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Sofi Origanti

@proforiganti.bsky.social
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Lab loves mechanisms-regulation: ribosomes, translation, DNA repair, cell cycle, cancer signaling & dogs! Uplift! opinions-own

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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ribosomal allostery as a potential regulator of bacterial dormancy 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ribosomal allostery as a potential regulator of bacterial dormancy - Nature Communications
Ribosomes are crucial for protein synthesis and managing cellular stress. Here, authors show that ribosomal protein L11 acts as a global regulator, coordinating complex internal signaling to ensure pr...
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Sofi Origanti @proforiganti.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When nature is messaging to finish up our structural study on ribosomes!
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My PO said I had to fill out this form for 3 of my papers for the RPPR of my NIGMS MIRA grant in February, or I could not include them in my progress report. It looks like things have gotten even worse since then.
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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A dividing cell videoed through a microscope. Hot tip: Don't mess around with myosin II paralogs if you don't want your cells to freak out. #CellBiology www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.
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Ahmad Jomaa @jomaalab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Excited to share our work uncovering SNOR, a ribosome-associated factor that promotes translation restart after dormancy published in Nature!! This was, as usual, a wonderful collaborative effort between our group and the Mattei Lab @simonemattei.bsky.social @embl.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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Wilson Lab @wilsonlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The regulation, function and disease relevance of cytoplasmic tRNAs - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
This Review discusses the expression and maturation of human cytoplasmic tRNAs and recent insights into their regulation of translation. The authors also explore emerging roles of tRNAs in ribosome-as...
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Uli Rass @u-rass.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An in-press version of our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com on phospho-activated protein-protein interactions with ssDNA-binding protein RPA during BIR. If your favorite pathway involves RPA, this may be for you! Thanks to the lab, collaborators & @ukri.org! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Communications banner with title of latest paper from the Yates, Oliver, and Rass groups at the Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex: "Break-induced replication is enhanced by a phospho-activated RPA-binding module in Pol32".
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is a really important paper in an area that is hard to study. I would recommend any student read this preprint to see how confounding issues arise even in clever assays. Internal Ribosome Entry Sites (IRES) are very interesting because they bypass normal translation initiation mechanisms. 1/
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Ahmad Jomaa @jomaalab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out the final version of this work, out today! @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A molecular switch in NAC prevents mitochondrial protein mistargeting by SRP - Nature Communications
How ribosome-bound NAC distinguishes mitochondrial precursors from ER clients has remained unclear. Here, authors reveal a molecular switch in NAC that limits SRP access to nascent mitochondrial precu...
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"Here, we discover that giant DNA viruses encode a distinct and functional IF4F translation-initiation complex to drive protein synthesis, thereby blurring the line between cellular and acellular biology" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life
Giant DNA viruses encode a cap-binding complex homologous to eIF4F, the defining translation-initiation complex of eukaryotes. The viral cap-binding complex is required for viral protein synthesis and...
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
new data from NIH about funding trends through FY2025 also a flyby analysis from Claude lol grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Ribosomal RNA expansion segments mediate the oligomerization of inactive animal ribosomes
Cells down-regulate protein synthesis when stressed to conserve energy and shift resources toward repair. We found that in some mammalian cells, including neurons, stress also resulted in the formatio...
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Sofi Origanti @proforiganti.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
That thrill and excitement when a new idea formulates and can’t wait to test it out without knowing what really lies ahead (spoiler- it’s a dragon - it’s always a dragon!)
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a man jumping over a fence with the words we 're going on an adventure written below him
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 28/01/2026
AlphaFold modeling & new assays for mitotic kinase activation in E. coli (#MITOKINAC) reveal molecular basis of specific Aurora A & PLK1 activation through Bora during mitotic entry Lionel Pintard @ccdlab.bsky.social et al #RefereedPreprint ℅ @reviewcommons.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Molecular basis for the activation of Aurora A and Plk1 kinases during mitotic entry - The EMBO Journal
The evolutionarily conserved, intrinsically disordered protein Bora is critical for initiating the activation of mitotic kinases. Once phosphorylated at Ser112 by Cyclin A-Cdk1 kinase, phospho-Bora ac...
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IgnatovaLab @ignatovalab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Interested in direct tRNA-seq by Nanopore? We developed a new RNA-based barcoding aproach for seq parallelization; it is also cost-saving. Scripts available on github. #tRNA #Nanopore track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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ADAM-tRNA-seq: an optimized approach for demultiplexing and enhanced hierarchal mapping in direct tRNA sequencing
Abstract. Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) play an essential role in protein synthesis and cellular homeostasis, and their dysregulation is associated with various hu
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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PAR-26-121: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional)
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Sofi Origanti @proforiganti.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This was another fun collaboration with @professorantony.bsky.social and big thanks to lead authors (Poonam Roshan, Ayush Mistry and Vikas Kaushi) and to all the co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mechanism of RPA phosphocode priming and tuning by CDK1/WEE1 signaling circuit - Nature Communications
RPA is an essential ssDNA binding protein. Here, authors uncover a phosphosite on RPA70 and show that the RPA70 and RPA32 subunits cooperate through a phosphocode to reconfigure RPA domains. This sugg...
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Sofi Origanti @proforiganti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Good news- they are continuing to do administrative supplements but the specific dates for NIGMS are unclear!
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PA-26-001: Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Updated guidance on NIH grant application due dates (10/1/2025-12/5/2025), along with some other Info. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
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Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required. Please share.
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We have written two reviews providing a practical guide and fundamentals of cell migration: (1) How to select an optimal cell migration assay, (2) How to analyze cell migration data. We also added a perspective on AI methods of analysis. Coming out soon in Nature Methods.
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Arnab Ray Chaudhuri @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Want to know how homologous recombination defects are caused upon loss of BRCA2? Check out our recent efforts in uncovering this phenomenon just out in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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FIGNL1 inhibits homologous recombination in BRCA2 deficient cells by dissociating RAD51 filaments
Homologous recombination (HR) deficiency upon Breast Cancer Gene 2 (BRCA2) loss arises from defects in the formation of RAD51 nucleoprotein filaments. We demonstrate that loss of the anti-recombinase ...
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Petr Cejka @cejkalab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Among the anti-recombinases, FIGNL1 rules them all. So much that inactivating it brings BRCA2-deficient cells to life. Who is responsible for RAD51 loading without BRCA2/FIGNL1, check out the paper to find out! Great collaboration with @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 24/10/2025
I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.
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Petr Cejka @cejkalab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
See our paper “Mechanism of trinucleotide repeat expansion by MutSβ-MutLγ and contraction by FAN1”. Using biochemistry, we show how DNA incisions by the MutLγ nuclease can lead to expansions, and how expansion is prevented by FAN1. Well done Issam and Valentina! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Beautiful reconstitution of amino acid stress-dependent ISR activation by my @harvardcellbio.bsky.social colleagues presenting a unifying mechanism for GCN2 activation, which requires ribosome collisions and is enhanced by cognate uncharged tRNA in the A site! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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GCN1 couples GCN2 to ribosomal state to initiate amino acid response pathway signaling
During nutrient deprivation, activation of the protein kinase GCN2 regulates cell survival and metabolic homeostasis. In addition to amino acid stress, GCN2 is activated by a variety of cellular stres...
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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Emmanuel Levy @elevylab.bsky.social has joined BlueSky 🌟 with a fantastic Cell paper with Shu-ou Shan, showing the interactome of the TOM complex and how cotranslational mito import prioritizes large globular domains. Beautiful science! Give him a warm welcome 🎉 link: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Principles of cotranslational mitochondrial protein import
Selective ribosome profiling reveals that nearly 20% of mitochondrial proteins in human cells are imported during translation on cytosolic ribosomes. Cotranslational import requires an N-terminal pres...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky
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ACS announces millions in funding for students affected by terminated grants
The grants will help students within 1 year of completion of their degree
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Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful. Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
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Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Please register early and upload your abstracts. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Milwaukee in September!
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
So good that NIGMS is planning to renew call for EI (and ESI) MIRA. But really bad if this is just one deadline a year instead of the usual two (Jan and May) Anyone know anything else? Maybe time to panic.... simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...
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Opportunity Listing - Maximizing Investigators' Research Award
Read detailed information about this funding opportunity.
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Sofi Origanti @proforiganti.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
up to 4th percentile for NCI 😳
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Funding Policy - Research Grants
NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.
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Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Global inhibition of deadenylation stabilizes the transcriptome in mitotic cells
In the presence of cell division errors, mammalian cells can pause in mitosis for tens of hours with little to no transcription, while still requiring continued translation for viability. These unique...
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Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
How are Rad51 filaments formed during Homologous Recombination? Jaigeeth Deveryshetty and Ayush Mistry describe the mechanism through the lens of Rad52, the yeast homolog of human BRCA2. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Mechanism of Rad51 filament formation by Rad52 and Rad55-Rad57 in homologous recombination
Nature Communications - The mediator protein Rad52 promotes Rad51 binding onto RPA-coated DNA to initiate homologous recombination. Here, the authors show that Rad52 sorts Rad51 into monomers and...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.
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two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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PA-25-422: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) PA-25-422. NI...
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Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Registration now open for the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference 2025. Registration Link: lnkd.in/ggHMWrF5 Event Date: September 27, 2025 Location: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee It's free to register Kindly share as we want to grow this amazing community of mechanistic enzymologists.....
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university) This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/2
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NOT-OD-25-124: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Rescission of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-124. NIH
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Joyce Ohm @epigenohmics.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Wow, 7% depressing. In other news, please check your compiled grants in ERA Commons. 129 pages of our P50 missing going between the final preview of submitted Grant in ASSIST to the compiled grant in Commons. No errors. Put in ticket. Fixed. Still 2 pages missing. The NIH is not alright. 🙁
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Frances Yap @ribo1214.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
poor nutrient-induced ribosomal frameshift promotes mRNA decay in eukaryotes and bacteria- from @pelechanolab.bsky.social #RNASky #ribosome 🧪
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Alessandra Brambati @alebrambati.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Our study highlights RNA as a direct template for DNA repair, revealing RT-DSBR as a previously unrecognized and potentially mutagenic pathway. Huge thanks to the incredible team who made this work possible! (5/5) 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GenomeInstability #DNARepair #RNA #CRISPR #DSB
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RNA transcripts serve as a template for double-strand break repair in human cells - Nature Communications
DNA double-stranded breaks threaten genome stability. Here, the authors show that transcript RNA serves as a repair template in human cells and identify Polζ as a key factor in RNA-templated DSB repai...
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Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
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erzbergerlab.bsky.social @erzbergerlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
RIOK3 mediates the degradation of 40S ribosomes: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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RIOK3 mediates the degradation of 40S ribosomes
Huang et al. identify a pathway for stress-induced 40S ribosome degradation: 40S ribosomes ubiquitylated by RNF10 are subsequently bound by the atypical kinase RIOK3, which mediates their degradation ...
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Liam Faller @liamfaller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New paper from the lab! Want to know if there is a difference in ribosome collisions between your samples? We show that you can detect this in the rRNA reads in your ribosome profiling data. academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...
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Detecting ribosome collisions with differential rRNA fragment analysis in ribosome profiling data
Abstract. It has become clear in recent years that ribosomes regularly stall during translation. Such translation impairment has many causes, including exp
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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