Research lab at #unmc #NebraskaMed. We study fundamental principles that govern #blood homeostasis and response to stress in #anemia and #AML.

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Every so often, a major event happens in your life to validate years of work. SRRK’s ISEMBYLD was FDA approved. Having participated in its development from basic science to approval, as a physician-scientist, this is one of my best days. Happy for ISEMBYLD to help SMA patients.
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Here are 30 great essays about biology. I consider these to be my "personal canon," and think that they are all basically perfect in their own ways, despite being different in form and style. All have shaped my own writing considerably. I'm not including links here, but you can easily search and find these. 1. Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency, Jack W. Scannell et al., 2012 2. Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it, Jack Scannell et al., 2022 3. Is the cell really a machine?, Daniel J. Nicholson, 2019 4. How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation: a conversation with Sydney Brenner, Elizabeth Dzeng, 2014 5. A Future History of Biomedical Progress, Adam Green (Markov), 2022 6. The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today, Alex Telford, 2023 7. The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas, 1974 8. The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades, Sharon Begley, 2019 9. The Scientific Virtues, Slime Mold Time Mold, 2022 10. First Clean Water, Now Clean Air, Fin Moorhouse, 2023 11. I should have loved biology, James Somers, 2020 12. The Baffling Intelligence of a Single Cell, James Somers & Edwin Morris, 2024 13. Biology is more theoretical than physics, Jeremy Gunawardena, 2013 14. Can a biologist fix a radio?, Yuri Lazebnik, 2002 15. Cells are very fast and crowded places, Ken Shirriff, 2011 16. Life at Low Reynolds Number, E.M. Purcell, 1976 17. Lena, qntm, 2021 18. Sequences and Consequences, Sydney Brenner, 2010 19. The NIH Report, Matt Faherty, 2022 (I edited this one) 20. Simplicity in biology, Uri Alon, 2007 21. A breakthrough from 60 years ago: “General nature of the genetic code for proteins” (1961), Matthew Cobb, 2021 22. Molecular “Vitalism”, Marc Kirschner, John Gerhart, Tim Mitchison, 2000 23. The Coming Technological Singularity, Vernor Vinge, 1993 24. Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation, Brian Hanley & William Bains & George Church, 2018 25. Coming full circle-from endless complexity to simplicity and back again, Robert Weinberg, 2014 26. Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1973 27. The Impersonator: The Fake Data Were Coming From Inside the Lab, Uri Simonsohn, 2024 28. The Longevity FAQ, José Luis Ricón (Nintil), 2020 29. The Perfect Human is Puerto Rican, Lior Pachter, 2014 30. No Evidence of Disease, Stephanie Bourque, 2012
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1/ Excited to share CellFlow, a new approach for complex perturbation modeling in single-cell genomics based on flow matching. From cytokine screens to cell fate and organoid engineering, we show CellFlow’s broad power across many diverse tasks. 👉 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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This seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of the process of grant review, probably because the people making decisions just don't know.
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Indirects were due for a substantive reckoning at some point, but indiscriminate and immediate cuts don't make sense.
1) Since there is a lot of confusion about the reduction of the overhead rate on NIH grants to 15% (see here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…) I'll do a little tweetorial (or X-torial?) about it.
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Looking forward to hosting @theclotthickens in our GCBA seminar series! 👇
GCBA Seminar Series announces Kellie Machlus PhD, Assistant Professor , Harvard Medical School, Genetics, presenting "Unraveling Roles for Megakaryocytes Beyond Platelet Production Using Novel Model Systems" @Thecloththickens @UNMC_GCBA @UNMC_BISB
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1/ Graduate students in the Hewitt Lab @UNMCCOM are presenting three times at ASH #ASH2024! Come see us: 1) Pooja Roy @PoojaRoy96 is presenting in the oral abstracts session of the 101. She'll talk about her work on Samd14 in stress erythropoiesis
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2/ 2) Meg Schaefer presents her poster on a protein called SAMD1 and how it controls histone methylation...
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3/ 3) .... Rahul Dogiparthi presents a poster that describes a novel approach to prioritize and ascribe function to signal-responsive enhancers in the genome. Check it out.
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Looking forward to this. 👇
GCBA Seminar Series announces Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, Professor, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics presenting "Genetic Studies of Human Hematopoiesis" @bloodgenes @UNMC_GCBA @UNMC_BISB
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We are hiring at the Assistant Professor level at @TuftsUniversity #BME! If you are on the market this year and looking to join a collaborative R1 school with fantastic colleagues and students, give us a look! #TenureTrack | @TuftsBME | @TuftsEngineer apply.interfolio.com/153806
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You will learn infinitely more from writing, than reading.
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It was nice to see my postdoc mentor and former lab mates in the Bresnick lab. Awesome food and company. @ISEHSociety
Great to catch up at international society of expt hematology conference with prior trainees -now asst prof at uw-madison, wash u, and assoc prof u Nebraska.
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This was an excellent symposium. Happy to be able to present a collaboration between our group and @RKateHyde using organoids to mimic hematopoiesis in a dish.
Some photos from the final part of today’s Symposium agenda which featured promising research partnerships formed in the Pediatric Cancer Research Group. @AfshinSalehi @MohsLab @aandersonberry @LabHewitt
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Great advice! 👇
If you’re choosing a research group to join, pay just as much - if not more - attention to the culture and mentoring style in the group than the research. You can succeed in lots of research areas or projects, but it’s tough to succeed in an unsupportive environment.
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Great job, Dr. Nguyen! Congratulations.
Presenting to the world our newly minted PhD -Dr. Nguyen! Kudos Nghi Nguyen on successfully defending your Thesis this afternoon. 10 publications, 2 in progress and in just 4 years speaks about your grit and candidature. As your mentor, all I can say is I am so proud of you. 🤘
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The Ghersi Lab is hiring! We're seeking passionate PhD students and postdocs to join our team at the brand-new Sainte-Justine Research Center. If you're excited about studying blood stem cell formation using zebrafish development, apply now! More info at ghersilab.com🩸
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Huge congratulations to Rahul Dogiparthi, a Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate student working in our lab at UNMC, for being selected by @ASH_hematology to receive the ASH Graduate Hematology Award (AGHA)! Very proud #ASHAwards
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Great to see these highlights of current MGCB/BISB students and their activities around Omaha. Keep up the good work. @unmc_success @unmcigpbs
We’re highlighting our MGCB/BISB students. First up is Ali Camero @anatomicali_ . Ali is a 2nd year PhD student in Dr. Ying Yan’s laboratory (Radiation Oncology).
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