Dr. Maria C. Sterrett, PhD
@MariaCSterrett
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PhD Candidate @EmoryUniversity #GDBBS | #RNA Biologist | Passionate about enhancing #STEMEducation through creative science
Joined April 2021
Extremely excited to announce that I earned a new title today- Dr. 🎉! Thank you to my wonderful mentor @acorbe2 Thank you to my amazing lab 🧬 Thank you to my extraordinary graduate community @EmoryBCDB 🔬 Couldn't have done it without the support & love of all these people!
Big day for the Corbett Lab! Dr. Maria Sterrett presents her public presentation in support of her thesis work! Student #26 from the lab, but they are all special. In Maria’s case, we share a passion for teaching and mentoring that has made this experience special! @EmoryBCDB
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Impressive work led by the amazing @LaurynHigginson in the @DMortonPhD lab that checks all the boxes🤩 ✅Cell specific transcriptomic changes from #disease mutations in the RNA exosome 🧠 ✅Cool #RNA sequencing techniques 🔎 ✅ #Drosophila model organism biology 🪰 Check it out!
🚨 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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I'm excited to announce a new collaboration with Dr. @KafuiDzirasa! If you are a molecular/cellular biologist with experience working with human stem cells and are interested in living in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, please apply! Ad attached! 🧠
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ITS OUT! Our latest paper on our amazing RNA structure drawing program #RNAcanvas is out in NAR Web Server issue! If you work on #RNA you should really check this out. Huge shout out to Graduate Student Philip Johnson who deserves (almost) all the credit https://t.co/N75sEaa66d
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The local Atlanta newspaper- AJC picked up on @IMSDEmory student @h_nurelegne and her cool story! @emorycollege @SpangleLab @NIH
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When 9-year-old Hasset Nurelegne moved from Ethiopia to join her parents in the U.S., her mother would come home from her housekeeping job at the National Institutes of Health recounting in awe the...
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Thank you @MiloFasken for all the mentorship, friendship and for being an overall "fun-gi" to work with over the years 😆
Congratulations, Dr. Maria Sterrett! 😊🎓🎉🍾@MariaCSterrett Wonderful Ph.D. Defense! Pleasure to have followed your scientific journey in the last few years and worked together on the #RNAExosome (Pacman) and #RNAProcessing in #BuddingYeast
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Congratulations to the Fall 2022 DeLill Nasser Awardees! Read more about the winners on Genes to Genomes: https://t.co/tktFm6EuWW
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We are excited to welcome five new editors to the GENETICS and G3 editorial boards. Learn more about them on Genes to Genomes:
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Several new editors are joining the GSA Journals. We’re excited to welcome Ricardo Zayas to the GENETICS editorial board under the Molecular Genetics of Development section, and on the G3: Genes|Ge...
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This project means so much to me as it represents the intersection between #mentorship, #RNAbiology and #STEMeducation across undergraduate and graduate programs! 😍 (3/3)
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This project idea originally came from a conversation after I presented work in @EmoryBCDB grad student seminar and much of the data was collected by a mentee for her @emorycollege student honors thesis! (2/3)
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Extremely proud of my newest publication! Check out our study assessing a #cancer mutation in the #RNAexosome. Using #yeast we assessed how the disease-linked changes impact a highly conserved interaction of the complex! 🧬🧬🧬 (1/3)
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This study uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae to model a missense mutation in the RNA exosome gene EXOSC2, which was identified in a patient with multiple myelo
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I’m honored to have been named the @EmoryBCDB Program Scholar of the Year last night! I’m so grateful to be part of such a supportive graduate program 🥰 @laneygradschool @EmoryUniversity #WomenInSTEM
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I wrote an article for Science ATL to highlight the achievements of John Cornforth - just one of the many deaf scientist who has made incredible contributions to their field!
In honor of #DeafAwarenessMonth, we're shining the spotlight on an incredible deaf scientist: John Cornforth. Learn how his pivotal research in stereochemistry lead to a Nobel Prize in 1975 and helped pave the way for modern medicine!
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New review on CRISPR therapies by me and Jennifer Doudna. Written for gen med & students to explain how CRISPR works, new tools, current trials. We hope it inspires young docs & new therapies! @doudna_lab @igisci @ucsf @JAMANetwork #medtwitter
https://t.co/PAFsNOniQZ
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This Genomics and Precision Health article explains the use of CRISPR genome editing in the treatment and prevention of disease.
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Undergrads & new grad students - NOW is the time to start thinking about applying for the @nsf GRFP! A thread of advice I've accumulated on how to write a successful application...🧵 #AcademicChatter #phdchat #NSFfunded #STEM #scicomm #sciencetwitter #NSFGRFP 1/20
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❤️ So grateful for our @EmoryBCDB community!
Really meaningful session at the @EmoryBCDB retreat talking about “what you cannot tell about me just by looking at me”- reminds us not to make assumptions about one another and also to find more shared life experiences. ❤️our program where everyone feels comfortable sharing ❤️
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Had such a good time at @GeneticsGSA #Yeast22 conference, which included presenting my first talk at an international conference! Thankful to the amazing #yeast community and @GeneticsGSA for letting me talk all things #RNAexosome in sunny LA ☀️
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This thread contains three winning samples of statement of purpose. One from a student who got into a PhD program at Harvard. I also included a pdf stating the do's and dont's of SOP writing. I hope you find it helpful. I'll let you know when I find more. Retweet.
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So enjoyed Dr. Maya Schuldiner's Ira Herskowitz award speech today at @GeneticsGSA #yeast22 that reminded me of how truly 🌟awesome🌟 #yeast is as a model system, not just for it's powerful #genetics but it's amazing #research community ☺️
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Hey #Yeast22! Are you coming to the DEI Session at 1:30 pm today? While you hear from @TheTracyLab, @thesilvalab, @jlsteenwyk, @novalesnoelle, and @dan_pollard_lab on improving inclusion in the sciences, you can write down your equity-promoting ideas in a sweet GSA notebook.
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