Noelle A. Held
@proteocean
elsewhere with same user name. proteomics, cellular decision-making, and biogeochemical cycles. assist prof @usc_meb. Also a yoga teacher. Your best is enough.
Proteocean Lab’s first big conference! We love the marine microbes GRC!
Proteocean Lab is in the clean room today prepping for field incubations to minimize contamination by trace metals! It’s like entering a dance club - years can go by but I still got it 🍾
I am hiring a research/technical specialist/manager to help us make the most out of new LC-MS instrumentation at USC! Please share the word and write me for more details. usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior will be in Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. @Alma_DalCo 1/12
The science supply chain is so ridiculous. You can do your best on sustainability in the lab and then VWR sends you stir bars each in a huge, double walled cardboard box. 🙃
I'm back with another non-academic Mom In Science update: she's with her poster at another conference, this time invited! She's thinking about writing it up as a manuscript; that would be so awesome.
I am so proud of my mom who has been an RN for 40 years, went back for a masters in her 50s, started doing research, and is presenting a poster at a conference for the first time today. I hope I also keep doing new things when I am 62!
New KITP Program! #MICROECO26 Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments Dates: 5/18/26-6/18/26 kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/mic…
Update: Mom's poster made the conference website and we're all really excited about it. I'll also point out that her poster is about reducing C-section infections by sending patients home with a cleanser that works but is nice enough that they enjoy using it as self-care. Go mom!
I am so proud of my mom who has been an RN for 40 years, went back for a masters in her 50s, started doing research, and is presenting a poster at a conference for the first time today. I hope I also keep doing new things when I am 62!
It’s not frivolous if you stick them on your field equipment.
I highly recommend doing a postdoc in the MSE group!
I am so proud of my mom who has been an RN for 40 years, went back for a masters in her 50s, started doing research, and is presenting a poster at a conference for the first time today. I hope I also keep doing new things when I am 62!
I think that microbes experience nutrient limitation in a continuous way, but experiments aren't usually designed to capture that. Thoughts (and massive concept map) from @Michael_Manhart and I in the Microbial Systems and Synthetic Biology themed issue: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
It's been a month since ASMS - which talks have stuck with you/should I watch before the recordings disappear in September?
I took (and later TA'd) Susan's environmental policy class at MIT. She had one consistent message - humans are good at solving problems, and we can solve this one. This was important for me to hear as a young scientist. I have her new book on order!
From @guardian: Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon talks about fixing the hole in the ozone layer and the lessons we can take from it to address the climate crisis, a major theme in her new book Solvable. buff.ly/3zit0NJ