Associate Professor - Genetics & Genomics, RNA biology & therapeutics, A-to-I editing, brain aging & disease, neurodevelopment, rare disorders. Mentor | he/him
Joined August 2016
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
11 Mar 2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
11 Mar 2025
🎉bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our community-centered mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. 🧵
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
28 Feb 2025
As the public's relationship with cannabis changes, so should national policy. Again, we call on public health officials to do more to educate the public on the potential harms of cannabis use, especially on the brain 🧠
Read about my work and the @theNASEM's report 👇🏾
18 Feb 2025
Dr. Yasmin Hurd's research focuses on the impact of cannabis on neurodevelopment, especially among those at risk of substance use disorder. Now, w/ increasing potency & little regulatory oversight, her work plays a key role in a call for better education. reports.mountsinai.org/artic…
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
27 Feb 2025
It’s approaching. Join us in person. Henry Kunkel Society Meeting on "Genes & Immunity" in Belgrade, Serbia from April 10-12, 2025. henrykunkelsociety.org/meeti…
#HKS2025 #Immunology 🧬🔬
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24 Feb 2025
Grad students work hard, but claiming 80 hours/week as the norm grossly misrepresents reality and risks normalizing burnout. For those applying to PhD programs: don’t be discouraged—successful research doesn’t require sacrificing your health or life outside the lab.
23 Feb 2025
There are too many bio PhD positions. Few of these graduates are able to obtain a PI position. Universities only train so many because they are cheap labor who will work 80 plus hours a week for 60 grand.
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Dr. Yasmin Hurd @neurovoice, Director of the Addiction Institute @icahnmountsinai, speaks about the risks involved w/ Cannabis use and the need for parents to have open conversations w/ their children...the sooner the better. @MountSinaiPsych
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10 Feb 2025
No shade to Andersen.Paak (nothing but hits), but Perl programmers have been belting out Hello, World! since the ‘90s if not earlier. #Coding #Bioinformatics
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10 Feb 2025
No joke - I must have hard coded every example from that book at least five times when I was learning - spent countless hours/days/nights. Now all you gotta do is ask #ChatGPT….
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28 Jan 2025
A quiet moment on the floor. Sunset is a beauty. That is all.
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23 Jan 2025
Survivorship bias skews our perception of success—many who worked just as hard never made it. While effort and skill are essential, randomness plays a role. The lesson? Control what you can: cultivate expertise, adapt, and persist.
23 Jan 2025
More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24… @PNASNews -> nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #ScienceCareer
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
2 Dec 2024
🌍 Calling all early-career RNA researchers! Join us in Lucca, Italy, March 15-16, 2025, for the RNA Editing Gordon Research Seminar (GRS)! 📅 #EarlyCareerScientists #RNAediting #RNAmodifications @RNASociety @GordonConf @jrRNAscientists
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
5 Dec 2024
What an end to the year! Our work is out in @NAR_Open! 🎉 We mapped #interactomes of both #ADAR1 isoforms during homeostasis & #interferon response.
Thanks to the members of MOC group (@cheriyanna) at @CEITEC_Brno and collaborators from @Varjosalo_Lab!
🔗academic.oup.com/nar/article…
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
3 Dec 2024
A short in memoriam for our beloved Daniele.
Missing him every day.
Thank you @BiophysicalSoc for giving me the chance to remember him.
biophysics.org/bps-bulletin/…
17 Jun 2024
It is with a broken heart that I share the news of the sudden passing of my dear friend and collaborator Daniele Di Marino, PI of @mollab_univpm.
Daniele was a brilliant mind, a force of nature, and a generous heart.
I will miss him enormously.
Ciao Dani ❤️
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Congratulations to Shervin Razavi @razavi_shervin , MD PhD candidate from Dr. Jon Hess' lab on an excellent poster presentation at last week's ASHG conference in Denver!😃Exciting discussions with Dr. Michael Breen! @breenPsychGene @CDNeurogenomics @InnovateUpstate @UpstateNews
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16 Nov 2024
#ADAR and #RNAediting in brain organoids (as neural specific) and teratomas (as pan-tissue) developmental models.
13 Nov 2024
Charting and probing the activity of ADARs in human development and cell-fate specification nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
7 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
19 Sep 2024
#RNAClub2024 officially began today at @CEITEC_Brno @MasarykUni 🧬 The first block of lectures on Translation is now underway. Let’s explore the latest breakthroughs in RNA research!
#GeneExpression #RNAEditing #TranslationalControl #MolecularBiology #RNA
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25 Jul 2024
Our recent work with @SeaverAutism evaluating peripheral transcriptomic effects of #ketamine in children with #ADNP syndrome. @MountSinaiPsych @SinaiGenetics @SinaiBrain
nature.com/articles/s41398-0…
25 Jul 2024
New study from the #SeaverTeam! Ketamine significantly alters gene expression, especially in immune and inflammatory genes, shedding light on its therapeutic effects on the peripheral immune system. #autism #ADNP
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Michael S. Breen retweeted
25 Jul 2024
New study from the #SeaverTeam! Ketamine significantly alters gene expression, especially in immune and inflammatory genes, shedding light on its therapeutic effects on the peripheral immune system. #autism #ADNP
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24 Jul 2024
Welcome Aydan Ferrao, our summer intern and new resident pianist! If you can play Chopin in Carnegie Hall as a high school student, you can learn to code. Glad to have you on the team.📈 🎹💻 @SinaiGenetics @MountSinaiPsych @IcahnMountSinai
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