I still don’t understand why major funding agencies like NIH don’t have their own jounals that are mandatory and free to publish in if you are funded by them. It would solve many of the issues we have now and save those agencies a ton of money wasted on publication fees

Wonderful work from Dr. Seema Mattoo and team on developing the first small molecule inhibitor of HYPE 🔥🔥🔥 Cell Stress Society International #proteostasis

Does anyone know what the deal is with NIH NIGMS R01 funding now that the spending bill has passed?

Very exciting to be a part of UNC Charlotte vision to be a more research-intensive university 😀

So much of what passes for high impact research these days is descriptive, expensive and mind-numbingly boring. Where’s the mechanism?

The responses in this thread are fascinating and clearly field-specific 🤔

Such an honor to attend the 2024 Million Dollar Research Circle event UNC Charlotte with Shan Yan van Oosten-Hawle lab Adam Reitzel Danillo Augusto Kristen Funk Bao-Hua Song and Ian Marriott UNCC Biological Sciences ! Thank you to Dr. Sharon L. Gaber for hosting such a wonderful and inspiring event!

Bacterial protein expression tweeps: I want to express 3 genes from a single plasmid. Is it better to have a T7 promoter in front of each gene, or only in front of the first gene with p2a sequences between each gene?

Congratulations to Andrea Kravats and team on this outstanding work! #chaperones

Super proud of my graduate student Megan Mitchem who was awarded 1st place for her presentation in health & science at the UNC Charlotte Graduate Research Symposium! She presented on the Hsp70 chaperone code and caloristasis 🍾🥳🎉 Great job Megan! Dr. Sharon L. Gaber UNCC Biological Sciences

Another easy way is to register directly with the journal on the journal website (PIs do this when submitting a paper). You can enter areas of expertise and tick a box that says you are willing to be registered as a reviewer

One way is to contact journals and offer to review for them, attaching a CV of credentials. I began this when I started my first postdoc and was made a reviewer for Eukaryotic Cell and Yeast journals.

#TeamMassSpec has won the Journal of Biological Chemistry #MethodsMadness Tournament again for the 4th year in a row!
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As students are receiving acceptance, waitlist, “rejection” letters for PhD programs, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about “why,” and there are a LOT of background gears at play students don’t always know about. I’ll share some and invite #AcademicChatter to add to this:

We outsource all our cloning and mutagenesis to companies-a major time saver especially when working with undergrads:
-Twist (Twist Bioscience) for smaller DNA constructs
-Genscript (@GenScript) for mutagenesis
-Vectorbuilder (@VectorBuilder) for yeast expression constructs.

New Truman lab stickers arrived 😀

Very exciting being on the editorial board during this new chapter! If you are working on chaperones or stress responses please consider submitting here 😀

Long shot, but would anyone be willing to share their PEDP document from an NIH MIRA grant? This is my first time writing one 😀

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Thanks to Matthias for the insightful overview of the captivating meeting Cell Stress Society International Mehdi Mollapour PhD. #StressBiology : Complexity and multifariousness in #Health and #disease #ScienceCommunity
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