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nickgervais.bsky.social
PhD candidate developing CRISPR-based technologies to study pathogenic fungi 🧬🇨🇦
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BREAKING: "On Wednesday morning, NIH leadership distributed a memo, obtained by Popular Information, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants." popular.info/p/breaking-n...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

FDA approves new non-opioid pain drug tinyurl.com/3zxb6vrd The FDA has approved Vertex’s suzetrigine, an oral inhibitor of the ion channel NaV1.8, for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain, providing a much-needed new option. Read more about the history of the drug here tinyurl.com/5x7zyduj

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

This is great. Hope this format makes its way to other Nature journals (and can be open-access...)

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

When I started my PhD 6 years ago, this sticker on my office door got me excited. Sure! let's "CRISPR Candida auris"! Today I am excited to show that that's not as easy as it sounds! 😉 Read our latest preprint on the challenges with editing C. auris: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year, blue-sci-peeps! My piece in Annual Review of Biophysics on chromatin replication is now available online. doi.org/10.1146/annu... If you have paywall issues, try this link: madhanilab.ucsf.edu/s/annurev-bi...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

🎇🎄Some holiday reading: Overdue TWEETORIAL on the latest preprint from our lab 🎇🎄 In this work, superstar postdoc @xinhexue.bsky.social combined 2 kinds of pooled CRISPR screens to pinpoint noncoding regulatory elements and the transcription factors that activate these elements.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Can't wait for this new meeting on drug resistance and tolerance across species and diseases. A principle revealed in one system – maybe using different terminology – could be the big new idea when imported to another! Abstract deadline in January! s.embl.org/ees25-01 @EMBO/@embl.org

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments