Rochelle

UGA Microbiology PhD 🧫| Lewis Lab Fungal Genetics | Former microbiologist @ Tufts | UC Berkeley alum 🐻| avid yogi✌🏻| Degu mom | she/her | #firstgen 🏳️‍🌈

[Rochelle @rorochelley]

I had so much fun! Thank you for giving me opportunity to speak at such and amazing scientific event 🫶🏼

[ChromatinGRS @ChromatinGRS]

🍄 @rorochelley from the Lewis lab at @universityofga delves into polycomb-mediated gene silencing in Neurospora crassa. Unraveling the secrets of fungal genetics! 🧬 #ChromatinGRS2024

[Jason Shepherd @JasonSynaptic]

My heart goes out to all my colleagues @Columbia that, through no fault of their own, are suddenly facing a funding cliff where research will stop and people will be fired.

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New OA Article: "Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation recruits DNA demethylases to enforce gene expression in Arabidopsis" https://t.co/NnH06h2HCT

targeting H3K4me3 via the H3K4 methyltransferase SDG2 activates gene expression & removes DNA methylation by recruiting DNA demethylases.

[Athens Science Café @athscicafe]

Thursday February 27th at Athentic!

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

When NOT to use DESeq2 for RNA-seq analysis?
DESeq2 is the gold standard for bulk RNA-seq, but it has limitations. If you’re analyzing large datasets, beware of inflated false discovery rates (FDR). 🧵👇

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

🚨Apparently all NIH Study Sections have been suspended indefinitely.

For those who don’t know, this means there won’t be any review of grants submitted to NIH

Depending on how long this goes on for, this could lead to an interruption in billions in research funding.

[Zachary Lewis @UgaChromatinLab]

Check out the latest work from our lab by Dr. Felicia Ebot-Ojong https://t.co/cL6XjIOeo6)

[Ivan @chaperones4life]

Development of nucleus-targeted histone-tail-based photoaffinity probes to profile the epigenetic interactome in native cells https://t.co/zWkfU8kqHB

[Dr. Sedona Murphy @SedonaMurphy]

Maybe this business school faculty member should do some self reflection on who can afford to do a PhD without a living wage and then reevaluate who really has the “privilege” here. What a horrendously bad take.

https://t.co/FBuS99PD5e

[Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse]

We’re pleased to share our substantially updated (more below on that…) version of our manuscript exploring the relationship between conservation in sequence/function for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) https://t.co/rDYOfsKmyT

[Ivan @chaperones4life]

The BAF complex enhances transcription through interaction with H3K56ac in the histone globular domain https://t.co/kKpj4G7XJ8

[Alice Ting @aliceyting]

APEX peroxidase is a versatile tool for proximity labeling and electron microscopy (EM) but its requirement for toxic H2O2 is a liability. We now report LaccID, a multicopper oxidase evolved from an ancestral fungal laccase that oxidizes aromatic substrates using non-toxic O2 instead of H2O2. We use LaccID for EM imaging of cultured cells and fly brains, and for proteomic mapping of the changing surface composition of T cells that engage with tumor cells via antigen-specific T cell receptors.

[Rochelle @rorochelley]

Go Ran!!! 🥳🥳🥳

[FungalGroup @UGAFungalGroup]

Congratulations to Ran Shi! She received the Dr. Juergen Wiegel Award for her excellent research in non-medical microbial diversity of C. neoformans. Fungal Group is so proud of you! 🍄🩷

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

[Rochelle @rorochelley]

An absolute chromatin Queen 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Congrats Dr. Ebot-Ojong!!! I’m gonna miss working next to you!!

[UGA Genetics @uga_genetics]

Congrats to our newest Genetics PhD, Dr. Felicia Ebot-Ojong! Here Felicia is with her advisor Dr. Zack Lewis @UgaChromatinLab

Felicia will start a position at the Van Andel Institue @VAInstitute with Dr. Peter Laird @peterwlaird We are proud of you Dr. Ebot-Ojong!

[DisabledInSTEM @DisabledStem]

It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions!

Mentee application: https://t.co/WvNyI3qEUA

Mentor application: https://t.co/accLa2j1SC

[Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2]

Hi all! "Quick data vis" now has its own designated repository and no longer listed under "Online R learning"! Please find the link to the new repo below, if we have used/starred Online_R_learning.

Quick data vis: https://t.co/87bQt5AJW7

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

Exciting news! 🎉 @HHMINEWS Gilliam Fellowship applications opened yesterday. If you're a 2nd or 3rd yr PhD student (& U.S. citizen) passionate about science & building an inclusive scientific community, check out my application guide! 🌐🔬 #HHMIGilliam

https://t.co/BSQ11pBpfW

[Athens Science Café @athscicafe]

Our next scheduled Athens Science Cafe is this Thursday, October 24th at 7pm at Little Kings Shuffle Club. UGA's new Herbarium Curator, Dr. Tanisha Williams, is giving a talk titled "Roots of Wisdom: How Indigenous Communities Are Preserving Plant Knowledge."

[Sebastian Samwald (Basti) @samwalds]

As an alumni, I cannot recommend this programme highly enough!
If you are planning on doing a PhD in plant and/or microbial sciences, you need to consider applying for this! ✨

[meghan @deloisivete]

I did not realize how much of my adult life would be spent thinking about protein