sonali mali

excited about non-excitable cells // i day dream about a just world // ocean-loving Midwesterner // grad student in @UCBerkeleyNeuro Bautista Lab // she/her

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

@RamosNeuro nociceptors are immune cells actually

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

Also working on the coolest project ever 🤯

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

Yay! Congratulations to my labmate
@oliwiagoldman ! 🦟🧠 🐭🦠

[Olivia Goldman PhD @oliwiagoldman]

So grateful and excited for my postdoctoral work to be supported by @SchmidtFellows!

Joining this incredible community of interdisciplinary scientists has already been really inspiring✨

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

@chrismhoel Thanks Chris! Hope the east coast is treating you well :)

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

Excited to share what I’ve been working on for the last few years!

[Olivia Goldman PhD @oliwiagoldman]

SARS-CoV-2 protease can DIRECTLY activate pain neurons — and trigger sneezing! Possibly a viral adaptation that leads to their own spread? 🤧🦠

Congratulations on the incredible work
@sonalimali6 @GongZhongyan @YaldaMoayedi @Bautista_DianaM and others!!

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

Also a fun article about our preprint :)

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

SARS-CoV-2 has many ways of making people miserable, including by causing them to sneeze. Now, researchers have discovered the basis for this nose-tickling effect. https://t.co/vIR41SqnJ5

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

There are many exciting questions remaining and I would love to hear any thoughts on this. :)

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

Coronavirus PLpro processes viral proteins to make more virus.

And can shut off the immune response in infected cells.

And now, we find that the SARS-CoV-2 PLpro can also drive sneezing, which can spread viral particles.

Viruses are efficient and clever. 😎

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

"If I die, remember that I, we, were individuals, humans, we had names, dreams and achievements and our only fault was that we were classified as inferior."

Powerful @nytimes ad published today

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

The science people idea that there are no dumb questions is counterproductive. Let the question be dumb and let your willingness to answer it free people to be curious.

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

happy east-bay-is-green season

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

@SophiaFriesen2 @HariharanLab congrats! those Really Big Cells look so cool!

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

@holly_gildea @kingcada I’ve used Mitomycin C when differentiating iPSCs to neurons and have seen it used with primary sensory neurons. It takes ~4 days to kill off anything that’s not post mitotic.
Generally though, I want the glia around in my primary neuron cultures to keep the neurons healthy!

[sonali mali @sonalimali6]

@kyletucker93 sending you lots of love, kyle 💜