Rebecca Meyer-Schuman
@rmschu.bsky.social
Postdoc in Zoghbi Lab at Baylor College of Medicine | Interested in gene regulation, neurogenetics, variant interpretation, and disease mechanism | Opinions are my own
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On the last day of #ASHG25, attending a telomere session entitled "end results" seems fitting. It's been a great meeting talking with vibrant young geneticists, and on this note, I'm hiring a postdoc! thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/External_JAX...
Postdoctoral Associate
The Beck Lab is seeking an enthusiastic, independent, and highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join our innovative research group at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and University of Co...
thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
On the last day of #ASHG25, attending a telomere session entitled "end results" seems fitting. It's been a great meeting talking with vibrant young geneticists, and on this note, I'm hiring a postdoc! thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/External_JAX...
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This is so good to see - a young baby has had a life changing treatable disease diagnosed early due to broad based (healthy baby) genome sequencing. He has a rare eye cancer gene, and has immediately been put into the effective treatment pathway.
4 weeks after being born, Freddie was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer. He is one of numerous babies born with rare conditions who are receiving earlier diagnoses and treatment as a result of the Generation Study.
Read the full story: ow.ly/YJ7850XcTNk
Read the full story: ow.ly/YJ7850XcTNk
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is so good to see - a young baby has had a life changing treatable disease diagnosed early due to broad based (healthy baby) genome sequencing. He has a rare eye cancer gene, and has immediately been put into the effective treatment pathway.
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Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.
Excited to kick off #ASHG25 today! Stick around for my Saturday morning platform talk, "Dissecting MECP2 cis-regulatory architecture with massively parallel reporter assays to assess its contribution to male-biased autism"
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Excited to kick off #ASHG25 today! Stick around for my Saturday morning platform talk, "Dissecting MECP2 cis-regulatory architecture with massively parallel reporter assays to assess its contribution to male-biased autism"
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The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Asst Professor | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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📣New from @sequenceman.bsky.social & co
📄Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (NARS1) variants implicated in dominant neurological phenotypes display dominant-negative properties
👉https://tinyurl.com/mwc5vfb4
📄Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (NARS1) variants implicated in dominant neurological phenotypes display dominant-negative properties
👉https://tinyurl.com/mwc5vfb4
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📣New from @sequenceman.bsky.social & co
📄Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (NARS1) variants implicated in dominant neurological phenotypes display dominant-negative properties
👉https://tinyurl.com/mwc5vfb4
📄Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (NARS1) variants implicated in dominant neurological phenotypes display dominant-negative properties
👉https://tinyurl.com/mwc5vfb4
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We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences.
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
August 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences.
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
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If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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Leveraging deep mutational scanning and a DNA repair reporter assay, @ajhgnews.bsky.social latest article from @jacobkitzman.bsky.social & co provides a resource to resolve MUTYH VUSs: www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac... #ASHG #HumanGenetics
August 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Leveraging deep mutational scanning and a DNA repair reporter assay, @ajhgnews.bsky.social latest article from @jacobkitzman.bsky.social & co provides a resource to resolve MUTYH VUSs: www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac... #ASHG #HumanGenetics
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In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
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Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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I’ve really enjoyed the mentorship and community provided by this program! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions 🧬🧪
Applications opening soon for the @geneticssociety.bsky.social Human Genome Scholars Initiative! Deadline is Aug 18 for this wonderful two-year program for early career researchers. ashg.org/membership/a... 🧬 🧪
Human Genetics Scholars Initiative
HGSI supports and prepares early-career individuals for professional success and creates a community of researchers committed to achieving ASHG’s vision.
ashg.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’ve really enjoyed the mentorship and community provided by this program! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions 🧬🧪
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NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
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If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
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We're spending today polishing #ASHG25 abstracts - are you? Friendly reminder that abstracts are due at 5PM Eastern on MONDAY! 🗓️ ⏰ Showcase your science, network with @geneticssociety.bsky.social 🧬 friends and colleagues 🧬 in Boston this fall. Can't wait to see you there!
It's that time of year! Submit your fabulous 🧬 science for #ASHG25 in Boston! ABSTRACTS DUE 🗓️ JUNE 9! We'd love to see you there @geneticssociety.bsky.social
Submit your science and remind your friends to do the same!
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
Submit your science and remind your friends to do the same!
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
Abstracts
Abstract submission for ASHG 2025. We encourage you to submit your latest research on human genetics and genomics for programming at the ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting.
www.ashg.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We're spending today polishing #ASHG25 abstracts - are you? Friendly reminder that abstracts are due at 5PM Eastern on MONDAY! 🗓️ ⏰ Showcase your science, network with @geneticssociety.bsky.social 🧬 friends and colleagues 🧬 in Boston this fall. Can't wait to see you there!
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The whole point of funding research is that it may benefit everyone and as the population ages, it will likely save someone close to you (ahem Russ Vought!). But you cannot afford to fund the research yourself unless you’re an oligarch. If there is no social compact for this what even is the point?
June 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The whole point of funding research is that it may benefit everyone and as the population ages, it will likely save someone close to you (ahem Russ Vought!). But you cannot afford to fund the research yourself unless you’re an oligarch. If there is no social compact for this what even is the point?
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Here: Baby KJ at home with his mom Nicole.
This really happened, folks. Hundreds of people from 8 organizations (led by Rebecca Ahrens-nicklas and Kiran Musunuru) came together to make a bespoke gene editor for this kiddo. He was once in the 7th percentile of body weight. Look at him now! ❤️
This really happened, folks. Hundreds of people from 8 organizations (led by Rebecca Ahrens-nicklas and Kiran Musunuru) came together to make a bespoke gene editor for this kiddo. He was once in the 7th percentile of body weight. Look at him now! ❤️
June 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Here: Baby KJ at home with his mom Nicole.
This really happened, folks. Hundreds of people from 8 organizations (led by Rebecca Ahrens-nicklas and Kiran Musunuru) came together to make a bespoke gene editor for this kiddo. He was once in the 7th percentile of body weight. Look at him now! ❤️
This really happened, folks. Hundreds of people from 8 organizations (led by Rebecca Ahrens-nicklas and Kiran Musunuru) came together to make a bespoke gene editor for this kiddo. He was once in the 7th percentile of body weight. Look at him now! ❤️
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There's only ~1 week left for abstract submission for #ASHG25! Get your best stories submitted so we have more fun planning the program. Looking forward to seeing a ton of you genetics researchers in Boston this fall.
June 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There's only ~1 week left for abstract submission for #ASHG25! Get your best stories submitted so we have more fun planning the program. Looking forward to seeing a ton of you genetics researchers in Boston this fall.
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Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Congratulations @agarginine.bsky.social!!!
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Congratulations @agarginine.bsky.social!!!
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It's time to submit abstracts for ASHG 2025! It's going to be a fantastic meeting in Boston. Hope to see you there!
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
Abstracts
Abstract submission for ASHG 2025. We encourage you to submit your latest research on human genetics and genomics for programming at the ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting.
www.ashg.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It's time to submit abstracts for ASHG 2025! It's going to be a fantastic meeting in Boston. Hope to see you there!
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
www.ashg.org/meetings/202...
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A one-of-one CRISPR gene editing treatment saved the life of a newborn with CPS-1 deficiency. This groundbreaking therapy, co-led by #ASHGmember's @ahrensnicklas.bsky.social and @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social, is revolutionizing the future of newborn treatments:
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#ASHG
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#ASHG
A Pennsylvania baby is the first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy
Doctors used the gene editing tool CRISPR to treat an infant born with a rare and dangerous disease. Scientists say it could someday treat millions.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A one-of-one CRISPR gene editing treatment saved the life of a newborn with CPS-1 deficiency. This groundbreaking therapy, co-led by #ASHGmember's @ahrensnicklas.bsky.social and @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social, is revolutionizing the future of newborn treatments:
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#ASHG
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#ASHG