Tanentzapf Lab

@TanentzapfLab

A Cell & Developmental Biology lab located at the University of British Columbia working on the role of Cell junctions in Development & Tissue homeostasis.

Vancouver, British Columbia
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2015.

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  1. 27. sij

    While in Auschwitz my great aunt Aranka endured horrific medical experimentation that rendered her sterile. She suffered for the rest of her life from what would now be recognized as severe PTSD. Despite this she was remarkably gentle, kind & loving. May her memory be a blessing.

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  2. 27. sij

    On this I remember my great grandfather Jacob Klein (here in his Austro-Hungarian army veterinarian uniform in 1914). He, my great grandmother & 6 of their 8 children perished in the death camps, his daughter, my great aunt Aranka, survived auschwitz.

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  3. 24. sij

    The annual Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting & has been running continuously since 1967(!) & is held at on the amazingly beautiful San Juan Islands. This year & me are the organisers. We've got an incredible line of up of speakers. Please come!

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  4. 22. sij

    4. My heart goes out to the 20 other PIs in my panel who didn't get funding, I know many of you deserve to be funded & I hope the Canadian government & the CIHR do better by you the next round & before I go in again for funding in September 2022. Now I'm gonna go do something fun

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  5. 22. sij

    3. I have been very disappointed at times w/ the decision making & review quality at the CIHR: a grant that steadily climbed in panel ranking & missed cut off by a smidge was triaged the next round. Another grant also climbed in rankings only for that panel to be disbanded.

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  6. 22. sij

    2. For us, like many other scientists in Canada, the last few years have been difficult & stressful because of the funding crisis at the CIHR. It has taken a substantial toll on us, our lab, and our research. Though we were lucky this time, structural issues at the CIHR persist

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  7. 22. sij

    1. Just received notification that after 9 attempts at the CIHR one of our integrin grants was approved for funding. Relieved & grateful beyond words to the reviewers for believing in our work. We won't let you down. ALSO we have some amazing projects, space & $ for new recruits.

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  8. 21. sij

    When reviewing/editing any work of science I try to ask "what is the minimum amount of extra work required to make this good enough". Often I get the feeling scientists ask for a lot of extra work as a way to show how seriously & thoroughly they did their job as reviewers/editors

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  9. 19. sij

    A middle ground is indeed required. The french system is not ideal. What system works best depends on overall funding levels. But north american system where PIs spend ~50% of their science time writing & judging grants & where toxic inequality dominates is clearly worst option.

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  10. 19. sij

    W/ time I have come to believe that a state funding model that establishes a set number of PI positions (distributed between univ. & inst.) & provides a guaranteed, uniform, modest, inflation adjusted research stipend to any PI in the system would serve biomedical research best.

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  11. 16. sij

    Science Brain: around the house I call cooking ingredients reagents, a specific amount of anything aliquot, when kids cant find their socks ask what their hypothesis is for where they are, call any list of instructions protocol, say I'm collecting data when looking for new fridge

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  12. 15. sij

    If, following 1st submission, an editor invites a revision & the authors take reviewer comments seriously & do their best to address those issues then the editor needs to accept the revised paper. Any other outcome reflects badly on the editor & is abusive towards the authors.

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  13. 2. sij

    7. Scientific meetings offer a tremendous opportunity to learn & exchange new information, build networks, & promote individual scientific growth. We must ensure that they do not become a tool to perpetuate inequality & promote privilege. Affordability should be the #1 priority.

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  14. 2. sij

    6. For PIs to attend meetings (which is also important) the situation is similar except maybe worse because it is even more expensive. So PIs who dont get speaker invitations or are rich in grant money are much less likely to attend. Classic Matthew Effect.

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  15. 2. sij

    5. Societies sometimes offer a small # of grants for trainees to attend but these are not always needs based & anyway are offered to a small number of applicants. So what we end up w/ is a situation where those who have fellowships or are from rich labs get to go to more meetings

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  16. 2. sij

    4. In meetings I've been involved in organising (the northwest developmental biology & the canadian drosophila meeting) a main priority for us was to keep things as affordable as possible for trainees. The main reason these meetings were successful was awesome trainee attendance.

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  17. 2. sij

    3. Similar upward trends are seen in other meetings our lab likes to go to: Gordon research conferences, SDB, CSHL, ISSCR. In the already tight funding environment this meant our lab was able to send very few people to meetings last year.

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  18. 2. sij

    2. For ex. for both the recent ASCB meeting & the upcoming GSA run allied genetics meeting it would cost upwards of $1500 (in canadian ) to send a trainee (more for a PI). This is prohibitively expensive & means few PIs & even fewer trainees from around here can attend.

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  19. 2. sij

    1.For science to work for everyone, scientific meetings need to be affordable. Otherwise we create a situation where we enhance inequalities & promote the already privileged. Case in point: I have noticed a worrying upward trend in the cost to attend a number of society meetings.

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  20. 1. sij

    195 runs in 2019, avg of ~6km/run. You don't have to be a marathon runner to be a successful runner. You don't have to publish in Nature/Cell or work in a famous university to be a successful scientist. In science we get to choose what success means to us. Successful 2020 to all!

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