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@Raf_Nic

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🇪🇺🇮🇹 Yeast, Spice, and Everything Nice. Associate Professor at the University of Limerick. Opinions are my own, that's why they're bad.

Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪
Joined January 2012
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@Raf_Nic
Raffaele Nicastro
3 days
Just landed in Paris to attend once again my favourite conference, ICYGMB #yeast2025 . If you're around and want to chat about anything yeasty, don't be shy! Ah, also come to check out my poster on Tuesday!.
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@Raf_Nic
Raffaele Nicastro
2 months
Research conducted mainly at @unifrBiology in Claudio De Virgilio's lab, with @marco_cale and all the ones not on X. Thanks to contributors @BtBsUNIMIB and @aberdeenuni (@Hatakeyama_Lab).
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Raffaele Nicastro
2 months
🚨New paper alert📰.Out now on @CellReports: Tco89, an understudied TORC1 subunit in yeast, keeps upstream regulators and TORC1 together. Moreover, TORC1 controls Tco89 stability -> Spatial regulation through multisite phosphorylation!.
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Raffaele Nicastro
4 months
RT @UL: Why we are no longer posting on X.#StudyatUL
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Raffaele Nicastro
4 months
RT @Hatakeyama_Lab: First paper from the lab. I'm proud of you, Kenji!.
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Raffaele Nicastro
4 months
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers used a custom-built imaging robot that took images continuously to track more than 500,000 fungal tips and….
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Raffaele Nicastro
4 months
So it begins. #teaching #academia
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Raffaele Nicastro
5 months
RT @eLife: The enzyme CDK5 is involved in changes to the circadian rhythm caused by exposure to light in the evening. .
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The enzyme CDK5 is involved in changes to the circadian rhythm caused by exposure to light in the evening.
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Raffaele Nicastro
6 months
Oh rly?
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Raffaele Nicastro
6 months
Following a mandatory Research Integrity course, I stumbled upon this definition of what's a predatory journal: "A predatory journal is any journal that prioritises profit over science and knowledge".#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
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Raffaele Nicastro
6 months
🚨 Job Alert🚨.The Department of Biological Sciences @BioSci_UL of the University of Limerick @UL is hiring! Associate Professor B position in Biomolecular Science, permanent position, deadline 14th of February.
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Posted 2:43:27 PM. Associate Professor B in Biomolecular Science With over 18,000 students and 2,000 members of staff,…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Raffaele Nicastro
7 months
Keyboard layouts are like Coldplay albums. They're many and make me scream in horror.
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Raffaele Nicastro
7 months
RT @BiancaSchrul: New grant approved! Hooray! Looking for a #PhDstudent with strong interest in membrane protein reconstitution, physicoche….
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Raffaele Nicastro
7 months
Excellent PhD opportunity, check this out ⬇️.
@Hatakeyama_Lab
Riko Hatakeyama
7 months
Looking for a PhD candidate! Contact me if you wish to investigate a cellular compartment that 1) is certainly important but 2) we know almost nothing about.
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Raffaele Nicastro
8 months
RT @OdedRechavi: "I'm keeping your post doc project, the only thing you're taking with you to your PI position is my letter of recommendati….
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Raffaele Nicastro
8 months
RT @OdedRechavi: My students convincing me to use google docs instead of word
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Raffaele Nicastro
9 months
RT @OdedRechavi: Pending editorial decision
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Raffaele Nicastro
9 months
RT @darshan: This neuroscientist worked until she was 103. She also:. • Won a Nobel Prize at 77.• Became a senator at 92.• Stayed mentally….
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Raffaele Nicastro
9 months
I'm a professor chairing a conference session. Of course I will be the first one to pose endless questions-which-are-not-questions to every single speaker, to then tell the audience that there is no time for further questions. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter.
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Raffaele Nicastro
10 months
RT @PinkPetri: There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that! . http….
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