Congratulations to our rock star grad students Cassandra and @Cole_JT_Lewis who both won poster awards at #RNA22! 🎉🎉🎉
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Huge congratulations to @Cole_JT_Lewis for getting the NOA on his F31 this week!!! #sweet16 🎊🍾🎉🎊🍾🎉
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And the good news keeps on coming- we also have to celebrate our wonderful grad student Austin who has been awarded an F31!
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In that spirit we want to say CONGRATULATIONS to our fantastic postdocs Nicole (@nicolemmart) and Rachel (@roniederer) who were both awarded K99s this cycle!
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Last but not least, @roniederer describes our novel method to interrogate translational control elements within 5’UTRs #RNA2020 doi.org/10.26226/morressier.…
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Curious about potential functions of pseudouridine? Cassandra has some fascinating insights from bacteria doi.org/10.26226/morressier.… #RNA2020
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Next, check out this great work from @ekbork2 on an uncharacterized pseudouridine synthase and viral replication doi.org/10.26226/morressier.… #RNA2020
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Don’t miss all the great work from our lab at #RNA2020! Starting with a fantastic talk from @nicolemmart on pseudouridines and splicing doi.org/10.26226/morressier.…
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We’re gearing up for our lab retreat! We want to know what’s made your retreats effective? What sorts of topics do you cover? What has worked/not worked? Let us know!
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T-minus one hour until our @YaleMBB happy hour with the Koelle lab 🍻🍔 Please join us! #BoosAndBites
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Some bewitching experiments underway today! 🧙🏼♀️🧙🏼♀️🧙🏼♀️ @ekbork2 @nicolemmart #WitchesAtWork #riBOOnucleicAcid
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The lab gremlin has followed us to the @YaleMBB retreat! Be on the lookout 👀 #DataFails #Sabotage #LabkiTheGremlin
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We are at #EMBOprotein! If you’re interested in translation initiation/control come see us at posters 114 (Austin) and 205 (@roniederer) And don’t miss Jiri’s talk tomorrow morning about translational control by an eIF3-binding motif!
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In an effort to be more eco-friendly, we have upcycled this shipping box into a data analysis pod😆 Graciously modeled by Austin!
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Congratulations to Maria (@mfrd18) for passing her exam and officially becoming a US citizen! 🇺🇸🍾🎊
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We like to give our labbies a smashing send off! In this case it’s a cryomill piñata. Best of luck in Heidelberg Jiri! #CryoSmash #TBallPinata
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We’re always looking for an excuse to have cake 😃 Thank you to @ChipInabottle for providing this delicious lab meeting treat #HappyHalloween #ChocolateMadness
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Outside of lab Rachel likes to play soccer, travel, and spend time with her adorable pets that include two dogs, a tortoise, and an axolotl!
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In our lab, she's currently investigating the role of elements within 5' UTRs in directing ribosome recruitment
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However, after completing a summer research project @UVA studying the production of rRNA she became obsessed with RNA more specifically
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After forgetting to bring enough summer reading material on vacation when she was younger, Rachel randomly picked up a book on biology from an airport bookstore and has been interested in nucleic acids ever since
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Last but not least, meet Rachel Niederer (@roniederer) who did her PhD work with @dczapp at @HopkinsCMDB where she examined the structure of telomerase RNAs and the cellular responses to senescence #postdocappreciationweek
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In addition to all her amazing scientific work, Erin also contributed to the design of our lab shield and retreat shirt this year. Officially making us the most stylish and festive lab
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At least in part, we have a careless pet-store employee to thank for Erin's interest in science as she was inadvertently sold two pregnant gerbils when she was young and the resulting small colony inspired her to learn more about gerbil genetics and make punnet squares
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Next, meet Erin Borchardt (@ekbork2)! Who joined us after completing her PhD in the Asokan lab @UNC where she developed new tools for controlling RNA stability by exploiting CRISPR proteins and circular RNAs #PostDocAppreciationWeek
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Nicole was also recently elected co-chair of the 2020 GRS on Post-Transcriptional RNA Processing @GordonConf!
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Outside of the lab she likes to travel, hike, camp and cook which recently led to a close encounter with some crocodiles in the Everglades during nesting season 😬
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Next up for #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek, meet Nicole Martinez (@nicolemmart) who did her PhD work in the Lynch Lab at @Penn investigating the mechanisms and consequences of regulated splicing in immune cells
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Currently Jiri is investigating how preferential binding of core initiation factors might influence ribosome recruitment.
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In addition to being a wonderful colleague, Jiri is also our lab brewmaster and keeps us well-stocked in delicious beverages all year long
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We’ll start with Jiri Koubek who joined us after completing his PhD at the Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Here he is taking his data analysis very seriously 🧐 #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek
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