Eric N. Olson
@Transactivator
Lover of muscle, music and mountains
Thank you, @UTSWNews @CRSM_UTSW for a great seminar visit today! Enjoyed presenting our @kadochlab work, seeing so many friends and colleagues as well as connecting with new ones @Transactivator @Mendell_lab @SJMorrison_ @PingMu_PhD, Nobel Laureate Joe Goldstein and others!
Amazing evening with Willie Nelson and friends in Dallas! Keep on rocking! 😎
Happy to share our new paper demonstrating optimization of base editing to correct the lethal ACTA2 R179H mutation in human smooth muscle cells in vitro and humanized mice, thereby rescuing multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome. ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…
Step inside a day in the life of @TheDouglasLab, as he studies the long-term effects of brain injuries. Explore his lab and see how scientists like him are driving progress - just in time for the @UTSWMolBiol 30th anniversary celebration: bit.ly/4bAh20V
Happy Holidays from the UTSW Department of Molecular Biology! @CRSM_UTSW @UTSWMedCenter
So proud of our latest PhD graduates - Gaby Cano and Akansha Shah - who are leaving for their next scientific adventures. Thank you for all your insights, effort and enthusiasm. Your futures are bright! @UTSWMedCenter
Heinrich Taegtmeyer, a true inspiration and a dear friend.
Inspiring lecture by the legendary Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer, winner of the 2024 Eric N. Olson Mentorship Award (ENOMA) of the ISHR North American Section. Congratulations, Dr. T, and long live metabolism research!
Today's view from the yard! Entering a bear market... @VisitTelluride
Great science and scenery at the Olson Lab retreat! @CRSM @utsw @VisitTelluride
Great meeting in Cancun with Leducq Transatlantic Network on "Editing the Failing Heart"!
Happy 91st birthday Willie Nelson! Big thanks to you and Annie for your support, confidence in science, and inspiration. Keep on rocking and inspiring us all! @UTSWMedCenter @BioAnnie2 @WillieNelson
Happy to share our new paper on the role of myocardin phase separation in cardiac and smooth muscle specification @bsabari, @peihengg_heart, @mikayla_eppert Coactivator condensation drives cardiovascular cell lineage specification | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Exciting new study from @StefiVargasA and @MiaoCui_713 ! At the crossroads of regeneration, cardiology and immunology!
Extremely happy to share our latest work from the @Transactivator lab! We show that the immunosuppressive PD-1/PD-L1 pathway is active in neonatal mouse hearts and required for regeneration 🫀Huge thanks to co-author @MiaoCui_713 and all other authors! nature.com/articles/s4416…
Annual Thanksgiving feast in the Department of Molecular Biology. Happy Thanksgiving! @UTSWNews
Happy to share this paper from Miao Cui, now leading her own lab at Harvard.
Our study is now online @Dev_Cell! We report a transcriptional control of cardiomyocyte proliferation & metabolism. This project was mostly carried out during my postdoc @Transactivator lab and completed in my lab with help of talented postdoc Tianhao. Big thanks to all authors🙏
"On the Dark Side of the Moon", eclipse in Dallas.
