Rachel Helston 🍄

Scientist in @Zanderslab studying ribosome biology and mating behaviors in fission yeast. Fungi fanatic and mother of twins👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼. 🇬🇧 living in 🇺🇸 🍄

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Super excited that our paper is out! If you’re interested in yeast mating and meiotic drive check it out and let us know your thoughts! #pombe #fissionyeast #shmoo #wtf

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Cup plant bud/bloom ❤️🤩🪴🌸

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

@ImperfectFunGuy Very cool!

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Unfortunate cicada friend in the front yard today 😟 Massospora or something else?

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

@lethargicbug @ContamClub I would so have kept these as pets

[Jason Tsai @ishengtsai]

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in @NatureMicrobiol !!
Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

[the_scientist_pilla @KunchalaPreethi]

23 pairs! The magic chromosome count that helps humans thrive. But what if all our DNA were arranged in just two chromosomes? In this study, we explore this question using budding yeast. 🧵 (1/6)

https://t.co/vUSfClP01w

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

I found a pretty little thing this evening ❤️🍄

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

Meet @SarahEGilmour, member of our ECS Multimedia Subcommittee 👋 Read about Sarah's research interests, how her experience in journalism helps her better communicate science, her goals as a leader in this role, & more: https://t.co/RVsCJl8hbR

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

@DanielsonAmaral @BazziniLab @ScienceStowers Congrats! 🥳

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

I love finding this type of lichen 😍🤩

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Pretty microbes (color imparted by food dye) 😍🤩

[yeast_papers @yeast_papers]

BioRxiv: Adaptive Mate Selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Revealed Through a High-Throughput Mating Assay https://t.co/kPLEc8gDTI

[Joseph Schacherer @jo_schacherer]

Excited about our latest preprint on recombination variation between species. We found a recurrent loss of crossover interference punctuating the recombination landscape in yeast. Great job from @abhishdt and nice collaboration with Bertrand Llorente!
https://t.co/l1BLek0ZdN

[S. Lorena Ament @LoreAment]

This is a story of acceptance ❤️, rejection 💔, and death ☠️... Programmed Cell Death, I mean 😆. Finally the last of the classic #allorecognition (het) genes in #Podospora, het-B, has been cloned and characterized in our new paper in @PLOSGenetics! 1/n

https://t.co/FW3AIx4Q9F

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

In wild fission yeast, love finds a way on Valentine's Day ❤️

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Love turkey tail so much. The variation in color on just one stump blows my mind! ❤️🍄🤩

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Got me a baby thai con ❤️🪴 bucket list item crossed off.

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

@MariangeBravo @CornellMBG Congratulations Maria!

[Rachel Helston 🍄 @R_Helston]

Found some fuzzy Trametes today 🍄🤩

[Fabián Morales-Polanco @FaboPolanco]

Finally out!!
We show that:

1. Quiescent yeast cells contain ribosomes with different compositions.

2. The ribosome composition varies between monosomes and polysomes

3. Ribosome composition can result in changes in translational activity

https://t.co/TH6HwYhZfw