Aurora Esquela Kerscher

#AACR An exciting AACR 5K Runners for Research race on Saturday in Chicago to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Over 800 participates and $280,000 in donations. Thanks you all for supporting my run! Cancer research saves lives!

@theaacr.bsky.social #AACR2025 I was honored to co-chair the “microRNAs and other noncoding RNAs” session at AACR Chicago. Fantastic talks about small molecule inhibitors and novel targets regulating miRNA function/EV transport and lincRNA activity that could lead to novel RNA medicine for cancer.

Disease does not discriminate. Science is not a dirty word. Politics does not belong in the lab. But yet, here we are.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

No indirects? The end of academia and my job I think.

RO1 deadline for Feb 5 is almost here and suddenly my grant office and I can’t get into NIH ASSIST to upload documents. Hope this is just a random fluke that will fix itself?

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Day 2. 1459 to go.

Husbandwatching

Cellular RNA interacts with MAVS to promote antiviral signaling Antiviral signaling downstream of RIG-I–like receptors (RLRs) proceeds through a multi-protein complex organized around the adaptor protein mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS). Protein co...

Our work on cellular RNA interactions with MAVS that promote antiviral signaling is finally live. So grateful to our indispensable collaborators as well as reviewers who helped to strengthen our work. #RNA #innateimmunity #virology

@ramlabuw.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 2025 EMBL Annual Poster, listing all of the courses and conferences taking place in 2025 at EMBL

Hi Bluesky community! 👋

Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀

We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look!

➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl

#EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining

2024 academic year is a wrap! Happy Holidays! Wishing everyone multiple grants and high impact papers in 2025!

Fantastic first year VHS Biomedical graduate students and Generics Jeopardy stars.

My last Molecular Genetics class of the semester ended with a competitive game of Model Organisms Genetics Jeopardy that reinforced all of the course concepts (via JeopardyLabs platform). Of course, one category was Nobel Laureates with prominent roles highlighted by C. elegans researchers!

I bumped into a colleague in the corridor of the building next door and we began brainstorming about some new methods for my project. This chance ten minute chat was more productive than most of my meetings. Cheers to corridor conversations!

MicroRNAs are having their moment! Fantastic talks this morning by Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. Skål!