Sarah Walker
@ribowalker.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University at Buffalo
Studying how ribosomes decide which mRNAs to translate and how defects in that process affect human health
She/her
ORCID: 0000-0002-9983-2485
Studying how ribosomes decide which mRNAs to translate and how defects in that process affect human health
She/her
ORCID: 0000-0002-9983-2485
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Join us as the first PhD student in my group! Based in the beautiful city of Münster, Germany, you will develop the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of modified nucleotides, which are used as building blocks of mRNA.
Here is the link:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6...
#chemsky #chembio
Here is the link:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6...
#chemsky #chembio
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Join us as the first PhD student in my group! Based in the beautiful city of Münster, Germany, you will develop the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of modified nucleotides, which are used as building blocks of mRNA.
Here is the link:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6...
#chemsky #chembio
Here is the link:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6...
#chemsky #chembio
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Buffalo peeps! I am hosting a science spooktacular event at the new Third Space venue downtown on Oct 30 at 6PM! Come hear fun stories about science from trainees, all geared towards a non-specialist audience. Check the flyer for all the info! Please RT
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Buffalo peeps! I am hosting a science spooktacular event at the new Third Space venue downtown on Oct 30 at 6PM! Come hear fun stories about science from trainees, all geared towards a non-specialist audience. Check the flyer for all the info! Please RT
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If you’re starting grad school in Fall 2025 (or planning to apply and start in Fall 2026), this is a foundation award similar to federal grad fellowships (like NSF GRFP). Always worth applying if you’re an eligible student!
There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you’re starting grad school in Fall 2025 (or planning to apply and start in Fall 2026), this is a foundation award similar to federal grad fellowships (like NSF GRFP). Always worth applying if you’re an eligible student!
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If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
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April 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
March 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
This is really cool! It’s interesting that dual binding of S20/L26 to both subunits is conserved in proteobacteria. I wonder if the extra copy protects the ribosomes from a phage or allows an alternative interaction in a stress condition. Or maybe it just happened for no reason and stuck anyway.
Here we unexpectedly find that the ribosomal protein S20/L26—identified at the dawn of ribosome research but later deemed a biochemical artifact—is indeed a genuine component of the large ribosomal subunit. More on this ribosome content variation is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structurally heterogeneous ribosomes cooperate in protein synthesis in bacterial cells - Nature Communications
Cells can simultaneously produce structurally dissimilar ribosomes, suggesting functional specialization of distinct ribosome populations. Here, the authors show that distinct ribosomes cooperate rath...
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is really cool! It’s interesting that dual binding of S20/L26 to both subunits is conserved in proteobacteria. I wonder if the extra copy protects the ribosomes from a phage or allows an alternative interaction in a stress condition. Or maybe it just happened for no reason and stuck anyway.
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I recently flew back into the US following an international trip and for the first time felt fear and anxiety while presenting my green card at the immigration control. Because of stories like this.
If the goal is to instill fear in legal immigrants it's working.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If the goal is to instill fear in legal immigrants it's working.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I recently flew back into the US following an international trip and for the first time felt fear and anxiety while presenting my green card at the immigration control. Because of stories like this.
If the goal is to instill fear in legal immigrants it's working.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If the goal is to instill fear in legal immigrants it's working.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Registration is open for the Buffalo RNA Symposium that will be held at Roswell Park in downtown Buffalo June 11. 3 keynote talks, a poster session, and selected talks from the abstracts during summer in Buffalo (so good). Sponsored by RNA Society and Lexogen. www.roswellpark.org/rna-symposium
March 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Registration is open for the Buffalo RNA Symposium that will be held at Roswell Park in downtown Buffalo June 11. 3 keynote talks, a poster session, and selected talks from the abstracts during summer in Buffalo (so good). Sponsored by RNA Society and Lexogen. www.roswellpark.org/rna-symposium
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If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
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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-...
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The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next.
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next.
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
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Blatantly illegal. It's time to start fighting, universities. The pretexts will change, but they are coming for all of you.
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million (government press release) www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that through their coordinated efforts they would i...
www.gsa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Blatantly illegal. It's time to start fighting, universities. The pretexts will change, but they are coming for all of you.
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I work in amazing place: UNC-Chapel Hill Biology. Our faculty of ~50 includes folks engaged in both basic science & pedagogical research. We have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor to join us in July 2025-happy to answer questions RT
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
Teaching Asst or Teaching Associate Professor
The position calls for teaching three classes per semester, which may include fundamental classes for biology majors such as cell biology and genetics, and biodiversity (ecology, evolution, and organi...
unc.peopleadmin.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I work in amazing place: UNC-Chapel Hill Biology. Our faculty of ~50 includes folks engaged in both basic science & pedagogical research. We have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor to join us in July 2025-happy to answer questions RT
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
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🚨 Stand Up for Science Buffalo rally update! New confirmed speaker: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz! He will be taking the "stage" at 2:45PM!
Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word!
@markpoloncarz.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word!
@markpoloncarz.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Stand Up For Science, Buffalo!
We rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. (Reg. is for planning and not required.)
www.eventbrite.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 Stand Up for Science Buffalo rally update! New confirmed speaker: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz! He will be taking the "stage" at 2:45PM!
Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word!
@markpoloncarz.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word!
@markpoloncarz.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Community engagement and outreach ✔️📣
Join us at the Buffalo Stand up for Science on Friday!
I'm speaking too!
🧪💎🔬
Join us at the Buffalo Stand up for Science on Friday!
I'm speaking too!
🧪💎🔬
If I'm speaking at a Stand Up For Science Rally, can I list that on my CV as an invited presentation? 🧪🌎💧
PS - come join us in Buffalo! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
PS - come join us in Buffalo! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Stand Up For Science, Buffalo!
We rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. (Reg. is for planning and not required.)
www.eventbrite.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Community engagement and outreach ✔️📣
Join us at the Buffalo Stand up for Science on Friday!
I'm speaking too!
🧪💎🔬
Join us at the Buffalo Stand up for Science on Friday!
I'm speaking too!
🧪💎🔬
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For any REI members who may not realize there is a Board election, or that it is contentious, see this. I ended up supporting one and not supporting the other two. do your research, make your call and VOTE.
If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/
March 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
For any REI members who may not realize there is a Board election, or that it is contentious, see this. I ended up supporting one and not supporting the other two. do your research, make your call and VOTE.
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ATTENTION
If anyone has a NoA from Year 1 and subsequent years that they are willing to share, please DM me.
If anyone has a NoA from Year 1 and subsequent years that they are willing to share, please DM me.
a gnome in a blue hat holds a sign that says dm me
ALT: a gnome in a blue hat holds a sign that says dm me
media.tenor.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
ATTENTION
If anyone has a NoA from Year 1 and subsequent years that they are willing to share, please DM me.
If anyone has a NoA from Year 1 and subsequent years that they are willing to share, please DM me.
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The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?
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Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word!
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
Stand Up For Science, Buffalo!
On March 7, 2025, we rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.
www.eventbrite.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word!
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy
A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.
www.eurekalert.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
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NIH indirects case update:
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NIH indirects case update:
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)