Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025 in Prague – researchers, clinicians & patient families coming together. Honored to co-organize this fantastic, inspiring meeting with amazing colleagues @svobodalab.bsky.social, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & @curiousdina.bsky.social

Congrats to my better half @legionella.bsky.social and his lab and collaborators on this cool discovery! TLDR, they've identified and re-animated a bacteriophage of Legionella pneumophila, a bacteria long thought to not be susceptible to phage attack. Check it out! 🦠

Sorry for the late reply ‪@superbug-slayer.bsky.social ‪@roblavigne.bsky.social‬. Here's a Legionella phage & it likely shaped the emergence of Legionnaires' in the first place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (cryoEM w/ @smlea.bsky.social @justindeme.bsky.social). #phage #legionella #legionnaires

Conference season part II: one of my favourites, the Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025. As always with some specials: Ago playing cards ♠️♥️♣️♦️ & Ago gin (a favourite since the first meeting). Such fun to have co-organized this @svobodalab.bsky.social ❗️, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & Gunter Meister.

Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙

@svobodalab.bsky.social kicks off #argonautes2025! Welcome everyone to our "family meeting"! Looking forward to some great science over the next few days!🐙

Excited for the start of #argonautes2025 tomorrow! This year we're in Prague, @imgprague.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing science and community with Argonaute aficionados and Argonaute Syndromes Alliance families! 🐙

RNA-based Disease Advocacy Panel: RNA as Cause and Cure, moderated by TREnD organizers Rasangi Tenakoon and Sharanja Premachandran #TREnD2025

Excited to hear from patients, advocates, and clinicians about RNA-related diseases at our @rnacanada.bsky.social patient advocacy panel. These conversations are so important to connect researchers, families, and clinicians. Thanks for sharing your stories! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

And for our final trainee talk of the day, we'll hear for Carina Lyons of Ji-Young Yoon's lab at Sick Kids/U of Toronto. She's talking about her work on how phosphorylation regulates the ALS associated protein TDP-43. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Now we'll hear from Tyler Henderson from Sabine Cordes' lab at LTRI/U of Toronto. He's telling us about his PhD work on the role of the trafficking protein/non-canonical RBP Tubby in RNA transport. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Next up: Jack Li from the Blencowe and Taipale labs at U of Toronto talks about his work on using dCasRx-RBM25 to control endogenous splicing events. ✂️ @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Next we'll hear from Cian Ward from Pat O'Donaghue's lab at Western University about tRNA anticodon variants to read through ALS-causative PTCs. 🛑🏁 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

After a fantastic mentor/mentee lunch and an action-packed poster session, we're back with another round of trainee talks! Up next is Qingyu Shi from @haissi-cui.bsky.social lab at the University of Toronto. She's sharing her work on a rare disease variant of SSRM2. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Our final trainee talk of this session is by Nuo Xu from the lab of Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy at the University of Toronto. Nuo is telling us about using long read RNA sequencing to identify splice variants in cortical neurons. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Now we'll shift gears to lncRNAs! We're hearing from Eric Wang about a topical RNA therapy targeting a lncRNA to treat diabetic retinopathy. Eric is in the lab of Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti's lab at Western University. @trendrna.bsky.social #TrEnD2025 👁️🧬

Great talk by Victoria G Castiglioni from @farmgirlphd.bsky.social lab! Thanks for sharing your science with us! #TREnD2025 📈

Now we'll hear from Tanya Prashar from Dr. Kathy Hudak's lab at York University about the outcomes of rRNA damage on ribosome stability! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Now we'll hear from Ryan Goldbach from Thomas Duchaine's lab at McGill about his work on mRNA decapping (or not!) in C. elegans. 🪱🧢 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Our next speaker is Dr. Victoria Garcia Castiglioni from our lab! She's talking about her work as a Curie fellow, looking at the interplay between Argonautes and Orsay virus in C. elegans! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025🪱🐙

Kicking off our trainee talks is Ayeisha Desjardins, a graduate student in the Palazzo @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social lab, telling us about the interplay between RanBP2 and RISC in regulating cytokine RNAs!

Student representatives from @rnacanada.bsky.social tell us about the organization's goals and efforts, and invite all trainees to become members! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

Fantastic talk about his lab's extensive efforts to characterize thousands of RNA Binding proteins by Gene Yeo @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025! RNAs are not naked! (And great intro slides!)

#TREnD2025 @trendrna.bsky.social day 2 starting now, with organizer @farnazmansouri.bsky.social introducing our Keynote speaker, Dr. gene Yeo! Ready for a great day of RNA biology in Toronto!

#TREnD2025 virtual day is here!! First talk starting now! 🥳

Are you a fancier of Argonaute proteins? Small RNAs of various flavors? Gene regulation? Join us later this summer in Prague for the Argonautes conference! Great science, great people, great venue, and a chance to talk with patient families from the Argonaute Syndromes foundation. 🐙

Hello out there! Are you looking for a friendly community to share your RNA research and hear about some cool RNA biology? Register for @trendrna.bsky.social on July 10-11 now! Oral abstract deadline is May 30th! Co sponsored by @rnacanada.bsky.social!

We are three people away from 100 registrations for Midwest worm meeting! We can do this worm community! (Also thanks so much for signing up all, a big year!)

www.academics.com/jobs/univers... Please help us find a new colleague at Mainz University. Thanks! #evolbiol

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

We are looking for new group leaders. If RNA is your thing, and/or computational biology and you want to start your own group, check out these links. Feel free to contact me about these! And, please help me spread this. Thanks! www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta... www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta...

Re-posting this. The deadline is next week, Dec 19! Come join our dept as an assistant prof! Model organism researchers strongly encouraged to apply!! @moleculargenetics.bsky.social

Inspired by this morning's Nobel lectures from Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. I feel so fortunate to be a part of the (worm) small RNA/miRNA community. Cool science and genuine, thoughtful people make it great! If you missed their lectures, definitely check them out sometime! Five stars! 😉

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

This is a lovely piece about the 2024 Nobel Prize to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, written by Bruce Wightman, the first author of one of the prize-winning papers. It emphasizes the importance of fundamental research and the beauty of heterochronic genes. #Celegans #devbio 🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

RNA Collaborative Seminar next Wed Dec 4 at 4 pm ET, hosted by Riboclub. Zoom link below. 1) “Proximity Labeling Identifies Putative Germ Granule and Small RNA Factors in C. elegans” @farmgirlphd.bsky.social 2) “From RNA Structure to Function” by Hosna Jabbari us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

And in an effort to build community (after I saw the Swiss starter pack! ) - here's one for scientists in Canada! Let me know who I missed. go.bsky.app/4owyF32

🚨 Update for #RNA science fans: I checked on #Bsky registry, and here is a 'condensate' (😆) of all #RNA #RNAsky starter packs so far: 1. General RNA biology #1 go.bsky.app/RN6HnZp

Such a cool story! Check it out!

When I will respond to your email

For those interested in #Celegans related content / networks, look no more! 🧪 🪱 🦠 STARTER PACKS (some overlap, user # noted as of 11/18) ~ by me (135) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW ~ by @swathiarur.bsky.social (63) - go.bsky.app/JJiPeti ~ by @ethanewe.bsky.social (49) - go.bsky.app/UHK3hhT 1/n

Make sure to catch the next BioPhysTO lunchtime seminar! #biophysto

RNA Canada trainees, Give your feedback on Tech Workshops designed to equip you with skills & knowledge in RNA research, provide practical advice, troubleshoot, & tutorials for data processing. Help tailor them to your needs by filling out this survey: forms.gle/jQPyLW83EEy1...

Small RNA Biology starter pack, with a heavy bias towards our worm community! Just getting this started, and we'd like it to max out, so please message me if I've missed you (and apologies!)! go.bsky.app/HgPCPen

My lab has a weekly goal-setting/accountability meeting. We often discuss "what got in the way" to completing a particular goal when we don't complete a specific goal. At today's meeting, a postdoc in the lab had the best answer to the question of what got in the way: OpTIMisM. 😂 Yup. Same.

@haissi-cui.bsky.social Hi!! Happy you are here!! 😄

Being in the lab with trainees for a bit today was a good way to recharge my batteries after a draining week. It reminded me of how lucky I am to have this career. Thanks, lab team!

Looking forward to hearing this talk/workshop from the image forensics legend, @elisabethbik.bsky.social! Friday Nov 8, 9am at U of Toronto!

Please share broadly! We (Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto) are looking for a new faculty member! Deadline Dec 19. Those working on model organisms and using genomics, computational and systems approaches are strongly encouraged to apply! Reach out w/ Qs! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...