Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3]
📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And now the last talk of the day from Stowers’ own Brandon Fagen, presenting "5S IRNA regulatory changes in fission yeast are dynamic and rapid". #OddPols25

#Fungal infections are hard to treat due to #DrugResistance. @blakebillmyre.bsky.social &co use a high-throughput #TNseq system in #Cryptococcus neoformans to identify >1400 essential genes & reveal a role for #mitochondrial genes in #fluconazole sensitivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dz3iVm

Each year the Behrensen – Guzmán Palma Award recognizes excellence in graduate #research. This year’s award goes to @jupeloggia.bsky.social whose research sheds light on how environment and #genetics together guide sensory organ development. www.stowers.org/gradschool/n...

Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Meet a #StowersGrad predoc!

happy International Day of [banned] and [banned] in Science [under review] from the US

Thanks to the entire @stowersinstitute.bsky.social scientific community for a great discussion!

Thank you to @takashiakeralab.bsky.social for joining us for a fantastic #WednesdayLectureSeries presentation! Hosted by the Gerton Lab.

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch!

Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint 🥳 doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633479 🧵(1/8)

This beautiful #MicroscopyMonday shows a #zebrafish karyotype, the complete set of chromosomes in its cells.
@michaydiez.bsky.social (Gerton Lab)

Today at #CellBio2024, Andrew Bestul presents a poster on Uncharacterized meiotic protein, SPAC4C5.03 (fss1), Facilitates Starvation Sex through proper gamete formation and maintenance. @ascbiology.bsky.social

See a full list of our talks and posters: www.stowers.org/events/cell-...

OK Pinterest, I see where you are coming from

Another great week of #FridayScienceClub with presentations from @michaydiez.bsky.social and Alex Von Schulze! 👏

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

The hacked the @nanopore sequencer to read amino acids and PTMs along protein strands. This opens up the possibility for barcode sequencing at the protein level for highly multiplexed assays, PTM monitoring, and protein identification 🧬🧪🤯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...