Yehu Moran
Evolutionary and molecular biology seasoned with ecology
yehumoran.com
Using mostly sea anemones and other cnidarians as my experimental model organisms. University Professor at HUJI and academic editor for EMBO Press. Opinions are my own.
- 1/3 🚨New paper from our lab!🔥 Most textbooks will tell you that invertebrates employ #RNAi as antiviral mechanism. Yet, do 🪸🪼 actually do it? Well, the answer is complicated. We show that in #Nematostella dsRNA induces RNAi 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- 1/5 🚨🚨 preprint alert! 🚨🚨 I wish to introduce CARDIB, not the singer, but the protein. CARDIB=CARD Inhibitory Binding protein. In our new work we discover this antiviral protein that is found in all Anthozoa (sea anemones and corals 🪸) but not in other animals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Very happy and honored for being invited to give a keynote lecture at the 5th ISFSI conference in beautiful Tainan (and no, sea anemones are not fish or shellfish, but they are certainly marine invertebrates and have a fascinating immune system).
- 1/3 🔥🚨 We have a new @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social #preprint from our lab! Itamar Kozlovski, an excellent PhD student, established CUT&TAG in #Nematostella. He used this technique to map the transcriptional activation mark H3K27ac in two stinging cell populations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
- There’s a reason no one remembers philosophers from Sparta: they had none. Athens valued ideas, Sparta only force. A 21st-century leader dreaming of a “super-Sparta” isn’t being visionary, he’s showing deeply flawed judgement. Oh, my country, what a train wreck you’ve become.
- I'm super proud of this guy!!! 👇
- Our paper about the interplay between heat stress, viral and antiviral response in sea anemones and #corals 🪸 is finally out! #OpenAccess Collaboration between my lab, Maoz Fine and @reefgenomics.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Very interesting results and a technical breakthrough in gene silencing in Trichoplax: Dissecting a peptidergic signaling pathway in Trichoplax adhaerens by gene silencing: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
- A journal drags our review process for months over months. Even the final round after "accepted in principle" with some light text editing drags for weeks. Then the proofs come in, in the least convenient time possible, "we expect you to return your comments within 48 hours" 😖
- Reposted by Yehu MoranOur work on the function of miR-51/miR-100 is out! miR-100 is widely conserved across eumetazoans but its function has been mysterious. Emilio Santillán found in worms it regulates signaling and extracellular matrix genes, some of which seem to be conserved targets! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- We sent a paper to a "posh" journal. Waited for more than a month, Finally today the editor rejects the paper without external review. The logic is as follows: "I wanted 🍕, but you sent me a 🍔, and despite my expectations, there was no 🍕! I admit it's a fine 🍔, but where is the 🍕 I was expecting?"
- Achievement unlocked! Now, I can finally rest 🤪
- 1/2 The new impact factor numbers are out. No sane person should use them as a proxy for anything, multiple organizations and institutes signed DORA, and still many people rely on them: I'll make it short and sweet: everything that carries "Nature" in its title went up. Sometimes crazily so -->
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- Reposted by Yehu MoranThe fascinating work spearheaded by Kirsten Senti on the diversification and adaptation of endogenous retroviruses in the host gonad 'ecosystem'' is officially published.
- 🚨📢 New paper alert! A study led by Kirsten Senti and Julius Brennecke offers new insights into how ancient endogenous retroviruses diversified to exploit different cell “niches” in the fruit fly ovary, and how the host’s defenses adapted in return. imba.science/Brennecke_EMBOJ
- After more than 11 years, a long-due "postdocs reunion" with @xxxmichixxx.bsky.social at the @fmiscience.bsky.social Many thanks for the invitation, Michi! It was great meeting you and your colleagues and catching up on some cool science!
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- Peer Review can be of great value when done properly and awful when done badly. We waited 3.5 months for the decision, Reviewer #2: "Looking on the figures, I get the feeling their antibody is not specific". That's so insightful & informative! It was worth waiting just for this!!! 🙏🤪🤦😱
- Reposted by Yehu MoranI’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- I'm starting a short sabattical of 4 months at @embopress.org today! I hope we can achieve some good things for the molecular eco-evo community and science publishing during this time! #heidelberg
- Reposted by Yehu Moran✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Excellent work (as usual!) from the Genikhovich group! Highly recommended read.
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- Happy Darwin day, everyone! Charles is 216 years old today. He is not here anymore, but his theory is still alive and well!
- Elon Musk trying to fix the grant overhead system in US academia is like a brain surgeon performing an operation on a patient using a sledgehammer... 🤦 BTW, the ones who are going to suffer the most from this are state universities, not the Ivy League... www.science.org/content/arti...
- 1/3 🎬 film review: I am very bad in working and sleeping on 🛩. So flying to Colorado and back on multiple Delta/Air France flights enabled me to fill quite some gap in recent movies (I love cinema but have no time). My impressions: Killers of the Flower Moon: Breathtaking and heartbreaking. 5⭐️ 🧵
