Dave Matus

@davematus.bsky.social

Researcher @ UC Berkeley Advanced BioImaging Center, MCB Department, Evo-devo-cell biologist, 🎷👨‍🍳🐕🐈‍⬛

New preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.

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bioRxiv Bioengineering@biorxiv-bioeng.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Library transgenesis in zebrafish through delayed site-specific mosaic integration for in vivo pooled screening of transgenes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702415v1

Another life has been lost at the hands of Trump’s masked agents. Their violence is unacceptable and un-American. Our leaders must put an end to ICE’s reign of terror and its cruelty.

Any zebrafish people at ASCB interested in chatting about staygold or in vivo live imaging talk to Aline at her poster at P1238, and additional Swinburne lab posters as at P1238 (Maria) and P1229 on Tuesday

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say

The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.

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Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify

Yesterday we had a lab bake off (citrus themed) It was close but my “elevated key lime pie” took home the title! So many key limes gave up their juice for this cause…

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