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Michael Guertin
@guertin.bsky.social
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Genomics of gene regulation lab at UConn Health. Associate Professor promoting open science & positive changes to research and education
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 5d
I don't understand why a wheel speed sensor is $20 online and $200 at any auto parts store. I don't find this to be the case for most parts
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 14d
are double em dashes common with chatGPT write ups? I don't recall seeing them often until recently.
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Zeitlinger Lab @zeitlingerlab.bsky.social · 19d
Excited to join Bluesky! Looking forward to seeing the cool research everyone posts!
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 22d
Here are the proposed dates
Screenshot of estimated post date for NIH MIRA R35 research grant program for established investigators (11/3/2025) with applications anticipated as due 1/27/2026
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 26d
Not replying to emails and being late on everything is apparently considered quirky and charming amongst colleagues. Faculty should not laugh this behavior off, normalize it, and enable. Being inconsiderate adds work for everyone else. Pointing out the behavior shouldn’t make me the jerk.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 27d
Attack. Heard it straight from Will Greenleaf's mouth at a bar in Puerto Rico in 2016.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 29d
in your 40s, it is necessary to stretch before taking the trash bin down the driveway or you'll hurt your back.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 29d
thanks. I love the R35 mechanism.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 29d
Am I missing something or is there still no Program Announcement for R35s at NIGMS that are not ESI?
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Sep 1
No major or minor grooves?
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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · Aug 22
Excited to announce that I’ll be the Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Genomics Core Facility starting mid September 🧬🧪🧫

www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...
New director appointed at Huck Institutes Genomics Core | Penn State University
Research Professor Cheryl Keller has been named the new director of the Genomics Core Facility in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
www.psu.edu
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jul 22
I don't mind drinking Drosophila that meet their end in my glass of wine.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jul 18
perspective: Human geneticists will soon have to figure out how the genes/encoded proteins lead to the phenotype. More GWAS variants with smaller effect sizes and more molecular phenotyping (QTL) is not sustainable. who cares about the causal variant? Figure out what the causal gene/protein does!
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jul 10
I loved this preprint, nice to see it published in G&D.
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Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social · Jul 10
In this study, Mimoso et al. show that Restrictor serves as a transcriptional safeguard that suppresses the spurious transcription of non-coding RNAs, while preserving mRNA transcription.

Learn more here:
➡️ tinyurl.com/gd352654
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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jun 26
Taking place on 17-19 September 2025, Transcription and Chromatin UK will showcase cutting-edge research and is a ‘mustattend’ for anyone within the transcription and epigenetics community🧪. Register now: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...
Transcription and Chromatin UK Manchester, UK 17-19 September 2025 Earlybird deadline: 17 July 2025
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Jun 18
FN is taking a summer vacation 🏖️, but we'll be back in September with more exciting talks on chromatin and transcription!

If you've got a new story you'd like to share with the FN audience this fall, fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Application to speak in the Fragile Nucleosome series
Thank you for your interest in our seminar series! We use a variety of different session formats but, in general, trainees can plan for a ~15 min talk + 5min Q/A and PIs can plan for a ~25min talk +...
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 6
It was in 2018, but I can probably find it.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 6
collected a few bundles that showed Ass. Professors in the department were very very underpaid, but Full Professors were overpaid, which angered those in power. No moral to the story, but it is funny looking back on it.
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 6
someone at AAMC did not like my email, so they did not respond. However, they did contact my department chair and dean, presumably implying that I was being malicious (convienently not forwarding my actual email). I was reprimanded and stripped of this task, but not before I...
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 6
perhaps like you, I immediately realized that it was easy to request bundles in combinations that allowed me to calculate each school's salaries. However, I wanted to make sure this was OK, so I emailed the AAMC and told them that this was possible and directly asked if it was OK...
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 6
as an assistant professor I was tasked with comparing departmental faculty salaries because the faculty survey noted this as a big complaint. UVA could get medical school faculty salary data from AAMC, but only as 5 school bundles—but as many 5 school bundles as requested and in any combination...
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · Jun 3
yes
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · May 14
maybe read depth for the peak calling is what is important? I used to use hotspot in my postdoc lab!
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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · May 14
I still think the genomic real estate needs to be the same for direct comparisons. it is easy enough to do and you can pick any arbitrary number of peaks. I don't see why read depth matters for a fraction...
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