Dr. Sarah Walker

Biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics researcher; Associate Professor of Biology; studying how ribosomes get where they need to be

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@CDMRP What happened to the CDMRP website? It’s been 404 for over a week? https://t.co/Ay5as5V6KE

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@NG_NewGuy @News_8 What about this afternoon/evening? Do you think driving to Rochester from Buffalo and back from ~1:30 to 7 pm will be rough?

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Vote like your life depends on it because this idiot will be in charge of your health.

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@ProfGoat @ShanaAdise It works well to decide who to interview by what the candidates write rather than likely biased letters. I served on 2 committees where we didn’t request letters until after deciding who to interview, using letters as a check instead of for ranking. We hired 2 successful people

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@AConcernedPare2 @arghavan_salles Me too, it was absolutely awful.

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@DrBritWilliams 2 cycles: 1st year-4 or 5 apps, 2 interviews, no offer; 2nd year-50 apps, 4 interviews, 3 x 2 body offers.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@DrLMRobinson Starting postdoc salaries in my field are over $60K, so that would be over $10K pay cut for people from my lab.

[Polly Hsu Lab @PollyHsuLab]

My lab has 2 postdoc positions funded by #NIH and #NSF to study novel ORFs and translational regulation in Arabidopsis and crops. Please retweet. https://t.co/9KO6PSp1ZJ

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

Feeling very appreciative of the phenomenal postdocs in my lab past and present! Thank you Dalton, Houtan, Kris, and Kas for raising the bar in the lab and helping start and keep my research program going with your hard work, creativity and leadership!

[Dunham Lab @DunhamLabEmory]

Check out our lab’s latest paper on noncanonical translation initiation complexes! Beautiful structures Jacob and @haannguyen2 #structuralbiology #translation @Dunham_Lab https://t.co/NAmAGpZuV3

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@mike_feigin I wish I’d had one two weeks ago so I’d have had a recent booster while flying tomorrow, but I’ll take whatever Walgreens has available with slight preference for 6 w of higher abs with RNA. Drinking tons of fluids when I get it seems to prevent RNA vax side effects for me

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@ctmurphy1 Could you zoom with a neutral arbitrator? Speaking with someone friendly present keeping things calm and reviewing facts can sometimes deescalate and avoid a negative option…which might be describing the contributions in ack. only since they won’t accept authorship

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@jdpereira That is a not excellent way to retain people!

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@DrHazmatic You’re in a great department, so I’d set up a mentoring committee and schedule meetings with a good mentor to get feedback when you don’t know what to do. Also, feel free to reach out if we can ever help. Go to conferences to recruit good people.

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

New preprint on collaboration with Yu and Luo labs. There is a bioorthogonal click screen of Hmt1 substrates suggesting lots of factors in translational control are methylated by Hmt1 in yeast, and evidence that Arginine methylation of eIF1A NTT loosens start codon fidelity.

[bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv_molbio]

Protein Arginine Methylation of the Translation Initiation Factor eIF1A Increases Usage of a Near-cognate Start Codon https://t.co/6M02skmoam #biorxiv_molbio

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@jobRxiv These positions have been filled. I just removed the posting. Thanks for the posts!

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

@DrHazmatic @Jacobs_Med_UB Congratulations and welcome to the faculty!

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

My lab values diversity and the excellence diverse backgrounds brings to our research. We aim to bring in people that contribute to and/or value diversity. Feel free to contact me directly by email with questions about positions in our lab.

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

We’re hiring at the postdoc level. If you know of people looking for a postdoc or research scientist position in molecular mechanisms of translational control, send them my way.

https://t.co/fbuw7Nkb8A

[Dr. Sarah Walker @ribowalker]

WNY is a fun place to live for people with or without families. My favorite life things are the hiking and fun winter activities, amazing summer and fall, spring wildflowers, festivals, breweries and distilleries, without traffic and high housing costs of where I lived before.