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Jan 8
Look out science twitter, @baym is starting his rotation in the lab and is already breaking things!
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Jan 6
🎉 New year, NEW PREPRINT!
Bacteria exhibit astonishing genetic diversity, but where do new genes come from?
My best friend Arya Kau (/labmate in the @baym lab) investigates how advantageous deletions can spawn new genes - "deletion-born fusions." 🧵:
Novel genes arise from genomic deletions across the bacterial tree of life biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_evobio
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Jan 6
Manuscript Code: github.com/baymlab/deletion-…
Prefix-Suffix Approach: github.com/aryakaul/prefixsu…
Many thanks to co-authors @fernpizza, @KarelBrinda & @baym GenScale/Baym lab! Funded by NIH, Packard, Pew, Sloan & @ChateaubriandUS
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Jan 6
Arya (my best friend) does not have social media, he asked me to tweet this for him. But if you want to chat about science (or offer him a job) you can contact him at arya.casa/contact. He’ll (probably) be defending soon!
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Kepler Mears retweeted
9 Dec 2025
Happy to share that I’m opening my lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science!
We’ll study systems-level regulation of bacterial defense, driven by RNA-protein interactions shaping cell fate.
Now recruiting PhD students & postdocs
tinyurl.com/4yfa55vd
Please reach out and share!
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8 Dec 2025
RT @sapinker: A new study on "Where Discovery Happens" found that with basic research in the life sciences, Harvard contributes more than…
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20 Nov 2025
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my colleague @fernpizza showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper just published in Science today!). Together with @baym, we now know how they can fight.
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21 Nov 2025
“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word”
-Andrew Jackson
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