Harmit Malik
Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results). He/him
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RTP4 Is a Potent IFN-Inducible Anti-flavivirus Effector Engaged in a Host-Virus Arms Race in Bats and Other Mammals
Conflicts between viruses and their hosts drive the evolution of antiviral restriction
factors. Boys et al. unveil mammalian RTP4 as an antiviral effector that suppresses
the replication of distinct flaviviruses in a species-specific manner, thus...
What exactly is a chalk talk?
Three new professors share their experiences with careers columnist Elizabeth Stivison.
Viruses that infect mitochondria
Mitoviruses replicate in the mitochondria of fungi and plants, and are among the simplest of viruses encoding only an RNA polymerase.
The wtf4 meiotic driver utilizes controlled protein aggregation to generate selective cell death
The Wtf4 antidote protein assembles with the Wtf4 poison protein and promotes the transportation of the assembled proteins to the vacuole for sequestration or destruction.
20 Republican former U.S. attorneys endorse Biden, call Trump "a threat to the rule of law"
"[Trump] has politicized the Justice Department" the former prosecutors wrote.
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Harmit Malik
20 Republican former U.S. attorneys endorse Biden, call Trump "a threat to the rule of law"
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The Powder Keg Index And The Election From Hell
Two researchers claim that a single number they call the “political stress indicator” can warn when societies are at risk of erupting into violence. It’s spiking in the US, just like it did before the Civil War.
r/labrats - Comment by u/eduardobio on ”A paper with more references (212) than actual words (182), and all the references from the first author”
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Advice for international grad students and postdocs about the academic challenges they face (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Shoba Subramanian explores the professional challenges international grad students and postdocs continue to face -- and offers some advice to them as well as their academic colleagues.
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
The Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can...
Undecided
SHOUTS AND MURMURS about undecided voters. As we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign, the focus shifts to the undecided voters. I look …
Technical knockout, a Drosophila model of mitochondrial deafness - PubMed
Mutations in mtDNA-encoded components of the mitochondrial translational apparatus are associated with diverse pathological states in humans, notably sensorineural deafness. To develop animal models of such disorders, we have manipulated the nuclear...
Washington Listens call line provides support for ongoing COVID stress
For Washingtonians feeling stressed, anxious or depressed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a state call line offers a listening ear or connections to help.
A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla
Pyrosomes are tunicates in the phylum Chordata, which also contains vertebrates. Their gigantic blooms play important ecological and biogeochemical roles in oceans. Pyrosoma, meaning “fire-body”, derives from their brilliant bioluminescence. The...
Viral mimicry of p65/RelA transactivation domain to inhibit NF-κB activation
The evolutionary arms race between hosts and their viruses drove the evolution of complex immune systems in mammals and sophisticated immune evasion mechanisms by viruses. Mammalian antiviral defences require sensing of virus infection and...
'I am dying of lymphoma': The touching ways a dad, 36, prepared family for his death
Laura McKnight feels wowed by all the ways her husband, Jeff, planned for her care after his death.
A large accessory protein interactome is rewired across environments
A massively multiplexed multi-condition screen shows that protein interactomes are larger than previously thought and contain highly dynamic regions that reorganize to drive or respond to cellular changes.
The 'obvious' winner of the final debate: moderator Kristen Welker
Political pundits noted the calmer and less chaotic scene than in the first Trump-Biden showdown in Cleveland