Ben Mansky

You can trust me, I'm a (non-medical) doctor | postdoc @ URMC interested in OPCs, epigenetics, & aging | he/him

[Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @URNeuroscience]

OUT Now via @NatureComms ➡️https://t.co/pkHMk2Agom

Repression of developmental transcription factor networks triggers aging-associated gene expression in human glial progenitor cells

Ben Mansky, PhD [@Definitely_Ben], a co-author on this study, shares more about his #URochesterResearch 👇 @URochester_SMD

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

This is the first step in a series of studies aimed at understanding how human glial progenitor cells change with age, and I'm really excited about where the follow-up has taken us. Hopefully you'll be able to read about it sometime soon!

Link:
https://t.co/iaSbgMkRtV

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

This is the first project I worked on in my postdoc, and was a huge team effort! We identified upstream regulators of transcriptional networks driving the difference between fetal and adult glial progenitors. When we overexpressed the adult regulators, our young cells got old.

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

I've never watched so much soccer in my life (the science is good too)

[Bordeaux School Of Neuroscience 🧠 @bdxneuroschool]

📸Group photo with all the participants of the #Cajal course on "#Neuroepigenetics : writing, reading and erasing the #epigenome"

@Cajal_Training
@cgfbordeaux

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

If you hear me say "after my postdoc I want to work in R&D," this is what I'm talking about

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

@sopebar8D "secretly"

[Ben // Foresight Studio @syzzygyp]

The Cross Stitch, a folk-horror timeloop adventure for MÖRK BORG, is out now! Find the town. Break the loop. Earn your freedom, or die trying.

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

After a decade not playing them, I got back into tabletop roleplaying games about a year ago. I'd forgotten what a cool medium they can be for storytelling and design - so, I've decided to try making my own! See what I've been up to at @syzzygyp & https://t.co/qzAAIsMigb

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

Ah yes, my analysis is based on a Poisson distribution. A fishtribution, if you will

[ACLU @ACLU]

Know your rights and make sure those around you do as well. ✊

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

@cogcelia That's amazing, congrats!!!

[Carry the One Radio @ctoradio]

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[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

Truly awful

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

Spooky brain fact for Halloween 🎃! During development a small piece of your mouth slithers up and sticks onto a dangly bit of your brain, and that's how you get your pituitary gland, which strongly resembles a ballsack.

I cannot put into words how much I hate this

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

@sopebar8D brain >>>>> heart

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

Still, better than the time I dreamed that I got impaled on an especially pointy cluster on a UMAP plot

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

Had a nightmare that one sequencing library in my pool of 12 ate 100% of the reads and oof I think I need a vacation

[Arantxa Cebrian-Silla @ArantxaCebrian]

The full version of our paper
https://t.co/zzbBXNa59J is available ☺. Amazing team job with @sa_redmond, @Definitely_Ben and Marcos Nascimento and our great collaborators. We hope that this work contributes to a better understanding of the NSCs heterogeneity in the V-SVZ

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

So cool to see the project I worked on in undergrad come out!! Big congrats to Clarissa & team, ~800 mice is... no joke

[Clarissa Parker @ClarissaCParker]

Happy to announce our preprint on genetic variation in ethanol sensitivity in DO mice. Wonderful working with colleagues @vivekepsilon @swkasparek @Definitely_Ben @COTaylorTaylor @marycthomas95 @AbePalmer @ElissaJChesler and many others not on twitter. https://t.co/aQi41HOLBK

[Ben Mansky @Definitely_Ben]

@ColumboAhmed @ZYanWang @UWPsychology That's so exciting!!! Congrats, Sama & Yan!!