Traver Hart

"pending" has, in the past, been a good indicator that you're in the pipeline. obviously past performance is no longer a guarantee of future results, but hang in there.

"victory"

Playing Baldur's Gate 3 just so my computer will heat up my office.

#FreeIran

Not if I stop taking students.

One lesson that has become crystal clear over the last few years is how difficult, maybe impossible, it is to have meaningful discourse when both sides are the bad guy. Maybe it's always been this way.

Functional modules predict cancer-relevant genetic interactions in mammalian cells Genetic interactions can reveal gene function and identify cancer-relevant synthetic lethals, but systematic mapping in human cells is constrained by inefficient reagents, vast combinatorial search sp...

Merry Christmas, genetic interaction nerds:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks for your hospitality! It was a wonderful trip to visit your group and to see Milan. Looking forward to our follow ups

Delighted to host Traver Hart (MD Anderson Cancer Center), who delivered an engaging seminar on synthetic lethality at #HumanTechnopole. He showed how bridging #CRISPR and predictive modeling can advance design and interpretation of genetic interaction screens and inform new therapeutic strategies.

Adaptive behavior of predatory publisher "editors" - I was just invited to review one or more of a list of five articles, each submitted to different journals. I haven't seen that before.

ouch that's absolutely worst case. what a disaster this has been.

3%. Still waited 90 days after council meeting.

NCI R01 NOA received. Long, long exhale.

Life goals updated. Source: www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolR...

I can withdraw from social media now. I have learned everything worth learning.

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Gary

I could not agree more strongly with this. 💯

Ironically, it's not even in the Midwest.

I can

I can

My PhD was: hey look 12,000 images of budding yeast! Yay computers!

there was less to know back then 😉

Obviously I'm posting today because I should be writing.

In my experience, huge increase in knowledge from yr 3 to 4 to 5, especially from PhD students coming straight from undergrad. Lots of conflating issues in the US like yr 1 rotations, requiring a pub, and PIs hanging on to trainees for too long, but 3 years postbac does not seem like enough to me.

Yep. there's that.

Also: Illegitimi non carborundum

I think you answered your own question. You do it because you love it. Because you were born to do this. Because there's nothing better than sifting through your data, and thinking about ways to make it better next time. Because that joy doesn't depend on other people; it comes from within.

Oregon Trail image with text "You have listened to RFK JR"

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:

- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’

No worries if not!!!

“In case of fire” instructional graphic

IN CASE OF FIRE:

1) If someone is on fire, punch them in the face.

2) Cop a feel off the person behind you, as these might be your last minutes on Earth.

3) Squeeze the junk of the person in front of you. It'll slow them down, allowing you to move ahead of them.

4) Exit.

CRISPR as a microbial immune system In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published