New review about DNA double-strand break resection during meiosis, with @alhajijoker.bsky.social and Soonjoung Kim. Please check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please repost: I'm looking for suggestions for activities (scientific, social, team-building, whatever) for a lab retreat. What worked well in retreats you've been to? (I put this on Twitter a while ago and got some great responses, but lost the info when I deleted that account.)

Amidst all the terrible and terrifying news, so lovely to hear of @jkpritch.bsky.social's election to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!

Proud of PhD student Zack Zheng for his successful thesis defense today. Here's the cake to prove it...

>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pro tip: if you have a really important zoom interview, double check that you are not in the same room as a cat that is likely to start crying to be let out #HypotheticallySpeaking

MSK has been recognized as one of the national's top workplaces for inclusion and diversity by @newsweek.com magazine. 🎉 MSK earned five stars, the highest ranking, among mid to large employers in America. Learn more: www.newsweek.com/rankings/ame...

Cell-free system enables detailed study of the role of SPO11 in meiosis www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ccb-lab.bsky.social @spo11rulz.bsky.social

Our latest preprint describes methods and tools that enable >99% efficient short homology-dependent genome editing in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Congratulations to Matt, Sanjita, and Manning! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

the version of record (VoR) of our most recent paper has been published @elife.bsky.social! 🎉🥳 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.

Feeling very lost today with the news of the passing of my undergrad advisor Scott Hawley. He had a huge impact on the field and on me personally. He was the first person to see me as a scientist and gave me the confidence to apply to grad school. I am so grateful to be a part of his legacy.

New year, new beginnings! 🎉 The Aviram Lab will officially open its doors on March 1st @mskcancercenter.bsky.social! We’ll study microbial immune systems and their connection to fundamental cellular processes like #RNA transcription and #DNA integrity. #NewPI #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Delighted to share the ground-breaking work from BBSRC Discovery Fellow @whgittens.bsky.social mapping physiological Top2 activity without poisons. Acute sensitivity enables sub-minute visualisation of Top2 hotspots hidden within sites of latent topological stress: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Shoutout to the unknown artist and their work in the mskcc elevator this morning 😂

Our latest paper showing that DNA nicks drive expansions of both normal and disease-size alleles. All credit goes to a fantastic graduate student Liangzi Li as well as to a terrific team of current and former undergraduate and graduate students in the lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413298121

Pretty excited to see our review & DNA Typewriter covered by NY Times! Perhaps too much excitement for one Monday 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/s...

To journal editorial folks: If your journal doesn't already, please consider changing your work flow to return to authors at the proof stage a copy-edited version of their paper with editors' changes tracked. Just caught a major editor's mistake in some proofs.

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Hi Bluesky. For my first post, I'd like to advertise the latest preprint from my lab, describing at long last our reconstitution of SPO11-dependent double-strand break formation from purified recombinant proteins. Outstanding work from PhD student Zhi (Zack) Zheng.

Hello Bluesky, for my first post here I'm happy to share our latest preprint reporting the first biochemical reconstitution of DNA double-strand break formation by SPO11. SPO11 dimerization controls meiotic DNA double-strand break formation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...