Every year Dan compiles a list of his favorite music albums and then creates a youtube playlist of tracks from those albums. Here's the 2025 playlist. Enjoy! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Dan digs these 2025 albums - YouTube
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Dan Pollard
@dan-pollard.bsky.social
Yeast Geneticist at Western Washington University https://biology.wwu.edu/people/pollard Genetics: Natural variation. Dynamics. Gene expression. Aging. Pedagogy: Biology of social identities (race, sex/gender, ability).
Next journal club paper is "Translation variation across genetic backgrounds reveals a post-transcriptional buffering signature in yeast" academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Translation variation across genetic backgrounds reveals a post-transcriptional buffering signature in yeast
Abstract. Gene expression is known to vary among individuals, and this variability can impact the phenotypic diversity observed in natural populations. Whi
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Next journal club paper is "Single-cell eQTL mapping in yeast reveals a tradeoff between growth and reproduction" elifesciences.org/articles/95566
Single-cell eQTL mapping in yeast reveals a tradeoff between growth and reproduction
Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we mapped thousands of expression quantitative trait loci in yeast, including a variant in GPA1 that influences gene expression, cell-cycle occupancy, and mating effi...
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Next journal club paper is "Evolution of natural lifespan variation and molecular strategies of extended lifespan in yeast" elifesciences.org/articles/64860
Evolution of natural lifespan variation and molecular strategies of extended lifespan in yeast
Analysis of molecular signatures of lifespan variation across wild yeast isolates revealed how Nature employs environment to modify genotype, gene expression, and metabolome to arrive at different lif...
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Spouse reached out to a local cancer benefit group to alert them to the dangers of cutting and freezing federal funding. He provided this link to back up these concerns: www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...
AACR Statement and Call to Action Regarding the Administration’s Recent Actions Affecting NIH and the American People
AACR Statement and Call to Action Regarding the Administration’s Recent Actions Affecting NIH and the American People
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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.Voters are freaked when they hear about Trump and Musk shutting down cancer research in the US. Even 71% of indy voters.
Here is a very informative memo from a large group of legal experts about the legality of equity and inclusion work. Hopefully your institutions are continuing to support equity and inclusion. If they aren't, you might want to share this memo with them. drive.google.com/file/d/129LV...
OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf
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Some good news on recent threats to equity and inclusion work. www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...
Judge largely blocks Trump's executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs
A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from terminating or changing federal contracts they consider equity-related.
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“If the NIH F&A reimbursement rate were reduced to 15% of modified direct costs, as recently proposed, most institutions could not maintain their current level of research. Already they do not recover the full costs of supporting research”
Vaughn Cooper@vscooper.micropopbio.org · last yr.Anyone needing explainers on what F&A means and does for universities, please use the @c4lifesciences.bsky.social resources here: www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/facilities-a...
Great interview of former Pollard lab member Yuli Buckley who recently published her PhD thesis work on the role of Fis1 in mitochondrial fission pathologies in glioblastoma cells. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
First person – Yuli Buckley
ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yu...
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Calling all abstracts for “Training Future Scientists through RNA Research” - the NEW in-meeting education-focused session at RNA2025! Deadlines are Feb 28th for oral abstracts, March 31st for posters. See below for a link to learn more & share widely! #RNA #RNA@PUI #RNASociety #RNA2025
Education Session – Training Future Scientists through RNA Research | RNA Society
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Congratulations to Pollard Lab alum Krista Miller for completing her MS degree in Bioinformatics from Northeastern University. If you are looking for a talented and hardworking bioinformatics research assistant, get in touch so I can connect you with Krista.
What is your Department and/or University doing to prepare for these demographic changes? www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...
A looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates
The long-predicted downturn in the number of 18-year-olds is almost here. And it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy.
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Congratulations to Pollard Lab member Noah Haight for completing their joint BS degree in Math and Biology! If you are looking for a bioinformatics research assistant, get in touch so I can connect you with Noah.
The Pollard Lab welcomes three new lab members: Biochemist Austen Geels, Molecular Cell Biologist Layne Boggan, and Computer Scientist Gabe Ichwan!