Siavash Kurdistani
@VashKurdistani
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Scientist, Chromatin biology, Chair @BC_UCLA, Weekends spent playing soccer, wistfully staring at the unread pile of New Yorkers, taking out trash. Tweets mine.
Los Angeles
Joined June 2020
Ever wondered what the lonely histone H3C110 does? We found that it’s lost in many fungi. Adding it back boosts histone H3 copper reductase activity, rescues iron defects and modulates lifespan, suggesting an evolutionary tradeoff between these effects.
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RT @UCLA: The first internet message was sent from UCLA in 1969. It crashed after the second letter. We were trying to type “login.”.
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RT @ASBMB: Since ChatGPT’s initial release, educators have been increasingly embracing & incorporating artificial intelligence into their c….
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New paper out! We show amino acid restriction triggers genome-wide H4K20me1 loss and MYC activation—priming cells for rapid protein synthesis upon refeeding. A chromatin-based strategy for surviving nutrient stress with implications for MYC-driven cancers.
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RT @ASBMB: President Trump’s FY2026 budget proposes devastating cuts to NIH & NSF budgets, which will threaten the future of American scien….
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If you’ve ever struggled making a creamy Cacio e Pepe sauce, science is here to help you!
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Congratulations to Ali Shilatifard @ShilatifardLab and Jerry Workman! Well deserved honors 🍾🎉👏👏.
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 30 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy! 🎊
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Learn about the remarkable life and career of Sabeeha Merchant, an incredible scientist who was my biochem teacher as an undergrad and is now an invaluable mentor and collaborator.
Sabeeha wrote about the history of her research in this article, take a look!.
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RT @chaperones4life: NMR-Based Measurements of Site-Specific Electrostatic Potentials of Histone Tails in Nucleosome Core Particles | Journ….
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Huge thanks to the amazing team and collaborators @jencheng625, Brenna McCauley and @dweiwei, Nedas Matulionis and @hchristofk, Maria Vogelauer, Dimitrios Camacho, and especially @dinokaryon for the beautiful evolutionary analysis.
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RT @NIAIDNews: 📢 NIH BioArt Source, a free science and biomedical art resource library, offers an array of high-quality illustrations, vect….
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RT @BC_UCLA: Beautiful shots of the recent blood moon (lunar eclipse) glowing over our building—courtesy of Vijaya Pandey and Adarsh Mayank….
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RT @BC_UCLA: On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the incredible contributions of our women faculty. Their discoveries push the bound….
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RT @TomoKujira: Super excited to share our work on the chromatin-associated oncoprotein DEK published in @NatureSMB!!😆 We found DEK as a nu….
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RT @naxerova: You are never too senior to work hard & get yourself a nice first author Science paper! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
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