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Submitting the U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP is a feat on its own… send it in, forget about it, and pop the champagne!

This is the ideal marmot body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. Winter is coming! The tundra-dwelling yellow bellied-marmots have been preparing for hibernation for the last couple of months. 📸RockyNPS

How does the Pol II PIC look like on promoters of non-coding genes? It is a core PIC that is positioned by the specific 4-subunit factor SNAPc upstream. DNA opening occurs without TFIIE and TFIIH downstream. VanniniLab_HT Srinivasan Rengachari nature.com/articles/s4159…

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And our 4th most downloaded article was the review "Merging Established Mechanisms with New Insights: Condensates, Hubs, and the Regulation of RNA Polymerase II Transcription" by Meg Palacio and TaatjesLab CU Boulder 🦬. bit.ly/3jojpgD

It pains me to see eminent colleagues like Neil deGrasse Tyson propagate elementary mistakes. What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously? I’ll repeat the basics of Santa Mechanics. A theory way more advanced than Neil let’s on here. 🎄🧵 1/13

UPDATED: our massive database of PhD fellowships is available for download. We list 195 different fellowships with description of the award, eligibility criteria, deadline and amount. Download for free here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

In 2015, an article in @nature estimated that 800,000,000 USD is wasted annually on nonspecific antibodies. It also suggested standardization, which has not happened. I wonder how much we will spend in 2023 on low specificity antibodies.

Excited to be ASBMB with Longmont High School SMART team! Come check out our posters and protein models🧬 #asbmb2023

We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Donald Voet. Don was a mainstay in our department for decades, & with Judy, his wife of 58 years, he wrote the indispensable textbook Biochemistry that has been used in countless courses for a generation. bit.ly/3KKwryR

Looking for a quick catch up with the latest Mediator literature? Our mini-review is tailor made for it. degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Shout out to Sandra Sandra Schilbach and Michael Michael Lidschreiber for their inputs and many thanks to Patrick @CramerLab for the opportunity and support!!

The #ShawPrize in #LifeScienceAndMedicine 2023 is awarded in equal shares to Patrick Cramer and Eva Nogales for pioneering structural biology that enabled visualization, at the level of individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for #genetranscription. #ShawPrize2023

😳 Bacterial NLR-related proteins protect against phage: 👇👇👇 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Excited to share that our paper cell.com/molecular-cell… got the cover of the new issue of Molecular Cell. Extra cool that this is a photograph taken by the first author Nancy De La Cruz, a super-star research assistant and post-bacc who just started grad school UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Online Now: Structural basis of the human transcriptional Mediator regulated by its dissociable kinase module dlvr.it/TDdgNt

Real-time visualization of reconstituted transcription reveals RNA polymerase II activation mechanisms at single promoters biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biochem

Great participating with the Inspire Program in hosting the SMART team from Longmont High School LHSTrojanWay from Colorado. The students are attending the ASBMB meeting in Chicago. BMG Faculty enjoyed presenting their science to the students and listening to the students