Sulagna Das

We look forward to hosting you and hearing about exciting Arc biology!

Always great discussions and feedback while presenting our work to the Cell Bio Dept with rich scientific diversity spanning cell biology, RNA biology and neuroscience.

Thanks Gary! Really enjoyed presenting our work to the department and the fun discussions.

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!

as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Exciting work from Maria Barna’s lab on single ribosomes and their composition in different cellular compartments!

Stand up for science! Atlanta is standing up! #standupforscience2025

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

One of my favorite meetings! :)

Do you LOVE organelles??
Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social!

Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy

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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

bit.ly/3X8ngz8

Wonderful news! Congratulations Malu! 👏🏽👏🏽

Congratulations!

If you are a journalist--this should be your biggest story. Musk is denying hope to patients who have exhausted all other options 🧪

A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨

✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more!

z.umn.edu/minds
Please share ✨

Feels weird to promote science right now but here’s a new review/opinion piece from the lab where we outline new insights about how Arc mediates long lasting synaptic plasticity and memory formation. 🧪🧠 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Looking fwd to reading it! :)

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium Join the Allen Institute for the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium in Seattle, Washington next June. This interactive symposium brings together those working to integrate openly availa...

Applications are now open for the first ever @alleninstitute.bsky.social Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium. 🎉

I'm on the planning committee (led by @rpenton.bsky.social!) so I can confidently say this will be worth your time. 😏

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This will be catastrophic for biomedical research! Can’t imagine the aftermath.

Looking forward to hosting Dr. Holzbaur’s tomorrow and hearing about all the exciting science from her lab.

Now that my lab has moved to Emory I want you to join us in Atlanta. We have an NIH-funded postdoc position available to study Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signaling using vestibular hair cells of the mouse as a model.
Please repost and/or DM for details

Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants

The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I

Missed you this time!

Looking forward to our session in WCBR! Please attend if you are around.

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

National Institute of General Medical Sciences NIGMS supports basic research to understand biological processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...