Michael S. Breen
@breenPsychGene
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Associate Professor - Genetics & Genomics, RNA biology & therapeutics, A-to-I editing, brain aging & disease, neurodevelopment, rare disorders. Mentor | he/him
New York, NY
Joined August 2016
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] https://t.co/4siujZbXxF 1/n
openrxiv.org
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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🎉bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our community-centered mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. 🧵
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As the public's relationship with cannabis changes, so should national policy. Again, we call on public health officials to do more to educate the public on the potential harms of cannabis use, especially on the brain 🧠 Read about my work and the @theNASEM's report 👇🏾
Dr. Yasmin Hurd's research focuses on the impact of cannabis on neurodevelopment, especially among those at risk of substance use disorder. Now, w/ increasing potency & little regulatory oversight, her work plays a key role in a call for better education. https://t.co/QHqUgGfeE3
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It’s approaching. Join us in person. Henry Kunkel Society Meeting on "Genes & Immunity" in Belgrade, Serbia from April 10-12, 2025. https://t.co/Y9EZEiS209
#HKS2025 #Immunology 🧬🔬
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Grad students work hard, but claiming 80+ hours/week as the norm grossly misrepresents reality and risks normalizing burnout. For those applying to PhD programs: don’t be discouraged—successful research doesn’t require sacrificing your health or life outside the lab.
There are too many bio PhD positions. Few of these graduates are able to obtain a PI position. Universities only train so many because they are cheap labor who will work 80 plus hours a week for 60 grand.
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Dr. Yasmin Hurd @neurovoice, Director of the Addiction Institute @icahnmountsinai, speaks about the risks involved w/ Cannabis use and the need for parents to have open conversations w/ their children...the sooner the better. @MountSinaiPsych
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No joke - I must have hard coded every example from that book at least five times when I was learning - spent countless hours/days/nights. Now all you gotta do is ask #ChatGPT….
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No shade to Andersen.Paak (nothing but hits), but Perl programmers have been belting out Hello, World! since the ‘90s if not earlier. #Coding #Bioinformatics
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A quiet moment on the floor. Sunset is a beauty. That is all.
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Survivorship bias skews our perception of success—many who worked just as hard never made it. While effort and skill are essential, randomness plays a role. The lesson? Control what you can: cultivate expertise, adapt, and persist.
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🌍 Calling all early-career RNA researchers! Join us in Lucca, Italy, March 15-16, 2025, for the RNA Editing Gordon Research Seminar (GRS)! 📅 #EarlyCareerScientists #RNAediting #RNAmodifications @RNASociety @GordonConf @jrRNAscientists
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What an end to the year! Our work is out in @NAR_Open! 🎉 We mapped #interactomes of both #ADAR1 isoforms during homeostasis & #interferon response. Thanks to the members of MOC group (@cheriyanna) at @CEITEC_Brno and collaborators from @Varjosalo_Lab! 🔗 https://t.co/QeK2mOxSGB
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A short in memoriam for our beloved Daniele. Missing him every day. Thank you @BiophysicalSoc for giving me the chance to remember him. https://t.co/Pgpe72YPxO
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Daniele Di Marino (1982–2024) was an Italian molecular and computational biologist who dedicated his career to studying the relationship between protein structure and function with...
It is with a broken heart that I share the news of the sudden passing of my dear friend and collaborator Daniele Di Marino, PI of @mollab_univpm. Daniele was a brilliant mind, a force of nature, and a generous heart. I will miss him enormously. Ciao Dani ❤️
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Congratulations to Shervin Razavi @razavi_shervin , MD PhD candidate from Dr. Jon Hess' lab on an excellent poster presentation at last week's ASHG conference in Denver!😃Exciting discussions with Dr. Michael Breen! @breenPsychGene @CDNeurogenomics @InnovateUpstate @UpstateNews
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#ADAR and #RNAediting in brain organoids (as neural specific) and teratomas (as pan-tissue) developmental models.
Charting and probing the activity of ADARs in human development and cell-fate specification
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BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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#RNAClub2024 officially began today at @CEITEC_Brno @MasarykUni 🧬 The first block of lectures on Translation is now underway. Let’s explore the latest breakthroughs in RNA research! #GeneExpression #RNAEditing #TranslationalControl #MolecularBiology #RNA
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Our recent work with @SeaverAutism evaluating peripheral transcriptomic effects of #ketamine in children with #ADNP syndrome. @MountSinaiPsych @SinaiGenetics @SinaiBrain
https://t.co/LPdh7F1cvE
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Translational Psychiatry - Transient peripheral blood transcriptomic response to ketamine treatment in children with ADNP syndrome
New study from the #SeaverTeam! Ketamine significantly alters gene expression, especially in immune and inflammatory genes, shedding light on its therapeutic effects on the peripheral immune system. #autism #ADNP
https://t.co/TLQlwhB7P5
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New study from the #SeaverTeam! Ketamine significantly alters gene expression, especially in immune and inflammatory genes, shedding light on its therapeutic effects on the peripheral immune system. #autism #ADNP
https://t.co/TLQlwhB7P5
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Welcome Aydan Ferrao, our summer intern and new resident pianist! If you can play Chopin in Carnegie Hall as a high school student, you can learn to code. Glad to have you on the team.📈 🎹💻 @SinaiGenetics @MountSinaiPsych @IcahnMountSinai
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