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Human biology and cancer therapeutics group @MSKCancerCenter + @WeillCornellGS + @TPCB_NYC + @TriIMDPhD | + a bit of @oleg8r | Views our own

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KRG | Biology and Pharmacology of Childhood and Developmental Cancers
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For those of you interested in science history, we present you with first generation micropipette
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The ⁦ @sloan_kettering ⁩ facilities staff have outdone themselves again with an extraordinary holiday display, and during pandemic! Wow! #MSKKids thank you!
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@RuthGotian Please make sure to take advantage of this opportunity to write a clever response.
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#immigrantscience I came to US with my parents as a refugee, naturalized and became US citizen. My lab has always been mostly immigrants on OPT, J1, and H1 visas. Exchange of ideas and people is an inherent part of science, and fundamental part of USA since inception.
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New record for the lab (and not a good one). Revision of latest manuscript contains 79 new figure panels to address reviewers’ questions. To quote Hidde Ploegh: End the tyranny of reviewer experiments!
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Another marvelous holiday display from ⁦ @sloan_kettering ⁩ facilities staff! #MSKKids thank you!
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Another magical display from ⁦ @MSKCancerCenter ⁩ facilities staff. With a surprise appearance by our local yeti.
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Human cancer is a disease of somatic mutations. As we age, tissues accumulate errors in DNA, but what causes mutations in young healthy cells? Read our new paper “Childhood cancer mutagenesis caused by transposase-derived PGBD5” 1/n
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Another awesome holiday display being created by awesome support staff ⁦ @sloan_kettering
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@JSheltzer The brilliant @lydfinley and @IntlekoferLab have a great primer for all interested in this question:
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Absolute Quantification of Transcription Factors Reveals Principles of Gene Regulation in Erythropoiesis
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Marveling at this latest result: Pgbd5 DNA transposase expression in developing mouse
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Deeply grateful for recognition and support of our lab’s work @sloan_kettering
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Introducing the North American recipient of the St. Baldrick's 2018 Robert J. Arceci Innovation Award - Dr. Alex Kentsis! See his work & how his research for better treatments for kids with cancer will leap forward – thanks to YOU:
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Science brothers ⁦ @KharasLab ⁩ ⁦ @KentsisResearch
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Yes! @KharasLab tenure seminar!
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Need hand sanitizer? 70% ethanol, 10% isopropanol with 1% glycerol in water works great! Add whatever scent you wish.
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TWEETORIAL to explain my lab's plan for the next few weeks (sent to my lab via email, and included here for others should it be helpful, modified as needed) 1/n
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Comprehensive proteogenomics is here! Nearly complete detection of the majority of proteins and their complete sequences expressed by different human leukemias (using multi-protease digestion and multi-dimensional high-accuracy mass spectrometry)
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Happy Chinese New Year ⁦ @sloan_kettering #MSKPediatrics
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Epigenetic Combination Therapy Could Overcome Treatment Resistance in Epithelioid Sarcomas and Rhabdoid Tumors @MSKCancerCenter @Maggies_Mission @Cycle4Survival @PershingSquare , led by inimitable @YKazansky with many collaborators and Mrinal Gounder:
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@KSadtler Go to the next level with
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Read our latest on the causes of oncogenic DNA rearrangements in medulloblastomas, a common childhood brain tumor: Childhood cancer mutagenesis caused by a domesticated DNA transposase
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Are you interested in chemical biology, biochemistry and chemical proteomics? Well-known #proteomics secret: the majority of all recorded mass spectra currently remain unassigned. Read our latest manuscript by @paolocifani , Danmeng Luo, and Zhi Li on solving this problem. 1/n
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Lab knows the key to my heart!
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Cannot thank enough for their support of childhood cancer research ⁦ @Sloan_kettering
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Are you interested in oncogenic transposons, chromatin, and DNA nucleases? We are looking for ambitious post-doctoral research fellows: please join us! It's an exciting project!
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Genome-wide screen in triplicate of a few billion leukemia cells? No problem says @u2ma316 as he dispenses 10 liters of media in tissue-culture bags. Bravo! This one is especially for you @TuomasTammela
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@HellerLab ⁩ poses next to a plaque commemorating his grandfather’s synthesis ⁦ @Pfizer
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Read our latest: chemotherapy resistance, leukemia stem cells, proteomics, CRISPR mouse engineering, and regulation of kinase-dependent control of pioneer transcription factors as improved therapy of AML. Many thanks to all the collaborators!
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Together with @KharasLab @HellerLab , we've made contingency plans for our labs @sloan_kettering , should more intensive COVID mitigation measures will need to be implemented, summarized below 1/n
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@iannisaifantis1 It’s a problem that’s only getting worse, with only a few attempting to solve it @eLife , and what Hidde wrote a long time ago is still true:
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High-throughput proximity labeling proteomics
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Reviewed a manuscript for a prominent journal from authors I know but not friendly with: "This is an important study that should be published. The manuscript is well written and conclusions are well supported. My only request is that the data are made publicly available."
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Please read our latest! Optimized cross-linking mass spectrometry for in situ interaction proteomics
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It’s been almost 10 years of KRG ⁦ @MSKCancerCenter #MSKKids . Hear the latest perspective on Monday.
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@jkpritch We are planning to have an open search, so please tell them to apply!
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Top secret experiment in the lab
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Interested in epigenetic therapies? Read updated @YKazansky ’s manuscript on Overcoming clinical resistance to EZH2 inhibition using rational epigenetic combination therapy, which shows that E2F-RB1 axis is a major mechanism of tazemetostat resistance
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Excited about new logo. Though not completely intentional, the symbol combines DNA helix, ion beam, and caduceus, all of which are prominent in the lab.
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@lpachter @NatureRevGenet There is a statistically significant absence of correlation between x and y
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Visiting Barbara McClinitock’s first research lab: though her transposon discovery was made @CSHL , the corn came from here @Cornell
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Another fall Saturday writing #Science grants
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Thanks to the laboratory medicine ⁦ @Sloan_kettering ⁩ for this easy and fast #COVID surveillance test: spit and go!
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Another marvelous Facilities ⁦ @MSKCancerCenter ⁩ holiday display!
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New faculty recruitment @sloan_kettering : Protein Systems Initiative (PSI) is a newly formed initiative to develop innovative proteomics technologies to propel transformative biological questions. 1/n
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Sadly, @ProPublica and @charlesornstein have stooped to tabloid writing, at the expense of a life-saving @sloan_kettering institution that seeks nothing more than bringing knowledge and care to patients and science. Shame. On. You.
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Impressive reporting, you got a transcript of people trying to work through an internal problem in a private setting. Hope you didn’t get a papercut in the process.
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Why do young people get cancer? I summarize a general framework of the causes of early‐onset cancer development in children and young adults by relating inherited and constitutional cancer predisposition, oncogenic pathogens, and developmental mutations.
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Pharmacology Retreat! ⁦ @sloan_kettering ⁩ ⁦ @WeillCornell
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Interested in why young people get cancer and how to develop new therapies to target them? Read @anton_gh and our new JCI Insight - Emerging functions of DNA transposases and oncogenic mutators in childhood cancer development
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Researchers @sloan_kettering find fatal flaw in childhood tumors
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Are you interested in cancer biology and pediatric oncology? I will be presenting @AlexsLemonade as part of their Register to receive a link for August 19:
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@chorye @JSheltzer That’s the best answer so far, e.g. tumor cells tolerate aberrrant expression of oncogenes and loss of tumor suppressors, but normal cells cannot. Same for loss of BRG1 or SMARCB1...
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@timothykeyes It’s a marathon, not a race. Focus on fundamental problems that will leave a long-lasting impact on people and fields. No amount of money or “accomplishments” beats this.
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Great review from many terrific colleagues and must-read for anyone interested in genetics! Ten things you should know about transposable elements.
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We posted an update to "A transposase-derived gene required for human brain development" including additional patient families with PGBD5 deficiency syndrome and mouse model studies for its unanticipated (neuron genome remodeling!) mechanism of action:
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@lstops 1) Manage goals, not tasks. 2) Begin every meeting with questions about person, not project. 3) Recruit people who will complement you, not replicate you.
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Delighted to be back on Mayer 6
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Transposase-driven rearrangements in human tumors
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COVID-19 projections by US state with confidence intervals
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Today: a morning of caring for sick children with inspiring nurses and NPs, mid-day of interviewing stellar MD-PhD applicants, afternoon of discussing new science with passionate lab fellows, evening of writing new grant proposal and manuscript. #nofilterneeded
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The importance of labels in science: I’ve finally figured out how to operate window shades correctly. But WHY? @KharasLab @KeshariLab @David_Lab_MSK @DBachovchin @grimmrad @LewisLabMSKCC
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A note to the lab for Happy New Year, from an extraordinary 2020.
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@DrSidMukherjee Sid, I would include a discussion of the causes of cancer in young people as opposed to those due to aging and environmental exposure. This includes inheritance of cancer-predisposing mutations and aberrant activity of endogenous mutators, such as RAG1/2 in lymphoid cancers.
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Look at that energy! @LuzJubierre spreading her new findings of PGBD5 DNA transposase in brain development.
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Original corn from Barbara McClintock showing DNA transposition controlling gene expression #cshlTE18
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Fantastic work by @sloan_kettering colleagues. Diet-regulated production of PDGFcc by macrophages controls energy storage . Makes one wonder if mutant macrophages in people with clonal hematopoiesis have altered fat regulation and energy balance?
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Why Do Young People Get Cancer? PGBD5 and Other Developmental Mutators: 2020 ALSF Virtual Childhood Cancer Lecture ☛
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Goodbye FASEB Heme Malignancies, one of the best meetings in the field. Sorry we could not stay the whole time! Science awaits.
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Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry.
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First in-person group meeting since spring 2020. What a breath of fresh air! Great science, great discussion, and such a delight to speak with everyone!
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The Landscape of L1 Retrotransposons in the Human Genome Is Shaped by Pre-insertion Sequence Biases and Post-insertion Selection
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Farewell @PhillipDemarest ! Look forward to your discoveries as a neuroscientist!
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We are (carefully) beginning to resume our lab research: if you are interested in a Position for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Functional Cancer Genomics - we are looking for new colleagues ☛
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Come and join us at @WeillCornellGS @sloan_kettering @RockefellerUniv and see this every day!
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Beautiful view of the East River, even on a cloudy day.
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Aww. Thank you for my wonderful group. I owe this to many of them over the many years.
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Another beautiful study from Neal Rosen and colleagues on blocking oncogenic BRAF fusions: RAF inhibitor PLX8394 selectively disrupts BRAF dimers and RAS-independent BRAF-mutant-driven signaling.
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Proud of what we do every day @sloan_kettering to understand and treat cancer:
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KRG fall celebration
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In these stressful times, I am sending books to students, technicians and fellows in my lab, here they are in no particular order, hoping they will bring spark, resolve, inspiration or just a smile. Enjoy and share your books and tips!
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Preparing to submit @ReviewCommons revision of our manuscript on oncogenic gene control in AML and grateful to Sumiko Takao, @u2ma316 , Shuyuan Cheng and many colleagues for the heavy lift during the COVID pandemic to finish this work.
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Got my lab these “awesome” gifts because they are “awesome” during these challenging times.
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Life of an academic: the joy of a manuscript that goes to review in a day
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Look at this @TODAYshow of the awesome holiday display by @sloan_kettering plumbers, electricians, painters, mechanics and other outstanding facilities support staff to brighten up #MSKKids
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For kids undergoing treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the holidays are a whole lot brighter this year thanks to a group of employees with hearts of gold.
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Absolute tour de force by Sumiko Takao in the lab! 10L lentiviral culture->functional genetic library transduction of patient AML cells->labeling and dox-induction in transplanted mice->multicolor FACS to isolate and sequence leukemia quiescent stem cells to identify regulators.
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