I’m very excited to share that our findings on the surprising activity of the retrotransposon R2 in rDNA maintenance in flies is now published in @PNASNews! This work indicates a mutualistic relationship between this TE and its host genome! https://t.co/dEeKuRW8cU

This project is funded by a Junior Faculty Grant I recently received from the American Federation for Aging Research. Help me spend money and we can do cool science! https://t.co/787PSNpmOj

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 The Nelson Lab is hiring a postdoc! We are looking for someone to start up a new project studying rDNA instability and aging in the fly. Share this post, and use this link to apply! https://t.co/yhQ70u2jvY

A huge congratulations to our outstanding faculty members celebrated at this year's Investiture Ceremony at Stony Brook University! Their newly endowed positions highlight their commitment to excellence and our generous donors who make this recognition possible.

Excited to share a new preprint! (1)🔬The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear condensate, with a fascinating multilayered liquid-like structure, and is the site of ribosome biogenesis. But how does this multiphase architecture form and function? https://t.co/xKP9tGFFlQ

Heterochromatin (HC) is a highly conserved nuclear domain that plays critical functions in genome stability across eukaryotes. Yet, our recent study in @MolBioEvol finds the underlying protein component of HC to be rapidly evolving! (1/5) https://t.co/aQbIcWwGcf

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat, 1884-86

Since when did the @flystocks site have flies crawling around it?!?

New preprint from our lab 🚨 We explored the variability in ribosomal DNA copy number and activity across humans of the world with @GertonJennifer @PaxtonKostos @AndresGuarahino @stevenjsolar @erikgarrison @aphillippy and others not on X https://t.co/ejjgFDgIAR 🧵

My wife found this drawing of our family at my daughter's open house last night. She included a fruit fly next to me 😅

Only two weeks left to apply for our department's two faculty positions in biochemistry or structural biology! Come join our diverse, engaging, and growing department at Stony Brook University! https://t.co/oibLloRiBU

Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs https://t.co/Omo6Wrq3j4 @NaturePlants

The Nelson Lab celebrated our 1st birthday today! It's been a year of lots of change and growth. I'm excited about our team and look forward to seeing all that we accomplish in year 2!

If you’re choosing a research group to join, pay just as much - if not more - attention to the culture and mentoring style in the group than the research. You can succeed in lots of research areas or projects, but it’s tough to succeed in an unsupportive environment.

Congratulations to the lab's three summer undergraduates on their wonderful research presentations today! It was a joy working with Hunter, Angel, and Zarah this summer, and I look forward to seeing more awesome science from them in the future!

Amazing opportunity to join the faculty of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology @LauferCenter @stonybrooku apply here by Sept 30: https://t.co/HRdKKdPnlL

Are you a structural biologist on the job market? Our department is hiring TWO Assistant Professors this year! Learn more about the department on our website. Applications due October 1st. https://t.co/oibLloRQrs

1/9 We show that Human ribosomes have different rRNA sequences, predominantly indels. These include abundant variants such as GGC indels, which form different structures. We visualize variants in single cells and associate them with development and cancer. https://t.co/J9jP2ISxsK

Penn's Department of Genetics has several new tenure-track assistant professor openings. Please help spread the word! https://t.co/I4Ljo9WYu2

When p = 0.051