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Tera Levin
@tera_levin
Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Now mostly hangs out at: @[email protected]. #NewPI She/her
teralevinlab.com
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    Tera Levin
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    Dec 11, 2023
    🎉Our work on the ancestry of innate immune proteins is now published in PLOS Biology! Great insights from postdoc Ed Culbertson on the connections between mammalian immunity and bacterial anti-phage immunity🦠 Original tweet thread on our findings here: x.com/tera_levin/sta…
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    Dec 11, 2023
    How did our #InnateImmune systems first evolve? Ed Culbertson & @tera_levin reveal origins of 3 families of #antiviral proteins: CD-NTases (incl #cGAS), STINGs & #Viperins; each reveals a different story connecting animal & bacterial immunity #PLOSBiology plos.io/46SfBqM
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    Tera Levin
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    Aug 20, 2021
    Pretty happy with how our lab emergency personal supplies drawer is coming together! Any other ideas for what would be useful? Suggestions welcome!
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    Tera Levin
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    May 18, 2018
    Hey @Radiolab, in your new episode you interview a woman scientist, but you introduce her merely as the wife of another scientist. Her husband isn’t even in the episode. What gives? 1/n
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    Tera Levin
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    May 22, 2019
    Super exciting news to share: I'll be starting my new lab in 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh! @PittBioSci
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    Jul 14, 2023
    OK, I'm now ~3 years into being a #newPI, and I finally feel like I basically know what the job is and how to do it. One important part was finding an organizational method. Here's what works for me! 🧵 1/
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    Tera Levin
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    May 4, 2023
    Today was a big day for the lab: we submitted our first real paper!!! 🥳 It's hard to believe we're here and I'm so excited and proud of us. But this isn't a thread about the paper. I want to share (esp with my senior colleagues) what it took for us to get from 2020 to here. 1/
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    Tera Levin
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    Apr 7, 2023
    Teaching students to interpret data and write their first scientific paper can be hard! Our new publication provides all the materials you need to teach these skills in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses. 1/ doi.org/10.24918/cs.20…
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    Tera Levin
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    Sep 3, 2024
    Hello folks! With exciting new grants and new projects in our lab, ✨we are hiring!✨ Please share with prospective Ph.D. students and/or postdocs interested in evolution, genetics, and microbes!
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    Tera Levin
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    Nov 15, 2022
    RT @[email protected] #womeninscience Women scientists maybe you thought were men Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation) Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus) Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence) Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji) Helen (1/3)
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    Tera Levin
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    Apr 16, 2021
    After nine long months, this week the Levin lab finally moved into our permanent lab space. And it's SO BEAUTIFUL 😭😭😭
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    Tera Levin
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    Mar 4, 2020
    Wow, my Seattle workplace @fredhutch just instituted a mandatory work-from-home policy for THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS. Fortunately my life increasingly consists of writing grants and emails #newpi
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    Tera Levin
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    May 18, 2018
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    Come on, @Radiolab. You can do better than this. Sincerely, A dedicated listener, contributor, and woman scientist 8/8
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    Tera Levin
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    Aug 13, 2021
    ➡️Are you a biology postdoc going on the TT job market this year? It can be hard to know what to expect, esp since COVID messed up searches the last 2 cycles. I did a big search in 2018/19. Here's what it was like for me and what was 'normal' pre-COVID. Lots of tips included!🧵
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    Tera Levin
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    Nov 9, 2022
    #introduction Hi all, I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. My lab studies the #evolution of #bacteria, especially what happens to #pathogens before they get into humans. We particularly love host-microbe interactions involving #microeukaryotes like (1/2)