Biophysics PhD Candidate @Yale 🐶, NSF GRFP fellow, @ChapmanU alumna 🐾, @yalesenate hype girl. Interested in jellies, & supporting science for all! 🪼
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Joined March 2020
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Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
Sara and Avery use various experimental methods to study the gelatinous properties of comb jellies! 🪼
When I was an undergrad, I was a mentee in this same PEB summer program. Now 7 years (!) later, I’m so grateful to be a mentor to an undergrad in the same program! It’s been an absolute joy to work with Avery, and as always all love to @PEB_Yale 🤍
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
I'm the now former president of Yale's G+P Student Senate and I feel like I'll regret it if I don't say this now. I heard Yale is keeping students off the stage at its main commencement ceremony this year due to concerns about protesting. Hard to overstate Yale's cowardice. (1/4)
This past weekend I attended the SciAccess virtual conference and it was SO wonderful!! Learned so much, discovered new resources, and connected with incredibly creative people working to make STEM more accessible!! 🩵🩵 hit me up if you wanna hear about it :)
Join us at #SciAccess2024 Conference, May 10-11! 🚀 Hear from experts & advocates in this FREE virtual event! Explore accessibility in STEAM with speakers, @lachimusic, Dr. Ashley Shew, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, & more!
Register now! sciaccess.org/sciaccess-2024…
#Accessibility #STEAM
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
During our project work @stri_panama taxonomy course, we found that hydrozoans show diverse fluorescence patterns that can vary across life stage and species🪼Happy to see our little study out @BridgetSquidget @beroe @chipotlau @alexandeleon_
doi.org/10.7773/cm.y2024.340…
ALT Corymorpha sp with green and yellow fluorescence
ALT Turritopsis hydroid colony
ALT Protocnide sp juvenile hydromedusa
ALT Amphinema sp with strong green fluorescence
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
Fluorescence patterns and diversity of hydrozoans from Bocas del Toro, Panama | Ciencias Marinas cienciasmarinas.com.mx/index…
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Thrilled to share that our study on the prediction of conformational ensembles and relative state populations w/ modified AlphaFold is out in Nature Communications!
The study has changed considerably since its debut as a pre-print, so go check it out!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Never been so proud to be in MB&B at Yale 🫡 hahahaha
Top tier work @ThrashTalk lmao
Our notifications are blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale molecular biophysics and biochemistry account! You might want to tag @YaleMBasketball instead 🏀
Boola boola!
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
One aspect of disability not discussed often is how it can impact someone’s ability to drive, which becomes massively inconvenient (jobs requiring own transportation, access to grocery stores, is public transport accessible and reliable, etc.)
#SICB2024 🪼🪼 Come learn about ctenophore jelly biochemistry today at poster 42 at 3:30pm in the Exhibit Hall!! 🪼🪼
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
Thrilled to announce that I've been named a Blavatnik Family Fellow in Biology and Medicine at @Brown! This was only possible due to the unwavering support from Prof. Brenda Rubenstein and from the @BrownMolBio grad. program leadership. @BlavatnikAwards
biology.brown.edu/news/2023-…
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I'm a marine biologist from Panama awarded by a CALDO Consortium Scholarship for CanadianUniversities looking for a PI who's lab is involved in marine science, invertebrates, evolution or systematics who are looking for fall2024 students #help #grad #master #marinescience #canada
Tonight we had our first Grad & Professional Student Senate meeting of the 2023-2024 year! I’m super excited to be serving as VP and simply ecstatic to get to do it alongside one of my best friends as president! @thechrishan @yalesenate
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president.yale.edu/honoring-…
Join today at 4pm virtually (or irl, if you can) as Yale, though long overdue, honors Pennington and Crummell with degrees. Honored to be part of the procession and to help elevate their words today, and to have been part of the effort to make it happen.
Scientists of Twitter! The world needs more reminders that we're living, breathing human beings.
Quote tweet this with a picture of you doing not-science
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
We have uploaded our response to the excellent @fraser_lab review of our "Predicting Relative Populations of Protein Conformations without a Physics Engine Using AlphaFold2" pre-print, accessible below (and soon on the pre-print itself)
github.com/GMdSilva/10.5281-…
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Thanks, @ashrayaravi and members of the @fraser_lab for the very thoughtful and organized review. The points raised are extremely helpful in making sure we are doing things the right way in a fast-moving field, and we will prepare a response shortly.
Had a fun time this past week learning LOTS about carbohydrate characterization @universityofga Complex Carbohydrate Research Center! On the hunt for some jelly sugary proteins 👀🪼
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
Did you know that #AlphaFold can be used to predict the relative populations of protein conformations AND their changes in response to stabilizing or destabilizing mutations?
Check out our pre-print showing this unexpected but very useful feature:
arxiv.org/abs/2307.14470
Sara Siwiecki (she/her) retweeted
Bacteria’s Brain? The mysterious OLE #ncRNA appears to be bacteria’s functional equivalent of eukaryotic #mTOR. The #OLERNA component of the #bTOR (bacterial Tasks OLE Regulates) complex looks like an #RNAWorld relic. @MolMicroEditors doi.org/10.1111/mmi.15129
