Super excited to start our new adventure in neurodegeneration with the support from @MINDPrize, our 2nd grant from Pershing Square Philanthropies. Congrats to other awardees especially my Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons colleague and fellow RNA enthusiast Hachung Hachung Chung at Columbia University!

great opportunity for those interested in translating RNA regulation into therapeutics!

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Markus Covert from Stanford University on May 1st, hosted by Dr. Mohammed AlQuraishi. The title of the seminar is "The E. coli Whole-Cell Modeling Project: from Simulation to Discovery" and will be from 3-4pm in ICRC 816.

Thrilled to share our review article, 'Mechanisms Suppressing Noncoding Translation,' co-authored w/ Jordan Kesner. Grateful to Trends Cell Biology editors Bryan Harada (Bryan Harada) and Ilaria Carnevale (Ilaria Carnevale) for their invitation and support! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzmb3QxxSux…

Hey RNA folks, a question about the discovery of the genetic code: Nirenberg and Matthaei famously showed that poly-U encodes poly-phenylalanine using a poly-U synthetic RNA in E. coli lysate. But there is no start codon in poly-U. How did translation start on poly-U RNA?

We are hiring a technician to help with CRISPR screens. Prior experience with CRISPR screens and large-scale cell culture is preferred but not required. Please feel free to share: jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-u…

As alumni I'm sad to see a mit professor publicly shaming chinese students in a top conference without citing credible sources. The more serious question is: did she make it up? I dont see any sensible person would make such a confession. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) NeurIPS Conference

Part 1 of the exciting work from Michael Murphy Michael Murphy in the lab. Great experience with bioRxiv - submitted 2pm yesterday and already online 6am today. This is what science publishing should look like biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our updated preprint on the mechanism behind the 1st & only human disease linked to tissue-specific ribosome: fatal heart failure caused by RPL3L mutations. Very proud of this work led by the talented and fearless Michael Murphy Michael Murphy—check out his thread for more details!

Check out our paper, now extensively revised and published in Molecular Cell! This has been a real tour de force led by Steph Sansbury and Yevgeniy Serebrenik and we are very excited about the findings and future potential of this approach cell.com/molecular-cell…