“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” —D. Adams

Creativity, passion, inclusion and a targeted way to study circular RNAs.

A soccer striker and his ion channel rescue tools.

Neurochemistry sensors for brain research and life with a collaborative frame of mind.

Frugally built technology to study the ocean’s microbes, and engineering for societal good.

“I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” ―Albert Camus, The Plague

A new way to see actin in action, hearing as others don’t, and saved by the guitar.

A platform for exploring GPCR secrets, powered by community, music and sports.

A yellow fluorescent sensor to study the brain, and the joy and pain of climbing.

Realistic models of epidemics account for latency, loss of immunity, births and deaths.

A better base editor with fewer off-target changes, from a die-hard Manchester United fan.

Identifying things small and large in one mass spec experiment, and why persistence matters.

“Every day sadder and sadder news of its increase. In the City died this week 7496; and of them, 6102 of the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead this week is near 10,000 ....” —Samuel Pepys, 1665

Analyzing cleared tissue with a deep-learning pipeline, and why dreaming is good for science.

How joy and wide-ranging curiosity leads to neurobiology tools for new types of questions.

“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.” —Amedeo Modigliani

A love of math and biology comes together with a SPARK.

Moving athletically, from Turkey to California to Wisconsin and from engineering to the biostatistics of Hi-C.

A machine-learning competition in microscopy and the fun of gazing into the night sky.

Growing up curious in the countryside leads to tools for manipulating endogenous proteins.

Building nice, shiny instruments to solve unsolved problems, and the physics of sailing.

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see” — Rene Magritte

Staying mobile and building a Toy-Story-related way to stitch terabyte-sized images in microscopy.

You can look back there to explain things, but the explanation disappears. You’ll never find it there. Things are not explained by the past. They’re explained by what happens now. –Alan Watts

Analyzing super-res microscopy images ASAP, strengthened by Ultimate Frisbee.

Quantile regression robustly estimates the typical and extreme values of a response.

Bioluminescence lights her way to measure glucose uptake in vivo, and why a chemist travels outside her comfort zone.

His enhancer-discovery tool cisTopic is both wet-lab and dry-lab. John Coltrane matters, too.

Robust regression generates more reliable estimates by detecting and downweighting outliers.

A spin-jock’s path to biomolecular dynamics with NMR, and why solitude matters.

Simultaneous examination of multiple factors at two levels can reveal which have an effect.

RNA-editing tools from a cricket-playing electrical engineer turned bioengineer.

How AI can help track animals and why breakfast powers collaboration.

A probe for a journey into bubbles and why it’s good to be both inventor and discoverer.

YETI emerges from a dance between genomics and computation.

An optogenetic tool for inhibiting neurons and how to sail across the Tree of Life.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. –J.D. Brandeis.

Speeding up spot-to-plunge in cryo-EM and how to keep a lab talking.

Swimming to a new way of decoding messages at the cell membrane.

Probes, optics for super-resolution microscopy and life in a creative country.

Customize the experiment for the setting instead of adjusting the setting to fit a classical design.

A chemogenetic tool for biologists; how to be a scientist and a gardener.

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

A new imaging approach forged by deep friendships, joining two fields and two selves.

A regulatory vocabulary for synthetic biology and why baby diapers matter.

Comparing single-cell trajectories with a new tool and what happens when aversion turns into love.

Statistics draws population inferences from a sample, and machine learning finds generalizable predictive patterns.

A way to study the RNA interactome, baby RNA encounters, a sprinkle of poetry.

To better explore how genomes fold takes disparate fields and a love of math.

Scoring genes in light of their 'friends', and a naval approach to science.