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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you!!! Your turn soon 🤞🏻

Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · May 20

No better way to celebrate 10 years(!!) since joining the Grant lab than to celebrate at my PhD graduation! @struangrant.bsky.social I am so grateful for all the years of mentorship, and I’m so excited to continue collaborating with you and the rest of our colleagues at Penn/CHOP for years to come!

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · May 15

Proud of my Alma mater (Penn/CHOP!), proud of biomedical scientists, proud of NIH-sponsored research, and most importantly, proud to be in the field that makes discoveries like this possible.

NEJM.org @nejm.org · May 15

A lipid nanoparticle–delivered base-editing therapy was custom designed for an infant with a ureacycle disorder. The affected infant was treated at approximately 7 and 8 months of age. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/42XF03F

#ASGCT2025 #MedSky @asgct.bsky.social

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality ...

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Everything is bad but I’m finally in possession of my PhD tam so now one (1) thing is good. See you for graduation next month @cambupenn.bsky.social!

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Apr 21

Boston marathon spectator experience: 11/10 very cool

Boston marathon subway experience: -383928372/10 see the sign

Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 22

I just had my busiest week in lab since finishing my PhD, and I loved every second of it. This government can attack diversity and science and education all they want, but they’ll NEVER take away my passion for science and my responsibility to use my education to research cures for human disease

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 18

2 years today since we lost Casey.

In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 14

It’s officially 5 years since I got an email from Penn saying to “stay home for the next 2 weeks and then we’ll reassess things from there…” While I have no desire to go back to the dark pre-vaccine days of COVID I will say this: while I was stuck at home, I wrote an NIH F31 grant and it got funded.

Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just make it 7, almost 8 pages like I did 😂

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 7

Oh you thought a little wind would stop Bostonians from showing up for science? Think again! #standupforscience2025

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 6

I was at the original March for Science in DC in 2017 as a relatively optimistic 21 year old, it’s hard to believe 8 years later things have gotten even worse

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 6

I’d rather be in lab, but alas, I’ve got to go protest to save science. Again. Tomorrow (March 7), your state capital, time to Stand Up For Science

Find your local rally here: standupforscience2025.org

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 21

HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️

MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!

Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!

SEE YOU THERE!

www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225

Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 2

PubMed is down, so I thought “surely BLAST won’t also be down” and uh… it’s also down.

Folks it’s getting bleaker by the day

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Mar 1

It’s so unbelievably embarrassing to be an American right now

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Feb 21

If you’re like me you’ve been doing a LOT of doomscrolling. Let me briefly interrupt your doomscrolling with my latest finished crochet project: a granny square afghan inspired by Spanish/Portuguese tiles that I gave to my sister for Christmas

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Feb 13

RUN, do not walk, to your nearest drug store or doctor’s office and make sure you are up to date on ALL vaccines.

Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Feb 10

Absolutely iconic

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Feb 10

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

Blasting our fight song loud and proud from Boston tonight 🫡🦅

Philadelphia Eagles @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social · Feb 10

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Feb 10

Gritty is ALWAYS welcome in Birds Country 🦅

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Jan 28

I don’t want to be so pessimistic, but it’s hard not to feel completely demoralized having gone through 4 years of undergrad and 6+ years of my PhD just to watch all my future biomedical career prospects slip away at the whim of a government that couldn’t care less about its (non-billionaire) people

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Jan 27

Fantastic work out of my new lab, so excited to be a part of ongoing efforts in the optical pooled screening world! Congrats to all the authors 🎉

JT Neal @jtneal.bsky.social · Jan 27

Our paper “A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology” is finally out today in @naturemethods.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(I tweeted about our preprint in 2023 over at the bad place, but deactivated my account, so here we go again!)

A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology - Nature Methods

An optical pooled cell profiling platform (PERISCOPE) based on Cell Painting and optical sequencing of molecular barcodes was used to develop the first unbiased genome-wide morphology-based perturbati...

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Jan 26

My account was disabled due to “suspected spam activity” but luckily I was able to appeal that and get it back. If this was Twitter I’d suspect something shady going on, but here it feels like a genuine mistake. Anyway, I’m back and GO BIRDS

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Jan 24

To the guy on the red line platform at Kendall tonight in the Eagles hat: a very chilly go birds 🫡 🦅

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Elizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · Jan 20

Eagles 🤝 Bills

Just barely skating by in their respective snow games

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