Very happy (and sad!) to say this is Bikash Choudhary's last day in the Norris Lab. He's about to start his own lab at Sewanee new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-...

Downtown Davis celebrating #Worm25 with Ascaris decorated piano.

Go worms! #worm25

IWM25 just started!!! #worm25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Guest of the Day M. Maduro Hyatt Place UCD

Is this OUR M. Maduro? #worm25

Regulated microexon alternative #splicing in single #neurons tunes synaptic function.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Regulated microexon alternative splicing in single neurons tunes synaptic function | EMBO reports imageimageAlternative splicing of a conserved microexon in the unc-13 synaptic gene is regulated by a pair of cell-specific RNA binding proteins. Microexon-included and microexon-skipped isoforms are ...

MICROEXONS! 💪

Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Alternative splicing across the C. elegans nervous system - Nature Communications By affecting which form of a gene is expressed, alternative splicing is a major source of diversity in the nervous system. Here, the authors present an atlas of splice variants across neurons, and exp...

This project was only possible thanks to the herculean efforts of the CeNGEN consortium, and we're pleased to be publishing our paper in parallel with a paper of theirs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fun with alternative splicing in single neurons!

Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad.

What does he imagine his job to be?

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts Cathy Savage-Dunn's $1.9M grant-funded research on cell communication is uncertain amid Trump cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

I spoke with a reporter at my local paper @silive.com - thanks to Jillian Delaney for this excellent write-up!

Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans

Pittsburgh researcher warns NIH cuts could harm patient care, economic growth Pittsburgh's economy once relied heavily on the steel industry, which lined Second Avenue with miles of mills. When that industry collapsed, medicine and education filled the economic void.

Local traditional media still works!

We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.

www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

This is absolutely pathetic. Saying nothing was bad enough, but this?

A Call to Action: Learn what you can do now to protect science A message to the GSA Community from The Executive Committee of the Genetics Society of America

my first bsky post!

scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.

raise 'em.

Three steps to the perfect SoCal Superbowl.

For these uncertain times, we all need support of our communities more than ever. An updated list of 180+ researchers for the #Celegans community is here:

C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG

#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n

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