Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology! https://t.co/uCk077bPo2
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
#MotivationMonday another successful Ph.D. defense! Congrats to McBrayer Lab grad student Charley Edgar, (second from right). Dr. Edgar is headed back to medical school to finish up his M.D. Onward! #relentlessdiscovery
(From left) Fellow MSTP student @milan95, mentor Sam McBrayer, Ph.D., & Alex Sternisha, Ph.D., M.D.
Excited to share our latest work!
The oncogenic m5C writer NSUN2 achieves substrate specificity by recognizing RNA structure and conformational dynamics. RNA folding shapes methylation! Congratulations to the team! Thanks to our colleagues @UTSWMedCenter
https://t.co/7lCU6c48AR
Proud milestone for our lab. Congrats to our first two graduate students, Lizz Maurais, PhD, and Justin Engel, PhD! @UTSWGradSchool
We also celebrated Lizz’s last day as she moves on to an exciting new adventure @biogen. Good luck Lizz!
ONLINE NOW in @CellCellPress: @PeterLyLab has discovered large pieces of DNA can transfer directly between human cells & that DNA can persist, change how the recipient cell functions. Read more about this #relentlessdiscovery ⬇️ https://t.co/cmNRqAfXaR
We already thought @Zhu_Lab hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @rkhamsi! Watch out #booktok 🤓
ONLINE NOW in @NatMetabolism: McBrayer Lab & first-author @milan95 have discovered cell maturity determines pyrimidine synthesis pathway preference using their new nitrogen metabolism profiling platform, organoid model. Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/6XDwzYynti #relentlessdiscovery
Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.
We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.
Thread + link below.