Jason Parshuram Mohabir @jason_mohabir

🇬🇾 | phd @dukeu | postbacc @broadinstitute | cs @columbia Durham, NC Joined July 2015

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch

2 years ago

Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen Here's a cheat-sheet I put together for teaching. It's also part of a textbook I have been writing on human genetics (more on that below)

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Keith Hornberger @KRHornberger

3 years ago

Since we’re all watching The Last of Us, is it really true that we have nothing (other than bombs) for the coming fungal pandemic? Time to review what we’ve got in the pharmacopeia for fungal infections. Lest we all turn into zombies. 🧵 1/

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Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai

3 years ago

Rules of academia: Questions are more important than facts Answers are temporary Models are provisional Failure happens a lot Patience is a requirement When you’re lucky, hopefully you realize it Things don’t unfold linearly If there’s free food, get there early —Stuart Firestein

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OpenAcademics @OpenAcademics

5 years ago

Data visualization? Here is a great infographic on the principles of graphics (by Novartis). Please share🙌 #AcademicTwitter #phdchat (Higher resolution can be found and downloaded here: bit.ly/34of42P)

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Florian Hoffmann, PhD @fthoffmann

3 years ago

Excited that our paper is now online @Nature! Selective TnsC recruitment enhances the fidelity of RNA-guided transposition - the result of a fantastic collaboration of the @shsternberg and @IsraelF96135088 labs. (nature.com/articles/s4158…) A thread: 1/10

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Sanne Klompe @SanneKlompe

4 years ago

So happy to share that we’re now online @MolecularCell! Evolutionary and mechanistic diversity of Type I-F CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs). Here are some takeaways from our paper (authors.elsevier.com/c/1eRn~3vVUPGL…). 1/8

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Francesco Ciulla @FrancescoCiull4

4 years ago

Path to Learn Docker. One of the questions I get most often is: "What are the steps to learn the basics of Docker?" In this thread, I list the 10 steps that I think are optimal for a beginner. There are no links or promotions here, just concepts. /thread ↓

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Jason Parshuram Mohabir @jason_mohabir

4 years ago

I've just joined the thousands of Bay Staters composting curbside with Garbage to Garden, kudos to the new neighbors who introduced the service🪴

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The New York Times @nytimes

4 years ago

Breaking News: An artificial intelligence lab called DeepMind predicted the shapes of hundreds of thousands of proteins in hours — a task that takes scientists years. The technology could greatly accelerate medical and scientific research. nyti.ms/3hXsAkY

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Jason Parshuram Mohabir @jason_mohabir

5 years ago

Check out the panel I moderated last Saturday at the National Undergraduate Conference on Scientific Journalism. We had panelists from Nova, Stanford, and MIT discuss the effective consumption of research! youtube.com/watch?v=ywJGlx…

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Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons @ColumbiaPS

5 years ago

Congrats to Samuel Sternberg @shsternberg, one of 5 #ColumbiaVPS scientists to receive a 2020 grant from @NIHDirector's High-Risk, High-Reward program. He is creating new methods to engineer the human genome. columbiamed.link/3iFt2RR #NewInnovatorAward