YaffeLab

The Yaffe Lab at the @kochinstitute, @MITBiology, and @MITdeptofBE | Interested in kinase signaling and precision medicine | Account is run by lab trainees

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Happy Halloween! 🎃 We are celebrating Yaffe lab style, with some tricks (Tiffany's cool data) and treats (candy and donuts) 🍬

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Prost! 🍻 October isn't truly over in the lab until we go out and celebrate Oktoberfest! 🇩🇪

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Check out one of the most recent articles from @MIT news, in which they interviewed our very own UROP Charvi Sharma about her research in the lab and her experience as a Course 6-7 major:

https://t.co/hRaYVzkJKk

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You can check out Alex's work done with @BertKooij and @haicovanattikum here:

https://t.co/mjxM1yHr9h

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Happy Friday science twitter! The official™️ Yaffe lab social media manager went on a brief hiatus to do experiments, but we are back with another Friday profile! This week, we caught up with Alex Kruswick, a PhD student

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Question 3: If you could be any lab instrument, what would it be and why?

The PCR machine (including a tube of NEB HiFi/Gibson Assembly Mix and Q5 Polymerase). Q5 is a cheat code and Gibson Assembly is an incredibly powerful tool that has enabled my research to happen.

[Haico van Attikum @haicovanattikum.bsky.social @haicovanattikum]

New pre-print from the lab! Fanconi anemia proteins not only repair DNA interstrand crosslinks, but also DNA double-strand breaks. Great work by @BertKooij, Fenna van der Wal, in collaboration with @marcelvanvugt, @altmeyerlab and @LabYaffe!
https://t.co/GGb5Bpm9HX

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You can read all about Jesse's work here:

https://t.co/8LHjhmb93z

https://t.co/bR3z6tkMU0

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For the sake of gender balance, up next for a #Yaffelab Friday profile is our own @Jpatterson____, who is a research scientist in the lab!

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Question 3: If you could be any lab instrument, what would it be and why?

The deconvolution microscope, because it readily generates beautiful images and the math behind it is really quite amazing.

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Tune in next week for another profile! Robin will be applying to Ph.D. programs in the fall - she is an amazing scientist, and we can't wait to see where she lands!

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Our last feature of August is of our terrific lab tech, Robin Lu!

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Question 3: If you could be any lab instrument, what would it be and why?

A cell sorter. I've used them a lot and it still blows my mind that they can do what they do.