Tiny update: Yes. It's a stupid gym photo. But I've worked very hard, lost over 30 pounds in the last year, lifted a lot, ran a lot, and now I can do 10+ (weighted) pull-ups in a session now. So ... please clap.

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It took 14 months, but I’m incredibly excited to share that my NIMH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) has officially been funded!

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Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

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What a blast this ISSCR meeting was! Got to meet a ton of new people, spread the word of our TDP-43 organoid screen, and got interest from AD, PD, and ALS/FTD groups. Turns out TDP-43 is central to a ton of neurodegenerative diseases! Onwards and upwards!

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New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵

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