RT @howitts_done: This Craigslist Ad for a Genetic Engineer Is Pure Wonderful Madness http://t.co/Etgj17pMd9

2:05pm April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

MT @YuanJi1: The Orcas team shirt at the NASA showcase meet: Attitude is everything!

1:55pm April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @ScottKirsner: Incubator backs emerging research at Broad Institute http://t.co/0RSowC4uIg via @BostonGlobe

12:00pm April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

Go Digital PCR Part 3: Copy Number Variation | Behind the Bench http://t.co/hXQBMzySeg

11:45am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @pickover: Amplituhedron, like a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions, key to reality http://t.co/pBtyPHf751 http://t.co/BVcJjcM00E

10:35am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

Stop the Scandimania: Nordic nations aren’t the utopias they’re made out to be - The Washington Post http://t.co/gG8BK9XtH3

9:20am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things http://t.co/5hseAUVIQs

8:20am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @girlscientist: Dear ATL area nerds: some great spots still available in the 2015 Parade of Elements! http://t.co/UZlFO5FEYo

6:15am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to girlscientist

RT @lexnederbragt: Average amount of sequencing data uploaded to NCBI per day - 6 Tb!

4:40am April 11th 2015 via Hootsuite

Battery life "consistently disappointing": Apple MacBook Isn’t Ready for the Present - WSJ http://t.co/Ri4pznQefx

10:05pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

NASA Says We're on Verge of Finding Alien Life | WSJ Video http://t.co/Mhin5DtKIr

9:05pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

Ad of the Day: Lego Awesomely Leaps Into Toys-to-Life by Way of Joel McHale's House | Adweek http://t.co/lbPP786rxo

8:00pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

The NIH Spends More on Travel Paperwork Than on Researching Hodgkin’s Disease - Bloomberg Business http://t.co/RmVfIAAQ0U HT @drbachinsky

7:55pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @brainpicker: How to find your bliss – Joseph Campbell on what it takes to have a fulfilling life http://t.co/GN34sTyzHR

6:45pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

.@notSoJunkDNA I mis-heard the speaker (Bryan Traynor, NIA) - it was 8%, not 80% for sporadic #ALS

6:22pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to notSoJunkDNA

RT @GholsonLyon: Spatially resolved, highly multiplexed RNA profiling in single cells. Cool. http://t.co/We4uaI1ZTm

5:25pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

.@notSoJunkDNA I know the presenter personally - will ask him about it.

4:14pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to notSoJunkDNA

.@notSoJunkDNA Yes I was amazed at Bryan's talk - so many interesting discoveries...

3:16pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to notSoJunkDNA

RT @adrbaez: Genome ass'y & annotation, variant calling, SNP annotation, MLST & ABR gene finding: IonGAP http://t.co/v8iJBy6KKl @ion

3:15pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

Hearing that Tron 3 was greenlighted reminded me to look this Glitch Mob remix of 'Derezzed'. Nice one. YouTube http://t.co/WIKqGTuwU3

2:45pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @crodarte: Exciting! We discuss key benefits (& challenges) facing #wearables as patient self-care tools http://t.co/pyszTyguIh

1:50pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT:A2: "It's becoming clear that #ALS is not one disease; motor neurons either work or die, thus a host of reasons"

12:51pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT:Q:For autism, many functional genes implicated A:Starting to evolve in #ALS - RNA metabolism; another is protein degradation.

12:51pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT:Q:Knockout mice? A:Several, other groups are working on it. Even cloning in the expansion - v. difficult to do #ALS

12:47pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT:Q:Function of C9orf72? A:Can see domains of other proteins. For this: no domains. Unk function. Suggest: DNMN, export #ALS

12:46pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT:Acknowledged support from NIA, NINDS, ALS Association, Microsoft research #ALS

12:45pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Shows Parkinson's paper of 13.7K cases and 95K controls, 6 new loci 2014 Nalls et al http://t.co/u6tswbtBga wishes large cohort for #ALS

12:44pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Shows figure from this week's #ALS Science commentary http://t.co/abBAEwc6re Overall a 15% genetic etiology for #ALS.

12:41pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: GWAS over the years for sporadic cases: Four Manhattan plots from 4 papers - 'a Dublin plot' (flat). #ALS

12:40pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Function - MATR3 interacts with TDB-43; TDP-43 with FUS. MATR3 interacts with C9orf72 #ALS

12:38pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: #ALS Trial enrolling; 2014 paper about candidate therapeutic agents - http://t.co/rdxo2dd0AF

12:37pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: How to leverage clinically? NINDS 'has been stellar in supporting this effort' - a C9orf72 clinic. #ALS Trial: http://t.co/3phPh9Xuib

12:36pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Looking at penetrance - now doing WGS of old-onset and early-onset #ALS and may determine a final pathway. Could be methylation...

12:35pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Found C9orf72 in 1% of clinical Alzheimer's (6/771); two autopsies w/FTD 2012 NEJM http://t.co/XEpwK08G47 improves AD dx #ALS

12:33pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Definite - #ALS and FTD. Also Huntington's. Possible: Alz, Schiz, Bipolar, Parkinson's, Multi-system atrophy, carticobasal syndrome

12:31pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Think it was about 1,500 y.a. occurred in Finland and spread from there. Suspect Viking origin. #ALS '14 paper: http://t.co/NeHEq0GDgk

12:29pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: C9orf72 expansion #ALS 2012 Lancet Neurol http://t.co/clq5SuwAma Common haplotype indicates a common founder!

12:27pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: 'It was marvelous to explain to patient groups that #ALS had a genetic basis'

12:25pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: The hexanucleotide expansion accounts for almost 1/2 of familial #ALS - also 80% of sporadic ALS!

12:25pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Saw 2 reads cover that were mis-aligned. By hand - noticed a motif - found a repeat expansion. Massive expansion. #ALS

12:24pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Sequenced 400x chr9 - E. Eichler helped analyze - 8 unique SNVs. 6 within 30bp. Showed IGV screencap - saw lack of coverage #ALS

12:23pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Characterized a family with many #ALS in a small UK village. Suspected insert or inversion. Did flow-sorting for chr9 (in 2010).

12:21pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: Started to realize - took 3y to find the gene. Formed an Int'l 9p21 consortium. #ALS Renton et al '11 Neuron http://t.co/X0a0waZeYT

12:20pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

RT @childrensmercy: Dr. Nussbaum, @UCSFChildrens: "Impt to remember newborn genomic sequencing is not a 'test' - it's a program." #Genome15

12:20pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: 9p21 - found in a 7Mb region. #ALS GWAS paper in '10 http://t.co/7BafM0AbZC from population in Finland: narrowed to 232kb region.

12:18pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite

BT: #ALS third gene: MATR3 '14 Johnson et al http://t.co/dTzQDRcmnP Next: C9orf72 repeat expansion. 9p21 ALS/FTD locus ID'd via linkage '05

12:16pm April 10th 2015 via Hootsuite