Aki Ushiki
@akiushiki.bsky.social
Assistant professor at WashU Genetics. Studying in vivo enhancer function in development and diseases. https://sites.wustl.edu/ushikilab/
Big thanks to my postdocs for the surprise birthday cake! You really made my day! 🎂🌟
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Big thanks to my postdocs for the surprise birthday cake! You really made my day! 🎂🌟
Thank you for visiting St. Louis @crumplab.bsky.social ! Learned a lot from the seminar and discussion. 🐟 🧬
@washugenetics.bsky.social
@washugenetics.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thank you for visiting St. Louis @crumplab.bsky.social ! Learned a lot from the seminar and discussion. 🐟 🧬
@washugenetics.bsky.social
@washugenetics.bsky.social
Finally found this in St. Louis — my favorite Chinese dish that I used to eat all the time in San Francisco! 🥹
Dongbei style Sweet and sour pork! 鉄鍋炖
Dongbei style Sweet and sour pork! 鉄鍋炖
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Finally found this in St. Louis — my favorite Chinese dish that I used to eat all the time in San Francisco! 🥹
Dongbei style Sweet and sour pork! 鉄鍋炖
Dongbei style Sweet and sour pork! 鉄鍋炖
After the conference, faculty mentoring meeting, and grant submission — refilling my energy. ⚡️🪫🍜
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
After the conference, faculty mentoring meeting, and grant submission — refilling my energy. ⚡️🪫🍜
Reposted by Aki Ushiki
Check out our latest study now on bioRxiv!
Huge thanks to our collaborators @pkeukeleire.bsky.social, Martin Kircher & all co-authors
Huge thanks to our collaborators @pkeukeleire.bsky.social, Martin Kircher & all co-authors
Capture C identifies promoter interacting sequences. MPRA tests sequences for regulatory activity. Here, we combined them both to test sequences with their target promoter. Amazing work by @colinearnould.bsky.social, Pia Keukeleire, Martin Kircher and many others.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Capture-C MPRA: A high-throughput method to simultaneously characterize promoter interactions and regulatory activity
Cis regulatory elements (CREs) interact with their target promoters over long genomic distances and can be identified using chromatin conformation capture (3C) assays. Their regulatory activity can be...
www.biorxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Check out our latest study now on bioRxiv!
Huge thanks to our collaborators @pkeukeleire.bsky.social, Martin Kircher & all co-authors
Huge thanks to our collaborators @pkeukeleire.bsky.social, Martin Kircher & all co-authors
Yasin and I presented at the WashU MRC annual symposium!
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yasin and I presented at the WashU MRC annual symposium!
Our lab's postdoc, Yasin, and I will be presenting at the WashU Musculoskeletal Research Center (MRC) Annual Symposium next week! Looking forward to the event!
musculoskeletal.wustl.edu/education-2/...
musculoskeletal.wustl.edu/education-2/...
MRC Annual Symposium
please join us for the MRC Annual Symposium 2025 May 21, 2025 8:30am – 5:15pm St. Louis, MissouriEric P. Newman Educational Center 320 S Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United StatesWashington Uni…
musculoskeletal.wustl.edu
May 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our lab's postdoc, Yasin, and I will be presenting at the WashU Musculoskeletal Research Center (MRC) Annual Symposium next week! Looking forward to the event!
musculoskeletal.wustl.edu/education-2/...
musculoskeletal.wustl.edu/education-2/...
Finally got my NHGRI R00 NOA today—hooray! 🎉
For K99 recipients: I submitted my R00 app in late Oct. Everything halted at NIH in Jan, it showed up in eRA in Feb, then the grant admin left NHGRI… and the NOA finally arrived today! 3+ months delayed—was supposed to start in Jan.
For K99 recipients: I submitted my R00 app in late Oct. Everything halted at NIH in Jan, it showed up in eRA in Feb, then the grant admin left NHGRI… and the NOA finally arrived today! 3+ months delayed—was supposed to start in Jan.
April 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Finally got my NHGRI R00 NOA today—hooray! 🎉
For K99 recipients: I submitted my R00 app in late Oct. Everything halted at NIH in Jan, it showed up in eRA in Feb, then the grant admin left NHGRI… and the NOA finally arrived today! 3+ months delayed—was supposed to start in Jan.
For K99 recipients: I submitted my R00 app in late Oct. Everything halted at NIH in Jan, it showed up in eRA in Feb, then the grant admin left NHGRI… and the NOA finally arrived today! 3+ months delayed—was supposed to start in Jan.
Ushiki Lab’s first experimental results are coming in!🤗🧬 Exciting!
March 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Ushiki Lab’s first experimental results are coming in!🤗🧬 Exciting!
Spring in St. Louis🌸
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Spring in St. Louis🌸
Reposted by Aki Ushiki
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.