Dr. Derrick J. Morton
@DMortonPhD
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Assistant Professor @USC | Visiting Assoc. @Caltech | RNA Biologist | #Drosophila | #hiPSC-derived neurons - organoids #Neuro | Second-gen HBCU grad @CAU 🏳️🌈
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2018
🚨 The lab's first preprint is out! Led by rockstar graduate student @LaurynHigginson, we present the first cell-specific transcriptome analysis of the RNA exosome, a conserved RNase, in a fully developed Drosophila brain! #RNABiology #Neuroscience 🪰🧠 🧵
biorxiv.org
Intracellular ribonucleases (RNases) are essential in all aspects of RNA metabolism, including maintaining accurate RNA levels. Inherited mutations in genes encoding ubiquitous RNases are associated...
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F31 NOA alert! 🚨 While in lab meeting this morning, @ninabarr95’s F31 NOA came in!! What a wonderful way to start the week! Congratulations, Nina! So well deserved. Nina is generating human cerebellar organoids to study RNA exosome-linked Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Type 1B! 🧠
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🚨🚨 NRSA F31 NOA Day! Congratulations, @bioEmilyA!! Well deserved!! Now off to studying the role of the RNA exosome during human motor neuron differentiation! 🧠 👩🏼🔬
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Important work by @USCDornsife neurobiologist Don Arnold introduces genetically engineered tools to eliminate synapses with molecular precision - could one day help guide therapies for conditions such as epilepsy, PTSD and addiction.
Now rewiring: the human brain. A groundbreaking tool by @USCDornsife selectively & reversibly breaks neural links, revealing new ways to treat PTSD, addiction, and epilepsy. 🧠
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Congratulations to @ninabarr95 and @LaurynHigginson on winning first and second place during the life sciences industry day poster contest! 🎊👩🏽🔬👩🏽🔬
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Congratulations, 2025 Sloan Fellows!
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. https://t.co/MO8q8eABH4
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Through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped move this country forward. As we honor his legacy today, let’s remember the lesson he taught us: that even in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can help change it.
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Nice full length story about one of the pioneering and inspiring scientists of our generation.
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🚨What a way to end the year! Congratulations @ninabarr95 on your awesome F31 score!!! 🎉 So well deserved! #RNAExosome #CerebellarOrganoids 🧠 Now all of my students have funding or fundable F31 scores! My computer is now closed for the holidays! This mentor is exhausted!🥱
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Together with @ASCBiology member Elaine Bearer, I am excited to lead a session on establishing grant writing courses for grad students- who should come? Students interested in this at their school, faculty who do this or want to- panelists speak to their experiences! @DMortonPhD
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Excited to return to my old stomping grounds @EmoryUniversity @EmoryMedicine to discuss my early career research @USC @USCDornsife @mcb_usc ! #RNAExosome 🪰🧠
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We're excited to share our comprehensive protocol for generating human cerebellar #organoids, addressing the many requests we've received from the scientific community! Congratulations to @AlexanderAtami1 , @MarcellaBirtele and Negar Hosseini! https://t.co/zs51HGGHP3
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Wishing everyone a joyous and happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 👨🏾🍳 🍽️
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Enjoyed being with family today. ❤️Avoiding all news! 🫥
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