[PhysioStudents] Physiology 2018 -- Slack to communicate?

[Phillips, Robert B.]

Dear all,

Let me add my greetings to all of you.  It will be so great to spend the
summer with you at MBL!  I wanted to alert you to our first event
which is on the first Sunday evening at 5pm we will have “Lightning
Talks” in which each of you will have 90 seconds to give a talk
based upon a single slide that tells us something along the lines of
who you are, where you are from, what you are excited about,
what kinds of things you work on, etc. Tall order for 90 seconds, I know.
The procedure is that I need a single pdf from you by noon on that
first Sunday.  I will send out a reminder email as the date gets closer.
Clarice has a great plan.  However, if history is our teacher, you will likely
want to get a Slack channel going that only includes you students.
I am quite close to a number of last year’s students, for example,
and still see them chatting all the time, but about topics from
which JLS, Wallace and I are excluded!  Suzy, Daniel and Roya
(three of the 27 of you) can tell you about my own misadventures last
summer with such social media!

Anyway, it will be great to see you soon.  For those of you that are swimmers,
we often go to the “MBL Pool” (i.e. Buzzard’s Bay) each afternoon.  At the very
beginning of the summer, a short wetsuit can be useful.

Best,
Rob

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Rob Phillips
Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology
1200 E. California Blvd.
159 Broad / 114-96
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
phillips at pboc.caltech.edu<mailto:phillips at pboc.caltech.edu>
626 395 3374
www.rpgroup.caltech.edu
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On May 15, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Clarice Aiello <caiello at stanford.edu<mailto:caiello at stanford.edu>> wrote:

Dear Physiostudents,

you don't know me (yet). I'm a postdoc at PrakashLab at Stanford, and I
hope you're as excited as I am about going to MBL.

I am writing to know if you would like to try something.

In my lab, we use an app/program called Slack (www.slack.com<http://www.slack.com> , free) to
communicate. The cool thing about this app is that communication happens
in channels (private or about a topic); it very dynamic. (Also, anyone
can create channels.)

I took the liberty of creating a Slack for us; the address is

https://physiology2018.slack.com

and the invite link is

https://join.slack.com/t/physiology2018/shared_invite/enQtMzYzNTY4NTk4MTI5LWIyOTQzZDhlMTIyYWQ4NGVkMmZmYWFjZjEwNjg1ZTI1NzdlNzZlOTliZTM2ZTk5YTU0NzA5MzE1YTY3MTRjYTc

If you're interested in trying it out, just join it; if not, it will die
out (and that's ok!).

(Wallace, this would add to the email list that you created. Is that ok?)

Hope to meet you all soon. And thanks Wallace, Jennifer and Rob for the
huge effort in putting this together!

Have a nice day,

Clarice

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