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10 Questions with Dr. Andy High

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? There wasn’t a single individual who inspired me—my interest in science has been there since childhood. I was always the kid running little experiments, taking things apart, and trying to understand why the world works the way it does. Q2. What drives your research interest? My research […]

Translatomics for wheat, ribosome pausing, and rice

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, Chen et al. use ribosome profiling to investigate how heat stress reshapes the translatome in wheat grain. Han et al. use ribosome profiling to […]

Translatomics for tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA decay

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, Hermann et al. demonstrate how tRNA modification influences on translational output. Salsi et al. uncover a new role of specific lncRNAs in rRNA regulation. […]

Translatomics for plant stress and development

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, Carey-Fung et al. uncover a conserved upstream open reading frame in IDEF2 that represses translation and fine-tunes iron deficiency responses. Zhang et al. (2024) […]

10 Questions with Dr. Elif Sarinay Cenik

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? The scientist interviews in the Campbell Biology textbook captivated me; especially Joan Steitz’s. They showed me how curiosity and persistence can change what we know about life. Q2. What drives your research interest? Curiosity. I love pushing the boundaries of what we know so we can better […]