@marissascavuzzo.bsky.social
Assistant Professor CWRUSOM in the Institute for Glial Sciences & HHMI Hanna Gray Faculty Fellow | Scientific Director at Rise Up | open science, equity, innovation scavuzzolab.org riseupnortheastohio.org
Press release here and I guess on the other place that I am not on:
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Grateful for support from @glialsciences.bsky.social, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Hartwell Foundation, @simonsfoundation.org, & NYSCF, along with mentors, collaborators, colleagues, & friends.
Thankful to all of the genuinely curious, intrinsically motivated members of our group who drive change inside and outside of the lab.
It is their hard work and innovation that builds the foundation for continued investments like this; not possible without them. I am so lucky to lead this group!
Thrilled to share that the Scavuzzo lab was awarded the 2026 MIND prize to support our fundamental work in understanding how homeostasis is regulated by the gut’s nervous system! See more details here:
pershingsquarephilanthropies.org/prize-winner...
Or food era (digestion!)
Entering my pop art era
Workplace Slack is going off over this (screenshot). I'm sure everyone else trying to use the HPC will be happy too.
We will implement ASAP!!!!! Send our thanks to coauthors
Ambient RNA & barcode swapping is a serious issue in single-cell genomics. Tools such as CellBender, scAR, DecontX & SoupX. We have developed CellSweep which is faster (in some cases by a lot) and much more accurate. Extensively tested and benchmarked. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
Omg !!!!!
Finally something to reduce the computational load of CellBender. Excited to try this out - great work to all involved!
I love your writing!!!! ⛸️
(My French is bad but grammar intentionally wrong)
Least favorite two of the cohort but parks project wall expanding (x7!) nonetheless 🎨
And I feel like I do a lot for my students…. I’m going to have nightmares about this!
Biased but highly recommend!
Congrats! The cytoskeleton stuff is so cool. Beautifully done
Congratulations @kateletai.bsky.social for passing her private defense today!!!!!
Good Friend Kate is a force of nature and a phenomenal scientist. We are excited but also sad for her to return to medical school 🙂🙃
Public defense on April 2 at 2pm in Wolstein 🎉
Congratulations to David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors for receiving The Brain Prize! 🎉👏
You can help David celebrate at this conference:
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
(To be clear we are not eating moldy bread, they are making conditioned plates for exposure to C. elegans for behavioral and molecular assays)
@riseupneo.bsky.social
Can’t believe we have a scanning electron microscope now in our Rise Up classrooms!!!! 🤯
A fun morning with CMSD high school students visualizing fungi up close, making dilutions, and filtering for conditioned media experiments to answer their question, “what would happen if we ate moldy bread?”
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever
I have had knowledge passed down to me through a whisper network of protection, women administrators and faculty looking out for me and other trainees.
I have always felt fortunate to have had those warnings. Just wish it wasn't necessary. And my heart breaks for the women who don't have them
Training as a woman in science means closed door conversations about who to not rotate with, who to not collaborate with, who to not train with, who to avoid all together
you don't want to hear how I wrote my dissertation 😂
Fourteen, but 8 were like budget and stuff so only counting 6
grant sent to collaborator at 2am
edited at 7am
submitted at 9am
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Follows a dosage curve, too much bourbon doesn’t work. Just enough to remove writing inhibitions
well, I can't guarantee the writing is any good
General writing process:
8am-4pm: at least 3 cups of coffee
4pm-6pm: stare off into space
6pm-9pm: hang out w/ family
9pm-10pm: stare off into space
10pm-11pm: listen to music, dance by myself
11pm: pour a glass of bourbon
11pm-4am: write full grant as a stream of consciousness
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