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Yamuna Krishnan

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Organelle maniac, DNA devotee, RNA fanatic, Biology addict. 👩🏽‍🔬🧬🦠🧪🔬 ORCID: 0000-0001-5282-8852 https://krishnanlab.uchicago.edu/

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · Oct 16

Raphael Rodriguez and I wrote this historical perspective on Next Generation Sequencing by synthesis, because we were both postdocs in Shankar’s lab during the time it was being developed at Solexa…. 1/n🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · 8h

✨🥳🎉 Heartfelt congratulations to Humboldtians Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi on winning the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2025 which they share with Richard Robson for the development of "metal-organic frameworks"!

We are truly honoured to have supported a step in their exceptional journey! 💚

Three portraits of men – the 2025 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 19h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 16h

I like this chap already!

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 22h

I hope this Nobel Prize gets people talking meaningfully about our amazing immune systems and the importance of basic research to human health (and funding basic research).

I am also glad young women get to see that women can not only work at this level, but that those who do can get recognized.

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I had the exact same reaction/thought. So I am happy it could be shared.

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Uschi Symmons @usymmons.bsky.social · 1d

Really enjoying this story about Fred Ramsdell not knowing about his Nobel prize in Medicine, because he's offline, hiking in Idaho.

There seems to be such pressure to be reachable all the time nowadays, that is nice to see! 😅

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in superconducting circuits: www.nobelprize.org

I know Michel Devoret very well, since he co-published with us on our 1st nanotube papers

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 1d

😊 #womeninSTEM #womeninscience

Women in Electron Microscopy conference

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 1d

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Physics Nobel awarded for macro demonstration of quantum effects

John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis honored for work on quantum mechanical tunnelling

www.science.org

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know that NGS will be this year, bec last year was a Chembio prize, so this year may be organic or inorganic

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 1d

This @scripps.edu place is pretty decent!

Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 1d

Former Scripps Research assistant professor Shimon Sakaguchi has been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize for discovering regulatory T cells—work that reshaped immunology and inspired therapies now in clinical trials for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant complications.

Former Scripps Research assistant professor awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

I hard co-sign this one.

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AmyPalmerZinc @amypalmerzinc.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share a link to our recent review spearheaded by Dr. Ananya Rakshit on Zn2+ transients and signaling in mammalian systems: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltlt3S6Gf...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 2d

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 2d

T-regs for the win!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 2d

We're delighted to see immunologists once again recognised by the #NobelPrize! 🏆

Warm congratulations to the winners - their contributions have been vital in shaping our understanding of the immune system.

More here: www.immunology.org/news/british...

British Society for Immunology response to 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | British Society for Immunology

www.immunology.org

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" including the identification of regulatory T cells

#NobelPrize #Tregs

@nobelprize.bsky.social 🧪🔬🏆

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 2d

Regulatory T-cells for the 2025 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 2d

An inspired choice! They hadn’t been able to reach two of the winners at the time of the announcement!

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 2d

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine #nobelprize

E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”