Matt Simon
Matt Simon
@mattdsimon.bsky.social
Chemical biologist studying chromatin & RNA biology at Yale University.
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There is still time to submit an abstract - join us in Nashville!
Attention gene researchers! Early registration has been extended to Apr 28! Register now and save $150 for #MGeneSRC in Nashville. Organizer @lisaracki.bsky.social alongside Blake Wiedenheft of MT State and Meindert Lamers of Leiden Univ. can't wait to see you. Save your space: hubs.ly/Q037NsyH0
April 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday?

We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
March 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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We are happy to share the development of Co-transcriptional Structure Tracking by @leoschaerfen.bsky.social, which measures RNA structure formation during its synthesis in vivo. We are excited to discover the activity of helicases on nascent rRNA!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Rapid folding of nascent RNA regulates eukaryotic RNA biogenesis
An RNA′s catalytic, regulatory, or coding potential depends on RNA structure formation. Because base pairing occurs during transcription, early structural states can govern RNA processing events and d...
www.biorxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM