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5 years

Pro-tip: don’t drop the tip box

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Heemstra Lab pt. I has officially moved to @WashUChem in St. Louis, MO!! @alexquillin @Benoit_Arnould @DianeKarloff @jenheemstra

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Update from remote working day 1 from Heemstra Lab member @Tewoderos14 . Check out the goodbye letter to his cells!

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Happy holidays from the Heemstra lab 🤗✨

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When your paper gets its first citation!! @aimeesanford19 ()

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Yesterday we prayed to the antibody gods, & today they answered with a beautiful Western blot. Kudos to @alexquillin for performing 8 experiments to optimize the conditions!!!!!! 💯

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5 years

You know it's been a good week when two papers get accepted back to back!

Fluorogenic Photoaffinity Labeling of Proteins in Living Cells

Genetically encoded fluorescent proteins or small-molecule probes that recognize specific protein binding partners can be used to label proteins to study their localization and function with fluore...

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3 years

When route 1 didn't work, Heemstra Lab member @DianeKarloff came up with two alternative routes for a tricky reaction. Huge breakthrough today- both reactions worked!!!!! #biomoleculesonthemove

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3 years

Our lab recently created a Failure Graveyard (names redacted) to remind ourselves of just this. Every failure makes your next attempt that much stronger and better informed.

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2 years

Congrats to the newest Heemstra Lab PhD candidates! 🎉

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When you hit the cover of a journal, ~~celebrate~~!!! @alexquillin @Benoit_Arnould @ChemBioChem

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2 years

Heemstra Lab hits #BioorganicGRC2022 !!! @GordonConf

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📢It’s happening!!! Our lab is moving to a permanent space!! 🧪🔬🧬 We love our new lab! Wait for some cool science coming out of this amazing space 😎

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5 years

Day 2 session 1 of #HeemstraLabRetreat2019 was all about strategic PhD planning. When is your degree PhDone?!

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4 years

Happy Holidays from the Heemstra Lab !🌲 @EmoryChem

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#HeemstraLab group breakfast 🥞🍳☕️

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Congrats to @ColinSwenson @ChemHector @ArventhV for reporting in @J_A_C_S the first biopolymer that simultaneously speaks both amino acid and nucleotide languages! Even biomolecules can benefit from having a translator!

Bilingual Peptide Nucleic Acids: Encoding the Languages of Nucleic Acids and Proteins in a Single...

Nucleic acids and proteins are the fundamental biopolymers that support all life on Earth. Nucleic acids store large amounts of information in nucleobase sequences while peptides and proteins utilize...

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Congratulations to this chica for successfully defending her research proposal!! 🤩👑 @alexquillin @WashUChem

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3 years

Small wins of the week! Walk to your big goals with small steps in the right direction

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4 years

Congrats to Heemstra Lab member @brea_manuel3 on passing her second year qualifying exam! 🎉

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Congratulations to Heemstra Lab members @Patterson_KN and @alexquillin on receiving the NSF #GRFP and honorable mention! 🎉

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Happy Birthday @jenheemstra ! #biomoleculesonthemove

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4 years

Congrats to Heemstra Lab member @DianeKarloff for passing her qualifying exam!

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3 years

We want to share our lab’s small wins of the day!!! Tag 2+ labs in your department and 2+ labs outside to share theirs in the next week!! 🤗 @salaitalab @WuestLab @Jui_Group @TheRajLab1 @The_Davis_Lab @ProfDerricotte @hargrovelab

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That feeling when you’ve had too much coffee... @Rachel_L_Bender clearly had fun decorating the lab this morning 😂 #RealTimeChem #biomoleculesonthemove @EmoryChem

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New addition to a #HeemstraLab office that highlights great #WomenInSTEM

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Latest work from @HeemstraLab out today in @J_A_C_S , where we use glyoxal to reversibly control nucleic acid function. Congrats to co-first authors @MrSteveKnutson and @aimeesanford19 , as well as @ColinSwenson , @kornmeg , and @brea_manuel3 !

Thermoreversible Control of Nucleic Acid Structure and Function with Glyoxal Caging

Controlling the structure and activity of nucleic acids dramatically expands their potential for application in therapeutics, biosensing, nanotechnology, and biocomputing. Several methods have been...

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3 years

Congratulations to our newly minted PhD, @MrSteveKnutson !! That’s Dr. Mr. Steve Knutson to you. After your excellent A-to-I editing strides in our lab, we can’t want to see what you accomplish at @PrincetonChem and beyond! 🧬🧫🔬

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5 years

Day 4 of retreat included hiking and river rafting. Much needed relaxation after 3 days of strategic planning for the next year! #HeemstraLabRetreat2019

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1 year

UPDATE: Guess who WON the best poster presentation award! 🥰

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1 year

Great poster, @alexquillin ! ;D @BBSBwustl

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Join us in congratulating our great colleague @DianeKarloff that yesterday amazingly defended her PhD thesis!!!! Congratulations Dr. Karloff!!!! An outstanding career in science policy is awaiting you!

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3 years

First in-person subgroup in a year‼️‼️

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2 years

Congratulations to Dr. Hector Argueta-Gonzalez on a fantastic PhD defense!🍾🎉 @ChemHector

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5 years

Congratulations to Hershel who successfully defended his thesis on The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Non-Natural and Functional Nucleic Acids!

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4 years

How many Office fans we got on here? Got a fun surprise dropping tomorrow...

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5 years

"Histidine-Specific Peptide Modification via Visible-Light-Promoted C–H Alkylation" Selective histidine photolabeling over AAs besides cysteine! #HeemstraLabReads

Histidine-Specific Peptide Modification via Visible-Light-Promoted C–H Alkylation

Histidine (His) carries a unique heteroaromatic imidazole side chain and plays irreplaceable functional roles in peptides and proteins. Existing strategies for site-selective histidine modification...

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1 year

With Benoît out today, gal power at our first group meeting of the year! 💥

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3 years

"Too often, we fall into an all-or-nothing cycle with our habits. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all." – @JamesClear

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4 years

Nanopore sequencing of peptides now possible!? Game changer for high-throughput proteomics. #HeemstraLabReads

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3 years

The fact that our account got over 400 notifications for this single tweet shows just how appreciated & beloved you are in the academic community. Congratulations and thank you for your leadership in our lab @jenheemstra 🥳💫

Jen Heemstra

@jenheemstra

3 years

Thrilled to receive news today from @EmoryUniversity that my promotion to full prof has been approved by the Trustees! Huge credit to the amazing people in @HeemstraLab who have brought our research to where it is and are casting the vision of what it will be in the future!

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HUGE congratulations to our peptide nucleic acid exec extraordinaire, @ColinSwenson , on defending his PhD!!! Cheers to your bright future at @UChiChemistry and beyond xx 🎃🎉

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4 years

Sometimes we Heemstra Lab members produce beautiful colors for #FluorescenceFriday . Other times @ColinSwenson makes this terrifying blob. What do you think it is?

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2 years

Check out our new paper Modulating Aptamer Affinities and Specificities by Guanosine-to-Inosine Substitutions by @brea_manuel3 , @_luvce , and Dr. @aimeesanford19 in @an_chem !

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4 years

How many more months until the rainy season #WFH

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3 years

HUGE congrats to @Romero_Reyes_M for a successful thesis defense!!! ⚔️🧬🥽 Your future students will be so lucky to have you!

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4 years

Congrats to Heemstra Lab member @Tewoderos14 on defending his PhD. We look forward to seeing all you accomplish in your next chapter. We will miss you, Dr. Ayele!

Jen Heemstra

@jenheemstra

4 years

Congratulations to @Tewoderos14 on a successful PhD defense! I'm so proud of the way you have driven this RNA labeling project, obtained fantastic results, and communicated those to others with creativity and clarity. All of us in @HeemstraLab are going to miss you, Dr. Ayele!

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@ new students... join the Heemstra lab

Heemstra Lab promo fall 2020

As the Emory University Chemistry Department is going virtual this fall, we wanted to show off our awesome people and lab by video. And we knew exactly what ...

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3 years

Having fun with our rotators!! Technique training (gels) + … spontaneous crab?? 🦀

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8 months

#LabWin : Hearty congratulations to our dear vibrant researcher, Alex, who also solemnize her union with her partner this month after 10 years of relationship. 👰‍♂️🤵👏👏

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4 years

Work life balance realllly ties the lab together, man. #BiomoleculesAbide

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6 years

Second year #Heemstralab members @Rachel_L_Bender and @aimeesanford19 are excited about passing their qualifying exams! #biomoleculesonthemove #WomenInSTEM @EmoryChem

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Having an awesome science retreat 2022 - grant brainstorming, the first lab retreat dessert, diversity-oriented pizza synthesis, and a perfect Ozark hike to cap it off 👌

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5 years

Congratulations to our undergrad @kornmeg , aka Megan of House Korn, on a great poster presentation at the SURE symposium yesterday!

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5 years

Celebrating a successful mini-retreat! #biomoleculesonthemove

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5 years

Congrats to Misael of the #HeemstraLab on passing his third year exam!

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1 year

Celebrating @alexquillin ’s hard work after her F31 submission ❕😅🍦

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5 years

Congratulations to our three superstar undergrads @anand_netra , @kornmeg and Michael on their posters!!! #biomoleculesonthemove

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3 years

Congratulations to @brea_manuel3 on passing her fourth-year qualifying exam! 😁📜

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2 years

Heemstra Lab lantern feat. DNA and RNA aptamers - by Shikufa and Rachel! Can’t wait for #emorychem recruitment weekend 2022!!

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3 years

Update... he won!!!!!! 💯💯 😎

Misael Romero-Reyes

@Romero_Reyes_M

3 years

Really Excited to be a finalist and represent @HeemstraLab in the 3MT competition at @EmoryUniversity ! Come see the amazing research being done at @laneygradschool . 04/07/2021 @ 4pm Everyone is welcome! If you want the zoom link to attend sign up here:

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When a 40-minute phone call with your lab mate help you untangle your results & decide on your next experiment. @aimeesanford19 says thanks, @ChemHector - coworker goals!!

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We just finished our annual 2-day science retreat!! We reflected on our group’s values, brainstormed ideas that will seed grants for the next 6-8 mos, & discussed how to improve our training environment. (2/n)

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"A tunable orthogonal coiled-coil interaction toolbox for engineering mammalian cells" An orthogonal set of peptide pairs to control protein localization in cells #HeemstraLabReads

A tunable orthogonal coiled-coil interaction toolbox for engineering mammalian cells

Nature Chemical Biology - A set of orthogonal coiled-coil peptide heterodimers were developed to enable control of protein localization as well as transcriptional regulation by enhancing effector...

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Big congrats to @Romero_Reyes_M on his publication on an aptamer-based method to decontaminate water, out in @BioconjChem this week! 🥳 Check it out here:

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Congratulations to @kornmeg for virtually defending her honors thesis!!! We will miss her greatly in Heemstra lab, and we expect great things from her at @MichiganChem ! #biomoleculesonthemove

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2 years

Congratulations to Heemstra Lab member @_luvce for passing her SYQE! 🎉🎉🎉

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Congrats to @MrSteveKnutson of the #HeemstraLab on receiving the Quayle student award! #biomoleculesonthemove

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Our fearless leader @jenheemstra sharing all of our #teamRNA updates at @OHSUChemBio 2019! #Rockstar #biomoleculesonthemove

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5 years

Gene expression in bacteria may be easier than you thought! 60% of random 100 nt sequences are a single mutation away from being promoters in E. coli. #HeemstraLabReads

Random sequences rapidly evolve into de novo promoters

Nature Communications - Bacterial promoters initiate gene transcription and have distinct sequence features. Here, the authors show that random sequences that contain no information are just on the...

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9 months

“The possibilities are endless”! This was the start of our lab retreat full of science and lots of fun in an inspirational location. Remembering that “the possibilities are endless” you cannot go wrong! A great way to refresh and look forward to a successful year!

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5 years

Happy Holidays from the Heemstra Lab! #chemistree #hollyjolly @EmoryChem

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2 years

Check out our new #preprint by @Patterson_KN on @ChemRxiv ! She and @Romero_Reyes_M present a word of caution to those utilizing xanthene-containing fluorophores in bioconjugation reactions involving DMTMM. . Congrats!

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4 years

Happy #FluorescenceFriday from @Tewoderos14 of the Heemstra Lab!

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4 years

Congrats to Heemstra Lab member Erin Price! 🎉

Emory Chemistry

@EmoryChem

4 years

And congratulations to our 2020 MS grads!

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Heemstra Lab members @brea_manuel3 and @aimeesanford19 are ready to welcome students for #EMORYRW20

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8 months

A big welcome to new Heemstra Lab members, postdocs Joseph and Tyson! 🎉 Joseph joins us from IISER-K where he studied bioorganic supramolecular chemistry. Tyson is joining us from WashU Med where he studied the mechanism of inhibitors of G-protein signaling.

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2 years

Beautiful western blot from our very own @alexquillin

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5 years

When your lab manager is type A but also really into Christmas #labelmaker #FestiveFriday #RealTimeChem

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6 months

Guess who survived (thrived even?) in the St. Louis half marathon!

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@HeemstraLab

3 years

Good vibes from coworkers are important now more than ever! Positivity is usually free ✨

Jen Heemstra

@jenheemstra

3 years

Compiling the nominations for our latest round of @HeemstraLab awards, and I literally have tears in my eyes. I’m humbled by and thankful for the opportunity to work with people who do such amazing things and support each other with such powerful words of encouragement.❤️

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Exciting work from our collaborators in the Phillips and Sewell labs! MR1 allows T-cells to selectively recognize and kill human cancer cells! #HeemstraLabReads

Genome-wide CRISPR–Cas9 screening reveals ubiquitous T cell cancer targeting via the monomorphic...

Nature Immunology - Identifying selective tumor-associated molecules that can act as targets for T cells is a major goal of immunotherapy. Sewell and colleagues demonstrate that the nonclassical...

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We would like to wish a HUGE official welcome to our new first year students - Alex, Ansley, Kristen, Sierra, and Trent!!!!!!!!! We can’t wait to work with you 🥳🤩 en Emory University Department of Chemistry

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4 years

both of our gels came out weird today..... but we have a plan for tomorrow!!!1!1!1

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5 years

Hey #ChemTwitter ! We need your help to reach 1,000 followers! The 1,000th follower will receive a really cool prize.

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5 years

Second year #Heemstralab members @ChemHector and @arventhv are excited about passing their qualifying exams! #biomoleculesonthemove @EmoryChem

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7 months

Meet our amazing lab members, Sydney and Devanshi! Sydney is currently a postbac and will be starting an MD/PhD program next year! Devanshi interned with us for her master’s and will be applying to grad school this year! Great things ahead for these two!😊👩‍🔬

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@HeemstraLab

3 years

Check out our lab’s preview article on how to select and design RNA aptamer reporters that function in live cells!! 🧬🧫🔦🌟

Diane Karloff, Ph.D.

@DianeKarloff

3 years

It's my first first-author paper!! Thanks @CellChemBiol @jenheemstra for the opportunity to write a preview highlighting work by Alvaro Ortega from the @HeinemannLab on detecting metabolite levels in live cells. Please share & let me know your thoughts 😊

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Small wins - 1) @brea_manuel3 did her first solo bacterial transformation, & the colonies looked splendid! 2) gr8 coworker vibes

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3 years

The Small Wins idea was actually inspired and executed by our students! But it comes from our lab culture of acknowledging that success often can’t happen without failure first, & celebrating the minor victories that happen on the way to big goals.

Andrea I Alford

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3 years

@HeemstraLab @jenheemstra I love love love this example of PI leadership & lab culture! I may attempt to replicate in my lab😀

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5 years

The real Atlanta 2019 Snowpocalypse brought to you by our -20 #labshenanigans

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5 years

Curious about the thermodynamics for threose nucleic acid (TNA) binding to DNA? Hershel in collaboration with the Harris lab shows that TNA behaves like RNA, but even more so. Congrats, Hershel!

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10 months

Ayy today is our account's 5-year anniversary! Celebrating a 2023 full of wonderful lab travel to @GordonConf across the country.

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@HeemstraLab

2 years

Check out our new perspective in @ChemicalScience . Great work Dr. @aimeesanford19 , @brea_manuel3 , Dr. @Romero_Reyes_M and Dr. @jenheemstra 🎉!

Combating small molecule environmental contaminants: detection and sequestration using functional...

Small molecule contaminants pose a significant threat to the environment and human health. While regulations are in place for allowed limits in many countries, detection and remediation of contamin...

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@jenheemstra @EWhitteck @HellmichGroup We are a very collaborative and supportive group, so when one person wins, we all win. When someone has been pushing really hard, we want to highlight that!

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3 years

Note to self: practice presentations are always better with a cat. @brea_manuel3 @aimeesanford19

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2 years

CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Manuel on a successful Ph.D. defense!

Dr. Brea A. Manuel, PhD

@breadascientist

2 years

Today I successfully defended my PhD! Thank you so much to @EmoryChem @laneygradschool @EmoryUniversity and @HeemstraLab for the best 4 years I could asked for! Thank you also to my family and friends for all the love and support! 💕

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2 years

Come learn about the @WashUChem program and join our lab! 😁🧬🧫

Jen Heemstra

@jenheemstra

2 years

Thinking about a PhD in Chemistry? Join us at @WashUChem for a virtual Open House on Oct 25 5pm CT / 6pm ET to learn about our program, ask questions about grad school and applying, and get to know our students and faculty!! Register here and please share:

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We made it to the cover of @ChemBioChem ! Check out our review on RNA single-molecule localization microscopy & our new friend that @Benoit_Arnould and @alexquillin dubbed Super Mike.