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Associate professor of biochemistry & molecular biology and genetic medicine @UChicago . Art @dadrummondart “Not an artist per se” — Seattle Magazine

Chicago, IL

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D. Allan Drummond

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How do cells efficiently respond to stress? Transcriptional stress responses are well-known—and in our latest study, we discover that cells use biomolecular condensation to redirect translation from old to new mRNAs 1/n

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Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes stress-induced...

Stress-induced condensation of mRNA and proteins into stress granules is conserved across eukaryotes, yet the function, formation mechanisms, and relation to well-studied conserved transcriptional...

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D. Allan Drummond

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3 years

A first in 15 years: every member of the lab is currently funded by a fellowship or prize they've competed for and won. On top of doing great science, they've rallied to critique each others' proposals, practice talks, share lessons learned. Super-proud.

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Associate professor as of today. Such a strange naming scheme. Who are we associated with? Who do assistant professors assist? And what, exactly, are full professors full of?

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Unsolicited advice: the idea that you are *almost done* with this experiment/paper/project will cause you huge amounts of misery that is almost unparalleled in its senselessness. You can let go of this belief, and little will change except your day-to-day happiness.

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“Mother/Daughter,” 2018. Bronze, silver, 3D printed steel, apatite. The jewels get their color from phosphorus, which links each base of DNA. Depicting late anaphase in budding yeast, where — unlike in our cells — the nuclear membrane remains intact. A piece from my debut show.

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This bizarre belief that establishing causality requires uncovering the mechanism is one of the most progress-inhibiting misconceptions in science. Establishing causality requires only controlled perturbations — you need not know anything about mechanism. +1 @kph3k

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mRNA levels tell you almost nothing about protein levels.

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👑👩🏽‍🔬Dr. Mother of Astrocytes, PhD🧠🧬

4 years

Name a popular scam that most Scientists believe. I'll go: the pippette cook book

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Plants have independently evolved wood dozens of times, so trees do not form a tree.

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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.

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Subcellular Imaging Reveals that Things Happen at Different Places

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The Sparrow. In which a scientist slowly descends into madness.

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A massive and fun biological puzzle, still unsolved: Why are there so few marine insects 🪰, and so few terrestrial crustaceans 🦀? Insects likely evolved from crustaceans; they're all arthropods. Both have coexisted for hundreds of millions of years. 1/4

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A drift of population geneticists A digest of molecular biologists A loop of crystallographers A convergence of evolutionary biologists An assumption of biophysicists (To all my colleagues: I love you)

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A murder of crows. A pod of whales. A leap of leopards. What would describe a group in your specialty? #MedTwitter

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A few “do not disturb, I am writing a grant” signs from my door over the years

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Our review of stress granules and related phenomena is out @MolecularCell ! An unusually pointed piece, aimed at stimulating progress in a mature field where many of the most basic questions remain unanswered. Like: what do stress granules do? 1/5

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As application season approaches, so do the emails: "Dear Dr. Ummond, ..."

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Got *two* tenure letters in the mail today. Yes, @SouthwestAir , it sure does.

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Draw me like one of your model organisms.

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Hot off the presses...our coolest study ever...seriously! By comparing a thermophile, mesophile, and cryophile, we show conservation and ecological tuning of heat-triggered biomolecular condensation from the ecological to submolecular scales 🔥🔬❄️ (🧵)

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An adaptive biomolecular condensation response is conserved across environmentally divergent species

Cells must sense and respond to sudden maladaptive environmental changes—stresses—to survive and thrive. Across eukaryotes, stresses such as heat shock trigger conserved responses: growth arrest, a...

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Thrilled to share our latest on @biorxivpreprint : major work by grad student @whoisyoo about what molecular chaperones are really good at. It turns out they *love* to disperse stress-induced biomolecular condensates. Often speculated; now demonstrated. 🧵

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Chaperones directly and efficiently disperse stress-triggered biomolecular condensates

Heat shock triggers formation of intracellular protein aggregates and induction of a molecular disaggregation system. Although this system (Hsp100/Hsp70/Hsp40 in most cellular life) can disperse...

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Cell division, in solid bronze. Late-anaphase budding yeast, mother & daughter. #3dprinting @shapeways @yeastgenome

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2 years

Bit late now mate

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6 years

Proud and terrified to announce: My debut solo sculpture show, “Curiosity,” opens at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle on Friday, December 7th. I’ll be there opening night. @roqlarue 1/3

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Happy to say it was easier this time! MIRA for next five years starts 1/1, awarded on the first try. Keep at it, folks. (Oh...and we're hiring!)

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ND, ND, ND, ND, ND, ND, 44, ND, ND, 10.

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Gave a talk today and was reminded: after all these years, I still have profound stage fright. Can't catch my breath, heart racing, for the whole talk. It's physical. Has nothing to do with mechanics, or command, or comfort. Hopefully few noticed...but I did. Just like always.

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Art by scientists by request: Hand-finished bronze white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) pendant, nestled in its microecology for safe traveling. Plus a silver version. Everything designed and finished by me, mix of old-school and new-school methods. 🦋

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Liam Holt

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1/2 Art by scientists! So much great work out there. Let’s see what you’ve all been working on. RT with your work so we can organize a gallery poster session...

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We Didn't Learn Anything New, But Hey, Single Cells

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Types of Scientific Paper

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Out today in @MolecularCell ! "Chaperones directly and efficiently disperse stress-triggered biomolecular condensates." Simple message resulting from the herculean effort of @whoisyoo with assists from @JAM_Bard and Evgeny Pilipenko. Enjoy!

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ND, ND, ND, ND, ND, ND, 44, ND, ND, 10.

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Started my PhD at 29.

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Panicking Professor

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2 years

How old were you when you finished your PhD? I was 29. @AcademicChatter #postdoclife #phdchat @PostdocVoice

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AUG 1: the day we Met. #RNADay

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Happy #RNAday (AUG 1)! The original and best macromolecule. It splices! It DICERs! It catalyzes protein synthesis!

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Take a moment to read Harmit Malik's story. He's one of the truly good ones, and the way he talks about the origins and development of ideas, professional development and mentorship, the future of basic science, and fridge magnets deserves your attention.

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Yesterday marked 15 years of the Drummond Lab and a decade @uchicago . The group went all-out and threw an amazing party. Plenty of sweetness, teasing, blasts from the past, and general nerd joy. It's the people, people. ❤️🔬❤️

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@TrumanLab We make our figures and posters in @inkscape . Free, powerful.

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15 years ago: decided to become a scientist, quit my HR job, started grad school. Yesterday: submitted my promotion package.

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3D-printed dividing cell is now available on @shapeways . Budding yeast, late anaphase.

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I (middle-aged scientist) just realized that “oval” literally means egg-like. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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science

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First graduate student @KSamerotte accepted a faculty position. I remember the day she approached me when I was still a grad student, saying she’d like to work together when I started my lab. What a delightful, long-awaited, well-deserved, promise-filled turn of the world.

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Why shouldn't you try to help by pivoting your research to COVID-19? Because your pivot has current costs which almost certainly outweigh its future benefits. A brief thread with some perspective (my own perspective as a scientist) on @Y_Gilad 's important request. 1/

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Yoav Gilad

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I know it's hard. You want to do something useful. It's an honest desire to help. But you can't help. Stop asking trainees to come to lab to work on your new brilliant idea of how to save humanity. Let the experts do their work. Stop 'pivoting' your research to COVID-19. Please.

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Faculty job interview horror stories aside, a friend & mentor told me at the time I was applying, "Enjoy it. It's the last time everyone you meet will be totally excited to hear you talk about what you're working on." Dead on.

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3 years

@futurebird And Lake Baikal is filled with deep creepies.

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10 years

Lake Baikal Fact #2 - It contains the largest amphipods on Earth- flesh eating 3.5 inch monsters... coolio. #scichat http://t.co/Pg98k0rCk6

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This is a moth, Paranthrene dollii. It mimics a paper wasp well enough to fool predators, me, and the @inaturalist algorithm.

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What's phase separation of an RNA-binding protein good for? Sensing stress, and surviving it. Our new paper's out!

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4 years

Our latest: "Transient intracellular acidification regulates the core transcriptional heat shock response," overwhelmingly the work of the brilliant @ugcgccacc . More tweets when it's formatted. But already online hours after acceptance (thanks @eLife !)

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Transient intracellular acidification regulates the core transcriptional heat shock response

When translation stops, cells require intracellular acidification to turn on the conserved heat shock response during stress, and stress-triggered acidification (common in eukaryotes) is adaptive,...

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First keynote in the books. Honored to do it for the conference and community that has supported me and my group since my first year as an assistant prof 11 years ago: the 28th Annual Midwest Stress meeting at @NorthwesternU

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We have reproduced this result but only a single replicate at this time.

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so this happened today: @dallandrummond got tenured!

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I made a thing.

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4 years

Proudhopper (Dictyopharidae), 2020. Bronze with sterling silver wings.

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From a colleague: “How would we know if the math department is sheltering in place?”

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2 years

Congratulations to Dr. Haneul Yoo @whoisyoo on her doctorate, on winning program distinction in biochemistry and molecular biophysics @UChicagoBMB …and on the award for Best Dissertation in the Biological Sciences Division @UChicago ! 🤓🏆

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4 years

You've heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for

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5 years

Please, @nytimes , if you want to help public understanding, please don't run an article on an alarmingly infectious fungus with a video called "Revenge of the Bacteria." Fungi are more like us than bacteria. The difference is important for helping everyone understand antibiotics.

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First postdoc has first faculty offer. Congrats, @ewjwallace ! What you possess comes, as they say, with great responsibility. Use it well.

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2 years

Yes.

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zara weinberg 🧪🧙🏻‍♀️

2 years

In today's Biophysics class, we're Teaching The Controversy* *is phase separation a biologically meaningful phenomenon?

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Still in disbelief. Sliman absorbed life and spread love so purely and intensely…so many nights of jazz, science, debates, venting, drinks, and full-body hugs where you felt he was hugging your soul. And he was. My lost brother... 💔

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5 years

PS: Here's a direct (detail-redacted) quote from a senior sci/editor on a study where we did controlled perturbations. "The mechanism by which [X] regulates [Y] is unclear. Without further analysis the results are essentially correlative." This is *actual nonsense*. Not uncommon.

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6 years

And this curious beauty: a young female Salticus scenicus, the zebra jumping spider who keeps my windowsill fly-free, in bronze and black glass, with every petal of her plumage placed separately. This is the look they give you — their vision is astonishing.

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No-cost extension.

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8 years

Busy science time, unfinished bronze pieces are piling up... #sciart

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4 years

This scam owes a debt to an earlier scam, “mRNA tells you enough about protein levels,” and both build on the ultimate scam: biology is simple.

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We establish causality through controlled perturbations. Mechanism is the "how," not the "whether". Read a bit of @yudapearl if you want a respectable introduction to causality. For now, stop causing me to lose my mind (by unknown mechanisms) by mistaking causality and mechanism.

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6 years

Excited to announce that we've posted a new preprint on @biorxiv by grad student @ugcgccacc (yes, she actually is going to make you translate that) where we report her remarkable discoveries about cells, heat stress, and intracellular pH. (1/6)

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Congratulations to @ugcgccacc who successfully defended her Ph.D. today! Mind-altering work presented with extreme clarity, centered around her discovery that the heat shock response regulated by Hsf1 has an activation pathway dependent on intracellular pH. 1/4

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Took an 85% pay cut to leave industry and start as a 1st year PhD student. 20 years later, as a tenured prof, I still don’t make the $ I made then (without adjusting for inflation!). Worth it. Life-defining move for me. YMMV.

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"Should I do a post-doc after my PhD or go right into industry? I want to see if I can get an academic job." I grappled with this same question three years ago. Instead, I wish I would have asked myself this: "Would I pay $120,000 for the *chance* at an academic job?" 1/

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For the curious: here’s our published contribution to undoing these scams (we urge nuance in conclusion), and also see work of @slavov_n (plus too many others to mention).

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Accounting for Experimental Noise Reveals That mRNA Levels, Amplified by Post-Transcriptional...

Author Summary Cells respond to their environment by making proteins using transcription and translation of mRNA. Modest observed correlations between global steady-state mRNA and protein measureme...

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When your graduate advisor suggests it might be best to bin your data, it really depends which side of the Atlantic you're on.

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Where to start with this...

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Fireworks @uchicago

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Well, this pretty much made my year.

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I'm going high weight, low reps on these pull-ups.

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First day of 2020 (happy new year, everyone!), first day of first sabbatical in 13 years as PI. Here at @uchicago it's not automatic -- instead, many convos with trusted friends led to the request. More to share; that's one of my goals for this stretch.

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Scientist life choices.

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Come be my colleague @uchicago ! We're searching broadly for junior faculty to join us in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. The broad search is serious: we want great minds, first and foremost. I'm excited to see what you all are up to...

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You created an incredible thing @OdedRechavi — kudos. Will treasure this experience watching a community find itself, learn about itself, and spread the love. You made it happen! Thank you ❤️ #physiologicalirrelevantconference

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@christlet @inkscape We make all our publication figures in @inkscape and have for years...no particular resources to share, I learned organically and use essentially the vanilla package, so chiming in mostly to say it's possible (and enjoyable) to do.

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“Huntress,” 2018, bronze and neodymium. The mantis Tenodera sinensis, with articulated raptorial hooks and shoulders, and her head mounted on magnets. 23 cm long.

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Out now: detailed protocols from @whoisyoo for studying chaperone dispersal of RNA-binding-protein condensates. 1/3

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My view of how @Y_Gilad responded during the Jason Lieb affair.

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Very long read. This has really tormented me. As many of you know, a faculty member at UChicago recently resigned before being terminated for sexual misconduct. The story was covered in the nationa...

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Reupping this because someone who knows me well asked, disbelievingly, "Have you gotten R01s rejected?"

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You know, was working HR job with software company in TX, kept spending spare cash on textbooks, after a few years explored possibility (with professionals) that I’d lost my mind, quit job, started grad school at 29, and here we are.

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Dr Emily BurdfieldSteel

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I am so bored of reading about biologists' childhoods (or let's be honest, boyhoods) spent running around the countryside collecting insects. Like that's nice and all, but some of us grew up in cities. Can we get some alternative biologist origin stories?

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“Ahhhhh...so much better. You wouldn’t believe how stuffy it is in that thing.” (After capturing this, we put him back outside to dry and start his brief singing career.) Neotibicen sp. #cicada .

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Article accesses after six weeks on @biorxivpreprint ... the world has truly changed.

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D. Allan Drummond

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How do cells efficiently respond to stress? Transcriptional stress responses are well-known—and in our latest study, we discover that cells use biomolecular condensation to redirect translation from old to new mRNAs 1/n

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Lab showed up in surprise custom tees at my dept seminar -- so touched. Roton & visiting student apparently need to earn theirs...

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The improv comedy technique of responding "yes, and..." to your partner is actually a life/work/relationship skill with few parallels

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D. Allan Drummond

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We do not need to know the mechanism of egg frying to know that heat causes eggs to fry.

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@biorxivpreprint Conservation of adaptive biomolecular condensation now published!

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An adaptive biomolecular condensation response is conserved across environmentally divergent species

Nature Communications - Cells must respond to environmental changes. In three fungal species adapted to different temperatures, cellular responses are conserved yet tuned to each organism’s...

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D. Allan Drummond

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Congratulations to Rosalind Pan, our group’s superstar undergrad, who graduated this morning @UChicago summa cum laude and shortly starts her next chapter—grad student @Caltech ! ⭐️🥹

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Thanks @Y_Gilad ... #3facts5scientists 1. All the grad schools I applied to rejected me 2. I teach, but have never taken, a graduate biochemistry course 3. Most people who know I exist believe I study trilobites @alexholehouse @DannyHatters @Tanner_Lab @LabPetry @GreenLabJHMI

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Congratulations to our newly minted Dr. Yoo! 😎 @whoisyoo delivered a tremendous public defense today ("Chaperones remodel stress-induced biomolecular condensates"), a crystal-clear tour of her research for a planet-wide audience. 1/4

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3 years

Must say we've been beating this drum (IDRs are often neither necessary nor sufficient for condensation) for quite some time. It was never a sensible principle; it was more like something people hoped for. Zombie dogma. See

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Frank Xie lab

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It almost becomes a dogma that intrinsic disordered region(IDR) drives biomolecular condensate formation likely through phase-separation. A new study challenges this tenet showing that IDR is dispensable for condensates but DNA binding is the culprit.

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I still cherish two rather abrupt dressings-down I got from two different mentors. These were not pleasant in the moment. But I trusted them, they knew what they were doing, and they were right. They put my long-term success over my short-term comfort. *Trust* was crucial.

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Prof. Nikolai Slavov

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What are some of the most helpful things your mentors have done for you?

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D. Allan Drummond

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4 years

People, reach out to the folks you admire and ask if they will Zoom with you *right now*. @PracheeAC agreed, and we had a spectacular, wide-ranging chat that can only be had with someone who's "been there." Super-meaningful. 🥃✨🥃

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Prachee Avasthi 🪷

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Absolutely lovely cocktail zoom with @dallandrummond to replace the derailed in-person drink we were supposed to have almost a year ago! Until next time!🍷

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D. Allan Drummond

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5 years

Here's a bit from page 2 of an introductory book I thought might help me get up to speed on something. This is apparently annoyingly trivial if you have the proper training. I apparently made some incorrect life choices, and will now suffer for that. (+1 job specialization.)

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We study the cellular response to heat shock. It was discovered in the 60s and the mechanism behind the response remains unclear. Even the mechanism by which yeast -- single cells! -- sense heat is not yet known. But we know that heat causes the heat shock response.

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D. Allan Drummond

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6 years

“Curiosity” opens Friday 12/7 6-9 pm in Seattle at Roq La Rue Gallery, 705 E Pike St. I’ll be there — come say hi and see my work at the interface of art, science, and the natural world.

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2 years

@stephenfloor "As far as we are aware..."

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D. Allan Drummond

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3 years

How to rally physicists, mathematicians, taxonomists, and cell biologists to a common cause 🔥🔥🔥 cc: @thegridkid ❤️

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5 years

Absolutely fantastic news -- @HarmitMalik has been a kind of guardian angel since the beginning of my career, and I expect our nation will profit from his guidance much as as I have.

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National Academy of Sciences

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Congratulations Harmit S. Malik @HarmitMalik of @fredhutch @HHMINEWS , newly elected #NASmember ! #NAS156 #genetics

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3 years

Gave a talk today and my (lovely) host said that his student was now a postdoc in the lab of my first graduate student. This is a) wonderful, and b) terrifying evidence consistent with being old. When did this happen?

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D. Allan Drummond

@dallandrummond

4 years

Video of my talk "Rethinking the cellular heat shock response" for Cellular & Protein Homeostasis series here: 35 min talk, 45 mins of Q&A! Thanks to organizers @PaoloDeLosRios @NadinathN @goloubinofflab , A+ audience, and @whoisyoo for her discoveries.

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D. Allan Drummond

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6 years

My debut show opening is 6-9pm this Friday 12/7 at Roq La Rue Gallery (705 E. Pike St.) in Seattle—I’ll be there! Quite excited to show y’all what I’ve been up to. As a teaser, here is a tiny piece of a piece: half of a mitotic spindle pulling on chromosomes.

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