{"id":706,"date":"2021-03-30T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/msb\/?p=706"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:30:48","slug":"weekly-newsletter-vol-1-issue-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/msb\/weekly-newsletter-vol-1-issue-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter: Vol. 1 Issue 52"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Let's stay connected...<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\nZoom Link<\/a> Meeting ID: 946 7851 1368\u00a0 Passcode: MCBRIP
\n3\/31 Luke Deary <\/strong>(Wang lab), Kali Smolen <\/strong>(Kettenbach lab)
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Wei Wang has been with the Dunlap & Loros labs for longer than anyone except the PIs.\u00a0 With little science training, Wei responded in early 2007 to our posting for a part time lab aide, at a point when she was looking to productively fill time when her daughter Mindy was in school.\u00a0 She began doing unskilled work, but over the years, as things needed done, her quiet competence continued to fill gaps and roles continually expanded. In 2009 she began helping with experiments under supervision, then to helping with the mouse colony, then to being in charge of the mouse husbandry, and finally moving into the lab manager position, as Mindy moved off to college. Wei is invariably cheerful, respectful, respectable, well-respected, and always totally responsible, in all, a treasure.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Vicky Marlar is our lab manager, research technician, and lab mom (especially to our precious fruit flies), among many other things for the Bosco and Ahmed labs.\u00a0 She has basically run the Ahmed lab since 2006 and the Bosco lab since 2012, when we opened here at Dartmouth.\u00a0Vicky was born and raised in New Hampshire;\u00a0aside from running away from the cold Northeast\u00a0and living in Puerto Rico in years past, she now lives in NH and\u00a0is a true New Englander.\u00a0Vicky loves to\u00a0cook and listen to music.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Bethany Malskis, a graduate of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, drove up from Georgia in August 2020 to join the Halpern lab as a new technician. She arrived just as the water was being turned on the first recirculating tank system, and has weathered storms, ceiling leaks and water main breaks to provide consistently exceptional care of the new Vail zebrafish facility. Bethany is a natural leader and skilled problem solver. Stop her in the hallway to learn of her experiences as a high school student in Malawi, Africa\u00a0 where she volunteered in a community health clinic, or her undergraduate research on a ciliary protein in Chlamydomonas<\/em>. The fish love Bethany and so does everyone else who meets her! (Photo courtesy <\/em>of Kurt Wehde<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Laurent Perreard works with the Biorepository Core in the Center for Molecular Epidemiology on the 6th<\/sup> floor of the Williamson building. He grew up and studied in the French Alps before moving to the US 20 years ago. With particular attention to conserving and maximizing the utility of precious human biospecimens, Laurent\u2019s skilled hands end extensive experience make him an essential partner in evaluating and implementing new and complex protocols in population sciences research. When not in the lab, He enjoys skiing and hiking with his wife and 2 kids. With his daughter he recently started running and biking again. During the lockdown, Laurent tried his hands at making bread and particularly enjoyed making tasty sourdough loafs.<\/div>\n
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Saiko Ikeda graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree from Meiji University in Tokyo and earned her master\u2019s degree in biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since 2014 she has been the chief lab technician and resident rodent brain surgeon for the Gulledge laboratory. Aside from her work in the lab, Saiko is a gourmet chef, a gardener, and mother to three who enjoys mystery novels and long walks on the Lebanon Rail Trail. She is known for her infectious sense of humor and has been described in a student\u2019s thesis dedication as \u201cone of the funniest people I know.\u201d (Just don\u2019t call her crazy!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Meijie Li, Has been a technician for the Hermes Yeh lab and the Allan Gulledge Lab. In 2011 she joined the Luikart lab where she learned the skills of molecular cloning and viral packaging.\u00a0 During this time, she has cloned thousands of constructs and packaged and purified over 600 retroviral, lentiviral, and adeno-associated viral preparations.\u00a0 She has earned 6 manuscript co-authorships.\u00a0 In each of these manuscripts she created and packages a novel viral reagent.\u00a0 Some of these constructs have been awarded the red flame on Addgene with over 50 requests.\u00a0 She is currently the cornerstone of the Bryan Luikart and Jennifer Hong laboratories.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Andrew McCray, a graduate of Colby College, joined the Wang lab in the summer of 2020. Since joining the lab, Andrew has thrived and become the go-to person in the lab, especially for our rotation students. Andrew is a perfectionist and naturally he has become the new Western Blot Master and Cloning Master in the Wang lab. Growing up in Seattle, Andrew is a big fan of soccer and soup dumplings (Xiao Long Bao).<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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It would have been hard to imagine the impact of Alison Young\u2019s decision years back to sell her dairy herd, close up the barn, and embark on a new career in research. Now an AALAS technologist with decades of experience, few at NCCC can say that they have not benefitted from Alison\u2019s experience and generosity at some point over the years. Having been fortunate enough to work with Alison these last years, I can say without question that none of what we\u2019ve accomplished could have been done without her. A true New Englander, Alison\u2019s workday ends when all the work is done. From there she can be found tending her garden, crushing the competition on the Pickleball court, or simply enjoying the natural world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Sabrina Oliveira received her B.Sc. in Biotechnology from University of New Hampshire, whereas an undergraduate research assistant she investigated roles of two transcriptional regulators in promoting pancreatic cancer metastasis. She joined the Leach Lab as research technician in May 2020, met her initial zoom-based training during the COVID-19 shutdown with enthusiasm, and quickly became an exceptional zebrafish-whisperer and manager of the Williamson zebrafish facility. Sabrina brightens the Leach Lab every day with her infectious energy, while simultaneously holding all lab members to her high standards of care and organization; it is hard to imagine how we ever managed without her! While originally from Brazil, Sabrina has embraced New England winters and can often be heard saying \u201cIt\u2019s so cold out \u2013 but I love it!\u201d She is especially fond of skiing but is enthusiastic about hiking and outdoor activities in all seasons. Though the pandemic has kept her in New England this year, Sabrina loves to talk about travel and dreams for future adventures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Pamela Yeh, has been the Lab Manager since 2005. Pam is the de facto \"go-to\" person. She upholds the Yeh lab\u2019s \"open door\" policy for sharing of reagents and equipment and does so cheerfully, making sure that everyone uses the facilities effectively and efficiently. Pam also devotes significant time and effort to training undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Her reliability and innate sense of responsibility are key to a cooperative working environment that optimizes research productivity and collegiality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Nevena \u2018Nena\u2019 Ognjenovic is an RA and lab manager and has been a member of the Raman lab since November 2017. Nena has knack for making sure everything is the lab is clean and in working order and all supplies and reagents are well stocked. In addition to maintaining the transgenic mouse colony entirely on her own, she is an expert in mouse mammary gland dissections, holding the lab record of harvesting glands from a whopping 16 mice in one go (followed by a full day of experiments!). She is the lead author on the lab\u2019s first paper that was recently published in Developmental Cell. She is friendly and helpful to everyone she encounters and maintains contacts with a network of sales reps from whom she constantly avails great prices and discounts for lab supplies. Her scientific and organizational skills are matched only by her baking skills, with her cheesecakes being a lab favorite. Ask anyone in the lab and they will tell you that Nena is the glue that holds the lab together!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Maryam Fathi joined the McKenna lab in the summer of 2019 as the lab\u2019s first researcher. She came to Dartmouth after completing her Cell and Molecular Biology master\u2019s degree at Tehran Azad University as well as an additional two years at biotechnology companies. Since arriving at Dartmouth, she\u2019s dived head-first into CRISPR genome engineering and synthetic biology, creating new lineage tracing approaches using Cas9 base-editing, in addition to keeping the McKenna lab running smoothly.
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Is this you when it comes to grants?<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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If yes (or even no) check out Grant Proposal Support Initiative GrantGPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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