Marissa Scavuzzo she/her

(My French is bad but grammar intentionally wrong)

Least favorite two of the cohort but parks project wall expanding (x7!) nonetheless 🎨

And I feel like I do a lot for my students…. I’m going to have nightmares about this!

Biased but highly recommend!

Congrats! The cytoskeleton stuff is so cool. Beautifully done

Congratulations @kateletai.bsky.social for passing her private defense today!!!!!

Good Friend Kate is a force of nature and a phenomenal scientist. We are excited but also sad for her to return to medical school 🙂🙃

Public defense on April 2 at 2pm in Wolstein 🎉

Congratulations to David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors for receiving The Brain Prize! 🎉👏

You can help David celebrate at this conference:
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

(To be clear we are not eating moldy bread, they are making conditioned plates for exposure to C. elegans for behavioral and molecular assays)

@riseupneo.bsky.social

Can’t believe we have a scanning electron microscope now in our Rise Up classrooms!!!! 🤯

A fun morning with CMSD high school students visualizing fungi up close, making dilutions, and filtering for conditioned media experiments to answer their question, “what would happen if we ate moldy bread?”

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

1/10

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

I have had knowledge passed down to me through a whisper network of protection, women administrators and faculty looking out for me and other trainees.

I have always felt fortunate to have had those warnings. Just wish it wasn't necessary. And my heart breaks for the women who don't have them

Training as a woman in science means closed door conversations about who to not rotate with, who to not collaborate with, who to not train with, who to avoid all together

you don't want to hear how I wrote my dissertation 😂

Fourteen, but 8 were like budget and stuff so only counting 6

grant sent to collaborator at 2am
edited at 7am
submitted at 9am
✌️

Follows a dosage curve, too much bourbon doesn’t work. Just enough to remove writing inhibitions

well, I can't guarantee the writing is any good

General writing process:

8am-4pm: at least 3 cups of coffee

4pm-6pm: stare off into space

6pm-9pm: hang out w/ family

9pm-10pm: stare off into space

10pm-11pm: listen to music, dance by myself

11pm: pour a glass of bourbon

11pm-4am: write full grant as a stream of consciousness

🤷🏻‍♀️

Writing a grant with a collaborator - I reassured him I will write the first draft in entirety and send to him tomorrow, despite having written zero words so far. He was skeptical.

So this unfortunately required explaining my highly unusual but so far (10+ yrs) effective writing process to him...

The Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders program is accepting new applicants! I am currently an NGL and would be happy to answer questions about my experience and the program.
Learn more and apply: alleninstitute.org/about/people...

Read the Techniques and Resources Article ‘Single-cell transcriptomic comparison of the developing human fetal stomach and pluripotent stem cell-derived gastric organoids’ here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Non-profit helps inspire new generation of scientists Rise Up: Northeast Ohio is tackling inequity by bringing hands-on science education to Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Thank you Siobhan Harms for reaching out to highlight the work we are doing in public high schools to make science accessible to all via @riseupneo.bsky.social !

spectrumnews1.com/oh/cleveland...

Second annual Summer in Winter lab party in the books! We had a lot to celebrate as a group. So grateful to work with this incredible group of scientists

He played the saxophone in the sixth grade, but supposedly the teacher called home and asked his parents to maybe try wrestling instead.
He can be a band manager!

Recruiting tool - I just bought a piano. Aaliyah can sing (allegedly).

If you come to Cleveland we can start a band!

Friendly reminder to not comment on other people’s bodies, in any scenario, but maybe especially in professional settings. It is 2026. We shouldn’t have to say this.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Congratulations to Haley Aharoni - now PhD candidate in the lab! She hangs the second cork on our line for celebrations.

Enjoyed a great and entertaining talk from Bob Heuckeroth, who came in to share his work and to sit on the qual committee. Was a delight to host him.

Yay!