Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸

Associate Professor @uOttawa doing #research on DNA damage in #cancer & normal cells. All-around professional geek. Tweets my own. #Science!

[DmitryGordenin @DmitryYeast]

Protect Scholars! https://t.co/MidPXZyfK6

[Jennifer Surtees, PhD @SurteesJennifer]

I am SUPER excited to announce the Dept. of Biochemistry @Jacobs_Med_UB is hiring 2 faculty members!! We are casting a wide net to enhance our highly collaborative department.

Job title: Assistant/Associate Professor, Biochemistry - F220204

Quicklink: https://t.co/7PCutOcD3y

[Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) @sciencepolicy]

We are currently recruiting our next cohort of Science Meet Parliament participants! 🙌🏽

Don’t miss out on this one of a kind opportunity to engage with the government and politicians on all things science!

Join our information session on October 26th : https://t.co/yGZgStPud1

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@TheAwkwardDrop Of course, he will break those promises if elected 😂

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@OISB_IBSO Many thx to co-authors Dr. Suzana Gelova, Kassidy Doherty & Salma Alasmar! 👍 Take home from this paper: most common cancer mutational signature is analogous to patterns of intrinsic mutagenesis in many species, including humans & also likely tied to glycolytic sugar metabolism.

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Thx! Shoutout to students Mahanish Thapa, Reena Fabros & Salma Alasmar for skillful work with tricky mutagens! 👍 Bottom line for paper: 3rd most common cancer mutational signature likely from endogenous formaldehyde (intracellular [FA] up to ~100 µM in humans, yes quite a lot).

[OISB @OISB_IBSO]

A new tour de force effort from @KinChanPhD and colleagues examines mutational signatures caused by formaldehyde and acetaldehyde - A powerful and innovative system to study chemically induced mutation spectra!

https://t.co/EbSss9KeZq

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Many thanks for the shout out @clintcodesbio! Delighted to share our research in person at #ICEM2022!

[Clint Valentine @clintcodesbio]

With a high sensitivity yeast model for mutagenesis, SNP profiles from NCBI, and variants seen in human cancer (COSMIC), Dr. Kin Chan shows how trans lesion synthesis drives a big part of the endogenous mutational landscape. #ICEM2022

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Thank you conference co-chairs @CaroleYauk @MarchettiFg @Genetic_Tox for opportunity to contribute to success of #ICEM2022! Congratulations to all @CIHR_IRSC Travel Awardees! 👍

[Dr. Carole Yauk @CaroleYauk]

Congratulations to the ⁦@CIHR_IHDCYH⁩ trainee travel award winners from the #ICEM2022! Thank you to CIHR for the knowledge and dissemination grant for these incredible students and post-docs from Canadian universities! Photo here with co-PI Dr. Kin Chan!! 🎉👏

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

So cool to see MP Richard Cannings @CanningsNDP again at #SciParl2022! Second pic was selfie from 2018 at inaugural Science Meets Parliament. Thanks so much for your continued support of #science, Richard!

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Fantastic for @MireilleKhacho & me to see @ChiefSciCan Dr. Mona Nemer again at #SciParl2022! Thank you so much for all the great work you and your staff do every day to support #science, Mona!

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Awesome to take part in #SciParl2022 and reconnect with everyone involved in the Science Meets Parliament initiative!

[Trushar Patel, PhD, DSc 🇮🇳🇨🇦 @trushar_7]

It was so much fun sharing our experiences from the inaugural Science Meets Parliament event @jackie_dawson @KinChanPhD @MireilleKhacho @sciencepolicy #SciParl2022

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Double rainbow as seen from lab window 🌈🌈

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@SainiNatalie Congratulations Natalie!! 👏👍

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero #Privacy 😳https://t.co/o2e3XFhKX2

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

Darwin Award "winner"? Man killed by device he created to shoot anyone who entered his door https://t.co/UlrrAp7pZo

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@AlanMCole Reserving judgment on guesstimate of this prior while investigations play out. Does seem suspicious considering he was on suicide watch...

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@ManojLalu It does feel that way sometimes, doesn’t it? I can think and learn much more on days that I leave Outlook closed and throw the phone away. Those habits get too Pavlovian sometimes. Technology is supposed to serve us, but really wonder if it’s other way around.

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@dmonett We’re very much in hype phase where #DeepLearning / #MachineLearning is thrown at seemingly every question. Some bona fide hits, but many misses. Problem is publication bias selects against misses, so those are dressed up as ‘hits’. Interesting preprint, thanks for sharing. 👍

[Kin Chan 陳堅 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 @KinChanPhD]

@lukeoneil47 @JennElizabethJ The US health care system is not particularly interested in providing care for patients. But it is very interested in maximizing profits by finding excuses not to provide care. Got to see this firsthand, dealing with insurance companies many times on my mother’s behalf.

[nature @Nature]

"Mathematician Malabika Pramanik was horrified to discover that the carbon emissions just from air travel — mostly to conferences — at her university exceed the entire carbon target for the institution in 2020. (via @TheTyee) https://t.co/3G2pS0zPVS