Associate Professor of Biology at NYU. Chromatin structure, SMCs, condensin, gene regulation, X chromosomes.
Manhattan, NY
Joined November 2016
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🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792
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(1/n) From @ViraatGoel @Irate_Physicist et al. collab w @blobelgroup @leonidmirny biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
RCMC at the M-to-G1 transition reveals strong microcompartments between CREs (E,P) in mitosis, that weaken upon G1 entry
Sims reveal chromosome compaction as key regulator
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I just wrote a review on transcriptional regulation and I want to talk about something that has been bothering me for 5 years, which ended up changing how I think about science in general. A brief thread:
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A reminder ( it’s an evergreen topic) - humans are a genetically undiverse species - we exploded out Africa in a heartbeat of evolutionary time and we predominantly adapted to the multitude of environments by our behaviour, passing that knowledge down culturally in groups
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Kamala Harris: Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?
Brett Kavanaugh: I'm not thinking of any right now
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The Selective Service Act signed into law in 1917. Selective Service registration is not open to Women. Therefore this law only applies to males. As it pertains to war/conflict this is directly related to the health of men's bodies.
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After lengthy deliberation & thought, and considering the talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to be the next Vice President of the Federation is Liquidator Brunt. He is good on the economy, brings latinum, while tough on unions and unruly females.
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The new class of HHMI investigators average 3.9 papers as corresponding author in Cell, Nature, or Science. 26 out of 26 members of this group previously trained with a PI who is in the National Academy of Sciences or who was an HHMI investigator themselves.
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Writing advice: the Introduction of your research paper should discuss previous work broadly. Keep in mind that your research only exists in the context of all the work that came before. Basically assume the reader just fell out of a coconut tree
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I am so excited to share this part of my PhD where we tackle the question: What impact do 3D contacts have on how enhancers regulate their target genes? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Donald Trump is a hate monger, a sexual predator and a felon, but billionaire tech bros like Mark Zuckerberg can’t help but become aroused when thinking about his “manliness.” And we wonder why a woman has never been President in America.
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Come volunteer at this awesome event! Bonus - you'll get to hear me and postdoc @Vale_Alaasam talk about urban evolution!
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THREE YEARS away from social media, so there is a TON to pack into this tweet! From my name change, university change, and exciting new opportunities ahead. Please allow me to introduce myself! 🧵🌷
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Democrats should seize on the Hunter Biden gun charges to pass universal background checks... call it Hunter's Law and then force Republicans to vote against it.
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Having mastered pinot noir farming, sex trafficking disruption, and Oregon's complex gubernatorial eligibility rules, I would like to explain how COVID started....(1/87)
I don't know what caused Covid-19, but I do think @Ayjchan makes a strong case for a lab leak in Wuhan. In retrospect, many of us in the journalistic and public health worlds were too dismissive of that possibility when she and others were making the argument in 2020.
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Evolution offered at least 3 different solutions to the problem of dosage compensation: inactivating one X in XX females, upregulating the single X by ~2 fold in XY males , and downregulating both Xes by ~2 fold in XX hermaphrodites
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I’m so happy to share another story from my PhD with @ErcanLab and @preibischs, where we studied the gene regulation in the dosage compensation system of C. elegans using smFISH! Here are a few highlights…🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We depleted two dosage compensation complex (DCC) subunits and analyzed their effect on the transcription of an X-chromosomal gene. Our results suggest that the DCC reduces the frequency of transcription to repress gene expressions.
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Our data revealed that a zygotic gene, essential for hermaphrodite development and dosage compensation, is rapidly activated in early embryogenesis by both increasing the number of alleles engaged in active transcription and the number of mRNAs produced at the transcription site.
