Mitchell O'Connell

Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, @urochestermed. RNA-targeting CRISPR / RNA acetylation. An Aussie in 'the land of the free'. Music Nerd.

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

1/n After an arduous but constructive peer review process, we’re excited to share the published version of this work. Lots of added goodies: https://t.co/XibwtekSy9

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

1/8: Super excited to share our latest pre-print from the lab, where in close collaboration with @kellogg_liz lab we show that through some pore behavior, the CRISPR-Cas13-activated membrane protein CRISPR-Csx28 pulls the plug on bacteriophage infection. https://t.co/qnRNicoxRp

[Peter Fineran @PeterFineran]

New post-doctoral research position available in my Phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory at the @otago in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link below.

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

Woo hoo @Wagnerlab_RNA! Awesome news and well deserved!

[URochester SMD @URochester_SMD]

Congratulations to RNA biologist Eric Wagner for achieving the rank of #AAASFellow by @AAAS!

Thank you for your extraordinary contributions to science and mentoring the next generation of biomedical researchers.

Read more about Dr. Wagner’s work: https://t.co/UmcXKYLj29

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@JasonSynaptic @DouglasYaoDY Still haven't figured out how to unify gravity with quantum theory, the basis set and laws are there, we're waiting, and most importantly the intellect with there. Come on super easy!

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@DouglasYaoDY May be we should just take off the table all the biological advances over the last 50-100 years and live your life. Talk with scientists cracking these problems and you might feel a little whelmed about your intellect

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@anshulkundaje And the sheer sanctimony with this statement is everything that is wrong about this country. We've built up these people to think they're all lone wolf geniuses

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

@anshulkundaje Such a terrible take in so many ways. We're technical, it's their sheer lack of understanding the complexity of the system and the dynamics of the system and just the great unsampled unknown of the biological space that our human brains can't fathom. Peter Thiel needs a lesson

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@Crypto_Georgist @deserteagle291 @DouglasYaoDY fuck off!

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@NMITaylorLab @Nature @HaidaiHu @__jphilipp @Salmo_Lab @SimonJacksonNZ @UCPH_CPR @koebenhavns_uni Incredible structure. Really inspiring.

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

@ChristianF_Baca @PujaMajumder91 @CellCellPress @MarraffiniLab Congrats! Awesome work, excited to dig in!

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@ben_a_adler @CellCellPress Awesome work! Congrats @ben_a_adler and team!

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@kellogg_liz @brettcollins100 So awesome, Liz! Congrats!

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@kellogg_liz @StJudeStructBio pick me!

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

Folks with broad interests in any area of biochemistry and biophysics, including structural and computational biology as well as metabolomics and genomics should consider applying. We will consider all applications on their merit!

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

My department is hiring! We’re looking for faculty in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester. As I can attest, Rochester provides a highly supportive and collaborative environment and is a great place to work/live: https://t.co/QAu3qtkFvI

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

@isaac_s_harris @g_asantewaa @NatureComms Congrats!

[Brady Cress @bradyfcress]

Excited about phage functional genomics, phage engineering, & microbiome editing? The Cress Lab @UCBerkeley @igisci is hiring postdocs in these areas! Come chat w/ me @VoM_2024 & don't miss my presentation w/ @ben_a_adler in the SynBio session Fri @ 11:20am. Retweets appreciated!

[Peter Fineran @PeterFineran]

Keep watch… plenty starting to happen with the #CRISPR conference in NZ next February.

[Mitchell O'Connell @mitchellrayoco1]

@JasonSynaptic @UUtah @UUNeurobiology Congrats!

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Big congratulations to @ammolinavargas graduating with his PhD, not to mention all the accolades along the way including the Leadership Award for Excellence in Equity and Inclusion bestowed at graduation. We're all very proud of all your accomplishments and we're gonna miss you!

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@andrewwhite01 ha! particularly the gammaS version (the image you shared), not gonna lose interest (hydrolyze) before the end of the conversation.