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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Aug 19

PSA: If you are a #ChemDraw user on the Mac, they changed the font for the ACS Document 1996 style in the recent past; Helvetica to Arial. Watch out for vestigial Helvetica characters in figures, which some journal submission platforms *really* don't like.

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tsaiwenchen.bsky.social @tsaiwenchen.bsky.social · May 23

My debut on BlueSky! Here’s how we harvest the firing of neurons to see them better in the living brain! 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grateful for the amazing dyes from @rhodamine110.bsky.social and insightful suggestions from @adamezracohen.bsky.social !

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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · Apr 18

The sophomore outing for this revelatory conference is here! Join us for #OPTSRC for the latest in optical probes, which are crucial for biological imaging techniques. You'll meet organizers like @rhodamine110.bsky.social and more. View the agenda and save your space: buff.ly/LIRRF15

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Apr 11

We're looking for 1-2 enthusiastic early career chemists to join our Open Chemistry team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Come help us create amazing dyes and share them with the world. Please share with the best recent/soon-to-be B.S. chemists you know! bit.ly/42w8C6N

Research Technician - Open Chemistry

Primary Work Address: 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. Summary: Open Chemistry is a collaborative research group whose missio...

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Apr 4

Just to be clear—I was a lowly tech at Probes making large amounts the dyes that others had dreamt up. But I loved the chemistry and the colors—it inspired me to dream up my own fluorophores.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · Apr 3

Thanks Luke! Grateful for your good work kind sir. Thirty years ago, I remember crowding around the lightbox in awe with my Pharmingen R&D colleagues at the glowing BioColors vectors we had grown up after licensing from Roger Tsien's Lab down the street at UCSD where I was about to graduate. 🔬🧪🥽🔥🌈

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Apr 3

I’ve been a dye chemist for a quarter century! 25 years ago today I walked into this funky little company in Eugene, OR called Molecular Probes. My first task was making Alexa Fluor 633 and I never looked back. I am grateful for all my teachers and mentors along the way.

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Apr 1

Honored to help enable two back-to-back papers in @natureneuro.bsky.social; first DELTA www.nature.com/articles/s41... with collaborators at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and then EPSILON www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @adamezracohen.bsky.social; @dyerfulchymist.bsky.social is always in the mix!

DELTA: a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover reveals localized plasticity during learning - Nature Neuroscience

Researchers developed DELTA, a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover with single-synapse resolution, providing a powerful tool to localize and study mechanisms underlying syna...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Mar 31

🥼 Janelia researchers led by @boazmohar.bsky.social @nspruston.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social & @svoboda314.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social have developed a new imaging tool that maps brain-wide changes in neuronal connections. 🧠

🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Mar 30

A little nugget of whimsy: Apple Music has these “lyrics” for the Star Wars main theme (from ESB).

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Mar 28

You know you're getting old when your Organic Chemistry Lab TA training partner from the first week of grad school is now an editor at @acs.org (does this mean I have to click 'Accept' @pomerantz.bsky.social?)

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Mar 28

How it started: About eight years ago Bob Tjian ("Tij") and I sat in the back of cab in San Francisco and discussed the crazy idea of using live-cell single-molecule tracking for high-throughput drug screening.

How it's going: