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Randall Carpenter

@RCarpenter_PhD

Scientist studying the neural control of immune cell development and function; PhD @OhioState, Postdoc @EinsteinMed
New York City, NY Joined July 2020
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Randall Carpenter @RCarpenter_PhD
I am excited to present my latest work in @CellReports on how aging disrupts the sympathetic innervation to the thymus! Huge thanks to my co-authors, mentor @MaryanovichLab, @EinsteinCellBio, & our fantastic Analytical Imaging Facility.

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www.cell.com Aging disrupts sympathetic innervation of the thymus In this study, Carpenter et al. show that aging disrupts sympathetic innervation of the thymus, causing axonal degeneration, stromal niche loss, and impaired thymic function. Pharmacological rescue...
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Randall Carpenter @RCarpenter_PhD
In 2009 I was hired as a tech at UChicago with a salary of 35K. In 2013 I entered grad school at OSU at 26K. By graduation in 2019 I made ~29K. I then started my postdoc at Einstein at 50K. A couple years later the NIH increased stipend levels and I was around 63K. 1/
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Listening to academics argue about grad student stipends and I'm just stunned at the levels of support (or inflation). Harvard--$51k. Michigan--$45k. When I started in 2005 ours in history was $12k, and I was lucky and got the Sproull Fellowship at $20k (more for the sciences).
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Randall Carpenter @RCarpenter_PhD
Nice to see this ATVB statement from the AHA on Time of Day as a biological variable in CVD research.

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…
www.ahajournals.org Time of Day as a Biological Variable in Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease Research: A Scientific... Lifestyle behaviors such as diet, physical activity, and sleep play a prominent role at every stage of cardiometabolic disease. These behaviors follow daily, circadian rhythms in humans. These...
Randall Carpenter @RCarpenter_PhD
Once I was learning a 10x Chromium platform for single cell sequencing. It was a touch screen with a single icon. I joked “What if the screen went out?” Well it did right then, and the entire machine had to be replaced. Sometimes buttons and switches are just better.
Latest in space Verified account @latestinspace Apr 2
#NEWS 🚨: Many are pointing out how different Artemis II’s Onion spacecraft interior is compared to SpaceX’s Dragon
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