Alex Guseman
Assistant professor at UCSD Chemistry and Biochemistry. Pens fan & bbq enthusiast.
- Me: ordering Girl Scout cookies online feels so wrong Also me: oh (grad students kid) has a link to order send it my way…
- Really cool work from Eugene’s group. I got to hear about it straight from the source at the protein folding dynamics conference this week!
- Some Pielakers past and present and honorary took Gary to an airplane museum today during the GRC! What a thrill!
- My postdoc advisor is an advocate for the “post faculty fellow” positions and in theory it sounds like a super cool idea. That being said if anyone is wanting to do one in my lab, Please email me a CV and cover letter.
- Successful Christmas in the Guseman household as we experimented with new recipes! Dinner for five !
- Really excited to share a manuscript from the group. Here we worked with Julia Staubers group to look at Fe(II) based glycan displays as glycomimetics for high mannose glycans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- This one is probably the best conference view …
- i received my first "hate mail" this week from a retired big name in my field. Essentially he said my recent work was trash and I didnt read/cite one of his papers from the year i graduated high school (shockingly it was irrelevant to the story). Do I respond or nah? *bsky needs polls
- I didn’t have an ER trip on my turkey day plans…. Thanks to the folks at ucsd med she’s all patched and we are ready to go host thanksgiving!
- Was in downtown San Diego tonight while SfN was going on. I was in line behind a group of students who had UNC on their SfN badges and struck up a convo. They told me they were the last UNC imsd class, because it was cancelled. That shook me. UNC IMSD is the reason I didn’t quit and am still here.
- Reposted by Alex GusemanNot every mentor is for every person. I always tell grad students to listen to what folks in the lab say about a mentor, but it’s okay to also see it for yourself in a rotation. It’s about the match - finding the person who can meet your needs (which are unique!).
- This was a topic discussed in my group this week. anyone who might have a decent answer for this and or how to show an official transcript when they have not completed a semester yet ... we are all ears on suggestions...
- Reposted by Alex GusemanThe Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
- I just realized frank the bunny was the original labubu... not sure if it's kind of funny or kinda sad?
- April did a cake swap! Which resulted in a post swap cake picnic!
- When 6 biochemically oriented PIs go out for cocktails and this is the page of the guest book the check comes out in.
- Just a totally normal Halloween lecture I swear…
- April and I went to a Wizard of Oz themed party tonight, she went as the beautiful and elegant glinda, and I decided to be the yellow brick road. It was a fan favorite.
- This is absolutely heartbreaking, Zara was an absolutely wonderful person and wonderful scientist. She also had a great taste in cocktails bar as we realized we were both regulars at Butterjoint in Pgh during different timeframes. She will be dearly missed.
- Whenever Angela talks about our work on y-crystallins/cataracts she prefaces it by showing Monet's work pre and post cataracts.
- When you get given a box full of Shigemi tubes 😀 When you realize most of them a varian Shigemis 😭
- nows that MoFs have won the Chem Nobel we can get back to real (bio)chemistry prizes!
