Microbiology, evolution, antibiotic resistance, applied math, molecular biotech. Associate Professor @HarvardMed. Basic research is the engine of progress. 🦠🧬
Joined July 2008
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26 Oct 2019
@nquinoneso and @implosian made a logo for our lab and it's incredible. I can't get over it
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Incredible scenes from Fenway….the #TartanArmy has taken over
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I can get behind this entirely.
New Scotland is the best place to live in America
Jun 14
It's true. New England has been renamed to New Scotland and we have our official flag merging the flags of New England and Scotland together
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I'm hiring a research tech soon for my lab at Harvard Med, starting this fall. We'll work on designing microbes and proteins with New-to-Nature functions.
Ideal for a recent grad seeking hands-on research & opportunity to publish before PhD.
Job ad soon. RTs much appreciated!
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⚾ Oh Flower of 🏴
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Scotland’s Tartan Army has arrived at Fenway Park
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When you’ve got a promising future in academic administration
Ph.D. without an M.D. is fucking lame
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Looking for a postdoc? We are recruiting scientists who are finishing their PhD to study how metabolism shapes cancer progression, immunity, and therapeutic resistance. Recent highlight: our Nature paper on αKG tiny.cc/ur15101. Learn more at airdlab.com.
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Jun 14
unique late night 66 route through harvard square bypassing the busway
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Let me tell you bout my city!!! 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾
Jun 13
The Scots have joined the Haitian Parade in Boston and are dancing with Haiti flags. Boston is so alive.
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Jun 13
“Oh Balogun is just playing for the U.S. because he couldn’t make the England squad”…Folks, that is the entire promise of our nation.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
And then we’ll beat your ass with them.
Jun 13
THE FIRST MULTI-GOAL WORLD CUP GAME BY A USMNT PLAYER SINCE 1930 🤩
Have a night, Folarin Balogun 🔥
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World Cup visitors being wowed by ranch dressing and free soft drink refills makes me feel like world peace could be possible
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Jun 14
Haiti v Scotland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries occupy the smaller, mountainous part of a major island shared with a larger neighbour.
Haiti has western Hispaniola. Scotland has northern Great Britain.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
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I am excited to help organize #ICME2026. Join us to explore latest advances in this field!
Learn more at aiche.org/sbe/conferences/in…
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Jun 13
Time for a new business card!
Jun 13
ah, have you ever developed a drug? bullshit antibiotic resistance waste of time ass career
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Jun 13
ah, have you ever developed a drug? bullshit antibiotic resistance waste of time ass career
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Jun 13
Has there ever been a better time for this?
Jun 13
Brian, for the love of god, you cannot take a health database, click 'sort' and think that the top 5 drugs patients who survive longer happen to be taking are causal to the benefit those patients received. 500k is actually not a large cohort for a database, needs alpha correction, was very unlikely to be prespecified, etc. that's why no one is impressed with these studies and they're published in trash journals.
this study showed a slight increase in CV events with PDEs vs placebo
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1452…
the mechanistic rationale is not there and your explanation is terrible. ALL PDEs metabolize cAMP/cGMP, thats why they are phosphodiesterases. are you suggesting we should inhibit all PDEs?!
by the same logic we should all be taking ERAs too. why not ARBs and ACEs? screw it i'll take inhaled treprostinil too. might extend my life. then i'll run SQL queries on health databases until i see a 'signal', bonferroni may roll in his grave but i will be vasodilated.
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Jun 13
1 modular R01 in 1995:
- Buy latest equipment
- 7 postdocs
- 3 grad students
- Lab manager
- 2 technicians
- Tenure
- Cover good % salary
1 modular R01 in 2026:
- 1 postdoc
- Consumables
$1M in 1995:
- Buy forever home
- Raise 3 kids
- Stay at home spouse
- Retire early
$1M in 2026:
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