January in tweets

I ended 2014 with a “year in tweets” post. Today, I inaugurate the “last month in tweets” series as a fun and hopefully informative way to summarize our progress. Let’s dive right in.

We started the new year by welcoming our newest member, Alec. Alec is working with Sangeetha to scale up our worm efforts.

Tom and Tamy got the NPC fly screen up and running in earnest after months of careful optimization. Here they are at our liquid handling station preparing screening plates.

Our med chem advisor John visited us one day during #JPM15 week. Here he is explaining to us how compounds get bulkier over the course of drug development.

With tax season afoot, we crunched our 2014 financials. In the spirit of Open Science, we challenged other lean biotech startups to share last year’s budget numbers. (So far, no takers. But we hope other companies start to follow suit soon).

Nina and Kiran started to analyze the yeast screen data, which started to flow in right before the holidays. Here’s one of the sanity checks they ran: comparing two technical replicates.

The first full month of multi-model-organism screening was productive. As evidence here’s a stack of scored fly plates.