Rebekah Napier-Jameson

PhD @SMUCeleganslab. Postdoctoral fellow in the Wylie Lab at SMU. South African, scientist, swammer, aunt, and dog mom. Science stuff.

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

It’s starting to feel a little more like 🎃 season in the Wylie Lab! 🪰🥼🍂

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

This alternative splicing is regulated, and each isoform is required for the function of specific neuron types.

Microexons of genes in the same family of synaptic proteins (MUN domain family) have similar cell-specificity and regulation across animal species.

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

Regulated microexon alternative splicing in single neurons tunes synaptic function | EMBO reports https://t.co/7I5JSXnMI7

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

Microexons are alternatively spliced according to neuronal cell type.

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

I had a rewarding morning volunteering at the Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair. It’s was exciting to see the next generation of scientific minds being cultivated! 🧪 🌱 🧬

[SMU @SMU]

It's official: SMU has achieved Carnegie Research One (R1) classification, joining the ranks of the nation’s top public and private research institutions.

Read more: https://t.co/hj1UqMo02L

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

@IyerLabNCAT Congrats Jyoti!

[United Nations @UN]

Saturday is #WomenInScience Day!

We can all take steps to end the stereotypes, gender bias and discrimination that hold women & girls back in science, tech, engineering and math. 👩‍🔬👩‍🚀

Join @UN_Women in standing for equality. https://t.co/DjEwGI90Gm

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

Together, these results reveal that a pair of RBPs mediate lifespan in part by inhibiting expression of an ion transporter, and provide a template for how synthetic phenotypes (including lifespan) can be dissected at the transcriptomic level to reveal potential causative genes.

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

I am proud to announce that some of my research has been published…

@SMUCeleganslab @SMUBiology @smuresearch @SMUDedman @GeneticsGSA

https://t.co/iz6pErAx3s

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

We did it! @SMUCeleganslab

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

@IyerLabUTulsa @Adam_D_Norris @SMUCeleganslab @CCBenne Thank you Jyoti!

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

🎉🥳🎉 Thank you for all the support @SMUCeleganslab

[Adam Norris @Adam_D_Norris]

Congratulations @Rebekah_Science, or should I say Dr. Napier-Jameson, on passing her dissertation defense! 🎉🎉🎉

In honor of her work, the lab is dressed as our favorite RNA architectures: linear mRNA (stripes) versus circular RNAs (dots/circles).

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

@ZhihaoWu_Dr @FoozhanTn Look at y’all looking so fly 😎🪰🧪

[Rebekah Napier-Jameson @Rebekah_Science]

🎉🥳🐱Great job Nicole! And all the other PhD student presenters.

[Dr. Amy L. Brewster, PhD @AmyLBrewster]

Nicole Pinzón, a second year PhD student in my lab, won our department's 1-minute speed research talk competition. Keeping up with our lab tradition. 🏆 @SMUBiology @GlasscockLab