Logan Williams

PhD Candidate with Dr. LaSalle at UC Davis | Cal Poly SLO '20 | Methylation Stan | he/him

[Logan Williams @LoganForScience]

@dhyasui @UCDavisGenetics @BMCDB @PTXatUCD @UCDavisGrad Couldn’t have done it without all the supportive feedback (and high quality meeting snacks) of the LaSalle Lab Team 😊

[Dr. Janine LaSalle @jmlasalle123]

I'm delighted to share our latest publication describing the results of an experiment that is not possible to do in human, asking the question: Can the placental (and cell free fetal DNA) methylome predict brain and behavior of the offspring?
https://t.co/YygSVpp3oH

[Logan Williams @LoganForScience]

Autism Spectrum Disorder development is often the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors, but what can epigenetics tell us about that interplay? Read more in mine and @jmlasalle123 Current Opinion article!

https://t.co/9Qb2tqJ5Gh

[Dr. Janine LaSalle @jmlasalle123]

Delighted to share our publication in Genome Biology introducing NHIP, a novel gene locus associated with autism, discovered in placenta https://t.co/NnviQ6ZdR6 NHIP stands for neuronal hypoxia inducible, placenta associated 1/7

[Logan Williams @LoganForScience]

Solid overview here of ongoing development in the COVID vaccine space. It's easy to get Pfizer-Moderna tunnel vision in the states, but if we want to transition into an endemic COVID future we'll need as many weapons in our anti-viral arsenal as we can get. #DEB263

[FierceBiotech @FierceBiotech]

What do next generation COVID-19 shots need? @AGKootenay and @ky_lahucik take a look at what companies need to break into the waning market
https://t.co/7rEaVEwRmL

[Logan Williams @LoganForScience]

COVID vaccination coverage in pregnant women has remained low in the US, but a new national cohort study from Scotland reaffirms how dangerous COVID can be to unvaccinated mothers and their babies.

Yet another example of the consequences of anti-vax rhetoric.
#DEB263

[Nature Medicine @NatureMedicine]

COVID-19 in #Pregnancy in Scotland study reveals substantially lower #vaccine uptake in pregnant women than in the general female population and not being vaccinated is associated with increased risk of severe complications of #COVID19 in pregnancy.
https://t.co/DTuTdmekkD

[Logan Williams @LoganForScience]

The misleading marketing of prenatal screening tests as pseudo-diagnostic results in real harm, as this Times article so thoroughly reveals.

This is not just a failure of patient communication, it’s a failure of refereeing the language used to market testing products.

#DEB263

[The New York Times @nytimes]

"How is this happening to me?" A 32-year-old pregnant woman received a call from her doctor's office saying that a prenatal blood test indicated that her fetus might be missing part of a chromosome. https://t.co/aTXphKimYF