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meisterlab.bsky.social @meisterlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025 in Prague – researchers, clinicians & patient families coming together. Honored to co-organize this fantastic, inspiring meeting with amazing colleagues @svobodalab.bsky.social, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & @curiousdina.bsky.social

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congrats to my better half @legionella.bsky.social and his lab and collaborators on this cool discovery! TLDR, they've identified and re-animated a bacteriophage of Legionella pneumophila, a bacteria long thought to not be susceptible to phage attack. Check it out! 🦠

Alex Ensminger @legionella.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sorry for the late reply ‪@superbug-slayer.bsky.social ‪@roblavigne.bsky.social‬. Here's a Legionella phage & it likely shaped the emergence of Legionnaires' in the first place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (cryoEM w/ @smlea.bsky.social @justindeme.bsky.social). #phage #legionella #legionnaires

A Twitter conversation from 2019 in search of the elusive Legionella phages.

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Alex Ensminger @legionella.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sorry for the late reply ‪@superbug-slayer.bsky.social ‪@roblavigne.bsky.social‬. Here's a Legionella phage & it likely shaped the emergence of Legionnaires' in the first place! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (cryoEM w/ @smlea.bsky.social @justindeme.bsky.social). #phage #legionella #legionnaires

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Me too! What an amazing group of people and outstanding science! Great talking with you at your poster! 🐙

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · Aug 27

Conference season part II: one of my favourites, the Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025. As always with some specials: Ago playing cards ♠️♥️♣️♦️ & Ago gin (a favourite since the first meeting). Such fun to have co-organized this @svobodalab.bsky.social ❗️, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & Gunter Meister.

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Aug 27

@svobodalab.bsky.social kicks off #argonautes2025! Welcome everyone to our "family meeting"! Looking forward to some great science over the next few days!🐙

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Aug 26

And a BIG Thanks to @svobodalab.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social and Gunter Meister for organizing the meeting! 🐙

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited for the start of #argonautes2025 tomorrow! This year we're in Prague, @imgprague.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing science and community with Argonaute aficionados and Argonaute Syndromes Alliance families! 🐙

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Q: What can we do as researchers to help?
A: Invite patients and advocates to your labs, to your conferences, to be part of your funding proposals, and contribute to ethics approvals! Include us as partners! With our lived experiences, we are experts, too!

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TREnD @trendrna.bsky.social · Jul 11

RNA-based Disease Advocacy Panel: RNA as Cause and Cure, moderated by TREnD organizers Rasangi Tenakoon and Sharanja Premachandran #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Excited to hear from patients, advocates, and clinicians about RNA-related diseases at our @rnacanada.bsky.social patient advocacy panel. These conversations are so important to connect researchers, families, and clinicians. Thanks for sharing your stories! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

And for our final trainee talk of the day, we'll hear for Carina Lyons of Ji-Young Yoon's lab at Sick Kids/U of Toronto. She's talking about her work on how phosphorylation regulates the ALS associated protein TDP-43. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we'll hear from Tyler Henderson from Sabine Cordes' lab at LTRI/U of Toronto. He's telling us about his PhD work on the role of the trafficking protein/non-canonical RBP Tubby in RNA transport. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Next up: Jack Li from the Blencowe and Taipale labs at U of Toronto talks about his work on using dCasRx-RBM25 to control endogenous splicing events. ✂️ @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Next we'll hear from Cian Ward from Pat O'Donaghue's lab at Western University about tRNA anticodon variants to read through ALS-causative PTCs. 🛑🏁 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

After a fantastic mentor/mentee lunch and an action-packed poster session, we're back with another round of trainee talks! Up next is Qingyu Shi from @haissi-cui.bsky.social lab at the University of Toronto. She's sharing her work on a rare disease variant of SSRM2. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our final trainee talk of this session is by Nuo Xu from the lab of Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy at the University of Toronto. Nuo is telling us about using long read RNA sequencing to identify splice variants in cortical neurons. @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we'll shift gears to lncRNAs! We're hearing from Eric Wang about a topical RNA therapy targeting a lncRNA to treat diabetic retinopathy. Eric is in the lab of Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti's lab at Western University. @trendrna.bsky.social #TrEnD2025 👁️🧬

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TREnD @trendrna.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great talk by Victoria G Castiglioni from @farmgirlphd.bsky.social lab! Thanks for sharing your science with us! #TREnD2025 📈

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we'll hear from Tanya Prashar from Dr. Kathy Hudak's lab at York University about the outcomes of rRNA damage on ribosome stability! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we'll hear from Ryan Goldbach from Thomas Duchaine's lab at McGill about his work on mRNA decapping (or not!) in C. elegans. 🪱🧢 @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our next speaker is Dr. Victoria Garcia Castiglioni from our lab! She's talking about her work as a Curie fellow, looking at the interplay between Argonautes and Orsay virus in C. elegans! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025🪱🐙

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Kicking off our trainee talks is Ayeisha Desjardins, a graduate student in the Palazzo @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social lab, telling us about the interplay between RanBP2 and RISC in regulating cytokine RNAs!

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Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Student representatives from @rnacanada.bsky.social tell us about the organization's goals and efforts, and invite all trainees to become members! @trendrna.bsky.social #TREnD2025

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