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Andrei Goga

@andreigoga.bsky.social
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Professor, UCSF Dept Cell & Tissue Biology and Medicine / Oncology Breast Medical Oncologist and Cell Biology. Exploring new mechanisms of cancer biology & therapeutics. Views my own. 🧪 #medsky Oncogenes.net

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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 22h
Really enjoyed attending the Metabolic Rewiring in Cancer and Degenerative Diseases symposium @UnivHelsinki this week. Lots of great speakers and fascinating new research on how metabolism can be leveraged for benefit treatment of multiple diseases. @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social
Picture of the logo from the meetingPanel discussion at the end of the meeting, showing 5 scientists. Drs. Renslo, Goga, Junttila, Brenner, Pirinen
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agree this is a fantastic opportunity, including joining a community of early career researchers that receive extensive training and support towards developing an academic research career. Two years of postdoctoral funding and subsequent recruitment incentive at any UC school.
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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ayush Midha, a graduate student in the Jain Lab, is uncovering how the body adapts when oxygen runs low—work that has surprising ties to cancer and fertility.
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Meet Gladstone: Ayush Midha
Ayush Midha, a graduate student in the Jain Lab, studies how the body's metabolism adapts to low oxygen—work that's uncovered backup energy pathways, potential fertility treatments, and a link between...
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PROPOSAL: an a capella group that sings about low carb diets The Key Tones
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Been caught stealin.” Local Walgreens -
White unicorn with purple and blue mane and tail, bedecked with flowers and waffle cone horn languishes in the ceiling cage with fellow co-criminals at the local Walgreens
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 11/09/2026
As the NFL put on a show for the ages in Melbourne the San Francisco 49ers ransacked 'Rams House'
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49ers ransack 'Rams House' in epic Melbourne NFL show
Much was made of the Melbourne Cricket Ground being 'Rams House' for the week, but after arriving earlier than their fancied rivals the San Francisco 49ers ran away with the chocolates as the NFL put on a show for the ages.
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On our way to hear some cool science at the 2026 UCSF TETRAD retreat in Asilomar! Hoping to meet and get to know the new class as well, of course.
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Kelly Gregory @kellygregory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In the last fifteen years, the five year survival rate for StageIV Metastatic Breast Cancer has tripled. After an initial prognosis of less than six months, I recently passed 15 years and will be turning 57 this week.
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UCSF Radiation Oncology @ucsfradonc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to Harish Vasudevan Lab on its first R01 to study neurofibromatosis tumor suppressors in nerve sheath tumors! Learn more here: reporter.nih.gov/search/n0B0c... @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 03/08/2026
For the first time in more than 70 years, women took the field in a professional baseball game. Dreams that generations fought for are finally becoming reality. Here’s to every girl who has ever been told, “Baseball isn’t for you.” Keep proving them wrong💪 #WomensSports #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Amazing bioarchaeology workshop at Durham University helping research early medieval remains from Digventures’s excavations on Lindisfarne. I’ve been learning osteological techniques and applying them in the lab by laying out a skeleton and estimating biological sex, age, stature, and pathology
A photo of me wearing a black jacket and trousers standing next to a large metal sign for Durham University’s Archaeology and Anthropology Dawson Building
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#DBfeature A tribute to Gail R Martin, mouse geneticist and mentor extraordinaire (April 12, 1944 - Feb 9, 2026) By Alexandra Joyner doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.05.007
Gail Martin looking at the camera, sitting on a bench in front of a lily pad pond in her garden in Berkeley. Photo from Brigid Hogan.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
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LeahCookPhD @leahcookphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Learning (or rather, being reminded) about the importance of patient advocacy in the Susan G. Women Foundation, Patient Advocate Panel. Thanks to the advocates who work tirelessly to support/promote cancer research and remind scientists of our "why" #MRS2026
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LeahCookPhD @leahcookphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dr. Lisa Coussens giving her well-deserved award lecture for the MRS Women in Science Achievement award. Congratulations @coussenslab.bsky.social! #MRS2026
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is the first #WorldCup with mandatory water breaks twice per game. You can deny climate change, but here is concrete evidence on the largest world stage for all to see. 🧪
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/05/2026
The more we learn about #glycotime, the more dramatic will be our revisions to textbooks on such basic principles as protein trafficking and organelle privileges www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nuclear N-glycosylation maintains H3K9me3 heterochromatin and genomic stability - Nature Cell Biology
Tang, Dai, Qing, Zhang and colleagues describe a role for N-glycosylation in the nucleus: N-glycans modify inner nuclear membrane proteins, and the modification is implicated in the maintenance of H3K...
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A wonderful day for outrigger canoeing around Alcatraz to Angel Island. #SFBay
Outrigger canoe sits on Perle’s Beach on Angel Island with views of Alcatraz and San Francisco cityscape in the background.Six outrigger canoe enthusiasts take a selfie.  Golden Gate Bridge is in the background.
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Waymoland..
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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J Michael Bishop
Physician–scientist, Nobel Laureate, Professor and Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. Born on Feb 22, 1936, in York, PA, USA, he died from pneumonia in San Francisco, CA, USA, ...
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TING!!! How can you go wrong with a bit of sun and a Mitchell’s ice cream cone? Great choice, Ting!
Four smiling faces in a selfie outside of the reflective window of Mitchell’s ice Cream shop. Left, guy with a beard and broad smile, middle two women and left, the birthday girl all toasting with ice cream cones - sun drenches their faces.
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Sarah Boyle @drsarahboyle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Saturday I had the opportunity to attend Netball Australia's Adelaide Thunderbirds vs Queensland Firebirds PLAY4PINK round, raising money for breast cancer research together with principal charity partner The Hospital Research Foundation Group, and speak on a panel with Ali Clarke and Paul Flynn.
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I've been fortunate to have @marcoenriquez18.bsky.social a #materialsChemist in my team. Cytoskeletal elements are often studied on their own but in reality, the #cytoskeleton is biopolymer network that is intricately intertwined. (#Award winning movie Light Microscopy Aus). @aibnatuq.bsky.social
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Roychoudhuri Lab @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Incredible paper from Max Krummel's lab showing macrophages can sample cellular content from living cells for presentation to T cells pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42056510/
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Has anyone figured out how to 'easily' convert traditional (Word) NIH Biosketches into ScienCV formatted versions without spending hours on the clunking web interface? I spent a couple hours on the ScienCV website, but there must be a better way, especially for a many PI T32 submission. Thx 🧪
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Jamal-Hanjani Lab @jamal-hanjani-lab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to share our ‘Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis’ in #TRACERx & #PEACE, published today in @nature.com in collaboration with @charlesswanton.bsky.social @nickymcgranahan.bsky.social @zaccasimo.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk & @crick.ac.uk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis - Nature
DNA-sequencing data from primary tumours and paired metastases from participants in the TRACERx lung study and PEACE autopsy programme are used to analyse the metastatic diversity of advanced non-smal...
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Don’t be afraid to ask difficult questions and to take that leap of faith, because even if your idea is only partly correct, there’s still important knowledge to be gained" @rushika-perera.bsky.social giving the 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04... #UCSFProud
Rushika Perera, PhD
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Headed to #AACR26? Leading cancer researchers from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social will present talks and posters on environmental and genetic determinants in cancer development, precision cancer treatment w/ radiotheranostics, overcoming drug resistance, and more. cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04...
Collage of ucsf researchers at AACR 2026 conference
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Whenever I’m starting a project I’m like “wont it be so great to discover something mysterious and be in the Uri Alon cloud” And then it happens and I’m like “oh actually this is unpleasant I have no idea what’s happening “ www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/sit...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94 billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
UCSF’s GradSlam! The judges will be hard pressed to choose winners.
Dean Allen welcomes the Byers Hall audience to UCSF’s GradSllam dwarfed by a big blue slide - someone looms on the upper left.
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
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Julien Sage @juliensage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New preprint from the lab! Close collaboration with Silvia von Karstedt @vonkarstedtlab.bsky.social and her lab. We find that #SCLC cells are strikingly dependent on exogenous cysteine #LungCancer #CancerMetabolism #Ferroptosis 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.27.714827v1
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Noelle L’Etoile @girlsinscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The kleptoplast, Mesodinium distinguishes between prey of differing “nutritional” value. That is, they choose to eat prey whoes photosynthetic machinery they can co-opt. It’s waaaay out of my feild and I have a disclaimer - my offspring is the first author!
Mesodinium prey choice by Amelie L’Etoile-Goga and Holly Moller
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 25/03/2026
going to be controversial and say that beyond 3 cheeses you're really entering into the realm of diminishing returns
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trust me--read this. You'll be glad you did. and thank you Dr. Bennet for writing it. 🧪
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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A great tribute to a pioneering researcher who discovered fundamental insights into signaling, gene function and cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...
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J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Devastated to learn of the passing of the great cancer pioneer J. Michael Bishop. Mentor and friend, it was only a few weeks ago we celebrated his 90th birthday. He taught us that the seeds of cancer lie within us and spent his career combating cancer. 🧪 @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
Mike Bishop at his 90th birthday party surrounded by former trainees. Feb 23rd, 2026, Larkspur, CA
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Juliane Winkler @jwinkler.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Exciting new study from the one-and-only @andre-rendeiro.com lab: 🔬 LazySlide can unlock the hidden secrets of your H&E slides generating new biological insights from tissue architecture. Cudos to @yimin-zheng.bsky.social & thank you for including @EvaChrenkova.bsky.social & my lab!
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Ayush Midha @ayushmidha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I am excited to share our latest preprint showing that systemic hypoxia suppresses solid tumor growth: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This has been a tremendous collaborative effort in the labs of Isha Jain @ishahjain.bsky.social and Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social.
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Really excited to present the latest publication from our lab. Outstanding work by Ton Montoya who really conceptualized and led this project. He finds that MYC-driven liver cancer uses alanine as a fuel. Implications for new treatments for #HCC 🧪 @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
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Alanine catabolism as a targetable vulnerability for MYC-driven liver cancer
Montoya et al. uncover a role for alanine as a conserved metabolic substrate for MYC-driven liver cancer. GPT2 is a therapeutic target for MYC-overexpressing liver tumors.
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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I needed to read this chapter from "The Inequality Machine" today. Because here at UCSB, we're done telling students not to bother trying. And the most important mission of my career, "to actually teach them calculus," begins next Fall. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 3.191/n #year3
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Friday 3/20 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | James Fraser, PhD @fraserlab.com presents "You can't avoid the AVOIDOME: how to speed drug discovery with ML." Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Applying for Foundation Awards - Perspectives from Recent Awardees | March 16th - panel discussion w/ three recent UCSF faculty who have received foundation grants. Open to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social senior clinical fellows and early career faculty More info: calendar.ucsf.edu/event/applyi...
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Applying for Foundation Awards - Perspectives from Recent Awardees
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Maria Gallegos @mopia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Today is National #StandUpforScience day. Here is my failed contribution. You have to zoom way the $&@#% in.
An image of Bernal hill from Van Ness Avenue with a red arrow point to a nearly invisible sign that says “Stand Up for Science SF”
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Our Office of Community Engagement has a handy list of resources on colon cancer: linktr.ee/UCSFCancerCe... #ColorectalCancerAwareness
UCSF Staff and partners with inflatable colon for colorectal cancer awareness
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alamere Falls in the Pointe Reyes Sea Shore. One of a handful of waterfalls that cascade into the Pacific. Happy Birthday @girlsinscience.bsky.social The best 35+ years.
Alamere Falls in the background.  Two goofy people in front.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pinchy on the hunt 🩵 (lit only by black light)
Large scorpion lit only by black light, roaming pine bark
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