Alex Weitzel (@alexjohnweitzel) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Weitzel

@alexjohnweitzel

Current postdoc in lab of @coletrapnell @uwgenome ::: Bio PhD from @UCSDCooperLab ::: former @NASA Ames Research Center Fellow ::: all misspellinggs are my own

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Massimo (@rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light. So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light.

So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.
Timothy (@tim_stasevich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A dream of our lab has been to image the full central dogma from a single endogenous gene, all live and with single molecule resolution. After many years we are happy to unveil a beautiful cell line that makes it possible. Check out our preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…)! (1/n)

Aki Ushiki (@akiushiki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting a tenure-track assistant professor position at the Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, in January 2025! WashU Medicine Genetics I am recruiting lab members at all levels. For more details, visit our lab website or check flyer

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting a tenure-track assistant professor position at the Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, in January 2025! <a href="/WashUGenetics/">WashU Medicine Genetics</a>
I am recruiting lab members at all levels. For more details, visit our lab website or check flyer
TIME (@time) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Record-breaking runner Nikki Hiltz is set to make more history as one of only a few gender nonconforming athletes ever to compete at the Olympics ti.me/3RUKwyi

Devin Schweppe (@dschweppe1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very happy to have DNA O-MAP out! The DNA version of this work, started from a simple premise: how can we measure the proteome at any genomic loci in (nearly) any cell? This was a great collaboration with @oligopain, and led by Yuzhen Liu and Chris McGann. 1/8🧵

Heng Li (@lh3lh3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Preprint on "BWT construction and search at the terabase scale". We can compress 100 human genomes to 11GB in 21 hours, find SMEMs with it, do affine-gap alignment and retrieve similar local haplotypes. 7.3Tb commonly sequenced bacterial genomes ⇒ 30GB arxiv.org/abs/2409.00613

Preprint on "BWT construction and search at the terabase scale". We can compress 100 human genomes to 11GB in 21 hours, find SMEMs with it, do affine-gap alignment and retrieve similar local haplotypes. 7.3Tb commonly sequenced bacterial genomes ⇒ 30GB arxiv.org/abs/2409.00613
The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. Check out two examples of protein structures determined using AlphaFold2. First up, a bacterial enzyme

Michael Hiller (@hillermich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Job Alert. We have 6-year funded positions for a postdoc and bioinformatician to join our European Research Council (ERC) #BATPROTECT project. Topics include genome assembly, annotation, comparative genomics & transcriptomics and more. Pls RT. tbg.senckenberg.de/hillerlab/jobs/

Job Alert. We have 6-year funded positions for a postdoc and bioinformatician to join our <a href="/ERC_Research/">European Research Council (ERC)</a> #BATPROTECT project. Topics include genome assembly, annotation, comparative genomics &amp; transcriptomics and more. Pls RT. tbg.senckenberg.de/hillerlab/jobs/
Ceri Weber (@ceri_weber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am very excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc with Kim Cooper ! Read along to learn about tails and vertebral proportion 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Things like this are so infuriating. Yes, an incredible amount of money is being spent to make articles freely available. But WAY more - over **40 BILLION DOLLARS** was spent over the same period to provide access to articles that are paywalled. The problem isn't open access -