Planning your seminar series, conferences, symposia for post-covid? Any black speakers? Or same black speakers from elite University X being recycled? Or maybe instead of faculty invites, could be some talented black grad students or postdocs that could give excellent talks.

If you think your rights have been violated while protesting, try to do the following: Write down everything you remember including officers' badge or patrol car numbers. Get bystanders' contact information for witnesses. Take photos of any injuries. aclu.org/know-your-righ…

And some can say well you’ve become a professor. You’ve been able to rise above this noise. Its true. I’m a resilient optimist. But do we really want a system that selects not for innovation/creativity but for Black scientists who can tolerate racial hostility and isolation?

Recently at a conference a good-intentioned professor asked me, “Shouldn’t we just lower our standards if we want to diversify our faculty?” If we are honest with ourselves, this thinking is widespread. Allies can help by combating the idea that diversity=lowering of quality.

Very proud of our 1st graduate student Jenny Luppino, PhD for her leadership throughout this project, and MD/PhD candidate Daniel S. Park for major contributions! Let's go Eric Joyce!

Excited to share: Defining the lineage of thermogenic perivascular adipose tissue in coequal collaboration with Alex Sakers! This study was motivated by our interest in how the body makes energy burning fat cells during development and adulthood. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Happy to share our latest work just out at Cell Systems ➡️ bit.ly/34yBDC6. We discovered a single-cell signaling mechanism by which melanoma cells can survive and slowly proliferate despite being targeted with precision anti-cancer drugs RAF/MEK inhibitors (1/6)

SUPER excited to finally share what I've been working on with Arjun Raj for the last few years! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It is my great pleasure to introduce *Dr.* Lauren Beck, who just successfully defended her thesis! I have been so lucky to work with her on her awesome organoid constraint work for the past few years. She is brilliant, talented, and has taught me so much about perseverance.

Excited to see our paper finally out! A co-equal collaboration with Alex Sakers (twitterless) in the The Seale Lab (UPenn) We sought to identify the cell types involved in making energy burning fat cells around blood vessels.

Excited to share my (first) first author preprint from Arjun Raj + Twitterless Rajan Jain lab "Cell type determination for cardiac differentiation occurs soon after seeding of human induced pluripotent stem cells" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats Connie! A true tour de force!

I am very excited to share the work of Kofi Acheampong| MS4 and Dylan Schaff as well as the first pre-print from the lab!! 🥳 -- Multiplexed detection of SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic RNA using in situ hybridization biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats Yogesh on the incredible work!

1/ Excited to share our preprint from Arjun Raj on clampFISH 2.0: a method for rapid, multiplexed RNA imaging (e.g. 10 genes in 1 million cells in ~1.25 days) Penn Bioengineering biorxiv.org/content/10.110… If you’ve done conventional single-molecule RNA FISH, you’ll know it is slow…

Congratulations to Michael B. Elowitz of Caltech ElowitzLab who joins the National Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contributions to synthetic and systems biology. #NAS159 Read more: ow.ly/KyJU50IYASx #systemsbiology

BMP party in Cell Systems hosted by ElowitzLab

What are the functional roles of 3D genome organization? In a new preprint led by Prashant Bhat, we demonstrate a critical role for dynamic 3D organization of genomic DNA around nuclear speckles in controlling the efficiency of mRNA splicing. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…