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Eran Andrechek

@eranandrechek.bsky.social
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Mammary Development and Breast Cancer Lab at Michigan State University Astrophotography, nature and Triathlon posts too. lab.andrechek.com #bcsm #oncsky

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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Took my annual picture of Saturn near opposition (closest point of orbit) last night since the clouds are about to roll in for a week. Cool to see the rings tilting back after almost disappearing last year. #saturn #astrophotography
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just back from hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc. Amazing 9 days in the Alps. Highly recommend it, just be sure to train for the downhills! #TMB #TourduMontBlanc
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
John Vusich from the lab defends this morning, champagne on ice since it will go off without a hitch. Starts his postdoc with Sheila Stewart in a few weeks. Always bittersweet as the lab changes with every graduation.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse at peak on campus at MSU with high cloud cover. #eclipse #msu
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Back from a trip to McNeil Falls, like Brooks Falls, but MUCH closer to many more bears. #bears #alaska #brooksfalls #mcneilfalls
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Antelope Island after #MRS2026 finished up to see the bison and burrowing owls! #birds #bison @metastasisresearch.bsky.social
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A few days of hiking before the Metastasis Research Society meeting @metastasisresearch.bsky.social
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Metastasis Research Society @metastasisresearch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Kicking off day 2 of the 21st Biennial Congress of the MRS. Looking forward to hearing all the cutting edge metastasis research happening all around the world #MRS2026 #metastasis
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Paper #4 in review (been a busy stretch!), examining neuronal control of metastasis. This one is similar to work from @madeleineoudin.bsky.social, so had to change the project direction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Neuronal innervation of breast cancer promotes metastatic dissemination
Metastasis is a leading cause of mortality in breast cancer patients, yet the signaling promoting metastatic dissemination is not completely understood. Prior literature implicates neuronal innervatio...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Paper 3 of 4 currently in review - here we used BioID to identify new targets of PTPRH: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Unraveling the role of receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPRH in cell signaling regulation and biological processes of non-small cell lung cancer
The balance of protein phosphorylation is often disrupted in cancer, with hyperactivity of kinases and inactivation of phosphatases driving cell proliferation and survival pathways. PTPRH, a protein t...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Paper 2 of 4 current in review... this one an examination of the genetic control of early pregnancy related mammary gland biology: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mammary Alveolar Proliferation and Differentiation During Early Pregnancy is Regulated by E2F5
The E2F transcription factors are well-established cell cycle regulators, but their roles in coordinating proliferation and differentiation remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the function...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Quick reset with a canoe trip down the Au Sable this weekend.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Preprint now up for our model of liver metastasis... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #metastasis #cancer #model
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Tumor-derived FXII engages the intrinsic coagulation cascade to support breast cancer liver metastasis.
Metastasis is the leading cause of death in breast cancer, yet the mechanisms controlling organotropism are not well defined. Coagulation has emerged as a biologically relevant contributor to metastat...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Got up with the sun today to ride the Nembro to Selvino climb that has been on several pro races. 19 epic switchbacks in a 10km 2400foot climb… with a cafe at the top.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Pre-GRC Mammary ride near Bergamo. Biggest climb I’ve done, but tomorrow is a new day… if I could only sleep!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My bike ride through the swamp to MSU is always interesting. Today the pair of Hairy Woodpeckers was very busy feeding their fledglings. #birds #michigan #lansing
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Camila dos Santos @caoresco.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My team is moving the amazing St. Jude Children’s Reseerch Hospital in August and we have 2 postdoctoral positions available to study the intersection between genetics, women’s health, and breast cancer risk. Check it out! talent.stjude.org/careers/JobD...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Oncology
Our previous work has uncovered key mechanisms linking systemic changes to tumor initiation, single cell signatures of models of breast normal and cancer development and identified epigenetic and...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Bird migration hitting us now, 5 different warblers in the swamp I bike past today. Paused there and watched the downy woodpeckers go in and out of a tree, must be a neat since there were bringing lots of bugs.
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W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We’ve lost a dear friend, colleague, and brilliant scholar, Dr Juliet Daniel (to my left in this photo). She was a McMaster University Distinguished Professor, a proud Barbadian-Canadian, a fierce EDI advocate & a leader of the Canada Caribbean Initiative (CCI). May her soul rest in eternal peace.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Love meetings in San Diego since I can surf for an hour at dawn and still make it to the meeting in time. #AACR
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
@bot.astronomy.blue signup
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I must have missed checking the box that asked AACR not to give my e-mail to a million companies when I registered for the annual meeting. "Unsubscribe all" needs to be an e-mail function!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Finishing writing up reviews for study section and oddly excited… but we’re meeting IN PERSON!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
International Space Station transiting the moon just a few minutes ago. Not good seeing tonight and angular size was only 35" since the moon was pretty low, but always fun to capture it. Will be sad when it deorbits. #astrophotography #ISS #internationalspacestation
International space station passing in front of the moon
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Back from Birken 53km Ski Race in Norway. Epic race with 10K people finishing in Lillehammer Olympic Stadium. Recovering from bronchitis, #Delta lost my skis, got rentals that dragged the kick zone and was 3 hours slower than the last race (7:27:35 total time) - but still had a fantastic experience.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm a faculty mentor to a new assistant prof that gets an automatic tenure clock extension due to a maternity leave. HOWEVER, this delays tenure and the associated raise by a year. After tenure is granted, are there any universities that backdate the raise to the normal tenure clock?
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Asona Lui @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social and I @sdsuresearch.bsky.social are PIs on one of those three funded applications! Our research is going clinical 😍😅🥳🧪 [I'll do a 🧵on how taxpayer $$ directly contributed to this shortly] #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Arjun Krishnan @compbiologist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
PhD programs worldwide face an urgent question: How should trainees use ChatGPT, Claude & similar tools? Now online: two resources on thoughtfully integrating generative AI into research training. 📄 Conceptual framework: zenodo.org/records/18649847 📋 Practical guide: zenodo.org/records/18452319 🧵
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Build expertise first: why PhD training must sequence AI use after foundational skill development
Generative AI tools have arrived in PhD training environments faster than principled frameworks for their use. The debate has polarized between enthusiasts who argue trainees must adopt AI immediately...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
RAIN?!? I've got the Birkie this weekend (53 km classic XC ski race). VASA race last weekend was 50km and I'm ready to ski, NOT ready for snow to melt! #birkie
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Nordic ski race today was a little chilly, sweat froze into sweatscicles!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
42 miles of XC skiing meant I needed many coffees to work on the R01 until the wee hours of the morning. BUT somewhere around mile 30 I got a good idea for Aim 3 and had to revise!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Quick trip to Lake Michigan where the sunset was playing with the ice and mist/cloud coming off the water. Further out the ice wasn’t quite visible, but it is out there.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sciencv biosketch help... if your personal statement and contributions to science lacks spaces, bold... then you have to use old fashioned HTML code in the text. IE this: <BR> for a line break, do it twice if you want a line between <b>Text in bold</b> <i>Text in italics</i> <u>Underline text</u>
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Needed a reset, so walked in the woods with a big lens. #michigan #birds
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Normally after study section I'm all excited about the new stuff I learned... but we just finished and it is depressing. SO many labs will run out of funding this year and we couldn't give them a score that was competitive. These are GOOD labs and the loss of the people will be hard to watch.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
FINALLY a break in the clouds as Jupiter nears opposition. Europa in transit with a shadow close beside and Io in the corner. Fast processing so I can go to bed so colors off... but fun to see! #jupiter #astrophotography
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Third preprint from the lab in as many weeks... this time, the loss of transcriptional control of early pregnancy by E2F5 results in alveolar defects. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mammary Alveolar Proliferation and Differentiation During Early Pregnancy is Regulated by E2F5
The E2F transcription factors are well-established cell cycle regulators, but their roles in coordinating proliferation and differentiation remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the function...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
So it got cold and clear with good seeing conditions for a few hours last night. The light of the full moon meant I had to shoot with a narrowband filter, and just a quick process shows that 4 hours on the horsehead is coming along nicely. The bright star is the bottom one on Orion’s Belt.
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Another preprint from the lab, this time using proximity labeling (BioID) to identify targets of the phosphatase PTPRH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Unraveling the role of receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPRH in cell signaling regulation and biological processes of non-small cell lung cancer
The delicate balance of protein phosphorylation is often disrupted in cancers, with hyperactivity of kinases and inactivation of phosphatases driving cell proliferation and survival pathways. PTPRH, a...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Publication will wait until the Oudin lab @madeleineoudin.bsky.social publishes theirs... invited them to talk at GRC Mammary and realized they'd scooped us! Their preprint is much more complete, already online and referenced in ours.
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Neuronal innervation of breast cancer promotes metastatic dissemination
Metastasis is a leading cause of mortality in breast cancer patients, yet the signaling promoting metastatic dissemination is not completely understood. Prior literature implicates neuronal innervatio...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Yes I’m listening to the ass Dean talking now… but I’m also processing my capture of the Triangulum Galaxy M33. #astrophotography
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Eunhee Yi @eunhee-yi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It was a great pleasure to learn about a recent discovery in ecDNA biology that answers the most critical question on ecDNA maintenance! @nature.com Are you a non-scientist? No worries! My team wrote a lay-audience-friendly summary about this exciting research finding! Check it out! rdcu.be/eQMvM
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Circular DNA has a ticket to ride chromosomes | Nature
How circular extrachromosomal DNA is inherited during cell division is a puzzle. Key sequences enabling this DNA to journey with chromosomes have been identified. How circular extrachromosomal DNA is inherited during cell division is a puzzle. Key sequences enabling this DNA to journey with chromosomes have been identified.
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Jean Cook (DNAtarheel) @dnatarheel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill! We seek creative scientists working in fundamental molecular, cellular, and computational areas. Basic and translational cancer research, all ranks. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/309...
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Open Rank
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with departments in the School of Medicine and across the entire University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is seeking outstanding ca...
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Aurora quick pictures, really bright by eye! #astrophotography #aurora
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Aurora Timelapse in lower Michigan! #astrophotography #aurora
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Physiology experiments on my bike for fun… white is power, red is heart rate. Wonder if there is a wearable constant blood pressure monitor to integrate as well?
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It was my privilege today to host Peter Siegel from McGill to talk about his work on bone metastasis. Unpublished so won’t spoil it, but exciting work!
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The best part of useless university admin meetings is sitting at the back and processing telescope data from a few nights ago. Quick processing of 6.5 hours of Heart Nebula data… need to nod sagely to make the ass Dean feel important, but happy to see what my redcat51 did here.
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award 2025: Advancing Research in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers oncodaily.com/insight/vict... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #GynOnc
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Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award 2025: Advancing Research in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers - OncoDaily
Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award 2025: Advancing Research in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers / Breast Cancer
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Eran Andrechek @eranandrechek.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
At first I thought my camera had a glitch, but after reviewing individual frames, it seems like there was a whole train of satellites that messed up my Comet Lemmon shot! #astrophotography #A6Lemmon
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