Alex Plocik

Biologist. Interested in most things RNA (and DNA). Father and husband to amazing people. Opinions are my own.

[ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @The_PW_Lab]

The whole RNA world owes SO much to Christine Guthrie. I will forever be thankful for what she taught me and be in awe of her strength and resilience. 1/4.

[seemay chou @seemaychou]

Best advice I got from Christine Guthrie when I inherited her lab space: “Don’t waste your fucking time worrying about what other people think.” #noted #rip

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

Great idea!

[Robert K. Bradley @bradleybio]

I'm excited share our "synthetic intron" technology for selective expression of therapeutic proteins in cancers, just out in @NatureBiotech. This was an amazing collaboration with @AbdelWahablab led by @khrystyna_north and @SBenbarche https://t.co/cURNNuFNt1

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

Characterization of Shallow Whole-Metagenome Shotgun Sequencing as a High-Accuracy and Low-Cost Method by Complicated Mock Microbiomes https://t.co/XY44bfwS92

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

We have the technology. What's keeping us from making Delta- and Omicron-specific vaccine cocktails? Regulation? Manufacturing times?

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

I am so proud of Ginkgo's SARS-CoV-2 response since March 2020!

We built this sequencing capability within weeks of lockdown, then an NGS dx test, then pooled testing for schools, and now airport screening.

All this innovation in public health from a synthetic biology company!

[Renee Wegrzyn @rwegrzyn]

Proud of our @concentricbygbw - @XpresCheck - @CDCgov team that proved proactive pathogen detection at airports can detect a novel variant at import - first instance of North American Omicron BA.3 sub-lineage. Building the tools for better biosecurity! https://t.co/RVnafB4Srf

[Renee Wegrzyn @rwegrzyn]

Proud of our @concentricbygbw - @XpresCheck - @CDCgov team that proved proactive pathogen detection at airports can detect a novel variant at import - first instance of North American Omicron BA.3 sub-lineage. Building the tools for better biosecurity! https://t.co/RVnafB4Srf

[Steak-umm @steak_umm]

the irony of neil’s tweet is that by framing science itself as “true” he’s influencing people to be more skeptical of it in a time of unprecedented misinformation. science is an ever refining process to find truth, not a dogma. no matter his intent, this message isn’t helpful

[Robert C. Green @RobertCGreen]

Not only are manifested rare diseases not "rare" in aggregate, but in NIH-funded #MedSeq & #BabySeq, over 10% "healthy" individuals have dominant/bi-allelic mutations they are not aware of & that have already or may eventually affect their health. #RareDiseaseDay #tipoftheiceburg

[Patrick Boyle — e/🦀 @p_maverick_b]

Tired: watching your boss try to wield a pipette for TV cameras

Wired: watching your boss try to operate 20 flailing robot arms from a touch screen

[Brian Naughton @btnaughton]

now almost anyone can sequence a human genome at home with oxford nanopore https://t.co/Z26VLWylon

[Human Nature @HumanNatureDoc]

Make plans to watch this weekend on @netflix: https://t.co/xtHHaW3GSl
#crispr #HumanNatureFilm @DanRather

[Runa Islam @runaislam]

It may be time to bust my 2016 profile pic back out #MsMarvel

[Antoine van Oijen 🔬🧫🧬 @van__Oijen]

DNA is copied by a protein machine 10 nanometers in size

In bacteria, it produces 1,000 DNA bases per second

Scaled to daily-life proportions, this would be equivalent to a FedEx truck going at the speed of sound, delivering the correct package every 30 centimetres

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

A single plot summarising the progress made in the schizophrenia genetics so far 😍, a plot that we will see frequently over the next years.

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

Random find on a desk at my new job and I am so happy to be here!

[Jase Gehring @JaseGehring]

hello everyone, please don't compare clinical virological testing with your lab's most recent qPCR experiment.

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

@LauraKWhite Innate immunity is all the immunity plants have, so they have thousands of genes like these! I found this review to learn more about the what the new structures in animals and plants suggest about their function.

Pretty cool!

https://t.co/j4pM8Xf2gH

[Alex Plocik @AlexPlocik]

I haven't kept up with plant disease resistance genes and how they function as much as I used to, but this one structure makes me feel like I just learned a decades worth of discoveries!

Amazing!

[Raoul 🧊⚛️🔬 + 🌴🦠 @raoul_martin]

Happy to finally share our work on the Roq1 resistosome! Huge thanks to Tiancong Qi and all the people that contributed to this study. 🧊🔬🍃🦠 @NogalesLab @bstask @FurongLiu