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Ashley Frakes

@afrakes.bsky.social
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Stadtman tenure-track investigator @NIH. Previously, Post-doc @UCBerkeley in @DillinLab. PhD @OSU @Nationwidekids in Kaspar lab. Opinions are my own &can change www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff…

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Ashley Frakes @afrakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨Please share! We are hiring a post-doc! 🪱 🐀 Job posting: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-gb-... Lab Website: www.niddk.nih.gov/research-fun... NIH Trainee info: www.training.nih.gov
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Ashley Frakes @afrakes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.wired.com/story/doctor...
wired.com
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
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Ashley Frakes @afrakes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Excited to share another pre-print from our lab! We found a neuropeptide that can cell non-autonomously activate the ER-UPR and protect animals from proteotoxic stress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ashley Frakes @afrakes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Happy to share a recent pre-print from our lab! Parental origin of transgene determines recombination efficiency in GFAP-CreERT2 mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
Parental origin of transgene determines recombination efficiency in GFAP-creERT2 mice
The Cre-loxP system is a powerful tool for spatial and temporal genetic manipulations. However, the system is prone to several limitations and caveats with respect to variable expression and recombina...
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