Noelle Held
proteomics, cellular decision-making, and biogeochemical cycles. assistant professor of marine & environmental biology @ USC. Also a yoga teacher. Your best is enough.
- I am hiring a research/technical specialist/manager to help us make the most out of new LC-MS instrumentation at USC! Please share the word and write me for more details. usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
- Super glad to share two new papers about how nutrient gradients impact alkaline phosphatase in the ocean. This was "that project" which followed from PhD to Postdoc to Assist. Prof, motivated by awesome collaborators! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
- 🔥Thanks, Don Beyer and staff!
- The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
- We’ve been sampling the Santa Monica bay since Jan for changes in the marine microbiome due to runoff of debris from the fires. Today I brought a sampling buddy along. We should teach him to pull the cart.
- I really wanted a long distance penpal as a kid - so a fun upside of the transientness of early career academia is that I am now sending new years cards to friends all over the world - just posted to Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the UK, Italy, Russia, France, Canada, and Chile!
- More good news to round out the year, Proteocean Lab PhD student Mia Franks is a Wrigley Institute Graduate Fellow! She joins a very cool, very diverse group of student researchers and will quantify nutrient colimitation in the San Pedro Channel. Yay Mia! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2024...
- What does it really mean to be in nutrient colimitation? We demonstrate a distinct growth phenotype and that (co)limitation can (and should!) be quantified. The result of many late afternoon chats with @michaelmanhart.bsky.social. Let us know what you think! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400304121
- This work is transforming my own approach to nutrient incubations and omics data - how can we design these to be more quantitative?
- 5 years ago toda I defended my thesis (thanks for the reminder @maksaito.bsky.social!) 1 year ago today was my first day in LA. Time flies! The dog is not impressed.
- And it takes me two weeks to install a python library.
- Just incredible news on reviving Voyager I. Think of it: a computer chip 15 billion(!) miles away is broken. The solution is to repackage & move key software, w/ code sent via radio signal that takes 22+ hrs to reach that little 46yr old machine. AND IT IS WORKING. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...
- Starting my rejections garden. Adding a plant for every no. Going strong at 4 months in - I’ll have an epic office garden in no time. Anyway, even though it feels crummy, there can be growth. 🌿
- Has anyone had experience with a preprint being published, along with a bunch of AI text and a fake image, on one of those NFT sites? It grosses me out, not sure of legality??
- Time for another new lab poll - What ultra pure water system does your lab have and do you like it?
- Second growth on HEPES and basically all buffers.
- Cool opportunity if you’d like to postdoc at USC and work across departments in sustainability! Awesomely, the fellowship includes targeted career development! We’re ramping up relevant themes in the proteocean lab, contact me! www.ssf.usc.edu
- In times like these the Oceanography training really pays off - I basically got a PhD in shipping weird stuff halfway across the world.
- First instance of helpless panic waiting for a grant to route through approvals, minutes before agency deadline: ✅ Also, first instance of grant manager angel saving the day: ✅ What right of passage is next?
- Let’s talk about nutrient (co)limitation as a quantitative property of microbial populations and communities! Plus, we show that colimitation for two essential nutrients is accessible in laboratory conditions. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Though it is changing, one thing I love about proteomics is that small companies still have a powerful niche. I love these SPF plates and I love even more that I can order them with a quick email to a two-man operation in Ipswich (from what I can tell).
- How do you schedule meetings and does your system work for you? #newPI
- @mixotrophe.bsky.social @manuelkleiner.bsky.social thanks! I am mainly worried about one-off meetings with students/collaborators/small groups. I’ve never loved polling but I don’t see a way around it.
- The bagel pileup - major plus of a meeting in NYC.
