Congratulation to Dr. Casey Mahoney-Crane for defending her thesis dissertation and earning her PhD today! It was an honor to have her in my lab. Watch out NIH!
@mahoney_kc
WELL. After significant consideration, I have decided to pursue my postdoc in the lab of
@MarkRCookson1
at the NIH! Get ready for more trolling for the next ???? years!
Congratulations
@mahoney_kc
! for being awarded the 2023 UAB Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Doctoral Level. "You exhibit, perseverance and passion for your research, and demonstrate compassion for your fellow students and broader UAB community"
I am absolutely thrilled and honored to share that I received the “GBS Student Mentorship and Teaching Award” from
@UAB_GBS
. I’m beyond thankful for my personal mentors and all of the mentees whom I’ve been able to mentor and teach! & thank you
@nm_ilieva
for the photos☺️
Congratulations to
@mahoney_kc
for her paper being accepted in Journal of Neuroscience. Showed high levels of glucosylsphingosine in brains AND plasma of GBAL444P Het mice. Also vulnerability of hippocampus
Obligatory last day of behavior selfie! Feat. my favorite window in the ZRB building & sweatshirt that says girls just wanna have funding for scientific research 🤪
I’m SO proud of my exceptional Ph.D advisor Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley!
@lvolpic
She was awarded UAB Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Mentorship Award for 2022. 😁
So Michael & I did a thing.
Welcome to the family Luka! Luka is a 2yr old border collie (mix? Not sure) rescue, full of energy and love🥹☺️
I have like 37 serotonin molecules.
GUYS. One of my friends, Alex Raynaud, drew this. She needed ideas for a project, so I mentioned the hippocampus to which she took that and ran with it. It’s a hippo fishing for knowledge- so freaking cute🥹
Well- my mom is officially scheduled for surgery on March 1st to remove a mass from her colon. The doctors think it may be malignant based on size and shape, but likely localized and early stage if so! I would greatly appreciate all your thoughts and prayers during this time❤️
Before moving to Alabama, I was like oh gosh a TORNADO WATCH?! Now it’s like, okay what does suspender man say? Am I safe? Do I need to take shelter?
#JamesSpann
WOW. Officially heard back from my mom about the pathology result from her surgery. She was diagnosed with Stage 2a colon cancer with a T3 tumor😳. HOWEVER, the surgery was successful and everything was removed such that chemo is not necessary! 1/2
I never realize it’s a federal holiday until I’m on the phone with my mom & she asks why I’m going into lab….to which I respond “I’m trying to graduate.”
Honored to present the UAB Outstanding Graduate Scholastic achievement award to Casey
@mahoney_kc
! Also happy to see lab undergrads get award for Trailblazers! All enthusiast hard workers!!
Update: We are still safe! Lost power, but we do have a generator. There is a curfew in place which is just fine because I wasn’t planning on going anywhere. There are a couple of trees down & high winds around, but thankfully no flooding inside the home. We are truly thankful❤️
I have decided to run away to Hogwarts! ((unless my PI (
@lvolpic
) thinks that’s a bad idea….)) in which case- I will run away to a galaxy far far away instead😄
Rather than work on my journal club presentation tomorrow, I spent the morning looking at houses for sale in Dublin, Ireland. I still stand by this decision.
Wednesday afternoon - WBSP2 - (3:30 - 5:00) Talk 1: Bringing the immune system to
#Parkinsons
- by speaker Malú Tansey (USA)
@MaluTansey
(one of the best in the business!)
I would like to take a moment and publically thank
@lvolpic
. As many of you can imagine, today was a rough morning when I woke up to the realization that we were out of coffee.
So thank you Laura for having coffee in the lab.
Guess you can say I hit the ground RUNNING as a postdoc🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️ but I had such a blast running in the NIH Relay Race! Congrats to all of us who didn’t trip- it’s a true accomplishment:)
My first experiment of this year was a western blot... and now I’m ending this year with yet another western blot... if my net velocity is 0, does that mean I’ve done nothing all year?
Save the date for the next research spotlight with Dr.
@lvolpic
on April 23, 2024.
Learn more & register:
Research Spotlight series made possible with support from
@Supernus_Pharma
and
@MTPA_US
.
Oh my sweet baby boy Asher- We had to put him down at 4am this morning, and it was such a painful decision to make. We will always cherish the sweet memories made, and rest assured that you are catching all the voles and eating all the food in doggy heaven. Love and miss you❤️
She will just need consistent follow ups for the next 5 years to be considered in the clear. So thankful that there was NO lymph nodes involved or any metastasis! Thank you all for your support ❤️❤️❤️ 2/2
You know the opening scene from The Incredibles where Mr. Incredible is fighting villains & he says, “Yeah, I still got time” as he runs late to his wedding? Yeah- that’s me on the daily, especially now as I see how many mice I can run in behavior before lab meeting.
Got the official word that I was promoted to Full Professor! Let's Go UAB!! Thanks go to my husband, kids, parents, trainees and mentors that supported me along the way! 🐲
…. It wasn’t until I arrived at the behavior core this morning when I realized I had forgotten the most precious thing…. My coffee…. I never thought this day would come.
I’m this gif- except without the coffee mug 😔
I’ve done it. I’ve accomplished my New Year’s resolution. I have learned how to fold a fitted sheet. So…. Naturally the next step is world domination, right?
When your PI (
@lvolpic
) thinks you’re still out of town, so you think about actually going out of town again rather than doing the work planned, but instead you decide to dramatically reveal your location (UAB) via Twitter