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Kelly Ward

@kellyw19.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate @TheLeeLab.bsky.social | Northeastern '23

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Kelly Ward @kellyw19.bsky.social · Aug 15

We love paint nite!!! :)

Mike Lee @theleelab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Things have been challenging over these last few months, but we also had a lot to celebrate...

Tiana and Mika joining the lab 🎉,
Kelly passing her QE 🎉,
Gavin publishing a paper and submitting another 🎉,
Megan publishing a paper 🎉,
Nick getting excellent reviews 🎉

...so we did a paint nite.

The Lee Lab at Paint Nite at Nu Kitchen in Worcester, MA

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Mike Lee @theleelab.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m excited to highlight our latest paper, just published in Cell 🎉

We report the existence of a previously uncharacterized signaling pathway that is responsible for activating cell death upon loss of gene expression.

1/n 🧪

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

RNA Pol II inhibition activates cell death independently from the loss of transcription

When RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) is inhibited, the inhibition is sensed and signaled to mitochondria, leading to programmed cell death independently of the loss of RNA Pol II transcription activity...

www.cell.com

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Mike Lee @theleelab.bsky.social · Jun 23