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Zachary Murphy

@zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social
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Harvard BBS Ph.D. candidate in the Young-Pearse Lab | iPSCs and Alzheimer's Disease | Evrony Lab and Rice University 2021 alum| views are my own (he/him)

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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New TYP lab paper out today in @pnas.org from former PhD student Zach Augur and postdoc @garrettfogo.bsky.social all about how astrocytic BAG3 coordinates Alzheimer's proteostasis proteins! Read all about it here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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BAG3 coordinates astrocytic proteostasis of Alzheimer’s disease–linked proteins via proteasome, autophagy, and retromer interactions | PNAS
Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) is a mediator of chaperone-assisted selective autophagy, and in the brain, is most highly expressed in astrocy...
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Congratulations to the Young-Pearse lab's newest doctor @gizemterzioglu.bsky.social on her successful PhD defense!!! We are so proud of her!!
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A few weeks ago, I picked up my Master's degree diploma in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University. Though this is just a milestone along the way, it was nice to celebrate the accomplishment of finishing the first ~1/2 of my Ph.D journey. I am so thankful for all of the...(1/2)
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I had a great time attending and presenting a poster at the Connors-MGB Research Collaborative for Women's Health and Sex Differences Symposium earlier this month. This was the 2nd time I presented a poster, and it is always a fun time with great science, lively discussions, and friendly people!
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Shoutout graduate student Olivia Pembridge who gave a fantastic talk on her work studying the role of VGF in excitatory neurons at the Annual ROSMAP conference and won the Martha Ondrey Jr. Investigator Award 🏆
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Huge congrats to @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social selected as a 2025 Fujifilm Fellow at @harvard.edu 🎉 The Fujifilm Fellowship Program fully funds PhD students doing groundbreaking work in the life sciences!!
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I am honored to announce that I was chosen to be a Fujifilm Fellow through HMS's Therapeutics Graduate Program for the 2025-26 year. This year of funding will help me continue my research on the molecular and cellular roles of XX and XY chromosome complement in AD. hms.harvard.edu/departments/...
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are proud to celebrate Tracy as the recipient of the Harvard Medical School Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award! 🎉 Her guidance, encouragement, and dedication mean so much to all of us. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!
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alexlish.bsky.social @alexlish.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thrilled to share my first first-author paper is out @cp-neuron.bsky.social! We show that Alzheimer's disease protective CLU alleles upregulate CLU in response to neuropathology, dampening inflammatory signaling between microglia and astrocytes. Read here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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CLU alleviates Alzheimer’s disease-relevant processes by modulating astrocyte reactivity and microglia-dependent synaptic density
Genetic studies implicate clusterin (CLU) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet its precise molecular impact remains unclear. Through u…
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Congratulations our newly-minted PhD candidate Olivia Pembridge on passing her PQE with flying colors today! Olivia will be using a wide array of iPSC and organoid models to study mechanisms of neurodevelopment!
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Selfie mode activated
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congratulations to TYP lab Postdoctoral Research Fellow @heuerwego.bsky.social on being awarded a @brightfocus.bsky.social Alzheimer's Disease Research Fellowship! Sarah is using iPSCs to determine the cellular impacts of ABCA7 mutations in Alzheimer's disease!
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Really great article by the president of Princeton! It would be great to see more universities and academic leadership band together to protect academic freedom! Maybe this will be a turning point... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Garrett Fogo @garrettfogo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy to share a large part of my PhD work that is now published in Autophagy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control regulate proteostasis in neuronal ischemia-reperfusion
Mitochondrial damage and dysfunction are hallmarks of neuronal injury during cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). Critical mitochondrial functions including energy production and cell signaling are...
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stood up for Science today!! #StandupforScience
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Young-Pearse Lab @typlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congratulations to the newly minted PhD @alexlish.bsky.social on successfully defending her thesis today! Be on the lookout for all the amazing things to come from Dr. Lish!
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Med - a Cell Press journal @cp-med.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Online Now: Ultra-rapid droplet digital PCR enables intraoperative tumor quantification
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Ultra-rapid droplet digital PCR enables intraoperative tumor quantification
Identifying a tumor’s molecular subtype during surgery and rapidly quantifying mutations in resected tissues intraoperatively could guide resection strategy and improve resections. Murphy, Bianchini, et al. introduce Ultra-Rapid droplet digital PCR, which…
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Exciting Update: Our paper on ultra-rapid ddPCR was published today in Med (@cp-med.bsky.social)! TLDR: UR-ddPCR enables the intraoperative genotyping of tumors and quantification of tumor boundaries in 15 min from tissue --> result (open-access link in last post) www.cell.com/med/abstract... (1/5)
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Ultra-rapid droplet digital PCR enables intraoperative tumor quantification
Identifying a tumor’s molecular subtype during surgery and rapidly quantifying mutations in resected tissues intraoperatively could guide resection strategy and improve resections. Murphy, Bianchini, ...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/02/2025
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️ MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL! Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard! SEE YOU THERE! www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the  Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you! Very excited to be done with the exam! 😅
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How much do people around the world trust scientists? "Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Heterozygoats.
"Heterozygoats: just allele uneven." in one of those black-framed memes format.

Two small goats (kids) each with black front halves and white back halves, frolicking on a snowy field.  This was stolen from the Internet, because it's been a particularly long day of gut punches and we could all use some cheering up.
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I lost my Biorender access since starting grad school, and it has been incredibly annoying ...but apparently the NIH launched a free, "any-use" repository of science/medical artwork called BioArt in November! It's been a great alternative so far if others are also annoyed bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Bioart
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Young-Pearse lab is now on Bluesky!! 🤩🧬🧠
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year!! Now, over or under 1 month until I stop accidentally writing 2024 on tubes instead of 2025 🤔😅
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Ngl the TYP lab kinda killed it this holiday season 🎄 from science elf on the shelf to Tracy's holiday party these people make science even more fun :)
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Darragh Duffy @darraghduffy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Created a starter pack of scientists studying sex& gender differences in biology and medicine 🧪💊 let me know if you'd like to be included go.bsky.app/CyUiL4k
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Junyue Cao @junyuecao.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excited to share our work @science.org. led by our incredible @tommyz626.bsky.social at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social! By profiling 21 million single cells across life stages, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows!
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A panoramic view of cell population dynamics in mammalian aging
To elucidate aging-associated cellular population dynamics, we present PanSci, a single-cell transcriptome atlas profiling over 20 million cells from 623 mouse tissues across different life stages, se...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Patricia Bernal @pbernalt6ss.eurosky.social · 25/11/2024
Just did my first Starter Pack, I think it can be useful. Let me know if you miss any journal and I will add it. Enjoy!! go.bsky.app/QPFZpj9
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Back in Houston pt. 2!! This time, I had the pleasure to present a poster on Ultra-Rapid ddPCR with my co-first author Emilia Bianchini at SNO 2024. A very fun weekend! #ddPCR #SNO2024
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Bryan D. James, PhD @bryandjames.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Someone had to do it! I created a starter pack for #Alzheimer’s #dementia #ADRD researchers on Bluesky. Please let me know who I left out! Hoping more and more of us will join Bluesky go.bsky.app/22DpUEy
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Paige L @paigeonthebrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you are new to bsky and interested in Alzheimer's and Dementia, check out the list I made: bsky.app/profile/did:... Let me know if you'd like to be added! You may already be in it 😏 (I am using this in place of the starter pack).
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I saw people giving brief intros so I figured I would too: I'm a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Young-Pearse lab at BWH. My research uses iPSC models to study Alzheimer's Disease with a focus on sex differences in AD. However, I also have broader interests in aging and other 🧠 diseases!
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Always a good time to be back in Houston where I had the chance to present some of my work on Ultra-Rapid ddPCR from the @giladevrony lab (in collaboration with @DanOrringerMD) at #CNS2024. I did forget about Houston's 90+ degree October heat though 😅
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am very excited for another co-first author paper from my time in the @giladevrony lab to come out as a pre-print, “Ultra-Rapid Droplet Digital PCR Enables Intraoperative Tumor Quantification”. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #MedRxiv #glioma #ddPCR (1/4)
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
From Dec. 2022 -- (1/2) I am excited to announce that I have been published for the first time! We developed an improved method to enrich for mutated DNA using magnetic MutS-beads. #MutS #heteroduplex #enrichment analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Zachary Murphy @zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I decided to join the movement to Bluesky so I figured I'd repost a few of my tweets to start out:
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