In wild fission yeast, love finds a way on Valentine's Day ❤️

Very happy to finally be able to share our work at @NAR_Open! We aimed to answer the question: why does the well-known transcriptional activator Swi-Snf seem to repress genes involved in metabolism? Thanks to jerry workman and all at Stowers Institute academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

Today the Nelson Lab opens at Stony Brook University! I'm very excited to start this adventure and looking forward to building an amazing team. Learn more about the lab and opportunities to join at nelsonflylab.org.

A fantastic #WednesdayLectureSeries, on a Tuesday! Thank you to Tyler Starr, from U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry, for joining us for a presentation titled "Molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and related bat coronaviruses". Hosted by Stowers Grad School!

The Özel Lab at Stowers Institute is hiring at all levels! We are looking for motivated postdocs, technicians as well as a lab manager and a bioinformatician. Application info: stowers.org/careers?facili…

Looks like an amazing new paper, from some of my favorite people (Gregg Thomas, @levine_lab, @jeffreymgood). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Applications are now open for @stowersgrad #PhD in #Biology program! If you are looking for mentorship, incredible labs, and a collaborative environment then explore our program further. Applications due December 1: bit.ly/3S999V2 #GradStudent #GradSchool

Twitter may be dying, but the Starr lab is coming to life! We put out the first preprint from the lab U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry, where we performed deep mutational scans on the SARS-CoV-2 BQ.1.1 and XBB.1.5 variant RBDs 🧵 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/ab…

Great work from postdocs Xin Zhou and Petra Vande Zande in our group! The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Excited to see our latest collaboration with @DrinnenbergLab and Leonid Mirny lab looking at interphase genome organization in Bombyx online now!

Proximity labeling reveals new insights into the relationships between meiotic recombination proteins in S. cerevisiae biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Be sure to check out this new publication in PLOS Biology describing an interesting link between cell-type specific regulation and carbon metabolism led by PhD student John Crandall (UW Madison Genetics) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

I had a lot of fun working on this story and I'm pleased to see it now published. A pleasure as always to work with The Rog Lab and congrats to undergrad Jesus on his first publication 🎉 See quoted tweet for a link to the paper and a taste of our findings 🙂

Preprint alert! 🐜 🧬 The first from my PhD with Daniel Kronauer, with an assist from Taylor. We discovered an unusual case of “unselfish” meiotic drive while studying asexual reproduction and its genomic consequences in the clonal raider ant. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does Pombase use resources effectively? With a little help from our friends...Protein Data Bank Gene Ontology @[email protected] Rhea database Monarch Initiative Alliance of Genome Resources JBrowse SGD Project @[email protected] (bsky too) UniProt InterPro microPublication Thread/ academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

Preprint🚨on a new mechanism of genetic cheating in meiosis! 🧬We found that a mouse selfish DNA, R2d2, combines the elements of both male and female meiotic drivers! (gamete sabotaging in female meiosis) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really excited about our latest preprint on dominance of nonsynonymous deleterious mutations in humans. Chris's thread provides an excellent summary of the work!

Thrilled to announce - our latest on polyploid arenosa just got published in Science :-) Thanks to the amazing team that made it happen including @Thsrikant and Adrián Gonzalo!! And thanks reviewers for enthusiasm, especially reviewer 1, whoever you are! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…