Congrats to Norris Lab students: Shameer (best poster) and Anusha (best talk) @ucriverside.bsky.social Wedding Symposium 🎉😍
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congrats to Norris Lab students: Shameer (best poster) and Anusha (best talk) @ucriverside.bsky.social Wedding Symposium 🎉😍
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RFK Jr. is an outright danger to this country, and he should resign or be fired. Do we still have the sort of government that does such things? Or have we turned into. . . that other kind. You know the one.
RFK Jr. Must Go. And He's Not the Only One.
www.science.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
RFK Jr. is an outright danger to this country, and he should resign or be fired. Do we still have the sort of government that does such things? Or have we turned into. . . that other kind. You know the one.
Very happy (and sad!) to say this is Bikash Choudhary's last day in the Norris Lab. He's about to start his own lab at Sewanee new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-...
July 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Very happy (and sad!) to say this is Bikash Choudhary's last day in the Norris Lab. He's about to start his own lab at Sewanee new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-...
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IWM25 just started!!! #worm25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
IWM25 just started!!! #worm25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
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Regulated microexon alternative #splicing in single #neurons tunes synaptic function.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Regulated microexon alternative #splicing in single #neurons tunes synaptic function.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
MICROEXONS! 💪
Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Regulated microexon alternative splicing in single neurons tunes synaptic function | EMBO reports
imageimageAlternative splicing of a conserved microexon in the unc-13 synaptic gene is regulated
by a pair of cell-specific RNA binding proteins. Microexon-included and microexon-skipped
isoforms are ...
www.embopress.org
June 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
MICROEXONS! 💪
Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Fun with alternative splicing in single neurons!
Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
May 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fun with alternative splicing in single neurons!
Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad.
What does he imagine his job to be?
What does he imagine his job to be?
May 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad.
What does he imagine his job to be?
What does he imagine his job to be?
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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I spoke with a reporter at my local paper @silive.com - thanks to Jillian Delaney for this excellent write-up!
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts
Cathy Savage-Dunn's $1.9M grant-funded research on cell communication is uncertain amid Trump cuts to the National Institutes of Health.
www.silive.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I spoke with a reporter at my local paper @silive.com - thanks to Jillian Delaney for this excellent write-up!
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans
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Local traditional media still works!
We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.
www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.
www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
Pittsburgh researcher warns NIH cuts could harm patient care, economic growth
Pittsburgh's economy once relied heavily on the steel industry, which lined Second Avenue with miles of mills. When that industry collapsed, medicine and education filled the economic void.
www.wtae.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Local traditional media still works!
We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.
www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.
www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
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This is absolutely pathetic. Saying nothing was bad enough, but this?
Pfizer CEO says opportunities with Trump ‘clearly outweigh’ the risks for pharma endpts.com/pfizer-ceo-s...
Pfizer CEO says opportunities with Trump ‘clearly outweigh’ the risks for pharma
Over 500 pharma executives, lobbyists, consultants and other industry members gathered a couple miles from the White House on Tuesday, as top industry leaders took the stage and tried out some new mes...
endpts.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is absolutely pathetic. Saying nothing was bad enough, but this?
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my first bsky post!
scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.
raise 'em.
scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.
raise 'em.
A Call to Action: Learn what you can do now to protect science
A message to the GSA Community from The Executive Committee of the Genetics Society of America
genestogenomes.org
February 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
my first bsky post!
scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.
raise 'em.
scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.
raise 'em.
Three steps to the perfect SoCal Superbowl.
February 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Three steps to the perfect SoCal Superbowl.
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For these uncertain times, we all need support of our communities more than ever. An updated list of 180+ researchers for the #Celegans community is here:
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For these uncertain times, we all need support of our communities more than ever. An updated list of 180+ researchers for the #Celegans community is here:
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social