Benjamin Mayro

NCI K00 Fellow at UTSW in the Tagliabracci lab. Interested in cool enzymes and PTMs

[Benjamin Mayro @BenjaminMayro]

I am excited and humbled to share that I have been awarded an NCI F99K00. This fellowship will provide up to two years of funding for me to finish my PhD studying tyrosine kinase signaling networks during hypoxia, and four additional years of post-doctoral funding. 1/2

[Physalia-courses@ONLINE @Physacourses]

🧬 Big Data Phylogeny & Comparative Methods course (23–26 June, online)

Learn to build and interpret phylogenetic trees, analyse trait evolution, and apply comparative genomics to real data

https://t.co/gNs0pJN2Ep

[Satoshi Kawato 川戸 智 @KawatoSatoshi]

🧬Collinearity Analysis is here in #gbdraw v0.11.0! You can easily detect and visualize synteny and collinearity blocks using LOSATP. You can instantly align the entire diagram based on a shared ortholog!
Try it now: https://t.co/ahqoRxbDHT
#bioinformatics #genomics #microbiology

[Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department @Duke_PCB]

📣Nominations are now open for the following awards:

-Outstanding Postdoc at Duke (nominate here: https://t.co/sRcOtmRBY6)

-Outstanding Postdoc Mentor at Duke (nominate here: https://t.co/YRK48AcGcw)

Deadline to nominate: 9/10/25 at noon

More info: https://t.co/J65ORb60sY

[Cancer Discovery @CD_AACR]

Read the paper featured on the cover of this month’s Cancer Discovery: PKN2 Is a Dependency of the Mesenchymal-like Cancer Cell State https://t.co/anIOqigdIU By Shane Killarney, @kcw00d, and colleagues @Duke_PCB @DukeCancer

[Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department @Duke_PCB]

An accomplished scientist who studies the role of protein tyrosine kinases, Ann Marie Pendergast, PhD, finds mentoring easy because she focuses on it full time. She meets weekly with students in her lab and outside of that, her office is always open.
https://t.co/GQxqGhg0LP

[Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department @Duke_PCB]

Exciting findings in a study led by Shane Killarney in the @kcw00d lab: Mesenchymal-like cancer cells depend on PKN2 kinase for survival, offering a potential therapeutic target against drug resistance. A cool collaboration with the Pendergast and McDonnell labs ⬇️ @DukeCancer

[Krishna Mudumbi @KrishnaMudumbi]

I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a TT faculty position @VanderbiltCDB and @VUMC_Cancer! Thrilled to join @VanderbiltU!

The Mudumbi Lab opens January 2025. We will use single-molecule microscopy to study the kinetics of RTK signaling, with a focus on biased signaling!

[Benjamin Mayro @BenjaminMayro]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a plasmid that allows for constitutive expression in E. Coli? #AcademicTwitter

[Benjamin Mayro @BenjaminMayro]

What are some examples of missing genes for known activities in metabolic pathways? #ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department @Duke_PCB]

A farewell to our fantastic colleague, Jamie Baize Smith @katbaizes. The PCB students, staff and faculty thank you and we wish you all the best in your next chapter.

[FASEB @FASEBorg]

Are you ready for unpublished research on protein kinases and phosphorylation plus a gorgeous view of the Irish Coast? Join @bradylabupenn, @Megston8, @mbyaffe, and Vincent Tagliabracci @UTSWScience for this great program and save your space at #PPHSRC: https://t.co/zKcwEzC0PT

[Pranam Chatterjee @pranamanam]

Current protein models (ESM-2, AlpaFold2,...) only encode the 20 wild-type amino acids -- what about PTMs, which significantly influence the diversity of the proteome? 💁‍♂️To solve this, we present the first PTM-aware protein language model, PTM-Mamba! https://t.co/2yk9mjOA6G

[Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp]

I'm a serial exclamation mark user, and I'm not sorry about it!

[Robert W. Sobol @rwsobol]

Nice report by Keith Caldecott: Causes and consequences of DNA single-strand breaks: Trends in Biochemical Sciences https://t.co/8jaha0GCja

[Turk Lab @benturklab]

Our paper discovering short linear motifs #SLiMs targeted by the MAP kinases ERK and p38 is now published! Led by the incomparable Jaylissa Torres Robles, this paper resolves how these two related kinases selectively target unique substrates.
https://t.co/mtlbh6q4qM

[Pengfei Hou @houpf0431]

It is not fresh to know that γ-secretases process APP to generate Aβ. But what do they cut in microglia? Why do they cut so many proteins in the meantime? Our paper just published in @MolecularCell provides new insights on these topics. Check it out: https://t.co/zRKJmt5WwH

[Benjamin Mayro @BenjaminMayro]

@AnwitPandit @Addgene @nevillesanjana @AdrianoAguzzi @broadinstitute @aliceb_phd MinLib is a good one!

[Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department @Duke_PCB]

PCB Dissertation Seminar

Breast cancer cells exhibit a non-linear proliferative dose response to progestins

Presented by: Emma Dolan

Advisors: Drs. Donald McDonnell & Susan Murphy

Friday, October 27 at 9:00am
LSRC A247

[Nature Cell Biology @NatureCellBio]

🍹NEW:@ArdehaliHossein & co find a role for the #HistoneDemethylase KDM3B in sensing #ironlevels and regulating #mTORC1 via #transcriptional repression of mTORC1 pathway components. @nu_fcvrri @NUFeinbergMed @NorthwesternMed @NUMSTP
https://t.co/PWNLjovulZ
https://t.co/fHV4PyGXNE

[John Wallingford @jbwallingford]

Ok, Twitter, prove you are still useful: Tell me when and by whom Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc were each first cloned/described?
@matthewcobb
@AMartinezArias
@gastrulateordie

@MadS100tist, an RT is appreciated.