When you go back to your postdoc lab to finish up some experiments but then the piece of equipment you wanted to use stops working 🙃😵‍💫

🙌🏽PLEASE SHARE Our Native Hawaiian communities should not be silenced in our ancestral lands. Unreal. Mahalo @aku_maka Paele_Kulani. Let’s keep amplifying #indigenousVoices

DEADLIEST fires in modern US history I’m hearing people of Maui finding bodies in cars, houses, streets, and in the ocean The continental media MUST do more to capture the stories of the Native Hawaiian and local communities of Lāhainā and Maui washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Our biggest discovery yet (IMO). The 5’ ends of our chromosomes are capped(!) by #telomeric protein POT1 to prevent their misrecognition as broken DNA. Brilliant work of Drs. Valerie Tesmer and Kirsten Brenner Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

What a pleasant surprise! PDBe featured our recently published structure of human POT1 bound to the telomeric ds-ss junction. See 👇 thread for more details of our study. x.com/LabNandakumar/…

When it's the first day of class AND you get a "Manuscript Accepted" email 🎉 SO MANY FEELS

Chaotic evil: someone left a permanent marker on the whiteboard tray in the classroom I was using this morning

The discoveries by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman – awarded the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine – were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020. Through their groundbreaking findings, this year’s

Day 11/31 of #inktober2023 Prompt: WANDER Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Pdb: 1YFP). It lights up and lets us see how proteins wander through the cell. Next prompt is SPICEY. Please send suggestions. Protein Data Bank rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠 Inktober #sciart

Plasmidsaurus reveals the spooky things lurking in your sequences...

Very excited that my meta-analysis of telomere length GWAS and experimental validation showing that POP5 and KBTBD6 are human telomere length regulation genes is out in Nature Communications! Shout out to my mentors Alexis Battle and Xxx sixy porn nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our Spotlight on beautiful work from the de Lange (Sarah Cai et al), Walz, and Cech labs. At the end, it is POT1 again: Phosphorylation allows human telomeric protein POT1 to recruit the C-rich strand end replication machinery: Molecular Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…

BREAKING: Johns Hopkins along with 12 peer institutions and Assoc of Amer Univ sues to stop drastic cuts in NIH funding. This is separate from lawsuit brought by 22 states, which also includes Maryland. Hopkins prez cites our 600 clinical trials that would be crippled by the cut.