We recently had to say goodbye to Tala, our feisty but beloved grey tabby, at the age of (almost) 18. She had a good life and we will miss her dearly.

To top off the end of 2025, a new preprint from our lab! We find an unanticipated new answer to an old question in DNA repair. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A giant will be missed here at WashU. His laboratory was directly above mine. internalmedicine.wustl.edu/obituary-stu...

"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Unbelievable.

Yum!!! 😂

It was forty years ago today that I came to the US with my family to escape war and repression in Iran. I remain thankful and amazed at where life has led me. #freedom

This is why we need science.

Signed. You should too. www.change.org/p/petition-t...

A great pleasure to share our newest paper out this morning @cp-molcell.bsky.social. We show that damage to nascent RNAs should not be ignored, and under certain conditions, these can turn into DNA breaks. We call this phenomena RDIBs (RNA Damage Induced Breaks). www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

New recipe for the family: Parmesan risotto with roasted beets and pistachios. #success

Anyone else stocking up on #Covfefe?!?

Rudolf the white nosed pancake, had a very shiny nose…

I am planning to make it through the #NIH freeze with some creative adult beverages. Any suggestions?!?

So tonight I'm going to sketch a plan about my next grant using worms as a model system.

If it wasn't clear already, I hope my first post here makes it clear what I do and love.