Ashley Frakes
@afrakes.bsky.social
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Stadtman tenure-track investigator @NIH. Previously, Post-doc @UCBerkeley in @DillinLab. PhD @OSU @Nationwidekids in Kaspar lab. Opinions are my own &can change https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/biography/frakes-ashley
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Thank you for posting!
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🚨Please share! We are hiring a post-doc! 🪱 🐀
Job posting: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-gb-...
Lab Website: www.niddk.nih.gov/research-fun...
NIH Trainee info: www.training.nih.gov
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Congrats David!! Excited to see what’s to come!
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Here, through whole animal scRNA-seq, neuropeptidomics, and genetic screens awesome post-doc, Carrie Sheeler, answers those questions! Thank you collaborators @jennifergarrison.bsky.social 's lab and Kenyon lab!
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I previously found that subtype of four astrocyte-like regulate organismal ER stress resistance and longevity.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
However, the signal and full extent of the cell non-autonomous response remained unknown.
Four glial cells regulate ER stress resistance and longevity via neuropeptide signaling in C. elegans
Organismal protein homeostasis and longevity in nematodes are coordinated by a subtype of glia.
science.org
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Excited to share another pre-print from our lab! We found a neuropeptide that can cell non-autonomously activate the ER-UPR and protect animals from proteotoxic stress.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Congrats to Karmen Mah and Adam Roszczyk who figured out this initially puzzling observation! 🥳
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· Mice with maternally inherited hGFAP-creERT2 exhibited no Cre-mediated recombination
· Recombination was robust in mice with paternally inherited hGFAP-creERT2
· Inheritance effect is NOT transgenerational
· Suppression of recombination was observed independent of colony.
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A PSA for #astrocyte aficionados working with GFAP-CreERT2 mice from @jacksonlab.bsky.social (#012849)
GFAP-CreERT2 mice. Maternal inheritance suppresses transgene recombination efficiency in astrocytes.