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Dr Laura Sanchez
@drlaurasanchez.bsky.social
I am a scientist. #imaging #massspec #biofilms 🧫 #ovariancancer #microbial communities 🧀 Prof of Chemistry and Biochemistry @ucsantacruz.bsky.social she/her
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Very excited for this one to hit the web NCI supported collaboration with @JBurdetteLab Hannah and Monicas work on branched aacrjournals.org/cancerrescom... branched chain amino acids in #HGSOC for the #MSImaging nerds lessons in ion suppression for studies using agar/agarose!
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerrescommu…
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?

It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...
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Support community college student research experiences in STEM
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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IDBac: an open-access web platform and compendium for the identification of bacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682631v1
October 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells?

Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells.

@ucscscience.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Spatial Metabolomics Reveals the Role of Penicillic Acid in Cheese Rind Microbiome Disruption by a Spoilage Fungus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674932v1
September 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Our very own, @joann-trejo.bsky.social, on the Nature Careers Podcast! Dr. Trejo is featured in this eight-part Changemakers series and she speaks to the importance of mentorship in science careers! 🧪 🎉 👏

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science
JoAnn Trejo has turned mentoring into an evidence-based science, driven by her own exposure to inspiring mentors.
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access.

Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
Stand Up for UC
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
August 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Having a blast #ASP2025 refreshed after catching up with friends and celebrating science
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Some good news from @asm.org about their efforts to fight unlawful grant terminations, such as MOSAIC

asm.org/press-releas...
July 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions

-in Curr Opin Microbiol from @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social
#Microbiota_thematic_issue

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions
This review delves into the technical advancements of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) applications f…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Check out the Ziemert Lab’s new YouTube channel
m.youtube.com/@ZiemertLab
We’ve uploaded short tutorial videos on how to use our tools for genome mining and natural product discovery.
Thanks Semih, @martinaadamek.bsky.social @turgutmesut.bsky.social ! #GenomeMining #SecMet #naturalproducts
ZiemertLab
The Ziemert lab is interested in the evolution and distribution of bacterial secondary metabolites. These bioactive compounds are especially important in human medicine as the chemical scaffolds are t...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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🔓Read a #OpenAccess review by @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social‬ et al. from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social‬ in our MS Metabolomics themed collection covering mass spectrometry approaches for high-throughput directed evolution screening of natural product enzymes #secmet #natprod
‘Need for speed: high throughput’ – mass spectrometry approaches for high-throughput directed evolution screening of natural product enzymes
Covering: 2015 to 2024 Mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods have been implemented extensively for enzyme engineering due to their label-free nature, making them suitable for screening a wide range of…
pubs.rsc.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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#chemsky 🧪 ISU Department of Chemistry is hiring a scientific glassblower. Thrilled we are hiring for this position given the impending retirement of our current glassblower. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
Scientific Glassblower
Position Title: Scientific Glassblower Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent and 5 years of related experience Preferred Qualifica...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Tenured!

It’s been a remarkable six years at UC Santa Cruz full of many unexpected obstacles but even more triumphs! I’m incredibly proud of the phenomenal team that we’ve assembled and am excited to have the continued opportunity to grow and share our collective successes!
July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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What? Some good news on a Friday?

Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up!

F30, F31, F32, F33

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
PA-25-422: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) PA-25-422. NI...
grants.nih.gov
June 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Two good follows for this evening

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
@ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us.

@standupforscience.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
docs.google.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Hope everyone made it home safely after #ASMS2025. Thanks all for making it another fun conference. Planning for #ASMS2026 San Diego started at 7:30am this morning. Don’t forget to fill in the post-conf survey when you get it. More ice cream and fruit? @asms.org
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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2nd Annual #RCSAFellows Conference is underway in Tucson! Congrats to 2024 & 2025 Fellows, and thanks to our speakers, Facilitators & advisors for giving their time and advice so generously to help prepare these outstanding postdoctoral scholars for the faculty search process and the professoriate.
June 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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UMN Medical school meeting with grim news from President Cunningham; federal grant pullbacks will result in 100’s of job losses. U will try to facilitate “respectful transition” but the losses will be in the 100’s 😳

This will be a dark 4 years for universities
June 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Congrats Carli and Jason on your #ASMS2025 awards!! 🥳😎🤩 @ucscscience.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM