Latest in #GENETICS: An interaction with the #yeast synaptonemal complex component Zip1 protects Zip3 from proteasome-mediated degradation and from post-translational modification, promoting crossover during recombination.
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Happy to share work from my lab tonight: an attentive grad student found that intra-species F1 🪱 hybrids have high nondisjunction - thus more XO males. Maybe speciation in action! No data on mechanism yet - what's your best guess? 🧐 Look for tic-tac-toe poster 205W: the next move is yours! #PEQG26
A recently finished undergraduate (with lots of research time in my lab) applied for 60 research tech jobs with no luck... And this week I talked to an undergrad (son of a family friend) looking unsuccessfully for summer research in evolutionary genetics - AS A VOLUNTEER.
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"So I get to take the blame for our country’s tanked economy
While fighting for my basic rights and bodily autonomy
In short, I’m fucked in matters from the vital to the trivial
I am the very model of a modern-age millennial..."
Hoping some of y'all there do a lot of bluesky posting so I can live vicariously. #PEQG26
My poster and audio overview is available on the app:
PgmNr 203W: Mutation load at active tRNA genes in three nematode species eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
#PEQG26
Today in my virtual #PEQG26 attendance, I'm adding everything I want to see to my calendar, and doing my own private poster session: Reading all the abstracts of remote interest and viewing the posters available on the app. Enjoying the audio poster overviews, too!
This is a devastating analysis of the impact of the NIH's policies in fiscal year 2025 on the research project grant investigator pool.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The US truly seems to be pushing eager young scientists to reconsider their life goals of research & higher ed. I'm sure these anecdotes are being repeated for many of you & am curious what systematic efforts are underway to catalogue & measure this deterrent effect on future talent