Exciting work from my undergraduate lab on how the marine alga K. brevis, the cause of red tide, suppresses the growth of competing algae by allelopathically disrupting their lipidomics. A very sneaky way to outcompete your neighbors! buff.ly/2uCieOo

How hard is it, theoretically, for a gene to decode complex transcription factor dynamics? The answer: easier than you might think, as long as you chose the right parameters… read more about it in our recent pre-print: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Is gene expression variability due to transcriptional bursting or cell state heterogeneity? Rob Foreman shows based on Ca2+ dynamics and MERFISH gene expression that it is really cell state. Read all about it in our latest preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In order to avoid the Miss/Ms./Mrs. nonsense, I’ve decided to buy a boat until I finish my doctorate. Please refer to me as Captain Brauer from now on

Congrats to Rob Foreman on amazing work, taking on a project based on MERFISH (first for the lab) as a 2nd year graduate student required a lot of courage, super proud of what Rob was able to accomplish!

I’m excited to share a preprint from Xia Yang Lab UCLA and my labs. MERFISH and spatial multiplexed RNA measurement rock! but how do you know which cells transcribed which RNAs? To find out we developed JSTA: Joint cell Segmentation and cell Type Annotation 1/6 doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…

Super excited to have our #PandemicProject out today! This review was born of really great discussions with the lab last summer about the ability of #singlecell #spatialomics to be applied to questions at all levels of biology.