Jason Chen

I am a four hundred foot tall Emory graduate student with pink horns and silver wings. he/him/his

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest

[Guillermo Domínguez Huerta @g_dom_huerta]

Optimizing methods for virome analysis based on studies of a synthetic viral community

https://t.co/OdEMJJhGOH

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

For most graduate students in science, a teaching assistantship is mainly a way to pay the bills as they pursue a research career. But for Jasmine Clark, that role allowed her to find her true calling.

“Being a science educator really, really spoke to me,” says Clark, who in 2013 received her Ph.D. in microbiology from Emory University. “I found that my niche was in the classroom, helping people to better understand science.”

Clark’s audience has only grown since then. For more than a decade she has been an instructor at Emory’s nursing school. In 2018, she was elected to the Georgia state legislature, where she has been an advocate for improving health care access and services.

And come January 2027, Clark expects to begin to educate the other 434 members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the importance of using science to set policy after winning a Democratic primary last week in a deep-blue suburban Atlanta district. When seated, she will be the first Black woman in Congress to hold a science Ph.D.

Clark spoke with Science about her background, the roots of her political activism, and what she hopes to accomplish in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/TPhmJscw36

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Biologically immortal sea cucumber tissues may provide new opportunities for ethical aging research in regenerative biology, biomedical research, and tissue engineering.

Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/SdjMIfXXH8

[Erle Ellis (艾尔青) @erleellis]

Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters @pnas https://t.co/9z0tyUXECa

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

"Synthetic biology as an empirical tool for evolutionary theory" https://t.co/wHKBWHGfXx

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

"The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions" https://t.co/qUv4uHvURF

[Carolina Grandellis @cgrandellis]

Genome degradation in plant tissue culture | PNAS https://t.co/TGumayCp5n

[Suliana Manley 🔬🗜🧫 @SulianaManley]

Measurements about 10 years ago reported that mitochondrial-DNA, packaged into nucleoids, is regularly spaced. It was amazing to see mitochondria pearl to move those copies around! Kind of like a shimmy in my eyes

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Opinion piece: We need to demystify invasivorism as a management strategy.

Marketing invasive species as products will not save threatened ecosystems. In PNAS Front Matter: https://t.co/tVkg24ufBf

[Aissam Ikmi @AissamIkmi]

We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student @SohamBasu13! @EMBL #nematostella #morphogenesis https://t.co/ymYXgc4f1d

[bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv_ecology]

Metabolic inequality in microbial communities https://t.co/am7ZWyL3hq #biorxiv_ecology

[José Dinneny @Dinnenylab]

An exciting foray for my lab into engineering the rhizosphere with sensor microbial strains! Tour de force synbio by Stanford TomKat fellow now UGA Prof @C_M_Dundas and UGA PhD Gretchen Brinkman!
Rhizobacterial Biosensors Spatially Map Sucrose Exudation https://t.co/s4tNa4N4mf

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

A bacterial CARD–NLR-like immune system controls the release of gene transfer agents https://t.co/B6qaRTpOpd #MicroSky

[bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @bioRxiv_synbio]

Rhizobacterial Biosensors Spatially Map Natural and Engineered Sucrose Exudation https://t.co/Tu6xkT1A8w #biorxiv_synbio

[bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv_ecology]

Nutrient availability shapes the diversity and structure ofmicrobial communities https://t.co/y3UT2lyTNU #biorxiv_ecology

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

Diversity-generating retroelements for programmable targeted hypermutagenesis | Nature Biotechnology https://t.co/yXScJExIdJ

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Now online! Electromagnetic field-inducible in vivo gene switch for remote spatiotemporal control of gene expression https://t.co/ank5gghwuu

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere https://t.co/FXt0Tj7yBy #biorxiv_micrbio

[🍂pracklyy⚓ @Prackprack]

THERES AN AQUATIC MUSHROOM? what the fuck are you doing there ?? 😭😭