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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seeking a soon-to-be PhD for a postdoc on AI and #riboswitch discovery who meets citizenship requirements to apply for an NSF fellowship. A job posting is here (tinyurl.com/3j73jfcn) and the NSF opportunity is here (tinyurl.com/mryn43ux). Send cv to kumari.thakur@yale.edu.

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Postdoctoral Associate / Bioinformatician Computational Discovery of Mammalian Riboswitches Breaker Laboratory, Yale University

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Our new paper in PNAS reports the presence of Na+ and Li+ #aptamer RNAs in mammals. The latter hints at natural roles for #lithium in humans and provides direct links to #BipolarDisorder. Now seeking funding to study Li+ biology and create new therapeutics.

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My lab at #Yale has two #riboswitch research openings: 1. Postdoc with mammalian gene manipulation experience (tinyurl.com/zzb269em); 2. Postdoc (or BS, MS) with bioinformatics skills (tinyurl.com/3j73jfcn). Send your cv to me or to Kavita at kumari.thakur@yale.edu.

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Postdoctoral Associate in Eukaryotic Cellular Molecular Genetics and RNA Biology — Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thrilled to receive a 3-year, $2.2M grant from the John Templeton Foundation to investigate mammalian #riboswitch RNAs that sense elemental ions and control genes for neurological processes. Excited for the discoveries ahead! @jwtempleton.bsky.social

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Some personal news: Today, I start my service as the FAS Dean of Science at Yale. It is a tremendous honor to help lead such a vibrant scientific community. I’m grateful for the opportunity and eager to support the groundbreaking research and teaching that defines Yale science.

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

#ncRNA molecules are far stranger than you think. We propose that OLE RNA is bacteria's functional mimic of #mTOR, and the Das lab at Stanford proposes OLE RNA penetrates cell membranes! They also find that RNAs we called ROOL and GOLLD form 8-membered nanocages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ronald Breaker @ronbreaker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Looking forward to publishing new findings on #riboswitch #noncoding RNAs and other strange nucleic acids in the new year. I will try to post about the most interesting advances on Bluesky.

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