Chathuri Pathirage

Postdoc @MichiganChem
PhD @OSU_CBC #OSBP
Live and let live
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RNA enthusiast - structure, function, modifications and interactions

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

Our review “tRNA modifications in viral replication” is out now. Here we aim to bring the spotlight to tRNA modifications as regulatory and functionally critical elements during viral infection. There’s much to explore in this field:
https://t.co/LsLkAnDxFx

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

tRNA modifications in viral replication - Journal of Biological Chemistry https://t.co/LnNP02QOqJ

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

@DrBukkabwoi Wishing you the absolute best!!

[Sam Rodriques @SGRodriques]

We are opening applications for our 2026 cohort of FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellows! Apply our AI tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs:

--$125,000 annual stipend.
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--1 year with possible 1 year extension.

Even more exceptional co-advisors than last year. Deadline for applications is February 13th, 2026. Link in next post.

[Mark Yarchoan @MarkYarchoan]

Ethan Neumann, a 27-year-old PhD candidate in my lab, devoted himself to studying #fibrolamellar carcinoma, the cancer that claimed his life last week.

Please support his father’s effort to establish an endowed research fellowship in Ethan’s name ⬇️
https://t.co/g4orF0msmb

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

The footage from Gampola lays bare the scale of destruction — homes, roads and livelihoods torn apart in minutes.

Communities are still struggling to recover as teams work nonstop on the ground.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Sri Lanka’s death toll from Cyclone Ditwah has risen to 481, with 345 people still reported missing, according to updated figures released by authorities today.

Officials said search operations are ongoing across several districts hit by severe flooding and landslides, but hope of finding many of the missing alive is rapidly fading as days pass and water levels recede, revealing extensive destruction.

D: https://t.co/K1cXqF7tZ0

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

@silvirouskin Your work is super cool and your journey is inspiring. Good luck Prof. Rouskin! I hope you find great success ❤️🙏🏽

[Zeynep Baharoglu @BaharogluZeynep]

The eukaryotic tRNA chaperone La impacts tRNA modification levels (queuosine and others). Interesting because in procaryotes, tRNA modif enzymes themselves are thought to be chaperones. In both cases, there seems to be a link between modif and chaperones. https://t.co/zH4J9EC3L6

[Trends in Biochemical Sciences @TrendsBiochem]

Online now - Mitochondrial tRNA processing: a neutral evolutionary ratchet innovation https://t.co/fnIhF7vZS3

[Alexandra Deaconescu @deaconesculab]

Excited to share with you the good news! I have left Brown University and joined the Institute of Quantitative Biomedicine at Rutgers University. The lab is looking for new members at all levels, students, techs, postdocs! Plse retweet. https://t.co/fVxWwXipxQ

[Yong Xiong Lab @Xiongosome]

Check out our paper showcasing the first structure of a fully modified human tRNA bound to amino acyl-tRNA synthetase.

https://t.co/0NDysz6hhb

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

Online now: Structural basis for aminoacylation of cellular modified tRNALys3 by human lysyl-tRNA synthetase

https://t.co/jHPvIeBkFb

[Molecular Cell @MolecularCell]

Online Now: Free introns of tRNAs as complementarity-dependent regulators of gene expression https://t.co/5RiE3SL3Uf

[Gita Rachel Mathew @gita_mathew]

SRILANKA ~ AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD 🇱🇰
COLOMBO- BADULLA TRAIN JOURNEY RANKED
IN THE TOP 7 TRAIN RIDES OF 2025 - Lonely Planet

There are train rides, and then there are Sri Lankan train rides. The teardrop island in the Indian Ocean may be small, but it packs in some of the world's most thrilling rail journeys.
You could find yourself rattling past suburbs with a fellow commuter dozing on your shoulder, or perhaps weaving in and out of emerald-green tea gardens and thickets of tropical rainforest while tucking into a packed-to-go meal of curry and rice - and sometimes both in the same trip.
The steam trains that once transported tea and spices along these weaving rail lines have mostly vanished, but the colorful diesel locos that replaced them offer the same evocative effect as they transect the Sri Lankan landscape.
If you're a lover of travel by locomotive, consider booking passage on one of the four epic train journeys around Sri Lanka.
#VisitSriLanka 🚂
🎥Credit : Mihiran Karangoda

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

I’m reclaiming two words on behalf of this extraordinary lady to show their true, original meaning….

‘Stunning’ & ‘brave’.

Gisèle Pelicot. May you & your children now find the peace & happiness you so richly deserve.

Merci. ❤️

[Oscar Vargas Rodriguez @OSENVARO]

https://t.co/npwU0Y6JWc

[Saurja DasGupta @SaurjaDasGupta]

The #DasGuptaLab is hiring a postdoc to develop RNA-based tools for sequencing modified RNAs. Ideal candidates should have nucleic acid chemistry/biochemistry experience. Expertise in the ‘in vitro selection/evolution’ of nucleic acids is preferred. #chempostdoc @rnaclubtirupati

[Chathuri Pathirage @ChathuriPerer14]

#visitSriLanka

[Neelika Malavige @GMalavige]

Visit my beautiful country #srilanka

[Molecular Cell @MolecularCell]

Our focus issue on RNA biology features reviews that explore the many faces of #RNA, diving into the processes mediating the lifecycle of RNA, the regulatory roles of RNA, the importance of RNA in disease, and the technologies used to study RNA. https://t.co/Y4hNLNC5zz