Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD
@BBParis1984
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Associate professor @USC Gero. French scientist. Aging, omics, immunity, sex-dimorphism. Views my own. She/her.
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Delighted to share the exciting work from talented postdoc
@mkim327
, exploring the impact of post-estropausal microbiome 💩 on ovarian ♀️ health in mice 🐁, out today in
@biorxivpreprint
. Whereby we see surprising and important findings, a 🧵 1/7
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A reviewer just told us we needed to get the manuscript edited by a native english speaker and frankly (1) it’s insulting and (2) it already was read/ co-written by 2 native english speakers. This type of comment should not be allowed.
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Today is a GREAT day - I have been informed that I am an Associate Professor with
#tenure
effective today! 🥳🥳🥳Immensely grateful to the trainees and colleagues who supported me in this journey! Looking forward to more years of fun science with this fantastic team!
#womeninSTEM
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Super excited to present our lab's research paper, out today
@NatureAging
. We explore how organismal aging and biological sex shape the molecular profiles (and functional phenotype) of neutrophils
#neutrophils
#sexdimorphism
#aging
--- A twittorial ---
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The
#BenayounLab
is officially funded by
@NIGMS
! 🎉🍾 Super excited and grateful to receive support for the lab through the
#R35
#MIRA
mechanism! Looking forward to understanding the regulation and health impact of
#transposons
on the health of 🐭 and 🐟 with awesome trainees!
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Immensely grateful to
@NIHAging
for supporting our
#R01
grant to understand how sex-hormones shape lifelong
#SexDifferences
in
#neutrophil
function! We are excited to help decipher molecular mechanisms responsible for such sex differences over the next few years!
@USCLeonardDavis
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We did it - pilot
#neutrophil
scRNAseq with
@10xGenomics
worked!!! Super excited to see where the analysis of this dataset takes us!!!!
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Honored and humbled to have been selected by
@geronsociety
to receive the 2021 Nathan Shock New Investigator award!
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Incredibly proud and honored to have been chosen as the recipient of the 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award for research in mammalian genetics! Many thanks to
@GeneticsGSA
and The Gruber Foundation for their support!
@USCLeonardDavis
#WomenInSTEM
#NewPI
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Truly humbled and honored to be a recipient of this year’s Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award from
@AFARorg
- thankful to my trainees and my colleagues without whom this would not have come to pass!
Congratulations to Bérénice Benayoun, PhD
@BBParis1984
for receiving the 2024 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award from
@AFARorg
for her exemplary contributions to the field of aging research!
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Happy to celebrate
#tenure
with alumni and current lab members - I couldn’t have done it without my fantastic mentees!!! 🎉🎊🥂🍾
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Due to some comments here, i want to highlight that the manuscript was checked by native speakers (3 of them) before submission. The english was fine and this feels like profiling based on authors last names.
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Incredibly honored to join the Pew Biomedical Scholars community!The lab is excited to elucidate the mechanisms underlying sex differences in aging, specifically in the innate immune system, thanks to this award!
@USCLeonardDavis
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#AcademicVictories
- paper completely written and revised during the pandemic, and the lab's first big story :) More to come about it soon!
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The Benayoun lab is four year old to the day today!!! So lucky and humbled to have assembled an awesome team of young scientists to work with me on understanding sex differences in aging! 🎊🎉🍾🎂🎂🎉
@USCLeonardDavis
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Excited to share the lab's newest preprint led by
#BryanTeefy
, out today on
@biorxivpreprint
, showing our efforts to map out important immune and metabolic cell types in cells of female ♀️ and male ♂️ African turquoise killifish 🐟🐟🐟! a 🧶 1/7
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Really excited to share our latest work, on deciphering
#TE
control 🧬 during
#ReproAging
♀️♂️ in
#AfricanTurquoiseKillifish
🐟 [ATK], online today at
@genomeresearch
! This was spearheaded by talented
#DrBryanTeefy
in the lab.
@USCLeonardDavis
A 🧵 1/n
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Perspective co-authored with
@param_p_singh
out today in
@NatureAging
, where we outline best practices in "omics" for
#aging
research. We outline biological and technical considerations key to
#reproducible
results.
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Congratulations to
@the_TE_guy
Juan Bravo on his successful PhD defense today🔥🔥🔥!!!
So proud of the very first PhD out of the Benayoun lab - and he now has his very own
#PhDSword
🎉🎉🎉
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Grateful to be recognized today (with fantastic colleague
@ChanghanDavid
) at the
#USC
2023 mentoring awards! Glad to hear that my fantastic undergrads feel supported and inspired in my lab - it’s an honor and pleasure to have them!
@USCLeonardDavis
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New lab
#preprint
alert, led by talented postdoc
#BryanTeefy
! In this study, we used ‘omics’ to decipher the impact of
#ReproAging
on the gonadal landscape (and
#TE
control) in the turquoise
#killifish
. A 🧵 1/n
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Excited to be joining a talented group of scientists as a
@cziscience
grantee - on a project to analyze and annotate
#ovarian
aging across species at
#singleCell
resolution!!!
We’re excited to announce 20 new Data Insights grantees addressing challenges in
#SingleCell
biology by:
🔹Integrating data sets to understand cell functions that regulate health + disease
🔹Applying
#ML
methods to the analysis of complex data sets
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Excited to share our new paper
@CellReports
led by talented postdoc
#BryanTeefy
, describing a multi-tissue atlas of adult female ♀️ and male ♂️
#AfricanTurquoiseKillifish
🐟. A 🧵 1/10
@USCLeonardDavis
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Happy to share this detailed protocol out today
@STARProtocols
led by talented graduate students
#CassandraMcGill
and
@ryanlu94
, detailing how to evaluate
#NETosis
capacity of primary mouse neutrophils.
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Our new manuscript "Single-cell RNA-seq of primary bone marrow
#neutrophils
from female and male adult mice" led by talented postdoc
@mkim327
and grad student
@ryanlu94
is now published in
@ScientificData
! A 🧵. 1/n
#SexDimorphism
♂️♀️
@USCLeonardDavis
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Excited 🥳to be receiving a grant from
@hevolution_f
to study how female vs. male
#macrophages
age in mice 🐭, to better understand
#HealthyAging
in both sexes ♀️♂️ and molecular determinants of sex-based health disparities!
#Hevolution
#aging
#research
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Proud and honored to be part of this talented cohort - hoping to advance aging research, here by developing new tools in the African turquoise killifish 🐟🐟🐟!
#JuniorPI
#AgingResearch
@USCLeonardDavis
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Best holiday gift ever: an email entitled « Manuscript accepted »! Details coming soon! 🎊🎉🍾🎁
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Happy to share our progress on establishing age-relevant preclinical models of
#menopause
at the
@GCRLE1
symposium this weekend
@BuckInstitute
!
#menopause
is the most consequential health event for women, and research on
#aging
is generally still unable to properly model it.
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Check out our preview (written with postdoc
#BryanTeefy
) in
@Cell_Metabolism
, discussing the recent thought-provoking work from
@davidasinclair
's lab on the "ICE" mouse model.
#aging
#epigenetics
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The lab has an unusual (but important) preprint out today... With negative results which we believe need to be disseminated to the community: "Lack of accelerated ovarian aging in a follicle-stimulating hormone receptor haploinsufficiency model" a 🧶 1/n
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Our lab's manuscript characterizing ovarian aging phenotypes in Fshr+/- mice has been accepted by
#TranslationalMedicineOfAging
and is available online!
Work from talented
#KristenMehalko
,
@mkim327
,
#SanjanaPaye
,
#KellyKoh
, and
@ryanlu94
.
A 🧵 - 1/5
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Excited to present our lab's preprint, exploring how neutrophils - the most abundant white blood cell - are influenced by organismal aging and biological sex!
#neutrophils
#sexdimorphism
#aging
-- a thread --
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The best lab peeps surprised me with a birthday cake :)
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The
#BenayounLab
is looking for a genomics postdoc to help us use
#bigData
in 🐭 and 🐟 to understand
#sexdimorphism
in aging, and the influence of
#reproaging
! Join a fun & collaborative team of scientists at
@USCLeonardDavis
in ☀️
#sunnyCA
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#NewPreprintAlert
🚨 Happy to share a resource description, led by talented Benayoun lab undergrad
#AlanXu
, in collaboration with
@dariovalenzano_
's laboratory. We performed RNA-seq of male ♂️ and female ♀️ aging turquoise
#killifish
tissues 🐟. 1/4
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🚨Attention
#gerotwitter
community!!!🚨
The
@USCLeonardDavis
is spearheading the 1st Geroscience Los Angeles Meeting (
#GLAM
), which will occur on September 22nd, to help showcase the research of awesome
#trainees
across LA research institutions!!! 1/4
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The
#BenayounLab
is recruiting a
#postdoctoral
fellow to join us to work on our
#NIGMS
funded project on the health impact of
#transposon
control 🧬 using the short-lived African turquoise
#killifish
🐟🐠 as a model!
@USCLeonardDavis
Please RT!
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Lab celebration dinner - 3 graduating students and a preprint submitted today!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
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The Benayoun lab turns 3 today 🎂!!! I wish the lab could celebrate together in real life 🎊🎉 - hopefully, we will catch up on celebrations when the pandemic wanes. Meanwhile, we’ll have a zoom gathering🥂🍻🧉!
#NewPI
#Labversary
#AwesomeTrainees
@USCLeonardDavis
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Lab new
#preprint
! A true collab of the internet age 🖥️, led by
#CassieMcGill
in
@TheBenayounLab
: "Sex-dimorphic regulation of extracellular matrix genes in mouse bone marrow neutrophils", initiated by
@CollinEwald
A 🧵 1/6
@USCLeonardDavis
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New postdoc 👨🔬
#BryanTeefy
loading up the lab’s first « real »
@nanopore
run on African turquoise killifish 🐟 DNA 🧬 🧬🧬!
#Transposons
beware, we will find you!
#nanopore
#ScienceFun
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Very excited to announce that the final version of this preprint is now published online today at
@ScientificData
!
We hope this resource will be useful to the aging and killifish research community and thank all our collaborators again!
#NewPreprintAlert
🚨 Happy to share a resource description, led by talented Benayoun lab undergrad
#AlanXu
, in collaboration with
@dariovalenzano_
's laboratory. We performed RNA-seq of male ♂️ and female ♀️ aging turquoise
#killifish
tissues 🐟. 1/4
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Our lab’s first (small) preprint describing changes to H3 occupancy with aging!
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Celebrating with some mochidonuts with the lab just because! Happy Friday everyone 😃
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Happy to announce that this work was published today in
@PLOSONE
!
Congrats to
#CassieMcGill
for leading this study :)
Lab new
#preprint
! A true collab of the internet age 🖥️, led by
#CassieMcGill
in
@TheBenayounLab
: "Sex-dimorphic regulation of extracellular matrix genes in mouse bone marrow neutrophils", initiated by
@CollinEwald
A 🧵 1/6
@USCLeonardDavis
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#sexDifferences
are a key consideration in
#aging
research! Join Dena Dubal, Jim Nelson, Duygu Ucar and myself for a webinar moderated by Steve Austad where we’ll discuss the best practices and consideration!
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Our protocol to isolate high-quality nuclei from frozen African turquoise
#killifish
🐟 brains 🧠 is online at JoVE (video upcoming!). Why did we need to optimize a new protocol?
#openaccess
@USCLeonardDavis
A 🧵 1/n
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@jonykipnis
Litterally had to shell out $30K to regenerate a mouse model because the lead PI on a
@CellCellPress
paper from 2009 would not share it with my lab. It’s definitely not ok and a waste of scientific resources 😬
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Proud to present this new review from the lab ut online today
@AnnualReviews
in Nutrition, led by fantastic (graduated) Master student
#YilinChen
, on '
#Sex
as a biological variable in nutrition research: from human studies to animal models'. a short 🧶 1/n
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PSA for journal editors - don’t make authors reformat a manuscript only to desk reject it less than 2h after they comply with reformatting request…
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We are off to great start for 2023 in the Benayoun lab - just got notice of a manuscript acceptance 😃!!! Really happy that we could get a rigorous study on unexpected negative results through the process. More info on the study coming soon! 🎉🎊
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Apparently these days journals think it’s ok to reject based on « novelty » after wasting 6 months and inviting a revision. Don’t invite a revision if you don’t think it will meet « novelty » standards 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Excited to chair this exciting symposium - please tune in for 4 fantastic talks!
Join us on a special day, Monday 12/21, for our first symposium on the "Omics of healthy aging"! Chaired by
@BBParis1984
, speakers will include
@KContrepois
, Marc Vermulst, Serban Ciotlos, and Bryan Teefy!
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Thrilled to share the lab's latest preprint, led by super talented grad student Juan Bravo (
@the_TE_guy
), where we leverage
#GEUVADIS
and
#100Genomes
project data to identify new regulators of
#LINE1
transcription in human cells! 1/6
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@dude__itsme
Cold emailed the PI of my dream postdoc lab, attached a resume and explained why I was super excited by her research program. It’s worth reaching out if you think a lab would be a good fit. No guarantee they have space, but labs don’t always advertise even if they can hire.
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The fantastic
@mkim327
Min Hoo Kim receiving a poster prize at the reproductive aging meeting!!!
#RACSRC22
@USCLeonardDavis
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Happy to share this
#preprint
led by talented
#CassieMcGill
, aco-mentored grad student with Christian Pike, in collaboration with Tuck Finch's lab!
We asked whether pro-longevity
#17aE2
could mitigate
#APOE4
pro-aging effects in male mice 🐭! A 🧶 1/8
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Mouse aging epigenomics paper is out! Thank you to all that helped make it happen Liz Pollina,
@param_p_singh
,
@Salah__Mahmoudi
,
@ItamarHarel
, Keriann Casey, Ben Dulken,
@anshulkundaje
,
@BrunetLab
.
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"Whose lab are you in? - Mine. - No, no, I mean whose lab are you in?" - wins the award for the most annoying remark you can get as a new woman PI
#NewPI
#Sexism
#WomenCanBeInChargeToo
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Excited to report that our paper on single-cell based 'aging clocks' for regenerative regions of the brain is on bioRxiv!
HUGE congrats to Matt
@MatttBuckley
and Eric
@EricDSun
and to our fantastic collaborators at Baylor, UCLA, and Stanford! 🎉
A 🧵
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Why anyone feels the need to shit all over someone else’s celebration beats me. If seeing someone eat a piece of a donut makes you doubt their ability to understand health, it makes me doubt your ability to understand human nature.
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We are looking for a talented post-doc, proficient in genomics, for a competitively-funded position to elucidate vertebrate aging "omics"! Join our dynamic team in
#sunnyCalifornia
to study
#geroscience
at the
@USCLeonardDavis
school of gerontology!
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The Benayoun lab is officially 1-year old! 🎂🎂🎉🎉🎊🎊🍾 Both seems like it started yesterday and that we’ve been at it for a while...
Many thanks to my awesome team members who decided to join and to USC for welcoming me here!
#NewLab
#Science
#TimeFlies
@USCLeonardDavis
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Celebrating July lab birthdays (and the Benayoun 5th labversary!!!) with some cake and bubbly!!
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Yesterday was
@TheBenayounLab
second labversary! I am still humbled by all the fantastic young scientists, undergrads, grad students and postdoctoral who have chosen to take this adventure with me!
#NewPI
#WomeninScience
@USCLeonardDavis
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The Benayoun lab represented by
#CassandraMcGill
and
#BryanTeefy
at the
@SCAgingBrain
pre meeting at
#CSHL
!
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@JSheltzer
Always err on the side of including people who contributed time and effort to a paper - crediting only « positive » results creates a bad incentive structure. We should normalize acknowledging ALL people who worked on a project regardless of results.
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Cool
#Aging
meeting alert! The 4th "SYSTEMS IMMUNOLOGY IN AGING AND COMPLEX DISEASES" meeting, coorganized with
@duyguucar
and
@george_kuchel
will take place Sept 22-23 in CT. We are excited about a great speaker lineup - and registration is still open!
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Free
@NIHAging
Workshop on « Midlife Stress and the Hallmarks of Aging » on 4/11, covering stress responses and study models.
(I will talk about the
#AfricanTurquoiseKillifish
🐟 as a powerful naturally short-lived
#model
).
RT and Register!
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Proud to be, along with fantastic postdoc
@mkim327
, part of the inaugural cohort of
#GCRLE
grantees! We are excited to help expand knowledge of female
#reproaging
, both by establishing new models and investigating new mechanisms!
@USCLeonardDavis
@GCRLE1
#geroscience
#JuniorPI
Today we awarded $7.4M in grant funding to accelerate research on female reproductive aging. Congratulations to the 2020 Inaugural Scholars!
#reproaging
#gcrle
@BuckInstitute
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When did it start to be acceptable to take pictures of people’s slides at conferences? Makes junior prople wary of showing unpublished data...
#AskingForAFriend
#science
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A review paper from the lab out today in
@Dev_journal
led by the talented Juan Bravo
@the_TE_guy
“Transposable elements, circular RNAs and mitochondrial transcription in age-related genomic regulation”
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We are (still) looking for a lab tech II to join our team in sunny LA! This is a great position for someone looking for research experience after graduation. Come help us understand sex differences in aging with a great team !
@USCLeonardDavis
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Happy new year to all 🎊🎉🍾 - may 2021 be filled with
#science
, happiness, and be radically different from the 2020 dumpster fire!
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2018 Academic achievements:
- 18 grants written (1 awarded, 6 rejected, 11 pending)
- 1st review as PI
- 4 talks, 5 trainee posters
- 15 papers reviewed
- 1st session chaired
- 1st PhD student
- 1st postdoc
- an amazing team!
#lucky
#newPI
@USCLeonardDavis
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Update, after reaching out to the journal EIC. They agree that the comment on English proficiency for our MS is 💯unjustified, apologized profusely, and told us to ignore it. For those defending the reviewer’s sentiment, it WAS unfounded profiling and inappropriate.
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Really cool study led by
@MattYousefzadeh
from the
#LauraNiedernhofer
lab on the impact of a senescent immune system on systemic aging!
#inflammaging
#geroscience
#senescence
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We are looking for a new mouse 🐁 technician / lab manager!
This position is ideal for recent bachelor’s graduates looking to get research experience - and this person will help us understand sex differences in aging!
Please RT!
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Super proud of the talented
#ClaytonBaker
, grad student in the lab, who got an award for his poster at
#ImmunologyLA2023
today!!!
#teamNeutrophil
#earlyCareer
#ProudMentorMoment
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Celebrating awesome lab grads at
#commencement
this year - PhD Juan Bravo
@the_TE_guy
and QCB Bachelor’s Alan Xu!
#proudmentor
@USCLeonardDavis
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Looking for a post-doc and interested in understanding sex differences in aging? The Benayoun lab is recruiting:
#Jobs
#NewPI
#SexDimorphism
#sunnyLA
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The lecture I recorded for the 2021 Nathan Shock New Investigator award from the
@geronsociety
#GSA
is up online!
@USCLeonardDavis
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Excited to be giving a talk on our
#neutrophil
work this morning at the major symposium on
#sexdifferences
in immunes responses at
#AAI2022
chaired by
@sabraklein1998
and Shannon Dunn!
#immunology2022
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At airport for trip
#3
- the
@americanaging
conference in San Antonio! Excited to hear some fun aging research and catch up with everyone!!!
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It was a great pleasure and honor today to host
@AdamsBioAging
for our fall seminar series at
@USCLeonardDavis
! Always great to hear about cool work on
#epigenome
remodeling in aging, cell senescence and cancer risk!
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It was a great pleasure to host
@BrunetLab
from
#StanfordUniversity
as a speaker for our Spring colloquium series last week at
@USCLeonardDavis
!
#geroscience
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That moment when you find something really cool and unexpected in your data...
@10xgenomics
#Seurat
#scienceisfun
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Really excited for my lab to be a recipient of the Rose Hills Foundation Innovator Grant Program! We are very excited to understand the role of ex in inflamm-aging!
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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals through H3K4me3 - out in
@Dev_Cell
today. "Histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation in sperm is transmitted to the embryo and associated with diet-induced phenotypes in the offspring"
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Professor Bérénice Benayoun - Advancing new models for aging research
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#introductions
Hello! My name is Bérénice Benayoun, and I am an assistant professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. The Benayoun lab is interested in understanding the molecular determinants of
#SexDimorphism
in
#aging
…
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