10 Questions with Associate Professor Pouya Faridi

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? My middle school biology teacher. He made biology and science in general feel alive, exciting, and full of mystery. I think that was the first time I realised science was not just about memorising facts, but about sometimes asking crazy questions and discovering how life works. Q2. […]

Translatomics for embryogenesis, viral infections and bananas

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Li, Y. et al. find that tRNA repertoires transition from maternal to embryonic during oocyte to blastocyst change. Talló-Parra, M. et al. find that […]

Translatomics for mito-ribosomes, EIF3D, and selenoprotein

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Schöndorf, T. et al. through ribosome profiling and cryo-EM of mito-ribosomes show that inner mitochondrial membrane insertion acts as a kinetic checkpoint, coordinating protein […]

10 Questions with Dr. Rossana Henriques

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? My 10th grade Biology and my 11th grade Mathematics teachers did inspire me to pursue a career in Science. Initially, I did not really think about being a ‘scientist’, but after my College degree, I found that I did enjoy doing research and this is when I […]

Translatomics for liver cancer, prostate cancer, and acute myeloid leukaemia

Recent Publications Harnessing the Power of Translatomics Every week we provide a digest of a small number of recent interesting papers in the field of translatomics. In this week’s Sunday papers, Contreras et al. find using polysome-seq that sorafenib causes global suppression of translation and also uses selective translation to treat hepatocellular carcinoma. Cordova et […]