Gemma May
@gemmaemay.bsky.social
Researcher in the McManus Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
RNA biology | genomics | translation | uORFs
RNA biology | genomics | translation | uORFs
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My story: I’m a single father and cancer researcher whose wife died of a rare cancer. Science and biomedical research is personal to me. Here is my op-ed in my hometown newspaper. Pls fwd.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
www.vindy.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My story: I’m a single father and cancer researcher whose wife died of a rare cancer. Science and biomedical research is personal to me. Here is my op-ed in my hometown newspaper. Pls fwd.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
Another one from the McManus lab. Congrats, Melissa! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Roles of P-body factors in Candida albicans filamentation and stress response
Author summary In the dimorphic fungal pathogen C. albicans, the hyphal phenotype strongly correlates with pathogenicity. While transcriptional control of hyphal growth has been extensively studied, c...
journals.plos.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another one from the McManus lab. Congrats, Melissa! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Latest paper from the McManus lab just out. academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
Deciphering the landscape of cis-acting sequences in natural yeast transcript leaders
Abstract. Protein synthesis is a vital process that is highly regulated at the initiation step of translation. Eukaryotic 5′ transcript leaders (TLs) conta
academic.oup.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Latest paper from the McManus lab just out. academic.oup.com/nar/article-...