People, preprints, and projects
- Erika (incoming Neuro PhD student) briefly joined the lab as an RA for the last month of Summer and is starting her first rotation this week. Welcome aboard!
- a preprint of Dustin's pipeline for end-to-end RNA-Seq analyses in up on bioRxiv. Works in Windows (WSL) on your local machine and can take your own data or SRA archive from .fastq to .bigwig tracks, differential genes, GSEA and ontology analyses, and all standard visualization, while generating comprehensive reports for all steps.
- a preprint of a joint project with the Wanat Lab is up as well - these data suggest astrocytes respond to drugs of abuse is complex and context-specific ways, and may switch from pro- to anti-addictive functions. Stay tuned for the mechanism! Congrats to Ashley and Leo (and all the Wanat lab and collaborators)!
- a greatly expanded version of a story on juvenile hormone degradation enzymes in Drosophila is up as well - stay tuned for peer-reviewed publication.
- Ashley was awarded INDARB T32 and submitted her F31 last week - "good show!"
- We got a WelchX Pilot grant! A 1-year, $100K joint project between Soshnev lab at UTSA and Wilusz lab at Baylor College of Medicine will explore how histone genes are upregulated when one paralog goes missing.
