Kate M. Van Pelt

thesis due to committee in 6 days...it's getting real 😅

Black-and-white photo of two long-haired kittens. One is white and ginger tabby, the other is a brown tuxedo tabby. They are sitting up on a brocade tablecloth looking adorably toward the camera. Text at the bottom reads “We is brothers”.

Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

thank you! much appreciated! 😊

on a serious note, I'd graciously take any and all leads...I'm interested broadly in proteostasis in neurodegenerative diseases (especially rare diseases!) with experience in several model systems (C. elegans, mouse models, iPSC-derived cells)

shouting into the void: my first first-author primary research paper (1/2 of my dissertation work) was accepted for publication this week! also I'm defending my PhD in 3ish weeks!

here's hoping someone is still hiring postdocs out there *laughs nervously* 🫠👀 #academicsky

is there a (relatively simple) way to add a PTM to a protein structure in #pymol if the PTM is not supported by the PyTMs plugin?

Does anyone know how funds for F31 awards are disbursed to universities? If I have an active award, is it safe to conclude the funds have already been received by my institution, or do I need to be contacting people to ensure it's all been transferred?

Having trouble finding accurate info on this

thank you! that's how I felt!

never thought I'd get reviewer comments for my first first-author paper and my primary thought would be "wow, I would have been so much meaner to me if I was reviewing my paper"

but, thankful for kind and reasonable reviewers! 😊 #academicsky

right?! at least they ate it so it didn't go to waste!

currently waiting for my (second) pizza order to arrive at the correct address this time lmao

ordered pizza for dinner using my SO's account while he's at our friends' playing MTG only to realize ~45min later that he had set the delivery address to friends' house when my dinner arrived at their doorstep

now they are feasting on my Jet's pizza without me 😫

the struggle to muster up sufficient willpower to schedule my ("hopefully") final committee meeting is real and cannot be understated #PhDsky

okay, sounds like the answer to this is yes! went ahead and added it to mine 😊 #academicsky

asking for a friend (me) finalizing a poster presentation for a conference coming up in a few weeks

are we putting our bluesky usernames on conference posters like we used to/still do with twitter handles? #academicsky