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Caleb Lareau
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assistant professor @mskcancercenter.bsky.social

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I had an unbelievable first time running the NYC Marathon with
@fredsteammskcc.bsky.social and
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social! Shout out to the lab for supporting us!
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We have some BIG PLANS TONIGHT!!!
with @ronanchaligne.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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We're excited to share that Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab, a leukemia specialist at MSK, has been elected to the @nam.edu.

With Dr. Abdel-Wahab’s appointment, a total of 28 MSK faculty members have been conferred with this recognition.

Congratulations, Dr. Abdel-Wahab!

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Physician-Scientist Elected to the Prestigious National Academy of Medicine
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Chair of the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI); Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology and Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service at Me...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Zero arrests. 100,000 people. No violence. This who we are.
October 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact!

That makes 4 - stronger together.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Penn, U. of Southern California Reject Trump Compact
The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.
www.insidehighered.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The data is from April but holy moly
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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How can mitophagy be an effective quality control mechanism if mtDNA mutations reach high enough levels to cause disease?

This question led us into a dark path, full of concepts of evolutionary genetics, germline stem cell biology and mito-nuclear compatibility.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations
Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Now that I'm settled in at @umasschan.bsky.social, I'm hiring at all levels: grad students, post-docs, and software engineers/bioinformaticians!

The goal of my lab is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in our genomes and how this changes across every cell in our bodies.
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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We’re excited to report work led by postdoc Jennifer Porat in the lab, finding that DNA accumulates on the surface of living cells and that the secreted extracellular protein DNASE1L3 can modulate its levels on B and T cells. With a new twist for ATAC-seq as well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
DNASE1L3 surveils mitochondrial DNA on the surface of distinct mammalian cells
The extracellular space is a critical environment for discriminating self versus non-self nucleic acids and initiating the appropriate immune responses through signaling cascades to relay information ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine
Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Great article from @stephaniemlee.bsky.social at @chronicle.com on the NIH Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) www.chronicle.com/article/what...

ADSI funding went to reputable scientists because and only because dedicated NIH civil servants fought hard to ensure a rigorous, science-based process.
What It’s Like to Be an Autism Scientist Funded by the Trump Administration
The government is funding respected scholars to study autism’s causes, at a time when experts say it’s also sowing misinformation about the same topic.
www.chronicle.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Reminder starting in October NIH NOFOs won’t be posted in the Guide for grants and contracts.

Tips on how to search for opportunities & set up a subscription for custom searches here: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
New Tool to Explore NIH Grant Opportunities | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Introducing Spacelink, a unified framework for identifying and prioritizing spatially variable gene programs at tissue and cell type resolution and linking them to disease GWAS studies. Led by Hanbyul Lee & Haochen Sun www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🚨 New preprints from our lab!
First, we introduce Cryo-mtscATAC-seq, led by Maren (@ms-maren.bsky.social ), enabling high-throughput clonal tracing from frozen human samples by isolating nuclei with their mitochondria (“CryoCells”).
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cryo-mtscATAC-seq for single-cell mitochondrial DNA genotyping and clonal tracing in archived human tissues
High-throughput clonal tracing of primary human samples relies on naturally occurring barcodes, such as somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations detected via single-cell ATAC-seq (mtscATAC-seq). Fr...
www.biorxiv.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I'd like to announce the medRxiv preprint of our latest work:

A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Mapping transcriptional responses to cellular perturbation dictionaries with RNA fingerprinting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.676866v1
September 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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New preprint from our lab!

What can we learn about the properties of gene regulatory elements by CRISPR’ing a random set of accessible sites in human cells?

Find out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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September 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods
Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Today 62 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Centers released a statement reinforcing the importance of HPV vaccination.

HPV vaccination is safe and protects against six types of cancer – including oropharyngeal, cervical, and anal cancers.

#HPVvaccine #HPVvax #EndHPVCancers
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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📢We are hiring!

The Collins Genomics Lab @danafarber.bsky.social is looking to hire two postdoctoral fellows

One in hereditary and early-onset adult cancers:
careers.dana-farber.org/job/12158/po...

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Research Laboratory Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Computational Biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Computational Biologist job
careers.dana-farber.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM