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Sarah Scientist

@sarahscientist.bsky.social

Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, studying coral reef bleaching in the Quinn lab 🪸🧬🔬

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MSU MGI @msumgi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Why are coral reefs bleaching, and what can we do to stop it? Sarah VanDiepenbos ( @sarahscientist.bsky.social ) is an MGI doctoral student working in Rob Quinn's lab, and she's trying to answer that question.

Sarah VanDiepenbos stands at her bench holding a pipette.

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I had a lovely time presenting my poster on the metabolomics of coral bleaching at the MANA 2025 conference in Banff!

Sarah smiling in front of her scientific poster on coral bleaching.

A mountain view from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Now that July is over, the 2025 spawning season should be finished…until next year! 🪸

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I had the privilege of joining the Coral Resilience Lab at Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology last month to help with collection of coral spawn! Check out this article about it, from MSU's Connor Yeck: natsci.msu.edu/news/2025-07...

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How corals teach their offspring to beat the heat

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My lab got some new coral frags recently, and check out those long sweeper tentacles! Also featuring a guest appearance from our Tang fish, named Wu 🪸🐠

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ll be using mass spectrometry to study why corals lose the tiny algae that live inside them. Hopefully we can learn how to save the corals 🪸

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ve officially joined my dissertation lab in the Quinn lab at Michigan State University! I’ll be studying coral bleaching and how to prevent losing our corals in the face of climate change.

Aquarium tank with many small fragments of the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Welcome to BlueSky!

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Often, students think the most important aspect of running a new experiment is collecting and analyzing the data. It is also important to learn the method - what each step of the protocol is doing. It helps with troubleshooting and interpreting data you weren’t expecting!

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My Valentine this year is Komagataeibacter! This genus of bacteria has all kinds of uses, including being featured in Paris Fashion Week last year. These pellicles are from Komagataeibacter hansenii ❤️

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Sarah Scientist @sarahscientist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

My shout out for International Day of Women and Girls in Science this year goes to Nancy Hopkins for her work in zebrafish!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"The halftime show was boring." Look, you may not be familiar with the genius of Kendrick Lamar and couldn't quite hear the lyrics and don't know the backstory and the symbolism went over your head, but trust me when I say you'll want to read an analysis of it and rewatch. A true masterpiece.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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