Joyce Ohm

I sometimes wish people would yell at my faculty meetings. Too quiet. 🙁

Buffalo Stand Up for Science speaker announcement: Dr Joyce Ohm! Meet the star of a recent Super Bowl commercial, a department chair, great scientist, and fantastic mentor! (I can’t find a picture of her speaking last year, so here’s Ethan.)
@epigenohmics.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Plus my Resist sweatshirt is really cool!

And probably pouring! 🌧️ 🤣

I am the definition of resistance. I hope my resist sweatshirt is clean for tomorrow!

Join us in Buffalo to take back our science, health and democracy! March 7th, 1-3PM, Niagara Square! Outstanding speakers including local scientists, politicians, and activists (details at the link)!
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Buffalo-March/
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Wise guys is excellent! Great first choice.

Worst possible choice. So stupid.

This… this right here is breaking my brain.

This aged well! 💙❤️💙

🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗔𝗥 𝗧-𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆!

Roswell Park researchers have developed IL-36 gamma “armored” CAR T cells that reprogram neutrophils to attack solid tumors.

🔗Read the full press release here: roswellpark.org/newsroom/202...

#CARTCells #RoswellPark

Send them to our mini lending library on the 2nd floor. Lots of good selections there including several recommended here!

A JAMA viewpoint article titled, "The Enigma of Protein Domains of Low-Sequence Complexity" by Steven L. McKnight, PhD, discussing the 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and discoveries related to protein structures.

2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winner Steven McKnight describes discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences.

ja.ma/4hoxpRg

John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

“I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing, this is quite ridiculous.”

A privilege to have known John. He always listened to what one had to say with great intent. If you knew him, you know what I mean.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I wrote a really cool grant this week.

Cartoon showing a stick figure looking toward an end goal w/ a bumpy path to it.

Wise cartoon posted outside a @princetonneuro.bsky.social PhD student office. Let’s all remember to enjoy the journey today (and all days).

In vivo CRISPR screens identify modifiers of CAR T cell function in myeloma - Nature In vivo loss-of-function CRISPR screens were performed to identify genes influencing CAR T cell persistence and function in human multiple myeloma, highlighting CDKN1B as a promising target.

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Megabase-scale human genome rearrangement with programmable bridge recombinases Bridge recombinases are naturally occurring RNA-guided DNA recombinases that we previously demonstrated can programmably insert, excise, and invert DNA in vitro and in Escherichia coli. In this study,...

📣 CRISPR had its day... meet Bridge RNA recombinases from the brilliant Patrick Hsu lab - 3rd Generation Gene Editing is HERE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading The switch between proliferation and invasion is triggered by mechanical force.

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Look at this cute little guy! #lakelife

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

Congratulations. That is so exciting.

Hmmm… so… 1/5 after a 40% budget cut and the starting point was already a 7% payline at NCI. So a payline somewhere around 0.8%? 🤣🤣🤣

This sounds ominous. Do I even want to know?

RNA transcripts regulate G-quadruplex landscapes through G-loop formation G-quadruplexes (G4s) are prevalent DNA structures that regulate transcription but also threaten genome stability. How G4 dynamics are controlled remains poorly understood. Here, we report that RNA tra...

🧬🧪 @science.org RNA transcripts regulate G-quadruplex landscapes through G-loop formation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @puckknipscheer.bsky.social @simonelsasser.bsky.social + al. @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social #DNA #RNA #genome #G-quadruplex #G-loop

I learned this week that my MPI prostate cancer disparities R01 will be terminated this September at the end of year 1. Sounds like they are killing the whole disparities NOFO it was awarded under. Sigh… I am not surprised. I just hate all of this.

That’s fine, but it’s still Ohm’s law.

Wow, 7% depressing. In other news, please check your compiled grants in ERA Commons. 129 pages of our P50 missing going between the final preview of submitted Grant in ASSIST to the compiled grant in Commons. No errors. Put in ticket. Fixed. Still 2 pages missing. The NIH is not alright. 🙁

Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations reveals dynamics of blood ageing - Nature The discovery that DNA methylation of different CpG sites can serve as digital barcodes of clonal identity led to the development of EPI-Clone, an algorithm that enables single-cell lineage tracing th...

Out @nature.com: Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations

🧬 Single cell methylome encodes cell state & clonal identity

🔨 EPI-Clone reads out both (+mutations, +RNA) at scale

🩸 Clonal expansions of HSCs are universal from age 50, not driven by CH mutations

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Congratulations!!!!🍾🎊