Emma Chory, Ph.D.

Exciting opportunity @pasteur.fr for junior scientists aiming to create their research group !

A foundation model for microbial growth dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691707v1

They all do! But I automate my calendar deadlines and dates in emails are particularly helpful for that when you have 55 letters to submit :)

The weirdest move is automated letter-request systems sending emails with no deadline included.

2011 v 2025. Variance not statistically significant.

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.

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We're thrilled to announce SeqHub, an AI-enabled platform for biological sequence analysis. SeqHub brings together sequence search, genome annotation, and data sharing in one place.

Teamwork makes the scream work. Happy Halloween from the Chory lab! 🦖🎃👻

Best group costume 2025! #JurassicLab 🦕🦖

@dukeubme.bsky.social @chorylab.bsky.social

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Robust cellular transformations of PET deconstruction products by import of glycol esters Efforts to transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) deconstruction products using live cells have been limited by terephthalic acid (TPA) uptake. Here, we used an intracellular carboxylate reduction...

Interested in using microbes to degrade plastics?

We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells

Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The things Apple will do to procrastinate improving Siri

Reviewer #3:

Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.

::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Researchers are attempting something unprecedented: using genetic engineering to curb Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness spreading across the U.S. Instead of targeting deer or ticks, they hope to rele... TikTok video by 60 Minutes

Years in the making — Mice Against Ticks is on @60Minutes this Sunday!

🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...

🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org

Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab

"The PI does not seem to have experience with these downstream biochemical assays, and no collaborators were identified for cell-based applications.”

lol.

Congrats Rita!! We loved working with you at @natmethods.nature.com , but now we have another reason to submit to Nat BME! Excited to see where your leadership takes it. @dukeubme.bsky.social

As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.

:snaps: :snaps: :snaps:
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social

We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!

erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...

I interpreted the effective date policy to mean that if you’re submitting sept, that the grants of the last calendar year count, but hopefully we’ll get some clarification.

The SOM lost a $160m NIH vaccine institute grant, employs 40k people, and treats 70k in patients/year, and normally gets +$500m in nih funding. No one is happy about this.

With NIHs new 6-grant/PI cap (incl resub) we’re locked out for a year. We submitted duplicates bc FOAs were being pulled mid-sub & were told to submit to the parent. I get that POs are overwhelmed, but we’re all trying to stay afloat. MultiPI collabs will suffer. Welp, guess I’ll get my wkends back.

I can’t submit anything until NEXT October it looks like, including resubmissions for things in review. Extra screwed because FOAs got cancelled and po encouraged me to submit resub and to parent bc of cancellations.

America’s Brain Drain Could Become the World’s Brain Gain Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.

I saw it firsthand at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Counterpoint: I have friends who have this job post PhD (in very large labs) that loved the writing/thinking aspect of science but not so much the benchwork (that didn’t want to go the faculty or editor route), who find the job very fulfilling.

My F32 as a postdoc went from ND to 4% with just a little prelim data 🤣. Reciting that to myself over and over.

That one was a long shot anyways :)

But why does ND = green?!?

Tattoos can be removed but the eRAcommons graveyard is forever.