Hello friends, and happy Thursday! It's the third week of the Fall semester at Penn State. We've had two home football games, and a third will happen this weekend. Labs and departments are still throwing welcome back parties. The leaves are just starting to turn, the humidity has slightly decreased, and the new undergrads have learned that it is perfectly acceptable to go to early classes in your pajamas.
We also have a couple new grad students in the Perry Lab! Every time our number grows and our interests diversify, we like to begin the new academic year with refreshers on each of our projects. Fall 2017's first lab meeting was dedicated to UpGoer 5 descriptions that we put together to describe our work. This year PJ challenged us to introduce our research on just one slide. We're not meeting till next week, but I thought I'd share with you my take on a summary slide (warning - it's a little crowded):
I know it's kind of a lot to look at, so I'm gonna break it down a bit. Each of our slides has our name, year, department, and photo, plus a timer to keep our lab meeting rolling. Then I have my dissertation title in green, and an alternate title I used during a seminar talk I gave a few weeks ago. Massive shoutout to Christina Bergey for coming up with the alliterative title :)