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This is basically KPOP Demon Hunters if you're one of the five people left who hasn't seen KPOP Demon Hunters.
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is basically KPOP Demon Hunters if you're one of the five people left who hasn't seen KPOP Demon Hunters.
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Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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So awesome to have this great paper from Sam Reffsin and Sara Cherry out! In it, we use retrospective clone tracing to show that there are particular single cell states that are more susceptible to viral infection (both SARS-CoV-2 and flu)!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Single-cell susceptibility to viral infection is driven by variable cell states
Not all cells that can be infected by a virus become infected with that virus. Single-cell
clone tracing reveals intrinsic cell states with variable expression patterns that
increase susceptibility to...
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So awesome to have this great paper from Sam Reffsin and Sara Cherry out! In it, we use retrospective clone tracing to show that there are particular single cell states that are more susceptible to viral infection (both SARS-CoV-2 and flu)!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Really excited for this session at #ASH25 💻🧠🩸!! Please come and join us on Saturday, December 6th, at 4 pm!
#ASH25 is your front-row seat to the future of #hematology Experience the breakthroughs changing the field with Dr. Vijay G. Sankaran as experts explore how #AI is driving new possibilities in research & the care of patients.
🔗 https://ow.ly/7Ev850XpIzU
#ASHinaFlash
🔗 https://ow.ly/7Ev850XpIzU
#ASHinaFlash
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Really excited for this session at #ASH25 💻🧠🩸!! Please come and join us on Saturday, December 6th, at 4 pm!
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Big, beautiful trees!!
SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Big, beautiful trees!!
SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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To dissect the gene regulatory networks used to build organisms, we need Perturb-seq-like tools that work in whole animals.
For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MIC-Drop-seq: Scalable single-cell phenotyping of mutant vertebrate embryos
Pooled perturbation screens can reveal cellular regulatory networks, yet scaling these techniques for large-scale screens in animals remains challenging. To address this, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, wh...
www.biorxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
To dissect the gene regulatory networks used to build organisms, we need Perturb-seq-like tools that work in whole animals.
For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For this purpose, we developed MIC-Drop-seq, a tool that couples high-throughput CRISPR in zebrafish embryos with single-cell RNAseq.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨I could not be more excited to share our new preprint on saturation genome editing of the small nuclear RNA (snRNA) RNU4-2:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
🧬🖥️🩺
🧵1/12
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
🧬🖥️🩺
🧵1/12
Saturation genome editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorders
Recently, de novo variants in an 18 nucleotide region in the centre of RNU4-2 were shown to cause ReNU syndrome, a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that is predicted to affect tens of thous...
www.medrxiv.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨I could not be more excited to share our new preprint on saturation genome editing of the small nuclear RNA (snRNA) RNU4-2:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
🧬🖥️🩺
🧵1/12
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
🧬🖥️🩺
🧵1/12
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A few final comments on this because it's such a perfect example of how conspiratorial thinking gets completely off the rails, when much more mundane and simple explanations exists.
Below, I'll go through the main "Origin" sections, briefly, but let's first address the main question...
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Below, I'll go through the main "Origin" sections, briefly, but let's first address the main question...
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The final report from the COVID Sub Committee is released and it is as expected given that the origin "has been contorted by politics, while scientific discourse has been abandoned in pursuit of a preferred, coordinated narrative", as I stated in my written testimony.
BUT, there's a bombshell.. 🧵👇
BUT, there's a bombshell.. 🧵👇
December 4, 2024 at 1:21 AM
A few final comments on this because it's such a perfect example of how conspiratorial thinking gets completely off the rails, when much more mundane and simple explanations exists.
Below, I'll go through the main "Origin" sections, briefly, but let's first address the main question...
🧵👇
Below, I'll go through the main "Origin" sections, briefly, but let's first address the main question...
🧵👇
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Excited to share our work @science.org. led by our incredible @tommyz626.bsky.social at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social! By profiling 21 million single cells across life stages, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows!
A panoramic view of cell population dynamics in mammalian aging
To elucidate aging-associated cellular population dynamics, we present PanSci, a single-cell transcriptome atlas profiling over 20 million cells from 623 mouse tissues across different life stages, se...
tinyurl.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Excited to share our work @science.org. led by our incredible @tommyz626.bsky.social at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social! By profiling 21 million single cells across life stages, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows!
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The latest from our group, led by Megan Ostrowski and @martyyang.bsky.social, is now published in final form (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...! Many thanks to our excellent peer reviewers for suggesting several experiments (including CAF-1 perturbation) to really improve the study =) #epigenetics
The single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin
By developing a long-read sequencing method to simultaneously map replication status
and protein-DNA contacts in cells, Ostrowski, Yang, et al. show that newly replicated
chromatin is enriched for unw...
www.cell.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The latest from our group, led by Megan Ostrowski and @martyyang.bsky.social, is now published in final form (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...! Many thanks to our excellent peer reviewers for suggesting several experiments (including CAF-1 perturbation) to really improve the study =) #epigenetics
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A reminder of this faculty opening in the Dept of Human Genetics at UU. Applications are due Dec. 8. Please share!
The Dept of Human Genetics is hiring computational genomics faculty again this year! Last year we recruited Xiaoxu Yang - please apply to join him and our human, computational, developmental, and evolutionary genetics faculty. Please spread the word!
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/153...
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November 12, 2023 at 5:38 PM
A reminder of this faculty opening in the Dept of Human Genetics at UU. Applications are due Dec. 8. Please share!