what can be produced for a lab with 3D printing. It brings a new level of customization. Keeping the lab creative. #3dprintsfordays

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4 years

Spent the morning making holographic virus stickers. Genome or no genome?

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7 months

Pie, bubbly, and tenure. The best combination?

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6 years

The yarn broke midway and I kept going so I guess I made a defective viral particle.

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5 years

When you get bad data first thing on a Monday morning. Combining a 3D printed springy bunny, a vortex, and @taylorswift13 .

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2 years

In Science World, Halloween is the one night a year when a scientist can dress like a hippo and no other scientists can say anything about it. 🎃

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7 months

My dad knows the best words to write. Thank you, Dad.

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3 years

The viruses are getting in the St. Patrick's Day spirit.

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6 years

Coming up on my one-year mark. Some thoughts I've had as a #newPI :

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4 years

Model organisms are important. So I made a yarn model of a model organism. Next I'll make a C. elegans model since all model organisms are great. 😉

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4 years

Itty bitty placenta.

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5 years

Installed my replacement license plate in the snow. I've had this since I was in grad school, working on herpesviruses, but now that I've converted to RNA viruses, maybe I need to switch to AUG UGA.

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3 years

Words can't express how honored and grateful I am for the @AmerSocVirol Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that has helped me along the way.

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4 years

Happy to share some good news - we were awarded an R35 MIRA for our polyamine work! Thank you to all who helped! & especially thank you to the amazing people that did the infecting, cell splitting, and cloning to get here. I hope we will celebrate together in the near future!

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6 years

After knitting cacti for ASV 2018, I'm working on something a bit more... ASV-esque this year... #lovevirology #ASV2019

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4 years

@Caroline_Bartma Do yarn pipets count?

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5 years

Taking a break from making yarn viruses and instead enjoying the autumn weather with some Halloween-inspired creatures.

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5 years

With a mouse herpesvirus expert visiting, it's only appropriate to gift a mouse tightly grabbing a virus.

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4 years

In addition to making vaccines, we're working on happy little bandaids for after immunization. 🩹

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5 years

I don't know what to do now is this real life what is happening

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5 years

Yarn viruses are cute but seeing how many people react to them is eye-opening. As virologists (and humans), we have so many opportunities to support each other. Big or small, knit or not. Let's be kind to each other. Every single one of us belongs in our community. #lovevirology

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Receiving this knitted virus has made me feel like I belong to this community more than any award/fellowships before! Thanks @bryancmounce for all your knitting patience and everything you do for us #GRC2019 #lovevirology

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3 years

Our newest lab member. Really terrible at pipetting but we're working on the first versus the second stop.

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2 years

I use PowerPoint to crochet my tiny viruses.

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4 years

Do you like science? Do you like studying viruses? Do you like to have fun while doing both? If so, our lab might be the perfect fit for you! See our website for more info () Email to apply or for more info (bmounce @luc .edu)

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2 years

Coming soon to #ASV2022 : Me, the lab, and 50 of our little yarn friends. Say hi.

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3 years

The PCR worked! And today I ran two PCRs. First one I forgot Britney, and it failed. Second one, I remembered Britney and IT WORKED. And since correlation = causation, we will now be asking Britney for help with all future PCR.

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3 years

Natalie ( @Natalie2231 ) invoking Britney to help with her PCR.

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4 years

Today is my mid-tenure review - I'm halfway to my tenure assessment! Three years goes quickly. Supporting me today during my seminar is my always-reliable @britneyspears magnet, bringing me good luck since 2001.

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4 years

Distinguishing the incubators with stickers now. Happy cells above, happy viruses below.

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3 years

Literally six months later ALL THE PIPETS have arrived.

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3 years

The viruses are getting stylish with their new spectacles.

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5 years

Two in a week im dead how does this happen wow

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2 years

I'm not gonna complain about the weather. I'm just going to note how beautiful the snow is before sunrise.

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5 years

I spent a lot of time working on my creativity over the last few weeks. I challenged myself to make little yarn bacteria, and I even managed to make something that looks kind of like a spirochete (top left)! Don't worry though. I still love viruses. 💕

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4 years

The lab surprised me with balloons, wine, cacti, and pastries. @OreSlayAllDay also made a cake that perfectly summarizes my feeling about this year. Thank you all! ☺

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4 years

Making giant viruses this weekend and I came up with a new design - this time based on coronaviruses (left and right sides). Forget your anxiety (momentarily) and look at the happy little viruses for a bit. Oh , and don't forget to vote!

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4 years

Got some new beakers in the lab. To save space we made sure that they could stack.

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We moved the lab down one floor today. More space, more science. Right?

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5 years

Not coronavirus related but... Still happy that our paper was accepted today. It's nice to have some good news these days... And thanks to @TheMenacheryLab for their contribution! Our first interlab collaboration!

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Bryan C Mounce

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4 years

Here's my happy placenta collection - all in different sizes. Also, I just learned that the plural of placenta is placentae (or placentas).

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5 years

My key tips for a happy lab: 1) Don't be a jerk. 2) Treat people like people (duh). 3) Communicate. 4) Be clear with expectations. 5) Communicate. 6) Have fun. 7) Communicate. 8) Donuts.

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Bryan C Mounce

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2 years

I knew this day would finally come but I didn't think it would be today. One of the rotation students doesn't know who Britney is. 😭😨😰😮

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4 years

New use for our magnetic stir bar.

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5 years

Twitter is so full of anger and and disagreement and shaming and unhappiness with this coronavirus outbreak. It all makes me tired. So I made a little otter. No coronavirus in this little guy. Except one creeping in the corner.

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2 years

As Pride Month comes to an end, just a reminder that science (and virology) is for everyone.

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4 years

If a scientist does a SARS-CoV-2 and doesn't tweet about it, did that experiment ever happen?

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4 years

We have a new virus going in the lab! And it makes plaques! And it's not SARS-CoV-2!

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4 years

Our gym is opening next week but I've decided not to go back. Not because of coronavirus. Just because everything there is so heavy.

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5 years

The lab surprised me with a cake and a birthday pumpkin (instead of a card) today. We all needed a nap after finishing off the cake within 20 minutes. 🍰🍰🍰

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4 years

I volunteered to teach nucleotide and amino acid metabolism in the fall so I'm cracking open this beauty that I saved from when I took biochem 12 years ago. Still looks the same as it did it 2008 when I got it for Biochem 507 at Madison.

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4 years

Celebrating the lab's first accepted paper of the year! Congrats Bridie on your first first-author paper! 🎊 🥂 🎉 🍾

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6 years

Infectious... and stackable.

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1 year

My plaque assay is ugly but at least something happened.

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4 years

Just a reminder that lab equipment and viruses are, in fact, fuzzy and cuddly.

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5 years

Not a creature was stirring, not even a grad student. Because they're off enjoying their well-deserved holidays. Meanwhile I am profusely swearing about my terrible western blotting skills. Happy Holidays!

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5 years

Santa Virus wishes you a very Merry Christmas. ❄ ⛇ 🎅 🤶 🐧 If you check under your tree, you should find good data and new project ideas from Santa Virus.

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4 years

The succulents are ready for Halloween.

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3 years

Celebratory margaritas with the people that make this job worthwhile! 🎉 🎂 🎉🎈🎊🥂🍾

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4 years

The summary slide of my virology lecture to the first-year grad students.

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2 years

Arriving soon in Keystone, Colorado.

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4 years

Also loving how this print came out with the gradient setting.

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4 years

Orange is my favorite color, so you know I'm going to go all-out with making pumpkins for the next month. Here's the first set from this weekend.

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5 years

Also this tweet was a convenient way to put off working on my grant.

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4 years

C. elegans: the well-meaning nematode, and a lovely model system. A short thread.

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Merry Christmas to me! 🎄 😁 🌟

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5 years

2019 was a learning experience. I learned about failure. I learned about success. I learned about joy. I learned about sadness. Importantly, I learned how to crochet a tiny pineapple. Happy 2020.

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The lab took an afternoon to celebrate a great year. Lots of firsts, big accomplishments, fun, and laughs in 2019. We also took time to talk about our "pits and peaks" and exchange gifts. I feel so lucky to work with this group.

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5 years

I love love love making and presenting posters. ♥ 💕 🧀 🦄 That's why I'm excited to present at the GRC this afternoon and tomorrow. Here's my poster and a link to the relevant paper for those who cannot attend.

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2 years

Me: Doesn't the lab have a group chat where you complain about me? Natalie: No, we do that in-person. 😶😶😶

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