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10 Questions with Dr. Finosh G. Thankam

Q1. Who inspired you to become a scientist? Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the “Missile Man of India,” inspired me deeply with his vision, interaction with school kids, humility, passion and dedication to science and humanity. His journey from modest beginnings to becoming a world-renowned scientist and President of India taught me that hard work, perseverance, […]

Translatomics for microproteins, C. elegans, H. volcanii

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, Reyes Loaiciga et al. leveraged ribosome profiling datasets from SmProt to catalog ~20,000 candidate small encoded peptides in yeast. Zhao et al. apply ribosome […]

Translatomics for immunology, tRNA, and NAT10

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, Dopler et al. demonstrate the role of P-stalk ribosomes in mediating cytokine-based immune responses. Liu et al. uncover the importance of the ac4C12 tRNA […]

Translatomics for Queuosine, ALS and cancer

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, Zbihley, O.N.P. et al. find that increased levels of Queuosine tRNA modification at position 34 could specifically enhance ribosomal protein synthesis. Neeves, J. et […]

Translatomics for 3’UTRs, CRISPR, and YebC

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, West et al. used a massively parallel reporter assay with RNA-seq and polysome profiling to show how human 3′UTRs fine-tune gene expression through combined […]