Giovanni Aviles

biophysics grad student @UCSF. studied molecular & cell bio @Berkeley. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[Tim Davison ᯅ @timd_ca]

Zooming around a bacteria cell. It's so cool

I just got the cell imported (including lipids) and rendering correctly with the new rendering engine (it's called Angstrom). 3x performance boost! So much detail (too much?!)

#screenshotsunday #gamedev #scicomm #xcode #swiftlang

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

~4,000 workers rallying at UC Berkeley

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

Individual atoms within a protein can now be located using the technique of cryo-electron microscopy. What are the implications of this advance?
https://t.co/2VnFb8MiMm

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Congratulations to our newest #NobelPrize laureate Jennifer Doudna.

From this picture we can imagine that she was happy to find out she had been awarded this year’s Chemistry Prize!

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Now online! #Ribosome collisions trigger general #stress responses to regulate #cell fate https://t.co/DNHVsGNCp9

[Cell @CellCellPress]

New Article online now at Cell: Modulation of RNA Condensation by the DEAD-Box Protein eIF4A https://t.co/U9otetHvZz

[Giovanni Aviles @gio_av]

(2/2) This is exactly why it’s essential for white/white-passing people like me to stand in solidarity with
black lives matter.

If you can’t protest, think of giving to an org supporting protesters, like a bail fund. (https://t.co/HybwTsjjz9)

#BlackLivesMatter

[Giovanni Aviles @gio_av]

(1/2) My sister & I are both half Puerto Rican. I’m white-passing, my sister is not. Yesterday she told our mom how she’s scared of the police bc she has kinky hair & is more melanin-gifted than me.

I benefit from the same white privilege that threatens to brutalize my sister.

[🏳️‍🌈Graduate & Postdoctoral Queer Alliance🏳️‍⚧️ @GPQA_UCSF]

The Graduate and Postdoc Queer Alliance at UCSF firmly believes that Black Lives Matter and Black Trans Lives Matter. We implore the non-Black and non-trans members of GPQA to speak up and fight against these injustices. Donate to @BlackVisionsMN and let your voices be heard.

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

OPA1 mediates inner mitochondrial fusion and mutations cause optic atrophy. Yu et al. present the crystal structure of a minimal GTPase domain of human OPA1, which sheds light on its dimerization and provides an explanation for pathogenic mutations https://t.co/fAO8bTHXgy

[Giovanni Aviles @gio_av]

“A 17-year-old whose death was linked to the novel coronavirus despite not having any previously reported health conditions was denied treatment at a California medical facility over his lack of insurance, according to the mayor.”

#MedicareForAll https://t.co/iFSMLbTvD6

[Nicholas Ingolia @nickingolia]

New paper from @JSWlab: many of the small, translated open reading frames we see by ribosome profiling produce peptides with specific molecular functions in the cell. Very nice work, and I look forward to a @BerkeleyMCB talk about it in a couple of weeks.
https://t.co/6i3izmNhMb

[Giovanni Aviles @gio_av]

so happy to have been part of this project! Check out our paper in @nature today!

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

Two very different roles for a kinase enzyme: in DNA repair and ribosome assembly
https://t.co/ObJHbCZf6d

[Darrion Nguyen @lab_shenanigans]

CRISPO-Cas9 CRISPAMOS-Cas9
CRISPAS-Cas9 CRISPÁIS-Cas9
CRISPA-Cas9 CRISPAN-Cas9

[Outside Magazine @outsidemagazine]

The test is legendary for its toughness. But is selection by ordeal still the best way to groom competent guides? #longreads https://t.co/yymm77UN9s

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

“This CRISPR technique has immediate and profound implications for the biomedical sciences” – so says @randall_platt, in this great N&V about *that* new super-precise genome-editing method https://t.co/s9pAEZWn50

[Vamsi Mootha @VamsiMootha]

Can two wrongs make a right? When it comes to mitochondrial dysfunction, the answer can be yes.

See our new CRISPR compendium with @broadinstitute @ScottVafai @SchreiberStuart @JohnDoench.

https://t.co/oyNSGeL5hU

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

A reminder: "cluster sizes in a t-SNE plot mean nothing"
https://t.co/GUe2BTFLEO #gi2019

[Sabine Petry @LabPetry]

Who does not know David Goodsell illustrations and wants to make them? Now there is a way --. Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration https://t.co/qVmhIEaLMi