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The greatest trick that #academia ever pulled is convincing young impressionable grad students that living close to family is irrelevant or unnecessary…that the desire to do so is a sign of weakness or lack of commitment.

Hampton Lab painting party.

I was happy to get honorable mention last year, and I am THRILLED to say that after applying for the second time I have been awarded the Ford Predoctoral Fellowship!! 🥳 I couldn’t have done it without my amazing mentors, lab, and friends for providing me endless support. 🥺

Congratulations to Lennice Castro (Lennice Castro) for being awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! Such a great and well deserved honor!

Thank you Pasquinelli Lab for a fun collaboration to identify RNAs bound by nuclear and cytoplasmic poly(A)-tail binding proteins. Features RiboSTAMP from our lab to measure differences in ribosome interaction frequencies between PABPC and PABPN. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

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New preprint from my lab and Samara Reck-Peterson lab describing our evolution-guided discovery of a new host-virus conflict involving the dynein activating adaptor NINL! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Congrats to everyone, especially first authors D. Alexander Stevens and Chris Beierschmitt! 1/

I am a 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellow! 🥳 Huge thanks to my amazing mentor Matt Matt Daugherty who believes in me even when my confidence falters. Thank you to lab mates + friends who foster an inclusive environment that has allowed me to thrive. WE DID IT! #GilliamFellows HHMI

Extremely proud of Lennice Castro Lennice Castro (front and center in the photo below) for being named an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! Grateful to HHMI for the opportunity to participate in this fantastic program! Congrats to all of the other awardees! #GilliamFellows HHMI

Congratulations to BioSci graduate student Lennice Castro and her advisor Matt Daugherty on receiving a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for their efforts tied to equity, diversity and inclusion. Read more: go.ucsd.edu/3bX4aI0

I met my science hero Harmit S. Malik today!! Such a warm and inspiring person, my academic grandpa from Matt Daugherty!

New preprint out showing a cool new host- and virus-specific way that the immune system has evolved to sense coronavirus infection! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Congrats to everyone involved, especially force-of-nature first author Brian Tsu! 1/

It’s takes a village to launch a dream program like @bummp_ucsd. An amazing team of leaders who will fight tooth and nail for normalizing the playing field in STEM. DocTara🇦🇬 Ivy Fernandes Megan Hayes Alex Stream, Jason Avalos, Sumedha Ravishankar,and Bindhu Hosuru

Our paper using evolution to find an antiviral role and viral antagonism of NINL is now published in eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/81606 Fantastic collaboration with Samara Reck-Peterson, hopefully the first of many! Congrats to everyone, especially D. Alexander Stevens and Chris Beierschmitt!

I dessed as the Red Queen Hypothesis for Halloween this year. I was only missing a treadmill (so I could do all the running I could...)

Our paper on "An ERAD-independent role for derlin Dfm1 in maintaining sphingolipid homeostasis" is now out in The EMBO Journal! Congrats to co-first authors @SatarupaBhaduri and Analine Aguayo and a collaborative diverse team of folks from all levels embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

We rotate together, we join labs together, we get fellowships together! Andrew Kapinos is officially my PhD buddy for life and there’s no better way for us to do it than with Fabian Rivera-Chávez (@fabianrchavez.bsky.social) and our incredibly supportive lab🥹

New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Huge congratulations and thanks to authors Chinmay Kalluraya Alex Weitzel, and Brian Tsu! More below: 1/

Our paper on CARD8-mediated sensing of infection by SARS-CoV-2 (and other coronaviruses and picornaviruses) is now out in PLOS Biology ! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar……Huge congratulations to all involved! More info and thanks to our many collaborators are in the thread below:

Excited to see that our review on tripwire effector-triggered immune sensing of viral proteases by CARD8 & NLRP1 is out! My first, first-author pub, and I was lucky to write it with Matt Daugherty and the support of fellow Daugherty Lab members. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…