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stirlingchurchman.bsky.social
Genetics professor at Harvard Medical School. Interested in RNA life cycles and genome organization across the cell, from the nucleus to mitochondria.
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One of the coolest and most novel findings I’ve seen in years. This is why I work in worms. To find things no one even really knew to look for. Like a conserved system that splices transposons out of mRNAs to prevent otherwise lethal insertions in essential genes! - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Excited to announce here my postdoc work in Danica Fujimori's lab is published open-access. With @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social, @fraserlab.bsky.social, & Takeuchi-Tomita lab, we use biochemical & structural approaches to investigate mitoribosomal inhibition by antibiotics doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Anyone else having problems logging into eRA Commons?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I am excited for this opportunity to chair the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/01...

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

submitted 27 days ago • 64 comments

🅲🅾🅾🅻 🆃🅴🅲🅷🅽🅾🅻🅾🅶🆈 “Bacterial-MERFISH” provides ~1000-fold volumetric expansion of individual cells, charts gene expression in hundreds of thousands of cells, deciphering bacterial single-cell heterogeneity, intracellular transcriptome organization, and bacterial adaptation to µm-scale niches in vivo

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

transcription people: are there examples where a transcriptional program gets re-set by cell division?

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Come join us for this very first conference on single molecule approaches (both omics et imaging) to understand gene expression regulation. Lots of slots for young selected speakers!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Single molecule approaches across the central dogma! Genomics, imaging and theory! Very excited to host the first edition of Gene regulation, one molecule at a time this July @embl.org! Great lineup and many abstract selected talks!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

📣 #EMBLSingleMolecule is open for registrations! Our aim is to catalyse the emergence of a new generation of mechanistic models of the regulation of genes across each steps of the central dogma. 🧬🔍 👉🏼 s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl 📅 15 – 18 July 2025 📜 Submit your abstract by 8 April!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing to learn of so many productive centenarians! Jack will turn 100 in August, although this is his 100th year. He closed his lab this year, but still has ongoing collaborations. He says, some people retire and play chess, I’m playing science. He’s a true inspiration! Happy New Year!

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone know of a published scientist with a paper at 99+???

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

I’m celebrating tonight with my father in law, Jack Strominger, who is about to enjoy his 100th New Years! He wants to know whether any other scientist has published in their 100th year. He’s proud to have a paper in the works. I told him you all would know! Please RT

submitted 54 days ago • 32 comments

Registrations are open for the first edition of 'Gene regulation, one molecule at a time'! Very excited to bring #SingleMoleculeGenomics and #SingleMoleculeImaging community together @embl.org ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Come work with us in the Department of Molecular Metabolism at Harvard Chan School. We are recruiting faculty at Assistant Professor level - please RT (re-sky?) and spread the word. And feel free to contact me directly if have questions!! Jan Deadline! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14371

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

First paper of our lab today @natureportfolio.bsky.social by Nussi! We provide a real-time movie on how #transcription and #translation cooperate using #single-molecule FM: we find long-range #ribosome/ RNAP communication mediated by #RNA looping! @embl.org #RNAbiology #RNASky t.co/a24Xxcxdo0

submitted 81 days ago • 16 comments

Our fantastic collaboration with the lab of Nils Blüthgen @molsysbio.bsky.social has been published: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... #RNASky #RNAbiology @mdc-berlin.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 4 comments

My first post! #mRNA translation initiation and its regulation in eukaryotes. #Ribosomes #cryoEM #RNABiology #Translation #Science

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

The latest from our group, led by Megan Ostrowski and @martyyang.bsky.social, is now published in final form (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...! Many thanks to our excellent peer reviewers for suggesting several experiments (including CAF-1 perturbation) to really improve the study =) #epigenetics

submitted 100 days ago • 14 comments

@arnaudkr.bsky.social and I have been talking about organizing a single-molecule genomics meeting for years! We're excited to do so at EMBL while bridging the fields of single-molecule genomics and microscopy with our co-organizers. Hope to see you there! July 15-18 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment