Peter K Todd MD/PhD Lab @Umich. We study how short tandem repeats impact neuronal function and human disease. Ataxia, ALS/FTD, Fragile X/FXTAS, CANVAS.
Joined April 2018
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11 Feb 2025
It took a near-collapse of our research infrastructure and a constitutional crisis to make it happen, but we are moving our former Twitter activities to Bluesky. Looking forward to a happier scientific discussion in this new space:
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AANs across the journey—from student to research fellow to intern…#aanam @AANmember #cerrahpasa #umich @realToddLab @VCU_IMRes @VCUNeuro
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4 Nov 2025
🗣📢REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 10th Annual RNA Symposium, March 6-7, 2026! 🧬RNA Frontiers: From Mechanisms to Medicine. Celebrate a decade of innovative RNA science and medicine @UMich. For more information, visit rna.umich.edu/events-navigat… @umichmedicine @realToddLab #UMichRNA
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4 Aug 2025
Ever wonder how intronic repeats in C9orf72 get translated into toxic proteins in ALS? We found that transcription initiates within the intron to generate novel endogenous mRNA templates for RAN translation in patient neurons and mouse models. 1/5 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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If the PNAS version of the article is behind a paywall for you, the preprint is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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This project was led by @sh4nnonmiller and @KatelynMGreen with help from @BoyleLab and @BarmadaLab and everyone in @realToddLab. Thanks to @NINDSfunding and @VAResearch for support!
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2 Aug 2025
Bummed I missed it this year!
1 Aug 2025
Happy AUG1 RNA Day! We celebrated it by many great discussions at the Gordon conference on #ALS in the beautiful Portland ME. Many thanks to @LuVaDeBo Christine Vande Velde @BarmadaLab Magda Polymenidou for organizing it! @FrattaLab @RueppLab @smslmoon
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18 May 2025
You deserve better. We all do.
16 May 2025
Harvard notified me today that this K99 grant is terminated.
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12 May 2025
Half of children died. A thread. 🧵
10 May 2025
How did humans survive for the last 100,000's years without vaccines and modern hygiene? It's either a bloody miracle or the human bodys' immune system is perfectly fine and naturally effective.
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5 May 2025
Excited to organize this CSHL Asia meeting with @pengjinATL on Repeat Expansion Disorders. Hope you all can join us!
4 May 2025
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting - Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Disease @CSHANews csh-asia.org/?content/2754
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4 May 2025
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting - Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Disease @CSHANews csh-asia.org/?content/2754
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7 Mar 2025
Stand Up For Science DC #StandUpForScience
Science will not be silenced
ALT View of gathering crowd for science across reflecting pool
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21 Feb 2025
Thank you NIH funded basic science
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
go.nature.com/4i9BpEx
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A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
go.nature.com/4i9BpEx
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21 Feb 2025
Sharing a symposium on #RareDiseaseDay that will be held at the Kellogg Eye Center Auditorium.
RSVP using this link: forms.gle/K5siWBAtgrUU2PEd9
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20 Feb 2025
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal experts say is illegal.
Federal Register notices are blocked so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details in @Nature
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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16 Feb 2025
Last night my brilliant friend with 20 years of expertise in Neuroscience including a decade at NIDA was fired because she was recently promoted for her outstanding performance and it triggered the probation period.
This is not making NIH more efficient, this is not making us healthier, this is not punishing the people who misled the public, this is destroying America’s talent.
Her work is instrumental for testing whether new medications to fight addiction are safe and efficacious before they are tested in humans. now that research is at risk.
She was the backbone of the lab the most senior person. So much knowledge, talent, know how, wasted, so much science destroyed for the wrong reason.
Sigh…
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