Zac Bush
@thelearningbush
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PhD Student at the University of Oregon - Obsessed with chromosomes, coffee, and listening to that one song on repeat until I hate it
The Nucleus
Joined January 2018
A composite image from this morning's eclipse showing the moon in various stages throughout the night. The size and shape of Earth's shadow is clearly visible here. These events are absolutely magical to witness and quite surreal.
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Our latest paper is out in @PLOSGenetics! It's about the effects of aging and sperm exposure on DNA break formation and repair in oocytes. Beautiful work by both grad student @EToraason and tech @VikkiLeeAdler! 🧬🔬🪱#celegans #meiosis4eva
https://t.co/ZYfEcOOyAo
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UO chemist gets grant to study more RNA strands at once
news.uoregon.edu
Partnering with a biotech firm will let Julia Widom better study how the molecules change
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The final work from my PhD was just published today! After mapping genes to a new assembly with Liftoff, the next question is always how do the genes differ in the new assembly? LiftoffTools automates the comparison of gene sequences, copy number and synteny.
@alaina_shumate has augmented her terrific Liftoff annotation program ( https://t.co/nNlI6YhH0R) with a nice set of analysis tools, just out today on @F1000Research
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🏁💪💪🏁🏁NUCLEOTIDE RESOLUTION CROSSING-OVER DETECTION METHOD and CO DESIGNATION MECHANISM in our new Preprint🏁🏁💪💪🏁 https://t.co/ZDXUc9imTS
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In most crops, including maize, meiotic double-strand breaks (DSBs) occur in all chromosome regions but crossovers (COs) are predominantly near chromosome ends. To understand how the uniform DSB...
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Propagation of hybrids through seeds. The efficiency obtained with a single magic bullet construct (MiMe+ BBM1) is stunning. 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 https://t.co/laAVt3e5tv
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Introducing asexual reproduction through seeds – apomixis – into crop species could revolutionize agriculture by allowing F1 hybrids with enhanced yield and stability to be clonally propagated....
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Huge congrats to phenomenal postdoc Cori who got a K99 on her first submission! Thank you @NICHD_NIH for recognizing and funding this outstanding scientist! 🎉🍾🧬🔬
Sooo happy to share that I have been awarded a K99/R00 by @NICHD_NIH! A HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped me reach this point from lab mates and colleagues to my amazing mentors @smburgessucd, Scott Hawley, and @DianaLibuda. One step closer to starting the Cahoon lab 🤩🥳
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Sooo happy to share that I have been awarded a K99/R00 by @NICHD_NIH! A HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped me reach this point from lab mates and colleagues to my amazing mentors @smburgessucd, Scott Hawley, and @DianaLibuda. One step closer to starting the Cahoon lab 🤩🥳
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB
Greene: For our government just to say ok your debt is completely forgiven.. it’s completely unfair
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Postdoc Alice Naftaly got a job! She starts a visiting assistant professor position at Pacific University next week! We celebrated her last day with peach cheesecake, pizza, and pink champagne. Congrats Alice!
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