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Taking home the hardware

4/1/2023

Josephine, Sumin, Sami, Ripley and Doria took part in the 2023 Twinkie 5K at Gallup Park, benefitting Active Against ALS. Not only did Ripley earn his first award at his first 5K, but Josephine also received an age-group award! Congrats everyone!

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Packing the Packard

3/2/2023

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Representation at the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research Annual Meeting was strong. From left: Nico Gomez, Megan Dykstra, some random old guy, and Josephine Wu.

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The Marvelous Mrs. Matrin3

3/2/2023

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Ahmed's and Josephine's paper was just accepted!!

Congrats to Ahmed, Josephine and all coauthors! This was a joint effort with Vikram Shakkottai (now at UTSW), demonstrating a molecular mechanism for MATR3 regulation in response to neuronal activity.

Bonus points for recognizing the previous lab member in the pic

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it's a mad mad m6A world

2/24/2023

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Mike and Nico's paper was featured today in a Michigan Medicine Health lab article - see link below.

RNA modification ‘pivotal’ for protein linked to neurodegeneration in ALS

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the center of the universe

12/19/2022

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Congrats to Mike and Nico -- their paper "RNA methylation influences TDP43 binding and disease pathogenesis in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia" was just accepted at Molecular Cell!

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ASCBing

12/7/2022

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A good showing at a fantastic conference! Josephine talked on MATR3, Sumin spoke on nuclear pore dynamics, Genesis presented on VPS13A, and Sami talked about MTMR5.

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PFDIng

11/1/2022

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We came packing to the 9th annual symposium of the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative. Megan, Josephine, Genesis, Aditya, Corey, Raquel and Anika all presented posters.

Quantity AND quality.

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Current (biology) events

5/18/2022

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Congratulations to Jason and Christina on the birth of their daughter, Evelyn Alice Chua!

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Staying current with MTMR5

3/11/2022

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Jason's paper on MTMR5 and neuronal autophagy was just accepted at Current Biology — congrats Jason!!

Sadly, they don't accept memes as graphical abstracts.

Check out the final version via ScienceDirect (until July 5th).

Chua et al. 2022