Sierra Lear

BioE PhD Candidate | UCSF-UC Berkeley | @NSFGRFP | Editor in Chief @BerkeleySciRev

[Sierra Lear @sierra_lear]

BSR was one of my most valuable and meaningful experiences during the PhD! Please support them so they can continue to educate grad students about effective #scicomm and the surrounding public about the coolest Cal research!

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

The BSR is crowdfunding! To introduce you to the team behind the magazine and what your donations support, we'll be tweeting about our staff, who are committed to accessible science communication! The link to learn more about our fundraising campaign 👇👇https://t.co/Xhdi5rakd6

[Sierra Lear @sierra_lear]

Super glad to finally see this one officially out! I had a blast working on this one, despite (or perhaps because of) the very long page count :)

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

New Retro-Cascorder Protocol! We've been recording transcriptional event order in cells using retrons and CRISPR integrases. We've love to expand the users and developers of the technology. To make that a bit easier, we just published a @NatureProtocols. https://t.co/xVIjsKf6v3

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

Just posted new work from @sierra_lear on a high-throughput approach to determine whether synthetic proteins you intend to send to the mitochondria are actually getting there:
https://t.co/PsVbgs8Kis

[Sierra Lear @sierra_lear]

I had a lot of fun thinking, reading, and writing about how we can record transcriptional events in DNA, & I'm super thrilled to see this out now!

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

Check out our new review/opinion on molecular recording of transcriptional events by @sierra_lear. We write about where the field is, where it might be going, and what's stopping us from being there now. https://t.co/gQAPWz0V14

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

I’m excited to share our new paper on the fundamental biology of RETRONS.
Retrons are incredible molecular machines that produce small fragments of reverse transcribed DNA in bacteria that functions in phage defense.
https://t.co/sahkEclevd
@NAR_Open @GladstoneInst @UCSF_BTS

[Sierra Lear @sierra_lear]

I had a lot of fun participating in this interview for Gladstone! Take a look; I talk not only about my research but also about my path to grad school and secret love of foosball...

[Gladstone Institutes @GladstoneInst]

Mitochondria are more than just the powerhouse of the cell, explains @sierra_lear. Sierra's project is to redesign gene-editing tools to travel to the mitochondria and work on mitochondrial #DNA instead. Read more about this work: https://t.co/jEPnlVsJkw

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

Classes are almost over @UCBerkeley, and we have some exciting news coming soon too from the BSR!

We can't wait to show you what's coming! Watch this space soon! 🤩🤩🤩

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

New preprint! We've been using bacterial retroelements, retrons, as a flexible platform for DNA production in cells. We found a single retron architecture that produces DNA in bacteria, yeast, and human cells, with applications in genome editing.
https://t.co/8gfhq4z8yR

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

We're at 93% today! AHHH!! BSR family and ambassadors, let's keep it going! #crowdfunding #SupportSciComm

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[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

Our first week of #crowdfunding has gone so well - we're at 85% of our goal already! THANK YOU to all of our donors so far 🙏🤩👏 Let's keep the momentum going as we jump into the weekend! #SupportSciComm

Learn more about our campaign and donate👇
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[Sierra Lear @sierra_lear]

Couple days late on the RT (first day on Twitter!), but super thrilled to work with @BhattaraiKline and @seth_shipman on this news & views summarizing amazing work done by @ssyim16, @harriswangnyc, and others!

[Gladstone Institutes @GladstoneInst]

News & Views with @seth_shipman "One-step data storage in cellular #DNA" @nresearchnews
https://t.co/lXUSJ0SeJ6

[Seth Shipman @seth_shipman]

Check out this paper, which combines a redox-sensor and CRISPR adaptation to store digital information directly into living E. coli genomes. We wrote a news & views to accompany it. Also, welcome to twitter @BhattaraiKline and @sierra_lear!
https://t.co/lVnST1eclI

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

Amid all the #crowdfunding announcements, I would just like to point out that our fearless Editor in Chief is on Twitter! Welcome Sierra! @sierra_lear 🥳 #EiC

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

The @BerkeleySciRev is #crowdfunding to raise money to overcome distribution challenges from #COVID19. It would mean so much to us if you donated to support our grad student-run publications! Learn more 👇👇👇

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