I am delighted to share the latest preprint from our lab, which was work that was conceived and led by Jeannette Tenthorey during her postdoc and during the first few months of her independent lab at UCSF.

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TL;DR: Indels matter. A lot.

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Cori Bargmann (Cori Bargmann) has been named a 2024 recipient of the Gruber Neuroscience Prize! She is being recognized for her pioneering work elucidating the organization of circuits in behavior, and for developing new genetics tools. Congratulations!
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I am super excited to share our newest preprint on human #NoncanonicalProteins degradation!

We started this work wondering about the functionality of human noncanonical proteins (NCPs for short), aka #microproteins or #crypticproteins .

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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How do animals know when it’s their turn to communicate during a conversation? In our latest preprint, we study the behavior and neurobiology of aggressive visual turn-taking of Siamese fighting (betta) fish to find out.
Work lead by Claire Everett
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biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper from the lab! Epigenetic silencing of transposons is widely considered a good resolution of host-TE conflicts, but is it? Especially, we showed that this silencing could lead to harmful local enrichment of repressive marks, even in genes (Huang et al. 2022 eLife). (1/5)

I have met the strangest thing about MacBook today. I closed my computer around 10 pm yesterday, and today morning I lost all the files between April 8 to today, including the full talk slides that I’m going to talk tonight. What’s going on Apple ???

It's impressive—I knew he was young at the time, but I didn't realize he was an undergraduate student. Next week, we will read this paper, along with a recent one, in our Genetics and Evolution graduate course.

Why do transposons jump at highly variable rates, and what does that mean to host evolution? In this 
Annual Reviews, Andrea Betancourt, Kevin Wei, Yuheng, and I integrated classic pop gen theories and new empirical data to explore this long-standing question. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Many people have no idea how these things work.

For example, right now, as a Brazilian, I can't accept invitations to speak at conferences in Europe because my visa to work in the U.S. has expired.
I am not illegal; I have a work contract with the University of California until

Rockefeller's Svetlana Mojsov is on the 2024 #TIME100 list! time.com/6964971/joel-h…

I'm excited to start my new research life as a postdoc at Li Zhao lab in Rockefeller University from today! I'm very grateful for such a wonderful opportunity.

I cherish inspiration from people in new environments and I'll keep learning and try to acquire wider knowledge🪰🧬

Original ideas are often not fully credited, especially those that are not documented on paper. Here's a nice short blog by Heng Li describing the original inspiration for the BWA aligner.

Titia de Lange received the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research and delivered her award lecture this morning at #AACR24 . We congratulate Dr. de Lange and thank @Pezcoller for their longstanding support of this award.