Lance Zhang

Georgetown Hoya ‘23 | FGLI | Immigrant | he/him/his | almost everything that we perceive as talent is trainable 🏳‍🌈

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true.

Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time.

-91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.

[Brian Searle @briansearle]

Delighted that @teerap16's paper on MAP-MS is out! https://t.co/tGpEOarO6u
It changes how precursor ions accumulate in Orbitraps to achieve 2× dynamic range without consequences, improving DDA and DIA. It's a free instrument upgrade requiring no special software for Lumos on up!

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

@sucre_xo @grok what show is this from

[Oak Ridge Lab @ORNL]

ORNL upgraded atomic force microscopy to zoom out — capturing both tiny details and big-picture structure. 🔬

Now, scientists can see how microbes interact with surfaces, unlocking new insights for medicine, manufacturing, and the environment.

🔗 https://t.co/tepyCmAeHL

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come!

[Steven Salzberg 💙💛 @StevenSalzberg1]

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

[Denis Titov @Denis_V_Titov]

New preprint from our lab showing that calorie restriction extends lifespan by inhibiting vitellogenesis. Awesome collaboration with @airstreets lab led by Bowen Yang, Bryce Manifold and Leon Han. A 🧵... 1/n https://t.co/2GJFSsBlN3

[Vijay Sankaran @bloodgenes]

Delighted to have our preclinical study led by @RichardVoit on a universal gene therapy approach for #DiamondBlackfanAnemia by regulated GATA1 expression published in @CellStemCell today: https://t.co/Vkd7yfHHjH

[Richard Voit @RichardVoit]

Gene therapy is transforming how we treat genetic disorders, but what if mutations in more than 30 genes can cause similar symptoms?

Now published in @CellStemCell (https://t.co/Ub72yvUo0c), we report the development of a universal gene therapy for Diamond Blackfan anemia.

1/n

[Vijay Sankaran @bloodgenes]

Wonderful to see this work from @jmartinrufino and #AlexisCaulier from our lab out in #bioRxiv! Please check out our development and application of Perturb-multiome to enable systematic mapping of genetic variation impacting hematopoiesis!

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

@RichardVoit Oh Richard! This is such fantastic news! Ive always look up so much to your work ethic and generosity with your time for lab member that summer, and it is no surprise you’re on track to open your own lab! Sending all the love from Tennessee and best wishes :)

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

@LazcanoCayetana @FutureVascSurgn Congrats!

[Neutron Sciences @ORNLNeutrons]

#Neutrons at @ORNL's #SpallationNeutronSource help unlock secrets of matter that lead to things like #technology for cleaner air and water, stronger building #materials, longer-lasting #batteries, and better medicines. Check out SNS's instrument layout!
https://t.co/RiR8Tu53aC

[Mitch Guttman @mitchguttman]

What are the functional roles of 3D genome organization? Our paper in @Nature led by @_prashantbhat demonstrates how dynamic 3D genome organization around nuclear speckles plays a crucial role in regulating mRNA splicing efficiency. https://t.co/8KwfJHQWTt

[Mayank Chugh (he/him) @mayank_mchugh]

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

https://t.co/0PyvvH7fGM

[Jungmann Lab @JungmannLab]

30-COLOR DNA-PAINT at 3D sub-15 nm RESOLUTION. We are overly excited to announce the publication of our latest work “Spatial proteomics in neurons at single-protein resolution” in @CellCellPress. Huge collaborative effort led by @EduardUnterauer. 1/9

https://t.co/w9BHydkC6B

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

Today in @Science_Magazine we report the laboratory evolution of compact degrons that enable targeted protein degradation triggered by an otherwise-inert small molecule, a multidisciplinary study that integrates organic chemistry, molecular glues, protein evolution, genome editing, and structural biology.
PDF: https://t.co/cCVLKL0w8Y
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[Matthew Hodson @Matthew_Hodson]

A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s:
I was 15 when I first had sex with a man.
I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer.
1/13
#LGBTplusHM #UnderTheScope

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

@biosigs @ExplorersClub Oh gosh this is fantastic! Congratulations Prof.Johnson!

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

I am screaming in the inside and outside!

[Lance Zhang @lance0311]

What a brilliant way to start off the Monday of my second week @ORNL ! Amazing talk from Dr.Bertzig. Here’s to many more future advancement in optics! I was also super nervous but asked a question :)