Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
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Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
@giosg.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Brown University
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Aging <&> Development

https://www.theSGlab.com/
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Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans???
Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳
Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy!
#Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It was such an amazing workshop!! An enjoyable experience organizing this!! Thank you very much to all wonderful speakers and to you, Teresa @snickclunk.bsky.social for joining this!! Let’s make more!! 🪱🔬🧬
Great catching up with everyone at #worm25!

If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl ‪@rnareylab.bsky.social‬ & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
From @hsph.harvard.edu Hotamışlıgil Lab, @renata-goncalves.bsky.social identifies an important mechanism that leads to liver dysfunction in obesity—defective coenzyme Q metabolism. This finding paves the way for more targeted diabetes & metabolic disease treatments. Read more:
hsph.me/mitoT2D
Newly discovered mechanism of mitochondrial dysfunction in obesity may drive insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A newly discovered mechanism that leads to liver dysfunction may be a key factor in type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders in individuals with obesity, according to a new study led by Harvard C...
hsph.harvard.edu
May 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a days for the lab!! Sarvesh Rajkumar defended his Honor Thesis at Brown University, Lina Blanco Rodriguez gave a great talk at the regional PREP program, and Purbasha Dasgupta presented her terrific work at the AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION 53rd Annual Meeting in Alaska!! 👏🙌🎉 So proud of them!!!
May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Today we hosted the first New England LatinX Conference! We thank the science and panel speakers, all the 150 participants, our co-organizers (@giosg.bsky.social and the NEx scientists, and the Harvard GSAS LatinX students), and sponsors (New England Biolabs, Guilliam Fellows Program, and Beantown)
April 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Worm friends: The C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program is signing up mentees!

Click on the link to be matched with a mentor and/or to join a peer-mentoring group.

Please spread the word, and share with your lab members and worm friends! 📢

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Mentee sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information to help the committee (a) identify the most appropr...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🚨On behalf of the Latinx Scholars at HMS and the New England Latinx Scientists, we are excited to invite you to the first New England Latinx Conference on April 12th at the Waterhouse Room, HMS.
🧫🔬🔭🥼🧪

Register here. It is free!! 🆓
harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📢 spread the word!!
March 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Worm people: we have ~60 people signed up to be mentors for this year's C. elegans Mentor Match program.

If you are thinking about it, please sign up now!

Please repost to spread the word!

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Mentor sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information to help the committee identify...
docs.google.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Worm people: We are looking for a postdoc to join the C. elegans Mentor Match committee.

This is a great opportunity to shape a global mentorship program and gain leadership experience.

📩 DM or email me and Andrea Calixto if interested—and please spread the word! 🙌
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
✨✨The 2025 Keystone Symposium on Aging and Gerotherapeutics is coming up and early bird registration ends today! Very excited about our speaker lineup. Check it out!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Aging: New Frontiers in Rejuvenation and Gerotherapeutics | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Aging: New Frontiers in Rejuvenation and Gerotherapeutics, February 2025, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
December 23, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Universal Single Copy Knock-In System in Caenorhabditis elegans: One Plasmid to Target All Chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627295v1
December 10, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans???
Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳
Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy!
#Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans???
Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳
Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy!
#Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
Looking forward to the Longevity Summit at the Buck Institute next week! Speaker lineup is fantastic including Eric Verdin, @agingdoc.bsky.social, Jamie Justice, and many more! @buckinstitute.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM
🎉 So honored to be part of this amazing cohort!! Thanks tons to American Federation for Aging Research @AFARorg for trusting us!! We are so excited to move forward with this project!! 🧬🔬

www.afar.org/grantee-prof...
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
My lab is looking for a computational postdoc with expertise in AI/ML using genomics single cell datasets. If you are excited about diving into the mysteries of aging and longevity research using large genomics datasets, please apply!

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38...
University of California, San Francisco hiring Postdoctoral Researcher in San Francisco, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 5:14:02 AM. Postdoctoral Position at UCSF: Pioneer the Future of Aging Research with Machine Learning and AIAre…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Reposted by Carlos Giovanni Silva-García
🎉 100+ mentors and counting! Be part of this amazing initiative.

🌱 Sign up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program today, before we begin enrolling mentees!
Mentor sign-up for the 2024 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2024 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information to help the committee identify...
forms.gle
December 10, 2023 at 8:06 PM
🚨🔥Check out our last work on how we uncoupled different protein functions in longevity!!

Thanks to William Mair and our collaborators at Brunet lab and @colaiacovolab.bsky.social!! And of course, the whole TheMAIRLab!!!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
December 6, 2023 at 10:45 PM