Oscar Vargas Rodriguez
@OSENVARO
RNA & Protein Biochemist & Molecular Biologist. @mbbuchc @UConnHealth 🇻🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸 http://vargasrodriguezlab.bsky.social
Our @ScienceMagazine paper is out! Discovered how tRNA-derived small RNA (tsRNA/tDR) protects kidneys via RNA autophagy. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Huge thanks to @SaumyaDas_Lab and all our amazing collaborators! Excited for the therapeutic potential ahead! @MGHanesthesia @mghcvrc
We are excite d to have our new paper out: Tethering of the pathogen sensor caspase-4 to the endomembrane damage sensor galectin-8 poises the host to rapidly detect pathogens that breach the endolysosomal network. cell.com/cell-reports/f… @uconnresearch @uconnhealth 1/2
Really cool link between tRNA cpy number and bacterial cell wall 🦠 academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…
Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome? Excited to share this article and interviews by Michael Eisenstein (@Nature), which summarizes the current state, challenges, and recent developments in whole-genome synthesis and bottom-up genome design. The full-text link is below:
Stand Up For Science 2025 Announces National Day of Action: March 7, 2025 👇👇👇
Thrilled (and relieved) to finally have this review by Arianna, Zeyi, and Kaitlyn out! Everything you've ever wanted to know about genetic code expansion in mammalian cells! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
Anita Hepper published her new work in Mol. Cell. news.osu.edu/junk-rna-segme… cell.com/molecular-cell…
The #MSCA 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowships call results are out! 1696 outstanding researchers have been selected from 10,360 applicants to conduct research at top institutions worldwide, pushing forward the 🇪🇺 research and innovation sector 🌍🔬 Let’s break those results down🧵👇
NIH plan to reduce overhead payments draws fire | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
NIH indirect costs fund the backbone of research: maintaining labs, ensuring safety, and supporting admin work. These are essential for groundbreaking discoveries. Drastic cuts to NIH indirect rates are detrimental to academic biomedical research.
The application portal is now open for our incredible 2025 Erice Meeting “Frontiers in Biophysics” It is a broad meeting covering many aspects of modern biophysics—from structure to computation to imaging to genomics and beyond. #ilovescience #biophysics
Happy Black History Month! Check out this months newsletter ❤️🖤💚 mailchi.mp/cientificolati…
Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders wapo.st/4jFwoVE
Thanks @NatRevMCB & Lisa Heinke for highlighting our recent paper!!
New Online! The bystander effect of pyroptosis bit.ly/4jLY4bk
Today
MBB Seminar Series – Tues, 2/4/25, @ Noon Presenter: Dr. Alexandre Bisson – Asst. Professor, Biology, Brandeis University Title: “Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Model for (Physics-Evo-Devo) Mechanosensing" Location: Low Learning Center & WebEx uchc.webex.com/meet/Low
Congratulations to the Fu Lab @dragonyfu. It is great to be part of this #tRNA study.
Human TRMT1 and TRMT1L paralogs ensure the proper modification state, stability, and function of tRNAs dlvr.it/THGFbd
We have fully-funded, long-term PhD and Postdoctoral positions open in my laboratory, as part of our ERC research! Please see details below. Reposts are much appreciated.
I am looking for a research associate - a recent college grad with BS or equivalent. Apply online! searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/77394