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Postdoctoral Researcher, UF. Previously LJMU. Skeletal muscle, exercise, circadian rhythms, chromatin. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=laelDDAAAAAJ
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Timing of exercise differentially impacts adipose tissue gain in male adolescent rats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The central clock drives metabolic rhythms in muscle stem cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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As we age, our circadian clock goes off-track, which may contribute to age-related diseases. A new review paper gets into the mechanisms and potential ways to prevent the decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 53 days ago • 19 comments

Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇

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Loss of H3K9 trimethylation is sufficient to anticipate aging and frailty in mice assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-401... of note: high rigor in epigenetic conditioning through triple methyltransferase KO; begs the question of gain of function to counteract aging.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... E-box independent chromatin recruitment turns MYOD into a transcriptional repressor

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Knockout of the Muscle-Specific E3 Ligase MuRF1 Affects Liver Lipid Metabolism upon Dexamethasone Treatment in Mice pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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