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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a new year and the Purdue RNA Club is back! Mark your calendars as we will be meeting September 11, October 2, 2026, November 6 and December 4, all 3:30-4:30 in ABE B061.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Switch to natives and you get beautiful blooms and pollinators.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This week the lab said goodbye to three undergraduate researchers. Estelle was the first person to join the lab. Renee and Madison joined not long after. Each have made important contributions leading to authorships. They are now off to dental, medical and graduate school! We will miss them greatly.

Renee, Madison and Estelle with their carved pumpkins.

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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today is the day! Our first Purdue RNA Club Symposium. Thanks to support from @rnasociety.bsky.social and #Lexogen.

The symposium program. Posters, lunch, trainee talks and keynote from Craig Pikaard.

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Jacki Heraud-Farlow @jackiheraudfarlow.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m super excited to be opening a lab at WEHI. We’ll be focussing on how double-stranded RNA is regulated in cells, how failures in these pathways drive disease and new therapies to manipulate inflammatory responses to RNA. #newPI #RNAsky

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I wonder who gets spots in the Purdue summer camp before us plebs gets our chance to register? Must be nice to have a guaranteed spot and not have to block out your morning and stress over getting a good spot in the registration queue.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Some us, not very many, started at community college and never took the ACT or SAT...

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Per tradition, the house has been built. Decorations tomorrow!

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Done with the last lecture of the year! Looking forward to the next ~9 months of bench work.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

New addition this year was homemade cranberry sauce. Don't know why I waited this long to do that on.

Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls, gravy

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Well, I'm going to find out, eventually.

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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

RNA Club returns on Friday with Iman Mevaa from the @kasinskilab.bsky.social presenting a talk titled Targeted Delivery of Tumor-Suppressive miR-34a for Osteosarcoma Treatment. We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

My first trip out of the Purdue Airport went... well, it didn't. I ended up on the shuttle to ORD anyway. It could be great to fly out of LAF, but there probably needs to be more volume to make it reliable.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

How are we supposed to advise undergraduates interested in applying to graduate school soon? They are scared that their options will be limited. They don't know if it is better to rush to get in or wait until things maybe get better. They don't have as many options for post-bacc programs. It's rough

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Patience was rewarded. Wonderfully set and no soggy bottom.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

What to do while you wait for the apple pie to cool? Eat the mini pie you made with the extra pastry, of course. This hack brought to you by my grandma.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The fall bloomers are starting to make an appearance! Skip the mums, plant asters!

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Purdue RNA Club @purduernaclub.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Welcome to the bsky account for the Purdue RNA Club! Our meeting dates for Fall 2025 are September 12, October 10, November 14, and December 5.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Anyone in the West Lafayette area have an explanation for why they closed the right lane of River Road here? It's closed for maybe 200 ft. I think that they did this either to intentionally make traffic worse or to further aggravate the businesses that didn't sell their land.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I might need to dial back the jalapeños for the next batch. 🔥🔥

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Our tomatillos finally started producing!

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Here is the post thread I promised: We have been interested in ADAR1 as a therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer for a while. That project was supported by the NIH before Trump terminated it, but that is another story. While ADAR1 is a promising target - there aren't any inhibitors 1/n

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Our second preprint is out today! Post thread to come later.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

So, when this gets packaged into an exosome, is it a virus? I'm only being a little sarcastic.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A moment of beauty in the garden provides a brief distraction from the slow death of science in this country.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I wonder if tenure committees and university administration will consider this when making tenure/promotion decisions?

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is terrible, and unfortunately, based on my experience sharing this information with others, many in academia (especially more senior faculty) aren't even aware of this change.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I treated the lab to a trip to the San Diego Zoo to celebrate our first preprint and for the members attending their first conference, surviving #RNA25. While the zoo is famous for the pandas, the koalas were my favorite!

Cottrell Lab in front of a panda sign at San Diego Zoo.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This evening, the newest Cottrell Lab graduate student, Cassandra Smoak, will be presenting poster 402. Over the last few months she has been evaluating a recently published ADAR1 inhibitor - ZYS-1. I'll let her tell you if it is a good inhibitor or not... #RNA25

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I haven't had time to make a post thread for this, but if you are at #RNA25, the first-author Addison Young is presenting a poster on this work tonight - P1-108.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is our first preprint! The post thread is coming later today.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The Cottrell Lab (minus the undergrads) is on our way to RNA25!

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you plant it, they will come.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mother's Day Strawberry Shortcakes and flowers from our garden.

Bouquet of cut flowers, lilac, iris bluebells

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The dynasty continues. Our third straight IM championship!

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

...but the MRI isn't covered under most plans. It should be covered as a preventative like the mammogram is under the ACA. Shout out to the breast cancer advocates in Indiana that pushed for a state law that requires clinicians to inform patients of breast density. www.hoosierbcadvocates.com/hb-1058

hoosierbcadvocates.com

2024 Legislation | Hoosier Breast Cance

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The Cottrell lab is in Indy for Pink Out the Statehouse. @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social www.hoosierbcadvocates.com/registration...

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm really going to miss Kevin. I've been following him, probably my entire adult life. I mostly gave up political commentary after the 2016 election, but I never stopped reading his blog. If you aren't familiar with Kevin, I suggest you read some of his work on the 'lead crime hypothesis'.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm glad that study sections will resume soon, but I am furious that the study section for my first R01 application didn't meet today. I'm sure they will be able to quickly reschedule. After all, it should be fairly simple to find a full day for 35 faculty to meet... 1/2

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Possibly a controversial opinion, but a well informed one as a partent: Mott's fruit snacks are better than Welch's.

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Kyle Cottrell @kylecottrell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Really wonder if the university did any traffic studies before they decided to close half the roads on one side of campus.

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