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A crew from Midwest Art Conservation Center media blasted the Folded Square D sculpture located on our university campus last week. The sculpture, by artist Fletcher Benton, was moved to make way for the Newton Road connection and will soon be primed and repainted.

Congratulations to Julianna Koenig (Summers Lab) for receiving 2nd place in the Oral Presentations at the 2024 Genetics Student Retreat! Julianna is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, and she studies the maintenance of proteostasis in neurons.

Looking to hire a fantastic faculty candidate in #BME,with outstanding expertise in #mechanobiology, #computationalbiology, and #genomics, and a strong interest in mechanical memory? Check out these talks by Julien Morival, PhD at #BMES2024 and his linkedin.com/in/julien-mori…

Looking for a postdoc position in nuclear #mechanobiology, with a strong interest in microfluidics, device design, fluorescence microscopy, and image analysis? Check out our opening: bme.cornell.edu/bme/job-openin… If you are attending #BMES2024, we can meet there. Please RT.

The FlyBoard is happy to announce the call for nominations for the Drosophila Community Service Award. Please submit your nomination by 01/17/2025 by email to: [email protected]. Please repost. 🧵1/4

Are you an undergraduate interested in a summer research opportunity? Consider applying to the Iowa BSURF program! Applications open in January. More information at bit.ly/IowaBSURF. #REU #research #undergraduate

Online Now: Structural basis of 5′ splice site recognition by the minor spliceosome dlvr.it/THLDnx

Are you interested in a postdoc position to investigate how defects in pre-mRNA splicing cause a genetic vision disorder? Please apply to join this team of researchers. jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/4…

Congratulations to our own Dr. Mathews on the MDA Legacy Award for Achievement in Clinical Research!

Proud of Nathan Mohar, a graduate student in my lab, who was selected for the U of Iowa “Dare to Discover” campaign. Nathan is linking DNA sequence variation to phenotypic characteristics of LMNA-muscular dystrophy.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of an esteemed colleague, friend, mentor & a pioneer in Drosophila & meiosis research. R. Scott Hawley was a dedicated supporter of GSA & a champion of genetics. Read an In Memoriam published in Genes to Genomes: buff.ly/3EoNQh8

SAVE THE DATE!! The Dystroglycanopathy Patient & Family Conference will be held June 20th & 21st at the Graduate Hotel in Downtown Iowa City!

Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology, and how advanced genomic tools can shed light on how the cell nucleus might sense mechanical forces? Read our latest review by excellent Julien Morival and Anna Hazelwood, now published J Cell Science: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-ab…

💪 To find factors associated with muscle integrity, researchers at Inserm perform an siRNA screen and identify SH3KBP1 as a new factor controlling #myoblast fusion, myonuclear positioning, and myotube elongation. EMBO Reports | bit.ly/4bKOzph

Blown away by the incredible research on muscle disease pathology and treatments at the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 75th Anniversary Clinical and Scientific Conference! Muscular Dystrophy Association

For the first time, researchers have used the #CRISPR gene editor to repair a flawed gene in the human body. scim.ag/4kF7dTI News from Science

Excited to share our pre-print about a non-canonical cGAS-STING pathway in aging. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our recent studies on genetic modifiers of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy identify components of SMAD signaling as potential therapeutic targets. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This week's genome editing triumph is a big deal. Here's why erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-hu…

Happy to share our recent work showing bulk transport of speckle material between nuclear speckles within dynamic, multi-phase, linear connections. Nonrandom interchromatin trafficking through dynamic multiphase speckle connections biorxiv.org/content/10.110…