mjprigge.bsky.social
Plant biologist at UCSD (how auxin regulates transcription across land plants, from receptors to pol II and the steps in between). Mostly, moss⬌Arabidopsis. Grew up in Minnesota, attended/worked at UMinn, UO, UM, and IU.
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This is the guy that was filmed telling his employees that he'd destroy anyone that dared slow-walk his directives or disagree with him, right?
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Great album. His recent interview on NPR was surprising—he has a lot of regret about it now.
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When the SeaKem LE we used jumped in price, we eventually switched to VWR Agarose I. Seems adequate.
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We also have a eusocial insect assuming leadership of a pack of social mammals, apparently.
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TIL that Trump has had every honorary degree from legit universities rescinded. (Liberty "University" has not rescinded theirs.)
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and how many of those ‘assault’ victims were masked and had no visible badge or uniform
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BTW, the v7 P. patens assembly fixes not just the telomeres but also all 3 remaining issues I was aware of. The only issue is that updating the Gene IDs doesn’t seem to be finalized.
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Congratulations!
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Thanks!
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Yeah, we got paranoid about one of the alleles, so I stepped in and deleted most of the gene to be sure. Also, we decided to add my student Shreya’s YFP lines for each ARFa gene.
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Thanks!
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The absence of A-ARFs causes, as expected, severe consequences on development, but perhaps not as severe as one might think. They still produce a few normal-looking leafy gametophores.
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Congratulations Roger!
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It takes a special level of greed to turn a $400 million profit and still act like the sky is falling
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FYI, the article now has a corrected version of this graph—it should be billions of dollars, not millions.
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Thank you! Congratulations on your paper too!
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Thank you!
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Here is my thread from the preprint
bsky.app/profile/mjpr...
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Personally, this has been a fun project with many firsts, including my first CRISPR deletions & gene edits as well as my first time to sequence/analyze mutant genomes. It even includes my first *published* IPs & western blots. Most rewarding was mentoring Whitnie Szutu whose project started it all!
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See also the fascinating paper in the same issue by Martijn de Roij and @dolfweijers.bsky.social lab! bsky.app/profile/dolf...
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I especially like it when they abruptly interrupt the Piazza commercial to play the Piazza commercial
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True devofunctionalization must originate in the rust-belt region of northern Ohio. All others are merely neofunctionalization.
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To be fair, Nishimura et al (2009) published AID a few years before the Zhang and Bian labs published their nice analyses of the rice TIR1/AFB family