PhD Student @UCSDBMS | @gilbertjacka lab 🧫 | gut-🧠 axis | gender - diverse microbiomes 🏳️⚧️ | DEI ✊🏽 | leadership🚦| curiosity 🧩| mindfulness 🧘🏽♀️
San Diego, CA
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It’s been a while, lemme reintroduce myself.
I’m Dottie Dothard! I’m a rising 3rd year PhD student at @UCSDBMS. I’m researching the effects of HRT on the microbiomes of transfolks🏳️⚧️ I love reading, writing, and any kind of a challenge. Posting about grad life, DEI, and microbes🤙🏽
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so like now that I’m a PhD candidate is now the right time to look for that supervillain internship
@AcademicChatter
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
Very excited to announce I’ll deliver the UCI Early Career Distingushed Scholar Seminar! I’ll be on campus Monday for my talk, if your on campus please stop by!
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
And then this email my box today!! I'm extremely happy and honored to announce that I've been awarded TENURE and promoted to Associate Professor at @DukeU! Huge thanks to my lab, mentors, @DukeBiology, and the amazing community that supported us through this journey! 🍾🍾 #BHM
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
🌟 Join us for a special Black History Month Networking Event hosted by our BIN Manhattan chapter! 🎓 Explore the power of community building with insightful discussions led by our esteem graduate student panel. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInNeuro
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well, I've just pivoted my PhD project again--turns out the only way to build adaptability is to let go of projects that do not spark joy even if you LOVE them 😭
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
I had a lot of fun recording a podcast with @markowenmartin for #MicrobialMatters today!! There's a fantastic lineup of researchers sharing their cool work and journey in science featured in previous episodes, check it out!!
@DrSueIshaq was a wonderful guest today on #MattersMicrobial, talking about her research and commitment to diversity and representation in microbiology. I was so impressed, and I think you will be, too. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology
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so good to see greatness get rewarded ✌🏽
I'm honored to announce that I've been elected as the Early Career At-Large Board Member of the American Society for Microbiology!!!
sueishaqlab.org/2023/12/14/e…
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
Excited to share my new pre-print as a postdoc in @theChuLab! Our study reveals that human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) signal commensal bacteria for stable colonisation of the intestinal niche in the newborn host 🧵
A bacterial sialidase mediates early life colonization by a pioneering gut commensal biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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My family: hey Dottie did you ever decide what you’re gonna do with your mid-twenties to early thirties?
Me:
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
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.@avayala14 et al. @theChuLab @UCSanDiego reveal that commensal bacteria, such as Bacteroides fragilis, trigger type I IFN and IL-27 in dendritic cells to influence Tregs through IL27RA signaling. bit.ly/3v1Yh5k
#MucosalImmunology #InnateImmunity #Tolerance #microbiome
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I’ve been on this PhD for a longggg time, so I’m particularly so happy to announce I have finally scheduled my ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY!
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
✨My section “Genogram, Trauma” & the rest of “The SAGE Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy" are now out! Thank you to both editors, Drs. Shannon B. Dermer & Jahaan R. Abdullah.
✨Get your library to get it!
#CounselorEd #AcademicChatter
ALT Book cover of "The SAGE Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy," along with a list of contributed including Dr. Zori A. Paul.
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
Super behind on sharing the awesome events that have happened in the last weeks like this one!! We celebrated Día de Los Muertos last month led by our @UCSDBMS Diversity Committee and supported by our Faculty! 🥹 Thank you @theChuLab for providing Art of Espresso! 🫶🏽
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Marisol “Dottie” Dothard, MA retweeted
It’s official! 🥳 I’m so excited to share that the Simms Lab has been awarded the Faculty Starter Grant from the @PhRMA Foundation! With this funding, we will be evaluating structural features of lipid nanoparticles that influence the final fate in vivo.
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