Rita Strack

Nothing like watching The Pitt to remember why you ended up the other kind of doctor.

Assistant Professor-Department of Biology (Zoologist) Assistant Professor-Department of Biology (Zoologist)

New Faculty Positions opening up at Wilfrid Laurier University!
Integrative Organismal Zoologist:
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Microbial Systems:
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Computational Ecology/Modelling Biologist:
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Biochemistry:
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We often get questions about the ins-and-outs of Presubmission Enquiries when engaging with scientists. Are they important? Will they help my paper get sent for review? Can they benefit me? If you're curious as well, please check out our editorial in the Feb issue!

All my years of life I never once thought that the eagles would have been seduced by the ring and that's why they didn't ride them into Mordor.

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I can't take any credit, but I love this paper, which I believe coins the term xeno-learning.

Super cool paper on ephys in organoids out yesterday in nBME from the Rogers lab.

Yes, they taught him well too. He is mad about racism.

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.

Best consideration date: 3/14

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My son is learning about the civil rights movement. He learned about Emmett Till. He doesn't understand how something like that could happen. He thinks things are better now. It's hard to be a parent these days.

This feels a lot like academia in the U.S. right now

About UMass Chan Medical School Our mission is to advance the health and wellness of our diverse communities throughout Massachusetts and across the world by leading and innovating in education, research, health care delivery and pu...

Open postdoc position in immunology focusing on ILC3s and gut immunity at UMass Chan!

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Happy new year!! Let's do the work to make this year better than the last.

Mechanomedicine - Nature Reviews Bioengineering Mechanical forces are crucial regulators of biological functions in health and disease, offering measurable biomarkers and therapeutic targets. This Review introduces the principles of mechanomed...

Fantastic Review in @natrevbioeng.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Honored to be invited to speak by @blackinbme.bsky.social and @latinxinbme.bsky.social about being an editor and publishing in nBME!

Stochasticity in cancer immunotherapy stems from rare but functionally critical Spark T cells

This study shows cancer immunotherapy can behave randomly. The authors find this isn’t from tumours but "noise" from the immune system itself.

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WE HAVE A DIAGNOSIS FOR PETER Many year-end reflections from executives include metrics, milestones, lessons learned, and gratitude for teams. This one is different.

This is a really impactful blog from Gregory Moore on his adult son with a very rare genetic condition, the impact of the diagnostic odyssey and the diagnosis itself, and the power of #genomics and Dr Seuss.
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to be fair, we don't walk as depicted in hieroglyphs of humans walking either :D

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

In New Jersey, it takes close to a thousand signatures to be sure of being on the ballot. I have great canvassers. Every 100 is an accomplishment!

Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!

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I accept you with minor revisions.

I probably do. I can check on my work computer. Please DM me.

Me: happy Valentine's day!!

He: it's Friday the 13th

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.

The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Inferring cancer type-specific patterns of metastatic spread using Metient - Nature Methods Metient is a statistical framework that infers patterns of metastatic spread and reconstructs cancer migration histories.

In a new paper, we introduce Metient, a new method to reconstruct the migration history of metastatic clones, and learn cancer-type specific patterns of metastatic spread, from bulk or single-cell sequencing data.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I continued my "east coast tour" at NYU today by visiting the Institute for Systems Genetics. I think many of them were surprised to learn what we publish at nBME!

A HUGE thanks to my most gracious host Jimin Tan for making my day so lovely. I had an especially great lunch with trainees as well.

CU Anschutz Recruits National Leader to Launch Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative CU Anschutz welcomes Alice Soragni to launch a Functional Personalized Medicine Initiative using rapid tumor organoid testing to guide treatment decisions.

Happy to share this new, very intentional chapter. I have left UCLA after 14 years to join the University of Colorado Anschutz as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery and the inaugural Marsico Chair in Excellence in Functional Precision Medicine/n

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to read!

I sincerely miss some of my network from old twitter, but I am way happier over here.

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