RNA discovery biology, platform development, gene therapy. Former worm wrangler and neuroscientist. Mid-pack marathon/ultrarunner.
Boston, MA
Joined July 2010
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Ian McLachlan retweeted
Congratulations to Steve Flavell and 3 others @MIT on being named @HHMINews Investigators! Flavell’s lab studies neural mechanisms underlying internal brain states (e.g. different motivational and arousal states). picower.mit.edu/news/hhmi-ho… @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT #neuroscience
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Ian McLachlan retweeted
Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.
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The lab's latest is out 👏🏽👏🏽 Congrats in particular to first author @TravistyzAside and co-authors and collaborators @alison_marie1 @imclach @_MikeOD_ and (I think twitter-free) Steve Flavell. Linking previous tweetorial below.
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Post docs*
*sound ON 🔊
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I am excited to announce that I will be opening a laboratory in the Cell Biology Department @EmoryMedicine this coming winter! We will study signal processing in the somatosensory system using mouse genetic tools, electrophysiology, and imaging.
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Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
Ian McLachlan retweeted
Behavior changes depending on whether you are happy, hungry, stressed
In C. elegans, these all affect olfaction - and in so many different ways!
Modulation of a single neuron involves synapses, peptides, TOR signaling etc...to tune receptor expression
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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25 years ago my contemporaries promised me that when they had tenure, lots of funding and an established lab they would help change things. Now that they do, they're playing by the rules "for their trainees", who promise to change things when they have tenure, lots of funding...
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Ian McLachlan retweeted
I’m leading the call for national security powers to not be expanded in light of the attack on our nation’s Capitol that occurred two weeks ago, as such measures often lead to the erosion of Americans’ civil liberties.
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In other news Stanford has made a toilet that identifies you based on your butthole
nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
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Honestly I have never in my life seen the Democratic Party muster up anywhere near the energy or political savvy to fight the Republicans that it's exhibiting right now to snuff out a grassroots progressive movement. Hard to believe it's the same organization.
Ian McLachlan retweeted
Everything in academic science is set up to be “you don’t deserve to be here and we don’t even want you, really. So PROVE IT!”
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“I’m open to talking about it to people because that’s the only way you make progress on stuff like this”
Megan Youngren ran a 2:43:52 marathon in December & is set to become the 1st openly transgender athlete to compete at the US Olympic marathon trials. si.com/olympics/2020/02/13/m…
Ian McLachlan retweeted
New paper online in @naturemethods!
An optimized chemical-genetic method for cell-specific metabolic labeling of RNA
nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
Thank you to reviewers and editorial staff for their very helpful comments and guidance!
Ian McLachlan retweeted
When I defended my PhD on #coronavirus #antivirals at the end of 2019
1) I had to go out of my way to explain why coronaviruses were important
2) someone asked if I really thought another coronavirus would emerge
It’s crazy how fast things are changing with #2019nCoV
Ian McLachlan retweeted
I have a favor to ask. For 20+ years I've been working on a dream: to make all science funded by US taxpayers freely available to all. We are on the verge of achieving this. But we need to show that people care. So please, if you can, sign this letter:
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- finished 7 phds in 4 languages
- published 366 papers
- completed 8 books
- supervised 110 phds
- made professor at 22
- married
- 7 perfect children
- won the World Cup
- farted and it came out as diamonds
Feel bad about yourself yet? #boast @AcademicChatter
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I wrote this up and posted. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
In some sense it is trivial, yet it is important. If you are using fluorescent reporters (GCAMP, dLight,....) and relating to behavioral events or neural activity, please read it and comment
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Preprint. @ElizabethCebul and @imclach discovered a new way for dendrites to grow, and we think they are using glia to do it. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…