freelance science writer, biology, physiology, evolution, ecoevodevo; bylines @quantamagazine @sciam and more. also, biostatistics. she/her
Rockville, MD
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Over two billion years, a fierce battle has raged between bacteria and the viruses that infect them. The resulting evolution has shaped the way our bodies fight disease today. @vcallier reports: quantamagazine.org/the-ancie…
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“Understanding autism from a variety of perspectives, whether it’s neurological, immunological, or even ‘placentological’—I think those are all important pieces of the puzzle,” says @LucasCheadle of @CSHL.
By @vcallier
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Just planted in JEB 🌳
Control of metabolism by hypoxia and starvation and the consequences for the pattern of ecdysone secretion in <i>Manduca sexta</i>
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How is it that some nociceptors—the sensory neurons that detect heat, chemical irritants and toxins—can withstand a lifespan’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli, whereas others die? New findings reveal how they do it.
By @vcallier
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New findings solve “developmental biology’s most complicated problem”: how each olfactory neuron in the ant expresses exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.
By @vcallier
thetransmitter.org/sensory-p…
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Don't miss this piece in @_TheTransmitter by @vcallier on @DanielKronauer's work! His lab discovered that a protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.thetransmitter.org/sensory-p…
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Sleep might be an “inescapable consequence” of aerobic metabolism, new findings in fruit flies suggest.
By @vcallier
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Job Alert. We have 6-year funded positions for a postdoc and bioinformatician to join our @ERC_Research #BATPROTECT project. Topics include genome assembly, annotation, comparative genomics & transcriptomics and more. Pls RT. tbg.senckenberg.de/hillerlab…
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Histones, the protein spools around which our DNA is wrapped, may be doing a lot more in cells than packaging and regulating genes, writes @vcallier: buff.ly/3NrIfrv
(Isn’t biochemistry jawdroppingly fascinating?)
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“Also the first author” 👀
Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨
This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.
#NobelPrize
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My new investigation for @newsfromscience: Did a top @NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's/Parkinson’s research for decades? Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah found to engage in scientific misconduct; 132 of his papers fall under suspicion
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Me to myself after reading the reviewer reports on my article manuscript
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I'm back to posting on this platform to share some exciting news - @HarvardOEB is launching not one, not two, but three faculty searches. Help spread the word!
Marine Bio: academicpositions.harvard.ed…
Evolutionary Bio: academicpositions.harvard.ed…
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A mind-bogglingly old sex chromosome, in octopus!
cool research from @pastramimachine lab,
with great context and comments from @evolscientist @sexchrlab @jessicakabbott 🙏
The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of such chromosomes in animals trib.al/XrWEz1e
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Thanks to @vcallier for this nice write up covering our discovery of the cephalopod Z chromosome scientificamerican.com/artic…
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the latest edition of Mind-Blowing Fact I Learned Today, courtesy of @vcallier
"Maybe what we’re looking at is some ancient set of proteins that are essential for animal reproduction.”
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Scientists have long known that histones spool DNA and help regulate genes. They may be doing a lot more. new story with cool work from
@drbentu
@PSarkies
@VashKurdistani
@tobias_warnecke
@MarcusBuschbeck
(now includes all twitter handles! Thanks all!)
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Great article by @vcallier in @KnowableMag on various ways histones directly regulate metabolism. I think we should start thinking about chromatin, not just histones, as a “metabolic organelle”. This view could reshape our understanding of histone/DNA modifications and mutations.
These proteins have been secretly managing your cells
Scientists have long known that histones spool DNA and help regulate genes. They may be doing a lot more.
Featuring cool work from
@PSarkies @VashKurdistani @tobias_warnecke @MarcusBuschbeck!!
knowablemagazine.org/content…
These proteins have been secretly managing your cells
Scientists have long known that histones spool DNA and help regulate genes. They may be doing a lot more.
Featuring cool work from
@PSarkies @VashKurdistani @tobias_warnecke @MarcusBuschbeck!!
knowablemagazine.org/content…
Many thanks to the fantastic team at @KnowableMag , editors Rosie Mestel and @evaemersonAR , fact checker @leslie_nemo, art director Lisa Modica who all worked hard to make this shine. 🙏