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Hironori Funabiki
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Mitosis and chromosome biology researcher @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social, New York, NY. Former backstroker. Choir part: bass. Brined turkey & りゅうひ巻き係
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Are you a grad student pursuing the life sciences or biomedical research outside the U.S.? Applications now open for the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award until June 13. Enter to win $1,000 USD & a chance to present your work & network w/ MIT faculty.

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Angelika Amon in her laboratory.
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The peer-reviewed VOR for the MagIC-cryo-EM paper by @yarimura.bsky.social‬ and @1001hak.bsky.social‬ is finally published!
Congrats Yasu!
May 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A great curiosity-driven research!
bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social Bungo Akiyoshi @bungoakiyoshi.bsky.social · Mar 24
I am happy to share a preprint on the marine plankton project I started one year ago (thanks to Julius and Drahomira's help)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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In preparation for the lecture tomorrow, I opened "The Cell in Development and Heredity" by E.B. Wilson (Columbia Univ), and realized that this 3rd edition was published in 100 years ago.

So many things happened since then, including the fact that I, a Japanese Prof in NY, own and read the book.
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Even "useless" objects can be appreciated - arts are indispensable for human society.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperar...

Biologists know that redundant or non-essential parts often play important roles.

Still, human society must decide on priorities, and this requires justifications.
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I must note that the Japanese scientist Akira Endo isolated statin (compactin) from the mold in 1972, after coming back to Japan from his 2 years of biochemistry study in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, where he recognized the major heart health issues among people in the US. 1/
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Please check out our preprint where we find that mitotic transcription helps ensure ecDNA inheritance through chromosomal tethering:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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　A cool innovation to make live-immunofluorescence microscopy!
tim-stasevich.bsky.social @tim_stasevich @tim-stasevich.bsky.social · Feb 12
Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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There is a 0.0% chance that this was written or approved by anyone at NIH with any experience.

2/n
a man wearing headphones is smiling with the words no way written above him
ALT: a man wearing headphones is smiling with the words no way written above him
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February 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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this is a very interesting slide deck from Ropes & Gray, one of the most prestigious & high-caliber law firms in the US

tl;dr we have very good litigators on this issue
drannecarpenter.bsky.social Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · Feb 8
Here’s a document meant to prep for this possibility from a law firm:
www.ropesgray.com/-/media/File...
www.ropesgray.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Alarming news...
February 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social!

If this is your battle, start here!
ascbiology.bsky.social American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Feb 5
Your Action Is Needed!

Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy

www.ascb.org/science-poli...
February 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Enjoying a great okonomiyaki in Bushwick, Brooklyn, after being inspired by "Solitary Gourmet"
February 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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So sad to hear of the passing of Scott Hawley. In 2008, Michael Ashburner, Scott Hawley, and Casey Bergman held a Drosophila genetics and genomics course in China. This course was instrumental in shaping me as a junior researcher, and I am forever grateful about this eye-opening experience.
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Part of a letter I sent today to my Congressional Representative and Senators.
In October of last year, my UW colleague David Baker received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his breakthrough creation of an entirely new technology: protein design. The key paper describing the breakthrough had three senior authors: Baker, Varani, and Stoddard. All live and work in Seattle. All were funded to do that work by grants from the NIH. Without that funding, none of this would have happened. Baker did his work in the building where I work. Before Baker, three other scientists building received Nobel Prizes for work done in our building alone: Hartwell, Krebs, and Fisher. Their work has led to critical treatments for cancer and other diseases. Over at the Fred Hutch, NIH-funded research led to the first bone marrow transplants — another medical breakthrough — and another Nobel Prize (Thomas). Every one of these scientists did their work with NIH funding. The NIH generates jobs and fuels the economy. Estimates for the return on investment range from $2.46 per dollar to more than $4.00 per dollar invested. NIH funding generates lifesaving cures for devastating diseases. And NIH funding drives American supremacy in the life sciences, including medicine and agriculture. All of that is on the precipice of destruction. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-cancels-science-reviews-at-nih-worlds-largest-public-biomedical/ Meanwhile, research in Europe and Asia charges ahead. They will not wait for us. We lose jobs; we lose experience; we lose expertise; we lose patents and other intellectual property; we fail to invent lifesaving cures and bring them to market. Those benefits instead accrue to our global competitors. We are setting the seed corn of American supremacy in biomedical research aflame, and for what? I urgently ask you to do everything in your power to save and advance the scientific enterprise. Your colleagues in the Senate must be persuaded that there is no alternative. The nation's wellbeing demands nothing less.
January 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
I just contacted my representatives about the nomination of RFK, Jr and the recent executive orders. Here is what I wrote in my email or said to the staffer on the phone:

Hello-

I am writing/calling on several topics:
January 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Check out a fantastic @elife.bsky.social article highlighting @yarimura.bsky.social’s MagIC #cryoEM technique - a method using specialized magnetic beads that makes it possible to study the structure of proteins from dilute samples. elifesciences.org/articles/105...
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy: MagIC beads for scarce macromolecules
Specialized magnetic beads that bind target proteins to a cryogenic electron microscopy grid make it possible to study the structure of protein complexes from dilute samples.
elifesciences.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Pleased to share my thoughts on the new eLife publication model.
elifesciences.org/inside-elife...
January 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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今晩の会食で、谷崎潤一郎が話題に。思春期に祖父の書棚で見つけた『鍵』を密かに手にした体験が、40年以上の時を経て、初めて伏線として回収される。
December 7, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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A thought on stupidity and creativity

Last week, I visited a floor where I spent 6 years as a PhD student in Kyoto Univ. The room used to be my lab was converted into a women's restroom. I feel a bit sad, but it was an important improvement for female researchers. 1/
December 1, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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We are seeking a motivated postdoc to join our lab!  Our research focuses on live-cell imaging/analysis to reveal how chromatin behaves in living cells and how its behavior contributes to cellular functions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interested? Please DM me!
November 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Well, here is the new start...
(Yoshida shrine, Kyoto)
November 29, 2024 at 8:41 PM