Will Tu
@willtu2
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Scientist @altos_labs | Formerly @PlathLab @UCLA and @UofT | Science and Occasional Mischief
Joined May 2011
So excited to share the first work from our lab. Led by @StevePilley with help from lots of amazing collaborators. A special shout out to @LyssiotisLab and @BKennedy_aging and their labs!
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Check out our review published in @Dev_journal
Nutrient regulation of development and cell fate decisions In this #DevSImetabolism Review, @willtu2 @ChristofkLab & @PlathLab @UCLA highlight recent mechanistic insights into how diets and specific nutrients impact development and cell fate decisions: https://t.co/LajDMegIFJ
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Asian scientists are underrepresented in top US biomedical research prizes, analysis finds. While Asian researchers comprise roughly 20% of the field, over 90% of research prizes go to white recipients. Commentary in @cellcellpress: https://t.co/NZJ2mb3tvn
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Awesome work @YolandaMarkaki et al! Congrats!
Excited to share our latest publication out @CellCellPress where we explore how Xist nucleates local protein gradients to propagate gene silencing during X chromosome inactivation. 1/15 https://t.co/Vb76VV443N 🧫🧬🔬🧵
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Excited to share our latest publication out @CellCellPress where we explore how Xist nucleates local protein gradients to propagate gene silencing during X chromosome inactivation. 1/15 https://t.co/Vb76VV443N 🧫🧬🔬🧵
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Instead of spreading across an X chromosome to inactivate it, Xist nucleates dynamic protein complexes, allowing protein expansion across the X to induce higher-order chromatin changes and gene...
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Thanks for featuring our work! @KeystoneSymp @NYASciences
Check out @willtu2’s talk highlights and other great talks at @KeystoneSymp Metabolic Decisions in Development and Disease in the Annals of @NYASciences!
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Hey mTOR fans! Did you know rapalogues may be useful as SARS-CoV-2 antivirals? Check out our new paper published in @NatureComms from the one and only @PeteMullen and our fantastic UCLA collaborators -HRC
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Excited to give a talk at @KeystoneSymp Metabolic Decisions in Development & Disease tomorrow! Looking forward to hearing some great science too. #VKSMetaDisease21
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Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president: He is the nation’s best hope to begin to repair damage to science and the truth — by virtue of his policies and his leadership record in office, as a former vice-president and as a senator.
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Our most recent story is online in Nature! We show that: - PTBP1, MATR3, TDP-43 and CELF1 assemble on E-repeat of the lncRNA Xist to form a condensate in the Xi - The condensate is required for gene silencing and anchoring of Xist to Xi territory 1/5 https://t.co/JhKEVsA9wJ
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Reported coronavirus deaths yesterday: • France: 0 • United Kingdom: 0 • Canada: 4 • Germany: 6 • Italy: 6 • United States: 1,450 https://t.co/ZqucXYl6sT
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Question for Twitter. Why didn’t academia take the lead on Covid information? Why didn’t schools of med & public health across the US band together, put forth their experienced scientists in epidemiology, virology, emergency & critical care, pandemic and disaster response...
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Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87% undetected cases), estimated the chance of resurgence(1/n) https://t.co/wpsGyqNzkB
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Nature - Analysis of the full-spectrum transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan reveals that multipronged non-pharmaceutical interventions were effective in controlling the outbreak, and...
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Can’t believe LA is shutting down again. We did everything wrong and everything still went wrong
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