Derek Xu

@NIHOxCam PhD student @UniofOxford in @CaspaseLab | undergrad @Princeton @PrincetonMolBio

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

@verge maybe you will be fined next?? You also lack a “reject all” button, forcing users to click a separate “cookie policy” page that only offers vague advice to look into browser settings, and no recourse at all for mobile users #hypocrisy

[The Verge @verge]

Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies after fines from watchdogs https://t.co/nVfwo5UvUI

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Oops, didn’t realize @CellReports had a twitter account!

Also adding here some pretty #microscopy images related to the work in the paper linked above: Drosophila macrophages (yellow and red) residing on imaginal wing disc tumors (purple and blue/green)

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Very excited to share that my first 'first-author' paper is out in Cell Reports! Coming from my PhD work in the @CaspaseLab, this paper is my little addition to science and understanding cancer/caspase biology! Take a look at https://t.co/lPdhB90kSQ 🪰🔬

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[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

tldr: Using a Drosophila tumor model, we show that caspases can limit tumor growth independently of apoptosis, modifying signaling pathways/the immune response. We add to a growing body of non-apoptotic functions and increase our understanding of cancer and caspase biology.

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[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

@ale_gal79 @CaspaseLab Thanks Alessia!! :)

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

@LizzieDellar @CaspaseLab Thanks Lizzie!! :)

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

@danielcxu Thanks Daniel! 🥳🎊

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

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[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

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[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

@maggieeastfire @Yale @DScheinost Congratulations Maggie!! 🎉🎊🍾

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Just wow

[The New York Times @nytimes]

President Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, and nothing in 10 of the prior 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

Read the takeaways from our exclusive look at decades of Trump’s tax records. https://t.co/XpNCUbPfDn

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Wow. I paid more in federal taxes each year as a poor ass graduate student than Trump did in 2016 and 2017 ($1500, $750 + $750).

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Exclusive: The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades.
It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. https://t.co/gstfYLEe5V

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Source: https://t.co/hQ9LjPVVkx

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Please tell me why ⁦@UniofOxford⁩ and other universities in the UK still think it's a good idea to have undergraduates return to campuses? Bubbles, testing, other "measures" - The experiment has already been run, a thousand times - it doesn't work! Cases will only go up!

[Caspase Lab @CaspaseLab]

A preprint of our PhD student @derekcxu's first first-author paper is out on @biorxivpreprint! Read about widespread non-apoptotic tumor-suppressing caspase activity in Drosophila! https://t.co/R4doAeOoEW

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Watch this. It shows why we should all do the right thing and stay home to the fullest extent possible. All of us can help slow the spread of the virus, protecting the elderly, the vulnerable, and each other. https://t.co/FgffQrMVB7

[Aydogan Lab @AydoganLab]

Please RT: Research @UCSF on the emerging concepts in biological clocks at the interface of biology and physics? We will be recruiting a research assistant and a postdoctoral associate (in various backgrounds)! Please visit our home page to see details: https://t.co/RkOhs6MKEY

[Derek Xu @derekcxu]

Best experiment I've read all week: a double-blind study involving 96 volunteers and 700+ eggs on egg-boiling-and-peeling! https://t.co/Kf0GCufBle

[Caspase Lab @CaspaseLab]

A preprint of our first PhD student @LewisArthurton's first first-author paper is out on @biorxivpreprint! Read about the Non-apoptotic caspase-dependent regulation of enteroblast quiescence in Drosophila https://t.co/nzv3nQnbdd

[Caspase Lab @CaspaseLab]

On a roll with a one-two combo! Our second preprint in as many weeks is on @biorxivpreprint! Read Dr. Alessia Galasso's @ale_gal79 exciting work on highly specific #nonapoptotic #caspase activity regulating the Hedgehog pathway in Drosophila ooegenesis! https://t.co/3eMsQBHkAF