Excited to share our findings on highly repetitive tandem arrays in Drosophila! Our new genome assemblies provide insights into Histone, rDNA, and Stellate clusters. Check out our preprint for more. Plus, we've improved the melanogaster reference genome. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genome defense requires innovation in specificity factors that recognize emerging selfish genes but does it require other types of innovations? We think so! Happy to share our preprint “Escalation of genome defense capacity enables control of an expanding meiotic driver” 🧵:

Are you interested in transposons, placental biology, epigenetics and pregnancy? The advert is out for a postdoc position in my lab at King's College London, Guy's Campus - closes July 14th: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/091130-po…

We've just started using HaloTag ligands to enhance the signal of low-abundance proteins in fixed Drosophila embryos. Does anyone have experience co-staining with HaloTag ligands and good old-fashioned antibodies? We're searching for a protocol. THANK YOU!

Daily caffeine throughout my career / life stages: Grad student ❌ Postdoc w/o kids ❌ Postdoc w/ 1 kid 🍵 Postdoc w/ 2 kids☕️ On job market ☕️☕️ 1st year PI ☕️☕️☕️ Worried I'm in log growth and won't hit the asymptote until after tenure.

beautiful cover Ankita Chavan congrats The Jagannathan Lab Rangan Lab and teams on beautiful papers on Stonewall, genome organization, and nuclear pore complex! 🤩

Three years ago, Google released an AI tool that predicts how proteins fold — knowledge that promises to revolutionize medicine. The inside story of its creation and impact lays bare AI’s potential and limitations. Yasemin Saplakoglu's amazing story: quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolut… #longreads

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Join us at the Cold Spring Harbor Germ Cells meeting this year! It’s one of my favorite meetings, and this year my privilege to organize!! I really hope to see you all there!!! ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ ⁦MD Anderson-UTH Grad⁩ search.app/jBmTmFmRiscRaw…

Penn's Department of Genetics has several new tenure-track assistant professor openings. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/147616

1/9 We show that Human ribosomes have different rRNA sequences, predominantly indels. These include abundant variants such as GGC indels, which form different structures. We visualize variants in single cells and associate them with development and cancer. doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen…

Are you a structural biologist on the job market? Our department is hiring TWO Assistant Professors this year! Learn more about the department on our website. Applications due October 1st. stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioche…

Amazing opportunity to join the faculty of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology LauferCenter Stony Brook University apply here by Sept 30: apply.interfolio.com/150310

Congratulations to the lab's three summer undergraduates on their wonderful research presentations today! It was a joy working with Hunter, Angel, and Zarah this summer, and I look forward to seeing more awesome science from them in the future!

If you’re choosing a research group to join, pay just as much - if not more - attention to the culture and mentoring style in the group than the research. You can succeed in lots of research areas or projects, but it’s tough to succeed in an unsupportive environment.

The Nelson Lab celebrated our 1st birthday today! It's been a year of lots of change and growth. I'm excited about our team and look forward to seeing all that we accomplish in year 2!

Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs nature.com/articles/s4147… Nature Plants

Only two weeks left to apply for our department's two faculty positions in biochemistry or structural biology! Come join our diverse, engaging, and growing department at Stony Brook University! stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioche…

My wife found this drawing of our family at my daughter's open house last night. She included a fruit fly next to me 😅

New preprint from our lab 🚨 We explored the variability in ribosomal DNA copy number and activity across humans of the world with Jennifer Gerton Paxton Kostos Andrea Guarracino Steven Solar Erik Garrison Adam Phillippy and others not on X biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵