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 🪰🧠 🧵
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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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RT @jbprime: Important work by @USCDornsife neurobiologist Don Arnold introduces genetically engineered tools to eliminate synapses with mo….
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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.
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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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RT @IshmailSaboor: 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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RT @acorbe2: Together with @ASCBiology member Elaine Bearer, I am excited to lead a session on establishing grant writing courses for grad….
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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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RT @GiorgiaQuadrato: We're excited to share our comprehensive protocol for generating human cerebellar #organoids, addressing the many requ….
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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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Some much needed good news! @bioEmilyA, grad student in my lab, received a great score (within the payline) on her NRSA F31!!! Congratulations, Emily! 🎊🎊🎊 @NIH_NINDS #RNAExosome #hiPSC-derived Motor Neurons #NeurologicalDisease 🧠
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