Elizabeth (Beth) Burton
@bethbgenetics.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Broad: Claussnitzer/Neal labs
PhD: CAMB UPenn
I study metabolic genetics 🍭🧬
Go birds 🦅
She/her 💙💜🩷
Opinions my own
PhD: CAMB UPenn
I study metabolic genetics 🍭🧬
Go birds 🦅
She/her 💙💜🩷
Opinions my own
No better way to celebrate 10 years(!!) since joining the Grant lab than to celebrate at my PhD graduation! @struangrant.bsky.social I am so grateful for all the years of mentorship, and I’m so excited to continue collaborating with you and the rest of our colleagues at Penn/CHOP for years to come!
May 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
No better way to celebrate 10 years(!!) since joining the Grant lab than to celebrate at my PhD graduation! @struangrant.bsky.social I am so grateful for all the years of mentorship, and I’m so excited to continue collaborating with you and the rest of our colleagues at Penn/CHOP for years to come!
Proud of my Alma mater (Penn/CHOP!), proud of biomedical scientists, proud of NIH-sponsored research, and most importantly, proud to be in the field that makes discoveries like this possible.
A lipid nanoparticle–delivered base-editing therapy was custom designed for an infant with a ureacycle disorder. The affected infant was treated at approximately 7 and 8 months of age. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/42XF03F
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social
Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM
Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received
a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with
an estimated 50% mortality ...
nej.md
May 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Proud of my Alma mater (Penn/CHOP!), proud of biomedical scientists, proud of NIH-sponsored research, and most importantly, proud to be in the field that makes discoveries like this possible.
Everything is bad but I’m finally in possession of my PhD tam so now one (1) thing is good. See you for graduation next month @cambupenn.bsky.social!
April 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Everything is bad but I’m finally in possession of my PhD tam so now one (1) thing is good. See you for graduation next month @cambupenn.bsky.social!
Boston marathon spectator experience: 11/10 very cool
Boston marathon subway experience: -383928372/10 see the sign
Boston marathon subway experience: -383928372/10 see the sign
April 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Boston marathon spectator experience: 11/10 very cool
Boston marathon subway experience: -383928372/10 see the sign
Boston marathon subway experience: -383928372/10 see the sign
I just had my busiest week in lab since finishing my PhD, and I loved every second of it. This government can attack diversity and science and education all they want, but they’ll NEVER take away my passion for science and my responsibility to use my education to research cures for human disease
March 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I just had my busiest week in lab since finishing my PhD, and I loved every second of it. This government can attack diversity and science and education all they want, but they’ll NEVER take away my passion for science and my responsibility to use my education to research cures for human disease
2 years today since we lost Casey.
In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.
In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
2 years today since we lost Casey.
In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.
In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.
It’s officially 5 years since I got an email from Penn saying to “stay home for the next 2 weeks and then we’ll reassess things from there…” While I have no desire to go back to the dark pre-vaccine days of COVID I will say this: while I was stuck at home, I wrote an NIH F31 grant and it got funded.
March 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It’s officially 5 years since I got an email from Penn saying to “stay home for the next 2 weeks and then we’ll reassess things from there…” While I have no desire to go back to the dark pre-vaccine days of COVID I will say this: while I was stuck at home, I wrote an NIH F31 grant and it got funded.
Oh you thought a little wind would stop Bostonians from showing up for science? Think again! #standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh you thought a little wind would stop Bostonians from showing up for science? Think again! #standupforscience2025
I’d rather be in lab, but alas, I’ve got to go protest to save science. Again. Tomorrow (March 7), your state capital, time to Stand Up For Science
Find your local rally here: standupforscience2025.org
Find your local rally here: standupforscience2025.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’d rather be in lab, but alas, I’ve got to go protest to save science. Again. Tomorrow (March 7), your state capital, time to Stand Up For Science
Find your local rally here: standupforscience2025.org
Find your local rally here: standupforscience2025.org
Reposted by Elizabeth (Beth) Burton
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
PubMed is down, so I thought “surely BLAST won’t also be down” and uh… it’s also down.
Folks it’s getting bleaker by the day
Folks it’s getting bleaker by the day
March 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
PubMed is down, so I thought “surely BLAST won’t also be down” and uh… it’s also down.
Folks it’s getting bleaker by the day
Folks it’s getting bleaker by the day
It’s so unbelievably embarrassing to be an American right now
March 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It’s so unbelievably embarrassing to be an American right now
If you’re like me you’ve been doing a LOT of doomscrolling. Let me briefly interrupt your doomscrolling with my latest finished crochet project: a granny square afghan inspired by Spanish/Portuguese tiles that I gave to my sister for Christmas
February 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If you’re like me you’ve been doing a LOT of doomscrolling. Let me briefly interrupt your doomscrolling with my latest finished crochet project: a granny square afghan inspired by Spanish/Portuguese tiles that I gave to my sister for Christmas
RUN, do not walk, to your nearest drug store or doctor’s office and make sure you are up to date on ALL vaccines.
February 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
RUN, do not walk, to your nearest drug store or doctor’s office and make sure you are up to date on ALL vaccines.
FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS
Blasting our fight song loud and proud from Boston tonight 🫡🦅
Blasting our fight song loud and proud from Boston tonight 🫡🦅
SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!
February 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS
Blasting our fight song loud and proud from Boston tonight 🫡🦅
Blasting our fight song loud and proud from Boston tonight 🫡🦅
I don’t want to be so pessimistic, but it’s hard not to feel completely demoralized having gone through 4 years of undergrad and 6+ years of my PhD just to watch all my future biomedical career prospects slip away at the whim of a government that couldn’t care less about its (non-billionaire) people
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don’t want to be so pessimistic, but it’s hard not to feel completely demoralized having gone through 4 years of undergrad and 6+ years of my PhD just to watch all my future biomedical career prospects slip away at the whim of a government that couldn’t care less about its (non-billionaire) people
Fantastic work out of my new lab, so excited to be a part of ongoing efforts in the optical pooled screening world! Congrats to all the authors 🎉
Our paper “A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology” is finally out today in @naturemethods.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(I tweeted about our preprint in 2023 over at the bad place, but deactivated my account, so here we go again!)
(I tweeted about our preprint in 2023 over at the bad place, but deactivated my account, so here we go again!)
A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology - Nature Methods
An optical pooled cell profiling platform (PERISCOPE) based on Cell Painting and optical sequencing of molecular barcodes was used to develop the first unbiased genome-wide morphology-based perturbati...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Fantastic work out of my new lab, so excited to be a part of ongoing efforts in the optical pooled screening world! Congrats to all the authors 🎉
My account was disabled due to “suspected spam activity” but luckily I was able to appeal that and get it back. If this was Twitter I’d suspect something shady going on, but here it feels like a genuine mistake. Anyway, I’m back and GO BIRDS
January 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My account was disabled due to “suspected spam activity” but luckily I was able to appeal that and get it back. If this was Twitter I’d suspect something shady going on, but here it feels like a genuine mistake. Anyway, I’m back and GO BIRDS
To the guy on the red line platform at Kendall tonight in the Eagles hat: a very chilly go birds 🫡 🦅
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
To the guy on the red line platform at Kendall tonight in the Eagles hat: a very chilly go birds 🫡 🦅
Eagles 🤝 Bills
Just barely skating by in their respective snow games
Just barely skating by in their respective snow games
January 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Eagles 🤝 Bills
Just barely skating by in their respective snow games
Just barely skating by in their respective snow games
Today’s entry on my 2025 new-word-a-day calendar, presented without comment
January 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Today’s entry on my 2025 new-word-a-day calendar, presented without comment
It will always be an honor to be a mentee of Casey. I’m so deeply grateful to all the wonderful scientists who took the time to record these lectures to honor his memory and to make science more accessible to everyone. Special thanks to Shweta for making this all happen!
Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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January 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It will always be an honor to be a mentee of Casey. I’m so deeply grateful to all the wonderful scientists who took the time to record these lectures to honor his memory and to make science more accessible to everyone. Special thanks to Shweta for making this all happen!
Happy holidays to bunn and all, no matter what you celebrate!
December 26, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Happy holidays to bunn and all, no matter what you celebrate!
Deeply ominous warning from Amtrak about my train home today on the Northeast Corridor (we did, in fact, experience a delay a lengthy delay)
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Deeply ominous warning from Amtrak about my train home today on the Northeast Corridor (we did, in fact, experience a delay a lengthy delay)
I’ve had a great time these past 2 days at the Broad Retreat learning about some extremely cool science, and getting to spend time with my awesome new labmates! I’m so grateful to have gone from one amazing lab environment at Penn to another one in Boston 😊
December 17, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I’ve had a great time these past 2 days at the Broad Retreat learning about some extremely cool science, and getting to spend time with my awesome new labmates! I’m so grateful to have gone from one amazing lab environment at Penn to another one in Boston 😊