Kepler Mears

I much prefer the sharpest of criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses

- Johannes Kepler

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@PatrickHwuMD @NatureComms Shout out to my excellent co-authors! @ibrahimovicious @PeterMaxAllen

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Look out science twitter, @baym is starting his rotation in the lab and is already breaking things!

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@barrygoldman1 The LTEE case persists, is transcribed and translated but has no signs of functionalizing mutations - analysis of TN-aww reveals no adverse effects to disrupting it. However parallel deletion in the same region indicates it swept due to benefit of deletion -Arya

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🎉 New year, NEW PREPRINT!

Bacteria exhibit astonishing genetic diversity, but where do new genes come from?

My best friend Arya Kau (/labmate in the @baym lab) investigates how advantageous deletions can spawn new genes - "deletion-born fusions." 🧵:

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Novel genes arise from genomic deletions across the bacterial tree of life https://t.co/ReFOqHxW7B #biorxiv_evobio

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Arya (my best friend) does not have social media, he asked me to tweet this for him. But if you want to chat about science (or offer him a job) you can contact him at https://t.co/qoQV3Fy80v. He’ll (probably) be defending soon!

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Manuscript Code: https://t.co/TrPtCuuyCV
Prefix-Suffix Approach: https://t.co/UAkbPfh8VC

Many thanks to co-authors @fernpizza, @KarelBrinda & @baym + GenScale/Baym lab! Funded by NIH, Packard, Pew, Sloan & @ChateaubriandUS

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@kangar00kidnap Yah