Emily Norton
@emilynorton295.bsky.social
Postdoc in Clark Lab @mayoclinic | PhD in Guerrero-Cazares Lab @mayoclinic | neuro-oncology 🧠 views my own
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If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.
Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
March 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.
Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
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The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪
Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour
We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.
go.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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@MayoMrfa Florida Postdocs, don’t forget to submit your work for the 2025 Postdoctoral Research Day!
Abstracts due on February 19th!
@emilynorton295.bsky.social @DoctorQMd @mayoclinic.org
Abstracts due on February 19th!
@emilynorton295.bsky.social @DoctorQMd @mayoclinic.org
February 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
@MayoMrfa Florida Postdocs, don’t forget to submit your work for the 2025 Postdoctoral Research Day!
Abstracts due on February 19th!
@emilynorton295.bsky.social @DoctorQMd @mayoclinic.org
Abstracts due on February 19th!
@emilynorton295.bsky.social @DoctorQMd @mayoclinic.org
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To all the ferocious women I work with in the lab, is an honor serve with you! Let’s keep fighting for science! @paulaschiapparelli.bsky.social @paosmeade.bsky.social @emilynorton295.bsky.social and many others💜
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To all the ferocious women I work with in the lab, is an honor serve with you! Let’s keep fighting for science! @paulaschiapparelli.bsky.social @paosmeade.bsky.social @emilynorton295.bsky.social and many others💜
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February 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I, too, got into science because I didn’t like politics.
But guess what? Our entire existence is political.
It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.
But guess what? Our entire existence is political.
It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.
Well well well, who would've thought science is political eh
January 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I, too, got into science because I didn’t like politics.
But guess what? Our entire existence is political.
It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.
But guess what? Our entire existence is political.
It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.
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Calling on my colleagues to be active in registering a protest on the withholding of federal research funding with their state representatives. Thank you for the template, Lisa. 🧪
Just called my senators and representative to oppose the federal funding freeze. If you want help deciding what to say my colleagues created this template - customized for Tennessee concerns about research grants but easily modifiable for other states and issues. 1/
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Research Grant Freeze - Ideas for Calls/Emails to TN Reps
Suggestions for Researchers Contacting TN State Representatives Regarding the OMB Order for a Federal Grant Freeze To find your representatives and their contact information: https://www.usa.gov/el...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Calling on my colleagues to be active in registering a protest on the withholding of federal research funding with their state representatives. Thank you for the template, Lisa. 🧪
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Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants
The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I
The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I
Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants
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January 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants
The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I
The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I
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1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis
Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis.
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
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Scientists and engineers provide to Nature their outlook on what Donald Trump’s second term could mean for science. 🧪
What Trump 2.0 means for science: the likely winners and losers
The incoming US president is expected to gut support for research on the environment and infectious diseases, but could buoy work in artificial intelligence, quantum research and space exploration.
go.nature.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Scientists and engineers provide to Nature their outlook on what Donald Trump’s second term could mean for science. 🧪
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Why is human brain development, and particularly neuron morphogenesis, so slow and how is this linked to evolution? doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630576
We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629881
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We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629881
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Calcium dynamics tune developmental tempo to generate evolutionarily divergent axon tract lengths
The considerably slow pace of human brain development correlates with an evolutionary increase in brain size, cell numbers, and expansion of neuronal structures, with axon tracts undergoing an even gr...
doi.org
December 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Why is human brain development, and particularly neuron morphogenesis, so slow and how is this linked to evolution? doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630576
We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629881
🧵 (1/n)
We developed mouse brain organoid methods capturing differences to human and used these to address this. doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629881
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"I'll start writing it closer to the deadline"
January 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I'll start writing it closer to the deadline"
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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
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📣 Thrilled to announce that I’ve been named an HHMI #HannaGrayFellows ! 🎉
This fellowship supports early-career scientists like me as we push the boundaries of scientific discovery. I’m excited to further my research and be a part of this incredible community! @hhmi.bsky.social
This fellowship supports early-career scientists like me as we push the boundaries of scientific discovery. I’m excited to further my research and be a part of this incredible community! @hhmi.bsky.social
Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
January 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣 Thrilled to announce that I’ve been named an HHMI #HannaGrayFellows ! 🎉
This fellowship supports early-career scientists like me as we push the boundaries of scientific discovery. I’m excited to further my research and be a part of this incredible community! @hhmi.bsky.social
This fellowship supports early-career scientists like me as we push the boundaries of scientific discovery. I’m excited to further my research and be a part of this incredible community! @hhmi.bsky.social
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So important to mention this when talking to politicians or the public: $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of NIH research funding!
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
January 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So important to mention this when talking to politicians or the public: $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of NIH research funding!
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ZIC1 is a context-dependent medulloblastoma driver in the rhombic lip
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ZIC1 is a context-dependent medulloblastoma driver in the rhombic lip - Nature Genetics
Analysis of medulloblastomas in humans and mice shows that the functional consequences of ZIC1 mutations are exquisitely dependent on the cells of origin that give rise to different subgroups of medul...
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January 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
ZIC1 is a context-dependent medulloblastoma driver in the rhombic lip
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why do kids get cancer at such a young age? Sometimes we find a mutant gene that runs in the family. Often not.
This 💎 of a paper from @vanallenlab.bsky.social and Riaz Gillani finds new causes of #childhoodcancer. This is worth your time!
🧬 💻
#PEDsky
#CANsky
#MEDsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This 💎 of a paper from @vanallenlab.bsky.social and Riaz Gillani finds new causes of #childhoodcancer. This is worth your time!
🧬 💻
#PEDsky
#CANsky
#MEDsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rare germline structural variants increase risk for pediatric solid tumors
Pediatric solid tumors are a leading cause of childhood disease mortality. In this work, we examined germline structural variants (SVs) as risk factors for pediatric extracranial solid tumors using ge...
www.science.org
January 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Why do kids get cancer at such a young age? Sometimes we find a mutant gene that runs in the family. Often not.
This 💎 of a paper from @vanallenlab.bsky.social and Riaz Gillani finds new causes of #childhoodcancer. This is worth your time!
🧬 💻
#PEDsky
#CANsky
#MEDsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This 💎 of a paper from @vanallenlab.bsky.social and Riaz Gillani finds new causes of #childhoodcancer. This is worth your time!
🧬 💻
#PEDsky
#CANsky
#MEDsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gliomagenesis mimics an injury response orchestrated by neural crest-like cells - Nature
A study using glioblastoma mouse models, serial magnetic resonance imaging and single-cell profiling details changes in the identity and balance of cellular states from initiation of tumorigenesis to ...
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January 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Superb work by my Department colleagues on genetic determinants of lissencephaly www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dysregulation of mTOR signalling is a converging mechanism in lissencephaly - Nature
Cellular, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells show that mTOR pathway hypoactivation is involved in two genetically distinct lissencepha...
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January 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Superb work by my Department colleagues on genetic determinants of lissencephaly www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Seeking #PostDoc to join the Gregory lab in the #BrainTumorOmics Program, performing cutting-edge #singlecell and #spatialtranscriptomics techniques & studying mechanisms driving development & progression of #glioma 🧠
shttps://careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-POSTDOCTORAL-ASSOCIATE-NC-27710/1243119300/
shttps://careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-POSTDOCTORAL-ASSOCIATE-NC-27710/1243119300/
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
careers.duke.edu
December 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Seeking #PostDoc to join the Gregory lab in the #BrainTumorOmics Program, performing cutting-edge #singlecell and #spatialtranscriptomics techniques & studying mechanisms driving development & progression of #glioma 🧠
shttps://careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-POSTDOCTORAL-ASSOCIATE-NC-27710/1243119300/
shttps://careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-POSTDOCTORAL-ASSOCIATE-NC-27710/1243119300/
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🔥 Characterizing and targeting glioblastoma neuron-tumor networks with retrograde tracing: Beautiful work by @venkataramanilab.bsky.social, congratulations !!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Characterizing and targeting glioblastoma neuron-tumor networks with retrograde tracing
Rapid integration of glioblastoma into neuronal circuits promotes glioblastoma invasion and growth, as shown by rabies-based retrograde tracing. Targeting of neuron-tumor networks with pharmacological or rabies-mediated disconnection offers therapeutic potential.
www.cell.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:06 AM
🔥 Characterizing and targeting glioblastoma neuron-tumor networks with retrograde tracing: Beautiful work by @venkataramanilab.bsky.social, congratulations !!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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After we reach advanced age, around 80, the propensity to develop cancer is markedly reduced. A discovery reported at Nature today about aged stem cells and iron insufficiency may help explain this advantage
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
December 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
After we reach advanced age, around 80, the propensity to develop cancer is markedly reduced. A discovery reported at Nature today about aged stem cells and iron insufficiency may help explain this advantage
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..