Sovanny ‘Sophie’ Taylor
@sovannytaylor.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Boeynaems Lab | Baylor College of Medicine | interested in cationic peptides, biomolecular condensates, neurodegenerative disease, and aging
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Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social
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The secret life of RNA and lipids
There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids? The discovery that RNA can catalyse reactions in addition to encoding information opened new directions for...
www.tandfonline.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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Excited to share the work of Jonathan Perr where he uncovered a surprisingly common feature of cell surfaces - the presentation and clustering of RNA binding proteins with #glycoRNA.
Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry
Mammalian cells present RNA-binding proteins on the cell surface that form clustered
domains containing glycoRNAs.
www.cell.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Excited to share the work of Jonathan Perr where he uncovered a surprisingly common feature of cell surfaces - the presentation and clustering of RNA binding proteins with #glycoRNA.
Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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applications.
Congratulations to postdoc Rongbing Huang, whose creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness made rHUH possible! We are grateful to NSF and Biohub for funding this work.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422085122
Congratulations to postdoc Rongbing Huang, whose creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness made rHUH possible! We are grateful to NSF and Biohub for funding this work.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422085122
Directed evolution of a sequence-specific covalent protein tag for RNA labeling | PNAS
Efficient methods for conjugating proteins to RNA are needed for RNA delivery, imaging,
editing, interactome mapping, and barcoding applications. N...
www.pnas.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
applications.
Congratulations to postdoc Rongbing Huang, whose creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness made rHUH possible! We are grateful to NSF and Biohub for funding this work.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422085122
Congratulations to postdoc Rongbing Huang, whose creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness made rHUH possible! We are grateful to NSF and Biohub for funding this work.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422085122
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As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students.
Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students.
Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Thanks to WUNC for their coverage of the Stand Up for Science rally in Raleigh NC yesterday!
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
Triangle researchers join "Stand up for Science" rally
Scientists and graduate students from across the NC Triangle gathered Friday to protest federal funding cuts to their research.
www.wunc.org
March 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thanks to WUNC for their coverage of the Stand Up for Science rally in Raleigh NC yesterday!
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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In lab’s #FIRSTPREPRINT, we present methods to measure nanometer-scale organization around & between specific proteins in condensates in live cells. We uncover unexpected heterogeneity for a liquid-like phase with local meshwork spanning 10-50nm, stemming from ribosome biogenesis in the nucleolus.
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In lab’s #FIRSTPREPRINT, we present methods to measure nanometer-scale organization around & between specific proteins in condensates in live cells. We uncover unexpected heterogeneity for a liquid-like phase with local meshwork spanning 10-50nm, stemming from ribosome biogenesis in the nucleolus.
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American science is under attack
Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪
“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪
“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
American science is under attack
Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪
“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪
“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Excited to announce the newest member of the flock - STARLING (conSTruction of intrinsicAlly disoRdered proteins ensembles efficientLy vIa multi-dimeNsional Generative models).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Excited to announce the newest member of the flock - STARLING (conSTruction of intrinsicAlly disoRdered proteins ensembles efficientLy vIa multi-dimeNsional Generative models).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The answer is yes! Come hear about STARLING this afternoon at the Biophysical Society IDP subgroup symposium!
Thread to follow later today...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread to follow later today...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The answer is yes! Come hear about STARLING this afternoon at the Biophysical Society IDP subgroup symposium!
Thread to follow later today...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread to follow later today...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are so sad to say goodbye to Gabe, but super proud he is moving on to an internship on Capitol Hill before starting med school. Congrats Gabe! We will miss you!
December 20, 2024 at 10:59 AM
We are so sad to say goodbye to Gabe, but super proud he is moving on to an internship on Capitol Hill before starting med school. Congrats Gabe! We will miss you!