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Joe Brancale

@joeb218.bsky.social
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Yale MD/PhD Student | Vilarinho lab studying mechanisms behind rare liver disease | Harvard Alum | 🧑‍🔬 all things genetics, GI and metabolism

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Casanova Lab @casanovalab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
1/ We are excited to share our new report in @jem.org showing that almost 40% cases of herpesvirus (HSV)-triggered fulminant viral hepatitis (FVH) are due to pre-existing autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFN (autoAbs-IFN) (doi.org/10.1084/jem....).
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Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in patients with fulminant herpes simplex virus hepatitis | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press
Fulminant viral hepatitis (FVH) is a devastating condition caused by hepatotropic viruses. In 149 international FVH patients, auto-Abs neutralizing type I
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Dan 🐟 C @zebrafish007.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Kinesin-1-driven microtubule sliding helps pancreatic β cells reorganise their cytoskeleton in response to glucose. buff.ly/r3BlzFj
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass... I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands) #WesternBlot #cellsky
On the left - western blot of B16F10 cells wt and KO for CDK8. Our in house produced antibodies give a lot of unspecific bands. On the right same probes with antibodies preincubated with fixed CDK8 KO cells - there is a specific band and faint unspecific bands, which can be probably eliminated with increase of amount of KO cells.
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
So cool! Looking at skin cells to understand psychosis
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Siyuan (Steven) Wang @sstevenwang.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Check out our new RAEFISH spatial transcriptomics technology published in Cell! This work represents the first time that transcripts from more than 20,000 genes were directly imaged in situ with any technology, and the first time numerous gRNAs were directly probed in an image-based CRISPR screen.
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Ever since my early Evo-Devo days I have loved non-traditional models! Hope to get back to it some day, but in the meantime love to see scientists pioneering this type of work
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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The last publication (he says!) from Rich Losick, my PhD advisor. Historical in nature it focuses on a seminal paper in molecular biology, the study revealing the genetic code to be triplet in nature. Come for the science, appreciate the clear prose! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Revisiting a Breathtaking Publication in the History of Molecular Biology
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
24 years ago today, I fell in love in NYC. In the shadow of Ground Zero & the horrors of that day. We have been married for 22 years now. And we have two fabulous children. I think of this whenever I worry about the darkness. There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.
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Taro Kitazawa @kitazawa-taro.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Please RP. We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out! ”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition” We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Images of cells showing protein mislocalization caused by a Noonan syndrome mutation, with the idea to screen drugs to find any that can reverse the unhealthy mislocalization
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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A new tragedy for the Endocrine community An outstanding scientist leaves us too soon
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who constantly googles “tocris calculator”
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Iris @irismarchal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Nanopore technology might be able to sequence proteins soon! Read about the road ahead in this exciting Perspective rdcu.be/edWPi in @naturebiotech.bsky.social
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Toward single-molecule protein sequencing using nanopores
Nature Biotechnology - Maglia and colleagues discuss advances in nanopore technology en route to single-molecule protein sequencing
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 16/02/2025
💫NEW: @valentatormenta.bsky.social, Perry & co track the endogenous redox ratio (NAD(P)H/FAD) with live imaging in the mouse skin and find that maintaining a robust redox ratio is key to clonal prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Metabolic rewiring in skin epidermis drives tolerance to oncogenic mutations - Nature Cell Biology
Hemalatha et al. track the endogenous redox ratio (NAD(P)H/FAD) with live imaging in the mouse skin to study the interface of wild-type stem cells with oncogenic mutant cells. They find that maintaini...
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Love research applying newer microscopy techniques to liver biology!! Congrats @hannahhrncir.bsky.social and @graczlab.bsky.social
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We have a new EO launching the MAHA Commission. There's a lot of enthusiasm in nutrition spaces that MAHA will finally bring a spotlight to food, but I have a number of concerns - from un-serious descriptions of the problems we face to chemophobic dogwhistles kcklatt.substack.com/p/the-maha-c...
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The MAHA Commission Launches
A new executive order, red flags and wet blankets
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Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We're seeing continued censoring from the administration of scientific and clinical information including this crucial webpage from FDA of "Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)" which serve as critical programs for drug safety. No explanation, no notice. #MedSky
This is a screenshot of the webpage for the FDA Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) website that now reads, "The FDA's REMS@FDA website is temporarily unavailable. Approved REMS remain in effect, even while the website is unavailable. Thank you for your patience."
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Resham Ramkissoon, MD @rayrammd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The correct term is conjunctival icterus. The expression "scleral icterus" was previously and incorrectly perpetuated. See this scathing remark in @jama.com by an ophthalmologist. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #Liversky #GiSky #Medsky @cwruim.bsky.social
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'Conjunctival Icterus,' Not 'Scleral Icterus'
To the Editor.—  The expression "scleral icterus" generally used by physicians is grossly incorrect. For decades, physical diagnosis primers have cued medical students to look for "scleral icterus...
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A poem for today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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Good Bones
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children.
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Tcellogic (Sue Kaech) @tcellogic.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Interested in how T cells are regulated in a tissue-specific manner? Karthik Varanasi’s exciting work shows Bile Acid synthesis impedes tumor-specific T cell responses during liver cancer @science.org Huge THANKS to all the amazing collaborators + @salkinstitute, SBP www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Bile acid synthesis impedes tumor-specific T cell responses during liver cancer
The metabolic landscape of cancer greatly influences antitumor immunity, yet it remains unclear how organ-specific metabolites in the tumor microenvironment influence immunosurveillance. We found that...
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Impressive paper out in @science.org by the Kaech lab investigating the role of bile acids in mediating T-cell response in HCC. #Liversky #Gastrosky www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This. This is what good science, medicine and public health can achieve!
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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
We present Gene Regulatory nETwork Analsyis (GRETA), a framework to infer, compare and evaluate gene regulatory networks #GRNs. With it, we have benchmarked multimodal and unimodal GRN inference methods. Check the results here 👇 Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.20.629764 Code: github.com/saezlab/greta
GRETA graphical abstract
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Danny Miller, MD, PhD @danrdanny.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Been looking forward to sharing this for a long time! Great collaboration with folks from across the world in which we identified a SVA_E insertion missed by standard clinical testing in individuals with Canavan disease, an early onset neurodegenerative disease. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A Diagnostic Blind Spot: Deep intronic SVA_E Insertion identified as the most Common Pathogenic Variant Associated with Canavan Disease
Canavan disease (CD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by biallelic disease-causing variants in the ASPA gene. Here, we utilized long-read sequencing (LRS) to investigate eight individuals clinic...
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’ve been out of the microbiome field field for a few years now but every time I see amazing work like this I’m impressed at how far we have come! Congrats @gangfang.bsky.social and @yufan01.bsky.social
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Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
eLife will send WOS a partial feed of "solid" articles. This decision will be applauded by some supporters but lamented by others as de facto re-introduction of an accept/reject decision... elifesciences.org/inside-elife...
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Changes to eLife’s indexing status in Web of Science and Scopus
To best serve the needs of researchers, eLife will provide a partial feed of research to be indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. eLife will also move from the Scopus Journals Collection to t...
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Atoosa Rabiee @atoosarabiee.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It's that time of the year again. In no particular order, I would like to share a few of #livertwitter in 2024 with #liversky These could be original research, guidance statement, position paper or editorial. This is def not an inclusive list. Feel free to add to the 🧵
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
If you're looking for GI/Liver people to follow, we have you covered:
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Pol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This one I'm very proud of: we identified a common genetic variant 🧬 that protects 5-fold from neonatal jaundice (replicated in different ancestries) which increases UGT1A1 (main bilirubin enzyme) expression in the gut, but not in the liver! 🖥️🧪🧬 A lot more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism - Nature Communications
The underlying causes of neonatal jaundice are not well understood. Here, the authors identify genetic variants associated with neonatal jaundice, including a variant in the gene UGT1A, finding a dist...
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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Researchers have spoken!
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Such a cool idea! One of the hardest parts of clinical genetics is understanding the functional outcome of any given variant. By using CRISPRa to induce transcription of endogenous variants in patient cells, the authors can screen variants more easily
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Snippert lab @hugosnippert.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
New work on #tuft cells, rare guardians of our #gut against invaders. How they work is not known. We show that intestinal tuft types 1&2 are sequentially expressed phenotypes during differentiation. And…we can now generate mature immune-related tuft-2’s in #organoids for more 🔬🧫🧬🔥 shorturl.at/EImjA
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Mature tuft cell phenotypes are sequentially expressed along the intestinal crypt-villus axis following cytokine-induced tuft cell hyperplasia
Intestinal tuft cells are epithelial sentinels that trigger host defense upon detection of parasite-derived compounds. While representing interesting targets for immunomodulatory therapies in inflamma...
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The NIH is amazing. Sure, it could use some tuning-up. Peer review, funding decisions, and priorities could all be improved. But...not at the cost of abandoning high-quality health science. My thoughts are included in this article by @emilyanthes.bsky.social : www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
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Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just starting out on here, but clearly blueskyroast.com thinks I am cooler than I am 🤣😎 will try to post up to the hype
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is so cool! Mapping multiple histone marks + TFs with small cell # input. Congrats @mitchguttman.bsky.social and team!! (Also, ChIP-DIP is a cool name 😎)
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Joe Brancale @joeb218.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Congrats Dr. Johnson! Your work on using implementation science to better understand treatment of HIV and TB around the globe is truly inspirational! Can’t wait to see what’s next! #YaleMSTP #YalePublicHealth @ldavismd.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social
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danapeer.bsky.social @danapeer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Truly brilliant work. Calling it a foundation model is a stretch (a mistake many people in the field make). But, the only single-cell AI model in its class that I think is worth the GPU energy expended and one that I excited to utilize. My stamp of approval. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A cell atlas foundation model for scalable search of similar human cells - Nature
Nature - A cell atlas foundation model for scalable search of similar human cells
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zack chiang @zchiang.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
who knew it would be easier to get everyone to switch social media platforms than getting them to use hg38
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Amy Engevik @amyengevik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My first #FluorescenceFriday post on BlueSky 😱.🤞 that this platform makes for a great space to share science. #bioart #sciart #pathart #histoart #microscopy #intestine
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