Making interneurons with Magoh A Research Highlight from our current issue, featuring Debby Silver's new paper on the exon junction complex in mouse cortical development dev.biologists.org/content/147/1/…

Our paper on how mutations in the RNA helicase, DDX3X impair brain development is online Neuron! cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Duke Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program embracing social distancing with a zoom happy hour! 🍻

Day #3 of #workingfromhome: my cats are upset that I’m constantly home and have reclaimed my desk space in their usual areas 😿

Day 5 of tele-meetings: I need a green screen

🚨Biomedical scientists! What can you do to keep your personal, academic, research and professional goals on track while working remotely? Check out the crowdsourced list we made with Mary Munson – add your ideas, share widely and RT!🚨 Academic Chatter™ tinyurl.com/wvzly3k

From The Conscious Kid

Curious so seeing if science twitter has the answer: For South paw gamers, are you also left handed in games? E.g. in Skyrim is your main weapon in your left or right hand?

This story needs the same outrage as the July ICE ruling - there is no logical reason for this restriction if int'l students follow safe travel and quarantine procedures. Online instruction remains the safest option in a pandemic. Once again, the cruelty is the point. #AbolishICE

Small joys of grad school I didn’t fully appreciate until they were gone, now it’s just experiments until you graduate :(

Social constructs impact how sick you get, at least in macaques. #upgg20 bit.ly/37z1onU

Here is the full sequence of the Pfizer vaccine, courtesy of the WHO. 4284 nucleotide, 1273 amino acids. All U are 1-methyl-3'-pseudouridine. PolyA has strange structure, is broken up with GCAUAUGACU.

RNA vs. DNA 🤗

Today I finished my first roll of parafilm of my PhD. Opened in Dec, should I notify Guinness Book of World Records?

I am once again asking you to get vaccinated.

It’s Twitter bio official… officially a PhD candidate!! 🥳👨‍🔬

A fantastic opportunity for anyone debating graduate school to gain confidence in research while working with a great mentor and lab!

At #RNA22? Interested in imaging your favorite m6A modified RNA?Come check out my poster tonight, PS1-086! I’ll be presenting our new method from the MeyerLab for visualizing transcript- and site-specific m6A modified and unmodified RNAs.

Excited for this work to be out and we hope this enables future studies of m6A-mediated mRNA localization!

Have a favorite m6A-modified RNA? Want to see where it’s going in the cell? Come hear about our new technique DART-FISH next Thursday as part of a Proteintech webinar!