4/4 Undergrad students Christopher Beauvil, Damyan Dekajlo, and Katelyn Cheung presented a poster on molecular tools to study RNA splicing in neurons.
#RNAsplicing
#AlternativeSplicing
#RNA
#neuron
3/4 Grad student Amatun Noor Prapty presented a poster on RNA splicing of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv7.2 #KCNQ2.
#RNAsplicing
#potassium
#ionchannel
2/4 Grad student Md Mostafizur Rahman presented a poster on RNA splicing of voltage-gated calcium channel CaV1.3 #CACNA1D
#RNAsplicing
#calcium
#ionchannel
1/4 Wonderful to see a packed Taffner Field House today for Student Research Conference 2026 at St. John's University! Students from my lab presented 3 posters.
#SJU
#stjohnsuniversity
#undergradresearch
#gradresearch
McDonald's as part of the Make America Healthy Again campaign, perhaps? 🤷♂️
Wonderful meeting St. John's University alumnus and BPGbio.com President & CEO Dr. Niven R. Narain yesterday, and talk about science and novel therapeutics for mitochondrial disease. He also gave a fantastic presentation for our undergraduate students.
As cooking wine, I used a Koha Sauvignon Blanc by Marlborough, New Zealand.
To make the sauce nice and creamy, it is important to use the right amount of flour. Just like in the original recipe, I toasted the flour before using it. Toasting adds a bit of flavor.
Leeks.
Shiitake mushrooms.
Bell peppers.
Chicken with leeks, shiitake mushrooms, bell peppers, thyme, in a white wine creamy sauce.
#scientistswhocook: chicken with leeks. Recipe adapted from OrazioFoodExperience.com on YouTube. I added bell peppers and shiitake mushrooms. Served with rice.
#chicken
#leeks
#shiitake
#mushrooms
#thyme
So, a program to phase out scientists...?
I just listened to the megafelinology episode of Ologies @ologies.bsky.social and wow! That was amazing! And you sounded amazing, Dr. Cancellare. I even learned that there's a human population that is genetically adapted to the hypoxia of high altitude.
Glad to hear you are doing ok now.
Thank you, Mike! I was happy with the result.
For wine I used a Spanish rose'. As a side dish, I roasted some potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
Spaghetti with roasted halibut and striped bass, squid, cherry tomatoes, yellow foot mushrooms and spinach.
The pasta sauce ready for the spaghetti.
The pasta sauce without the sauteed squid and spinach.
#scientistswhocook: Spaghetti with roasted halibut and striped bass, squid, cherry tomatoes, yellow foot mushrooms, and spinach. I used halibut and striped bass collars that I marinated in wine, garlic, and olive oil and then roasted in the oven.
#spaghetti
#halibut
#stripedbass
#squid
#mushrooms
Similarly, being a scientists does not necessarily make you a great provost. Seeing that first-hand at my institution.
Thank you, @yuhline.bsky.social for speaking up and standing up. Your voice matters.
Halibut collars.
Roasted halibut collars.
Pasta sauce with halibut, squid, and cherry tomatoes.
Spaghetti with roasted halibut, squid, cherry tomatoes, garlic, butter, and parsley.
#scientistswhocook: Spaghetti with roasted halibut, squid, and cherry tomatoes. I used halibut collars that I roasted in the oven with garlic, salt, pepper, butter, and white wine. I then added the meat to sauteed squid and cherry tomatoes.
#spaghetti
#halibut
#squid
Speaking of kings and oligarchs, would you like to comment about what is happening at St. John's University, Yuh-Line, where the president and provost declared last week that they are no longer recognizing the unions?
drive.google.com/file/d/1OtK1...
Branzino/spigola.
Branzino/spigola.
Roasted branzino/spigola.
Roasted branzino/spigola with roasted potatoes and sauteed spinach.
#scientistswhocook: Oven-roasted branzino/spigola (from #Chinatown) with roasted potatoes and sauteed spinach.
Enjoyed with a glass of Vallisto Torrontes from Argentina.
#branzino
#spigola
#spinach
#Torrontes
#Argentina
Comments on the announcement made yesterday by St. John's University President and Provost that they "are no longer recognizing the unions as representatives of the faculty."?
drive.google.com/file/d/1OtK1...
I started watching AFTER listening to the podcast (spoilers be damned!). I'm at episode 3 so far, and meh. And sorry, but the actor who plays Kip is terrible.
The issue is: What are the consequences for following illegal orders? Because right now the impression is that whether an order is legal or not doesn't matter, as there are no consequences.
The fact that he somehow felt offended by her reaction, and said all those horrible things to her, does not bode well for the future. He should be able to understand why she reacted that way, and that her fears are fully justified. Instead, he made it all about him and his ego.
I don't work with neural organoids, but I just listened to the "Brain Balls" episode of Radiolab (radiolab.org/podcast/brai...). I loved to hear your story on how you stumbled upon brain organoids.
A useful tool for studying cytokine biology, alternative splicing, and immune regulation. 🧬🧪
Part of the book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
#GeneExpression
#GeneRegulation
#RTPCR
#Quantification
#Densitometry
Figure 1 from Rahman et al., Methods Mol Biol. 2026:2983:231-248. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4901-5_20.
Figure 2 from Rahman et al., Methods Mol Biol. 2026:2983:231-248. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4901-5_20.
We describe a cost-effective, accessible RT-PCR + densitometry approach to simultaneously identify and quantify multiple interleukin splice variants in a single reaction—an alternative to variant-specific qPCR.
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Our method paper entitled: "Semi-quantitative RT-PCR Assay for the Analysis of Alternative Splicing of Interleukin Genes" is out now on the volume "Immune Mediators in Cancer"!
🧵 Thread 👇
#AlternativeSplicing
#SpliceVariant
#Interleukins
#Cytokines
