We're excited to announce the upcoming Postdoctoral Rising Stars Symposium University of Utah Health with 20 outstanding scientists from broad backgrounds and keynote by Elizabeth Villa, with generous support by Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Hosts U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry U of U NUIP U of Utah Department of Neurobiology University of Utah College of Pharmacy Huntsman Cancer Institute

I really enjoyed my visit to CVTRI at University of Utah. This center has a long tradition of excellence, working with multiple investigators and departments throughout the U and the country. cvrti.utah.edu It was an awesome visit for me!

NINDS is excited to announce the appointment of pediatric neurologist Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH as Deputy Director. Dr. Poduri is a leader in the field of epilepsy genetics and her work has led to the discovery of several genes associated with epilepsy. go.nih.gov/l9AllrS

for those who weight-lift, I have been trying to improve my very crappy bench press. I feel weak, as here I am grinding out 195 lbs, having failed 205 lbs before that. Not sure I will ever get 225 lbs as a 50 year old man. Sigh. Shoulda started younger?

Sad to learn of the death of Joe Gall, a man often described as the "father of cell biology" who was an inspiration to so many trainees. This from KinesinMotors a few years ago. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/11….

Got my flu and new covid booster last Saturday. Felt crappy for one day, then back to normal. Doing my best to stay protected. Still have not gotten COVID ever. Knock on wood.

This site has become kind of hard to use. I basically stay on it because academics and math people haven’t left, and that conversation is civilized and ok, but you step one toe outside that and it’s just deranged racist morons and trash ads everywhere. When are we going to move?

This morning at the Paris Sleuths' symposium we are discussing what drives people to do fraud. Administrators love metrics! As long as we focusing on metrics, and the chance of repercussions is small, scientists will fraud. This has led to the explosive rise of paper mills.

For Svetlana Mojsov, who published key papers on the GLP-1 receptor while at MGH in the 1980s, the Lasker prize caps a mind-bending change of fortune, as she told Science in a Q and A. science.org/content/articl…

Lasker prize. How DNA Sensing Drives Inflammation | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Re-analysis of CLAP data affirms PRC2 as an RNA binding protein and XIST RNA as a target. We (YongWoo Lee, Roy Blum, Michael Rosenberg) examined the datasets of Guo et al. (PMID 38387462 - which reported that PRC2 is not an RBP) ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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