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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D.

@weyemilab.bsky.social
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Cancer Biologist Principal Investigator Head, Genomic stability and Redox metabolism - NCI/NIH Opinions are mine and not those of NIH

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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thrilled to share our latest work from the lab, published today in Science Advances @science.org Our findings reveal a previously unrecognized PRDX1-dependent mechanism that safeguards RNA polymerase I-dependent transcription, and ribosomal RNA biogenesis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Peroxiredoxin 1 safeguards the nucleolar genome from oxidative damage
Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) is a highly conserved, thiol-dependent peroxidase that rapidly scavenges reactive oxygen species to modulate redox signaling. PRDX1-null mice exhibited genomic instability, sho...
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 Preprint Alert! 🚨 Ever wondered how the nucleolar genome is protected from oxidative damage? Check our new preprint uncovering a previously unrecognized role of Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) in safeguarding ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from oxidative damage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Peroxiredoxin 1 safeguards the nucleolar genome from oxidative damage
Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) is a highly conserved, thiol-dependent peroxidase that rapidly scavenges reactive oxygen species to modulate redox signaling. PRDX1-null mice exhibited genomic instability, sho...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
🧪 A new method called MagIC-Cryo-EM allows scientists to use powerful #CryoEM techniques to examine proteins that have been difficult to study so far.
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The (molecular) shape of you
New methods allow scientists to use a powerful technique known as cryo-EM to examine proteins that have been difficult to study so far.
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
FYI - We've extended abstract submission deadline to June 8. Submit soon to be considered for a short talk. Come join us at the first FASEB #Ferroptosis meeting! It's going to be awwwwesome! 🤩 events.faseb.org/event/11797f...
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Home - Ferroptosis, Oxidative Stress, and Lipid Metabolism
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Celebrating my brother’s graduation at The George Washington University for his Master of Engineering in Cloud Computing! Brother Jacques, you made us proud! Your hard work paid off! 🎉👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Reminder: The 1st FASEB #Ferroptosis Meeting is this summer! Spectacular speaker lineup + short talks selected from submitted abstracts. It is going to be awesome! Trainees, newcomers & all interested are welcome! 📅 Abstract deadline: June 1, 2025. shorturl.at/QA6T1
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The spring is back for real in Maryland!
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Chang Jiang @jianglab2023.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Jiang lab@Moffitt is attending @ASBMB! If you are interested in redox biology and cancer metabolism, check out our posters as listed below on Monday, April 14th, 2025! See you in Chicago! We are hiring now!
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Check out our new review paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social We summarized recent advances in understanding the complex interplay between DNA damage response and metabolism, focusing on how this crosstalk affects cancer therapy resistance. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Gina DeNicola @ginadenicola.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Abstracts are due TOMORROW! Please share!
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I thank the NCI Center for Cancer Research for shedding light on our most recent publication. ccr.cancer.gov/news/article...
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Targeting two proteins leaves some cancer cells vulnerable to chemotherapy | Center for Cancer Research
Targeting two proteins that cancer cells rely on to sustain their metabolism and DNA repair capabilities can double the survival rate of mice with lung cancer tumors. Cross referencing with data from ...
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
To all the charlatans bragging about curing cancer in 5 years with AI: you have no idea what you’re taking about.
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Justin Bollinger @bollinger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
TIRING!
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Happy Black History Month!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Check out our new paper just out in Redox Biology! Leveraging metabolism-focused CRISPR screen, we established a gene dependency map between DNA damage response and metabolism. We identified peroxiredoxin 1 as a key driver of resistance to ATM inhibition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Metabolic dependency mapping identifies Peroxiredoxin 1 as a driver of resistance to ATM inhibition
Metabolic pathways fuel tumor progression and resistance to stress conditions including chemotherapeutic drugs, such as DNA damage response (DDR) inhi…
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Dr. Donita C. Brady of Brady Lab UPenn @bradylabupenn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Excited to co-chair #ASBMB2025 with the incredible Dave Pagliarini! This year’s ASBMB meeting promises to showcase cutting-edge science, foster dynamic collaborations, & inspire new ideas. Don’t miss your chance to be part of it—register & submit your late breaking abstracts. t.co/UwgMdxBo15
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
About 10 minutes after your first chalk talk with comments like: I don’t see how your work is going to reshape the field. Of course, I don’t know either. 😂😂
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Fake news! Please read the entire study. It is fluoride over-exposure, and it is a 1.6 drop in IQ. I don’t want to lose my teeth to adjust to a standard deviation.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/01/2025
Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
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The U.S. Surgeon General wants cancer warnings on alcohol. Here's why
Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
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Emmanuelle Bignon @emmabignon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
First post here, how exciting!! 🥳 📣💻[JOB OFFER] I am looking for a postdoc with experience in QM/MM, MD and biosystems, and who would be motivated to study the formation mechanisms of oxydative histone modifications. Please share! #compchem #histones #PTM #redox www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Emmanuelle Bignon on LinkedIn: Job offer - pdoc CHROM
📢🧬I have a postdoc position open for people with experience using QM/MM on biosystems! Do not hesitate to apply if you're interested in investigating the…
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
No offense, but people talk about A.I. and machine learning in 2024 like folks used to talk about microarray in the late 1990’s. They have no idea what they are talking about, but they say it anyway because it sounds smart.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
No need for hallucinations, there are still plenty of important open questions in science
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Antonio Martínez Ruiz @tonnomartinez.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Do you want to work as a #postdoc in our group in a Hospital Research Institute in Madrid?🏥🔬 Interested in how #mitochondria and #redox signalling/stress can influence #stroke outcome and #inflammation?🧠💊 Apply up to 26 December at n9.cl/iunkw (ref 72/2024) Full call n9.cl/gijjd Please repost 😉
Postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Antonio Martínez Ruiz in Madrid
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Excited to announce the next round of the @utaustin.bsky.social Trailblazer Postdoc Symposium. I'd love to see some #devbiol folks join us! Nominate postdocs! Nominate yourself! I Questions? DM me! Please amplify! @socdevbio.bsky.social app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b7f2...
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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Pretty simple.
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Three minutes following the rejection of your manuscript revised 3 times in Nature. 😁
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A nice piece. elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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Point of View: Applied research won’t flourish without basic science
Three senior figures at the US National Institutes of Health explain why the agency remains committed to supporting basic science and research.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
ACSL4 promotes metastatic extravasation by enhancing membrane fluidity and invasion "Our work establishes the dual functions of PUFA-lipids in tumor progression and metastasis that may be exploitable for therapeutic development." www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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ACSL4 and polyunsaturated lipids support metastatic extravasation and colonization
In vivo metastasis modeling and CRISPR screening identify mediators of ovarian cancer metastasis to distant organs, highlighting the dual functions of unsaturated lipids in promoting extravasation and colonization.
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Manuscript submitted vs Manuscript accepted.
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My home department at Columbia just opened a search for a tenure track position. Very supportive department with 7 junior faculty members who are all thriving. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/160181
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Review on synthetic lethal strategies in oncology, with a small contribution from yours truly. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synthetic lethal strategies for the development of cancer therapeutics - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
The experience with PARP inhibitors provides evidence of the clinical utility of synthetic lethality, whereby the simultaneous presence of two specific alterations is required for antitumour activity....
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hopkins faculty: Need editorial assistance for a proposal or an article? Make use of our services at no charge. Contact my office here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/easi/ Happy writing!
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Welcome to the #devbiolwriteclub Bluesky Boot Camp! I’ll be posting here regularly with thoughts and exercises to help scientists become better writers. Let’s start by managing expectations: I will NOT help you write better. I WILL help you become a better writer. 🧵 1/10
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Sam Holtzen, PhD @samholtzen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hi science twitter, I'm thinking of applying for the Hanna H. Gray fellowship through HHMI. If anyone has any experience with this specific grant, or grant writing tips in general, I would love to hear them :) 🧪
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A kind reminder, especially these days! 👇🏽👇🏽
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Bethesda-MD, Summer 2023
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Let’s hope for the joy to last. Having fun again. ❤️
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Humbly Jay @humblyjay.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Full Moon Over Bryce Canyon National Park 🇺🇲
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
No further comments needed.
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Marcelo Bonini, Ph.D. @mbonini.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today the feature is on ROS and R-loops - Hypoxia-driven non-damaging ROS levels lead to R-loop formation. The authors show that ROS-R loop-H3K9Me2 is a key axis regulating chromatin structure and the response to hypoxia. #redoxepigenetics academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/11/2024
We might finally understand what’s going on inside Uranus and Neptune, and the answer is pretty surprising: They may each contain an ocean of water.
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Uranus and Neptune May Conceal Vast Oceans of Water
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field.
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 25/11/2024
Look who's here @pnas.org ✔️ @science.org ✔️ @naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️ @natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️ @naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️ @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️ @naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️ @genesdev.bsky.social ✔️ @cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️ @genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️ @jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
VENUS AND SAGITTARIUS TONIGHT!!!
Bright white dots in the night sky. Venus appears the brightest in the center, while the rest are dimmer and show the Sagittarius constellation.
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is me finding my Redox folks and former Xers here! 🤩🤩
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