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Kevin Gardner

@nmrkaygee.bsky.social
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Director CUNY ASRC Structural Biology, Prof CCNY Chemistry & Biochemistry plus GC PhD programs. Studies nature's sensors and uses them to control biology; builds new academic & industry culture. Opinions are solely my own and not those of my employer.

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Great sunset from #ASBMB26 looking over the Potomac tonight
Sunset view over a river with an illuminated Ferris wheel to the side
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Wonderful afternoon on the National Mall at the @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally. Great speakers, slogans, and push for science!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Proud to be one of a 60-person @asbmb.bsky.social team visiting Capitol Hill today, meeting NY Congressional delegation to share about the importance of NIH & NSF funding, basic research, and training in the U.S. Glad to speak up as one of 11,000 ASBMB scientists! #ASBMBAdvocates #ScienceServesAll
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Just arrived in DC for a busy few days speaking up for science - Friday visiting Congress with @asbmb.bsky.social and Saturday joining the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on the Mall - before hearing and sharing some great science at the ASBMB annual meeting!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Very proud of Jimmy Siclari with his outstanding Ph.D. defense on Friday for the Biology/MCD Ph.D. program at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Jimmy's done exemplary work identifying new bacterial one component signaling systems and triggers, helping us understand their structures & functions.
New Ph.D. Jimmy Siclari and proud mentor Prof. Kevin GardnerJimmy Siclari answering questions after his Ph.D. defenseGardner lab members and alumni, December 2025
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Hmmm - usually used to seeing it presented to bottle form, looks bigger in the wild
A bottle of Wild Turkey 101 bourbon
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Over the last century, research has helped improve the early detection and treatment of serious diseases. But future progress is at risk unless we continue federal funding for medical research. #AmericansForMedicalResearch
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Proud to be back teaching CCNY Biochem I this semester, with great questions from the 70 students in the class. Thanks as always to my profs at @ucdavis.bsky.social for providing excellent intros to this field & great teaching when I was on the other side of the lectern!
Shepard Hall, City College of New York
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Timeline cleanse, beautiful evening for WAS @ NYY tonight. Back to science research, teaching, and advocacy in the AM!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Took a greatly appreciated break to see a very greatly appreciated matchup of two former SFG pitchers (Wheeler, Rodón) on a beautiful afternoon in the Bronx. NYY 4, PHL 3 = perfect ending to a great game
A beautiful afternoon picture of the New York Yankees beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3, on July 27, 2025Box score of July 27, 2025 MLB game between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies.  Yankees won 4-3
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NIH & NSF-funded science research leads to breakthroughs and jobs in all 50 states. The importance of this recognized by many Americans, regardless of D or R after their name - including Sens Schumer and Collins #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
More tomorrow #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates
ASBMB motto for science advocacy: Science Serves Us All
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Next up – let's hook this up to an AVANCE III
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Yeah - snow in NYC today after really dry fall. Odd weather indeed
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Got my favorite!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A very clear sign of a chemistry holiday party in progress!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hmmm. Let's mix that magnet with this display on my desk ... we've got the beginnings of a nice NMR system!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I typically keep my posts professional over personal, but too psyched to get time with my younger sibs Bruce & Heather this weekend to stick to that. Proud to have us as three public univ products (UCD/SJSU/UCSC) who now work as faculty or staff at public univs (CUNY/SJSU/UCSC)!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Tremendously proud for last week's FDA approval of HIF-2 inhibitor belzutifan – a Merck drug derived from long-term collab btw my group + Rick Bruick's + others to Peloton Therapeutics – to be more broadly used in treating certain kidney cancers (www.fda.gov/drugs/resour...).
Solution NMR data screening HIF-2 fragments for suitability for structural biology and drug discovery efforts, November 2000.
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
An underappreciated benefit of the privilege of starting a new academic environment from scratch? Watching creative people invent new traditions. Example #28: The Ph.D. defense shield, here modeled by the newly-minted Dr. Matt Cleere (thx Paul McQuiston 4 logo; Matt's family 4 awesome shield)
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
New news: Really proud of my Ph.D. student Matt Cleere in defending his Ph.D. in the CUNY Ph.D. Program today. Did a killer job blending his love of all things yeast with our love of all things LOV photoreceptors!
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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
hello, world! Slowly here from X/Twitter, one step at a time due to a mix of lament for what's been lost. My intro: I'm a biochemist & structural biologist who studies how cells know what's going on around them. That's taught us basic mechanisms + inspired optogenetic tools and cancer drug
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