Very happy that our paper on identifying molecular features associated with function in disordered regions was accepted for publication today in eLife - the journal ! What started as the last chapter of my PhD thesis is all grown up: elifesciences.org/articles/60220😌

Local hospitals in and around Mysuru and my villages in India have run out of PPE and oxygen. My family is running a mutual aid network for both these hospitals and critically ill and poor patients. I am trying to raise money here from anyone who is willing and able to donate.

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study

Now online, a study in collaboration with @LeopoldParts in which we asked how often natural variants can suppress deleterious mutations So what did we find? embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Excited to share our work on spontaneous whole-genome duplication (autodiploidization) in budding yeast, published in #G3journal Genetics Society of America. In short: A single gene, SSD1, has a strong effect on autodiploidization. academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva…

Our new paper makes the surprising prediction that dividing asymmetrically could enhance the population growth rate of cells with strong size control. Jiseon Min @EvolvingMurray Ariel Amir journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Several immensely talented postdocs will be leaving our lab within the next year. I wanted to make it clear (to folks involved in selection/grants committees) that they all *own* the work they've done here & they'll take it *all* with them, of course (it's theirs!).

Anybody using an interactive/smart whiteboard that they are truly satisfied with for education/science communication purposes? Any recommendations?

My group at Ashoka University is currently looking for prospective Ph.D. students in #ecology and #evolution. Interested students can write to me for details about the ongoing projects. Visit our lab website sites.google.com/ashoka.edu.in/…

Today my paper with @ribosaur on new genetic codes comes out in eLife - the journal! It's been a labor of love over the past five years. Highlights in thread 🧵 (1/6) elifesciences.org/articles/71402

Apply for a funded, early-career researcher place at our in-person #BiologistsWorkshops ‘Genotype to Phenotype: Bridging Comparative Genomics and Cell Biology’ organised by Gautam Dey Gautam Dey & Eelco C. Tromer Eelco Tromer Find out more & apply: ow.ly/4t7Y30saL4s

Why do some mutations' effects seem to depend on starting fitness? We developed a Cre/Lox CRISPR gene-drive system ==> expanding gRNA array, to pop open the hood on 'global epistasis'. Chris Bakerlee, Kate Shulgina, josé in Michael Desai lab. Read here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thrilled to announce the Phillips lab is opening UC San Francisco in Sept! We’ll be developing high-throughput methods to examine how molecular properties of viral proteins & antibodies constrain their evolution/coevo. If interested in joining, please reach out! aphillipslab.ucsf.edu/join-us

BREAKING: Bill 124, the #onpoli wage cap bill, has been declared unconstitutional. From ruling: "As a result of the foregoing, I have found the Act to be contrary to section 2(d) of the Charter, and not justified under s. 1 of the Charter."

Increasing funding to #GradStudents and #Postdocs is the most urgent funding issue in Canada-they haven't had a raise in 20 yrs! I am so disappointed in Chrystia Freeland Justin Trudeau & François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 - #Budget2023 contains nothing to support these researchers #SupportOurScience 1/3

Buy an R10 nanopore flowcell. Receive an R9 inside of the sealed bag. Oxford Nanopore won't replace the order even if they can verify they made the mistake. Has this ever happened to anybody?