I study floppy proteins and teach students who are incarcerated | mattryanking.com
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16 Jan 2020
Floppy protein phase separates to make microtubules grow off each other super efficiently. (Shameless self promotion 🙃) nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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12 Sep 2024
Congratulations to @DanaFarber's Cigall Kadoch, PhD, (@CKadoch) who was named as the Laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists today. The prestigious award from @BlavatnikAwards and @NYASciences (cont) ms.spr.ly/l/6014mOVe0
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8 Feb 2024
Congratulations to Avnika Pant on receiving a scholarship & invitation to attend the @MBLScience Physiology program this summer!
This selective and intensive program is one of the oldest continually running biology courses.
Avnika is a doctoral student with @PappulabWashU.
ALT WashU BME doctoral student Avnika Pant.
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14 Dec 2023
🔥🔥How does the LINE-1 retrotransposon jump around in the human genome? Super excited to present my postdoctoral work answering this published today @Nature
together with twitterless Kathy Collins's lab and @NogalesLab @UCBerkeley
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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1 May 2023
Congrats to @sophiembtravis and team from @RuiZhangWUSTL and @LabPetry on the augmin structure! Also congrats to @PfefferCryoLab and @lchangpurduebio for their structural work!
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Have you wondered how a decades-old oocyte can give rise to a new embryo while other cells in the body age? Our study @Nature, spearheaded by @AidaRoNu, uncovers the mechanism that allows early #oocytes to maintain ROS-free #mitochondria nature.com/articles/s41586-0…🧵
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15 Sep 2021
Happy to present a new preprint from @MarileenD’s lab, in which we ask if a microtubule plus-end tracking comet is held together by interactions that also drive phase separation. The answer is not a clear ‘yes’ or ‘no’, so here goes the 🧵1/10
15 Sep 2021
Multivalent interactions facilitate motor-dependent protein accumulation at growing microtubule plus ends biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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5 Mar 2021
You Were Duped Into Saying Yes. Is That Still Consent? nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opini…
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1 Mar 2021
At some point you have to admit that doing things ironically can have very straightforward consequences. #FakeAccountsClub @laurenoyler
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28 Feb 2021
Why am I "the only person who can see the true essence of this book?" Any thoughts @laurenoyler?
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29 Jan 2021
Beautiful work officially out by @SagarSetru, Bernardo deGouveia, Josh @shaevitz and Howard Stone - a tri-departmental @Princeton collaboration. What do drops on spiderwebs and protein droplets on microtubules have in common? #PhaseSeparation on Cellular Surfaces
28 Jan 2021
A hydrodynamic instability drives protein droplet formation on microtubules to nucleate branches go.nature.com/39oh79J
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7 Oct 2020
My kitties - Jenny and Emmy - couldn’t be prouder of their namesakes’ - Jennifer @doudna_lab and Emmanuelle #NobelPrize #CRISPR
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4 Apr 2020
Frogs rule!
4 Apr 2020
Xenobots are programmable organisms made from the cells of frog embryos -- golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh. Should bioethicists be concerned? nyti.ms/2wcjDyY
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21 Mar 2020
Once again: DO NOT TRACK THE NUMBER OF CASES. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO INCREASE AS TESTING COMES ONLINE.
Instead, track the number of deaths per day. If the "doubling time" of these slows to more than 3 days, we're starting to bend the curve.
thread: x.com/SamWangPhD/status/1241…
21 Mar 2020
Bookmark this. When the doubling time of deaths* gets above 3 days, we will have begun to get past the runaway period of the pandemic.
Note the current doubling times for China (35 days) & South Korea (12 days).
*not cases, which can be underdiagnosed ourworldindata.org/coronavir…
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16 Mar 2020
As promised, here is our first glimpse of the #COVID19 spike protein (aka the demogorgon) in action, courtesy of @foldingathome . More to come!
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2 Mar 2020
So thrilled and honored to receive the Harold Weintraub Award for my graduate research! @WeintraubAward @fredhutch
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4 Feb 2020
Non-spherical coacervates are cool! I was wondering when this would be coming out. Congrats @luiree and Kasper!
2 Feb 2020
PNPase mediated UDP Polymerization leads to non-isotropic Poly(U) * Spermine Coacervate Growth.
High phosphate levels drive Poly(U) Depolymerization & Coacervate Dissolution.
By @luiree & @MarileenD.
Now in Langmuir:
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
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7 Feb 2020
In a paper just published Rohit Pappu’s and my lab show that the number of stickers and their patterning determine LLPS of prion-like LCDs. Our findings lead to a numerical model that enables the prediction of full binodals from the sequence. science.sciencemag.org/conte… (1/15)
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10 Feb 2020
Come explore the Physics of Life. A summer school for advanced undergraduates. We have space for 24 students, with all local expenses covered and no tuition or fees. biophysics.princeton.edu/edu…
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