Jane Cook

PhD student in the Bhatt Lab @StanfordMed 🌲 Biochemistry graduate & Foundation Scholar @tcddublin 🧬 Science writer. Palo Alto / Dallas / Dublin. Views mine.

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Op-eds in local papers across the country are published today to fight for the future of science in honor of Barbara McClintock's birthday - including mine. Thanks to @cornellASAP #ScienceHomecoming #StandUpforScience #McClintockLetters for your work: https://t.co/zzFkxQcfOL

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Beautiful work by Rachael Chanin and the Bhatt Lab inverton team!! They found intragenic invertons across a variety of bacteria, a new mechanism to produce more than one gene product from a single bacterial gene: https://t.co/RH2AF6eKgO

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Frog parental behavior + microbiome = insanely fun collaboration to hear about in lab meeting 🐸 https://t.co/yikjqaDjIM

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

New from the Bhatt Lab!

[Cell @CellCellPress]

In the latest issue! Mining human microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide antibiotics https://t.co/WiqqJ2bfGu

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

And then you just have to be comfortable that, this is not where I wanted to be, but look how beautiful it is.”

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

A must-watch:

[PrakashLab @PrakashLab]

“Pursuing beauty: How basic science helps us understand the world”

Testing out a new short video format to share what’s hard to write. This is focused on “Why pursue beauty in science, why explore & plunge yourself into the unknown..

https://t.co/Qdn9qF1RRn

#BeautyInScience

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

“I think deep within every single scientist, is really an artist. And if we are honest to this creative process, let the data, or the living object that you are so curious about lead the way, and it’ll actually take you to a new place...

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Come hang out & talk scicomm in SF next weekend!

[Julia Bauman @JuliaBauman2]

One week til the first scicomm meetup!

Active science communicators or anyone interested in getting started/helping out, register ⬇️

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Excellent overview of metagenomics from Yishay Pinto and Ami Bhatt - I’m also excited to share that I have joined the Bhatt Lab for my PhD thesis work! https://t.co/2jnI01n29w

[Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin]

Trinity Monday—our newest #Fellows and Scholars! Following tradition, @LindaDoyle stood on the steps of the public theatre to announce the names of the 73 new #scholars, 43 new fellows, 3 new professorial fellows, and 4 #honorary fellows today. More: https://t.co/bXomsOJLDd

[STAT @statnews]

A study of children with cancer shows that testing tumor cells against hundreds of drugs, called functional precision medicine, can have great benefit. Read here: https://t.co/30RtdzrtyK

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Had a great time in Seattle at my first #NHGRI conference! 🧬 I was happy to see a lot of ethics and #ELSI research presented and discussed, both in faculty panels and in the trainee poster sessions

[Eric Green @NHGRI_Director]

I had a delightful and energetic lunch with a group of outstanding NHGRI trainees at the NHGRI Research Training & Career Development Annual Meeting!  Thanks to all of them for their terrific questions and insightful comments.

[Bay Football Club @wearebayfc]

Were you there when #BayFC kicked off their inaugural season Home Opener? 🔥

#BAYvHOU #BLegendary #WeCameToPlay

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor, has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. https://t.co/ReBHEamR50

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

I’ll be very interested to see how regulatory guidelines and drug label indications/approvals evolve as we get better at drug repurposing through precision medicine approaches.

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

“Functional precision medicine” - lots of exciting ideas in here, and it will be cool to see them applied outside of cancer

[nature @Nature]

“This is a revolution. Patients are demanding this approach.”

Researchers are blasting patients’ cancer cells with dozens of drugs in the hope of finding the right treatment https://t.co/6YyYtxTmAY

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

2 cont: This is a problem in multiple precision medicine applications - like the early days of PD-1 immunotherapies, when trials were quickly rolled out to get approval for all cancer types, rather than having the ability to get blanket approval for the ID of the biomarker.

[Jane Cook @cookjanea]

Such a fun read - excellent writing and reporting by ⁦@SilverJacket⁩ 🌱 Will Plants Ever Fertilize Themselves? https://t.co/CB3nggeCeG