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edchuong.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder - Genome regulation, Transposons, Immunity - https://chuonglab.colorado.edu
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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

PREPRINT! Park et al. makes the case that we may be misunderstanding heterochromatin for past 30 years due to ChIP-Seq biases... 1/n

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Very excited to share our paper on Gene and Transposable Element expression in mammalian preimplantation development, online today! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... A short thread to highlight some of our findings 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Our new paper defining the role of H3K36 methylation in regulating cell fate and plasticity is available online: rdcu.be/d5AEc Thanks to our entire team for their tireless work and to the editors at @naturecellbiology.bsky.social for the opportunity!

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my fantastic team at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. Great resources. Competitive salary. www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-mb-...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

#EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell!💥Thrilled for the final version of our paper @cp-cell.bsky.social! We show that type III #interferons control ZBP1 activation driving gasdermin C cleavage & delaying gut repair by inducing #pyroptosis in intestinal epithelial cells! 1/n www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

Check out this thread on the latest work from our lab, led by @emilykibby.bsky.social ! Here we used the power of computationally predicting protein-protein interactions to understand how a bacterial antiphage system senses infection.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

First #bluetorial. 🎉🎉 We’re very happy to share our latest biorxiv #preprint, just in time before the holiday season. We explored how transposable elements (TEs) diversify eukaryotic proteomes and found a cool case in nematode F-box genes. #TEsky #evosky #Celegans Short 🧵 with highlights.

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

#NotOnlyParasites! 2 Cell papers by @edchuong.bsky.social lab & Amigorena lab demonstrate that transposable elements #TEs can exonize giving rise to functional (often shorter) proteins with distinct functions: eg a decoy short IFNAR2 that inhibits #interferon signaling! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellcellpress.bsky.social @edchuong.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪

submitted 75 days ago • 12 comments

What better place than the city of lights to make my transposition to 🦋. Look at all that blue sky!

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

Scraping who is on the platform working on #TransposableElements or other types of #RepetitiveDNA Have fun! go.bsky.app/7t5GQAP

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

Excited to share our latest preprint on transposon exonization and human immune signaling! We found that an Alu element forms a cryptic but highly expressed splice variant of the interferon receptor IFNAR2, which functions as an interferon decoy receptor that regulates interferon signaling.

submitted 529 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I'm Ed 👋! I'm an Assistant Professor at CU Boulder, where I study how transposons influence immune function and evolution. Posts on science, DEI, and pics including my dog and the blue skies of the American southwest #AcademicSky #evosky

submitted 534 days ago • 3 comments