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Sharona Gordon

@profsharona.bsky.social
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Biophysics professor at University of Washington and founder of Below The Waterline and UW Allies. Lover of chocolate, labradoodles, transition metals, fluorescence, and membrane proteins.

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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am proud to be part of this new work with Pierce Eggan and Bill Zagotta, just published in eLife. Time-resolved tmFRET reveals ion channel energetics! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Domain coupling in allosteric regulation of SthK measured using time-resolved transition metal ion FRET
Time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer reveals conformational energetics of a bacterial cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NIH funding REINSTATED! Thank you to @atg.wa.gov and other attorneys general and to Judge Young. This saves the career of a promising junior scientist. TY @jeremymberg.bsky.social for all your help interpreting these events.
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Chang Liu @chang-c-liu.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Happy to share the peer-reviewed and updated version of our work on OrthoRep-driven evolution of aaRSs for genetic code expansion with unnatural amino acids. Congrats to Yuichi Furuhata, a true master bioengineer, on leading this excellent work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Directed evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases through in vivo hypermutation - Nature Communications
Genetic code expansion (GCE) enables the incorporation of new amino acids into proteins. Here, authors demonstrate the rapid OrthoRep-driven evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases for GCE, increasing...
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
11 folks in the Gordon and Zagotta lab family at Seattle #StandUpForScience event. We joined at least five other labs from @uw-nbio.bsky.social. This PhD student and postdoc organized event gives me hope that we can #ResistTogether to make science the culture we aspire to.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Heading to #standupforscience rally in Seattle.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What ideas do ppl have for text to put on signs? #Seattle friends: bring your sign-making materials to my lab at 10 am for a sign-making party! We can then take light rail to the demo together.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I understand that “It is simply not possible for departments or the university to cover the costs currently funded by federal awards” means the UW won’t help us. 1/2 explore.uw.edu/index.php/em...
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I will be hosting sign making in my lab at 10 am on the 7th. All are welcome. Lease bring your own materials and DM me for more info.
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Matt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · 26/02/2025
So excited to see how quickly #StandUpForScience has grown from a single rally to rallies in 32 cities in 27 states and counting! Let's go! Thank you for your leadership @standupforscience.bsky.social! They also opened up a donation page 🧪 standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
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Local Event Information
Below are the state capitals and major cities (alphabetized by state) hosting official Stand Up for Science events. If your city is listed, a confirmed site leader—backed by our core team—is active…
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 19/02/2025
“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/02/2025
Trump's illegal NIH cuts mean cancer researchers would be laid off, sick kids going without treatment, and more. These cuts would be DEVASTATING for lifesaving research. Some Republicans have said they agree—but they just blocked my amendment to reverse Trump's NIH cuts anyway.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
LAYOFFS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Proud to be a constituent. Thanks Patty Murray! It makes me feel like all my emails are having the intended effect.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.
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Karen Fleming @karenfleming.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
NEW ROOM: I've deleted the original one. We're having an emergency Town Hall at the #BPS2025 #BPS to discuss the assault on #science and actions we can take. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Pls. Repost this one. :)
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Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I went to AAAS this weekend and talked to lots of scientists about how they're feeling In These Times www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
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The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting
Scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers at the AAAS meeting shared fears and coping strategies.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
One of the many NIH scientists fired heartlessly on Valentine’s Day responded to my Q about help in the most selfless way. I meant what I could do to help them. The answer o got shocked me. Read on… 1/n 🧵
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🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
🌺 Combining my Happy #Sunday post with #FluorescenceFriday🧪🔬 (just a couple of days late! 🤭). One of my favorite drawings by Gary Larson 🥰 used to hang on the door of my office during my #PhD, a loooooong time ago! #TheFarSide #GaryLarson #Comics
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Things I’m excited about this academic term: amazing PhD student’s thesis defense; fantastic rotation student; @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Conference; postdoc’s new baby; productive collaborations; working at the bench w/my lab buddy Bill. Wishing all a happy and healthy new year!
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Amen
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Volodya Gelfand; Northwestern University @vgelfand.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine seeks a full-time tenure track Investigator at the rank of Assistant Professor. Click here to learn more. www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cdb/do... For questions, contact Vanessa Gonzalez vanessa.g@northwestern.edu
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I am on the thesis committees of 14 PhD students right now. Does that seem like a lot? I’ve started turning them down because I can’t find the time in my schedule. It is an honor and I learn so much, but I’m feeling a little burned out.
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Lydia Daboussi @daboussi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
📢UCLA is recruiting an open rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty position in the basic sciences! (see link below) #AcademicTwitter 💫✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062
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Open Rank Faculty Position in David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@millerlab.bsky.social @maitreya.bsky.social @uw-nbio.bsky.social please repost!
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Seattle-Area friends: two UW Allies events coming: Allies info session - Dec 16, 10:30-11:30 in HSB G-328. Come learn about what Allies is, how to get involved, and how to seal support. Mentoring-for-Lunch - Dec 16, 12-1, in HSB G-328 and Zoom (DM 4 link). Discuss mentoring challenges/get support.
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I am really lroud of this work with Pierce Eggan and Bill Zagotta using time-resolved transition metal ion FRET to measure confirmatiinal energetics in a bacterial CNG channel. Genetic code expansion is getting better and better! Thanks to OSU Center GCE4All! elifesciences.org/articles/99854
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Ligand-coupled conformational changes in a cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel revealed by time-resolved transition metal ion FRET
Time-resolved tmFRET revealed structural and energetic changes induced by ligand binding with full agonist cAMP and partial agonist cGMP in the cyclic nucleotide-binding domain of the bacterial ion ch...
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Karen Costa (she/her) @karencosta.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
it's almost as if #HigherEd is designed to maintain the status quo!
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships are a fantastic way to get your foot in the funding door and pursue proper high risk, high reward research. Check them out here: www.embo.org/funding/fell... Next deadline: Feb 14th Very happy to support any prospective applicants, but do get in touch early! 😊
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Postdoctoral Fellowships – Benefits – EMBO
EMBO provides grants for host institutions in EMBC Member States to issue employment contracts to EMBO Fellows. Fellows working in other countries than EMBC Member States will receive a stipend.
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Didier Mazel @amazeld.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...
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Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just made no-knead rosemary lemon bread for the first time. So good! www.williams-sonoma.com/m/recipe/ros...
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Sharona Gordon @profsharona.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I just registered for the 2025 @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Who else is going? I am looking forward to seeing friends and learning new science!
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