Matthew Berg
🇨🇦 Postdoc in Villén lab at the Department of Genome Science, University of Washington | PhD with Dr. Chris Brandl at the University of Western Ontario | He/him
- Check out our new work now published in G3! We use proteomics and phosphoproteomics to study how cells cope with tRNA variants that mis-insert amino acids.
- Using proteomics approaches, @matthewberg22.bsky.social et al. show how mistranslating tRNAs in #yeast alter the abundance and phosphorylation of proteins involved in proteostasis, cell cycle, and translation. Learn more in #G3journal: buff.ly/7KW7m0K
- Reposted by Matthew BergOne week left! Nominations for CSMB Fellows and 2026 CSMB Awards close January 15. Do you know someone whose research, leadership, or service deserves recognition? Nominating is simple! Don't miss the chance to highlight outstanding colleagues. Learn more and submit nominations: csmb-scbm.ca
- Reposted by Matthew Berg🙏🏽 @matthewberg22.bsky.social & @csmb-scbm.bsky.social for capturing my thoughts on mentorship so thoughtfully. Grateful to have @biochemcellbio.bsky.social publish them and to be part of an important conversation on supporting the next generation of scientists. blog.cdnsciencepub.com/trushar-patel/
- Reposted by Matthew BergWe invite you to read the article “The unsung guardians of Canadian dominion, innovation, and prosperity” by Thomas Pulnilkunnil, Ecaterina Cozma and Walid Houry, published in the Hill Times last week: www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
- Reposted by Matthew BergMistranslating tRNA variants impact the proteome and phosphoproteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Matthew BergAnnouncing the yEvo Mutation Browser, a Shiny app for visualizing and exploring sequencing data from experimental evolution and genetic screens. This is the latest from our @yevolab.bsky.social high school teaching & research project and led by my grad student Leah. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Matthew BergInterested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU
- Reposted by Matthew BergWe're hiring! Job Posting: Part-Time Administrative Assistant (Bilingual English/French) Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) csmb-scbm.ca/job-posting-...
- Reposted by Matthew Berg🤔 Are you unsure what jobs you can get with your molecular biosciences degree, other than research? Then join the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social next Thursday, June 19, for our next webinar where we'll hear from three scientists with jobs in scientific writing! Sign up here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Matthew BergCongratulations to our 2025 CSMB Fellows!
- The inaugural CSMB Fellows were also recognized tonight. Congratulations to Dr. Imogen Coe, Dr. Jan Rainey and Dr. John Orlowski! @csmb-scbm.bsky.social
- A great start to day 1 of the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social 2025 conference in Ottawa! If you're around, make sure to come out to my talk on Wednesday morning in the "Protein Folding and Aggregation" session. I'll be talking about the cool stuff I've been doing in the @jvillen.bsky.social lab.
- The 2025 joint @csmb-scbm.bsky.social and PRinCE meeting kicked off today with the @iubmb.bsky.social keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Julie Forman-Kay from @sickkidsto.bsky.social and @uoft.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Matthew BergThe inaugural CSMB Fellows were also recognized tonight. Congratulations to Dr. Imogen Coe, Dr. Jan Rainey and Dr. John Orlowski! @csmb-scbm.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthew BergR2HaPpY: Rapid-robust phosphotyrosine peptide enrichment using HaloTag-Src SH2 pY superbinder biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- The latest work from the @jvillen.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social is out now on bioRxiv! Do you want to study phosphotyrosine signaling easily, cheaply and reproducibly? Then check out Alexis' work developing a method for systems-level pY signaling studies! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- We estimate our approach for enriching pY-containing peptides is ~ 10x cheaper than using pY antibody magnetic beads and our magnetic enrichment reagent can easily be prepared by any lab that can grow E. coli!
- Alexis does a lot of amazing work benchmarking the reagent/method. She demonstrates how powerful it is by applying it to EGF-stimulated cells, uncovering over 1600 unique pY sites including many low abundance and previously uncharacterized sites with as little as 1 mg of peptide input per sample!
- If you study phospho-signaling, make sure you check out this work! I'm thankful to Alexis and Judit for letting me be a part of this project and I'm really excited for others to try this reagent and method. Congrats to all the authors!
- I'm really excited for this month's @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar! It should be a great set of talks 🧪
- Ribosomes are highly conserved, but how did the present day ribosome come to be and what did ancient minimal ribosomes look like? If your curious, come hear Dr. Jessica Willi @willilab.bsky.social next Tuesday May 13th at the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar series! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw
- Reposted by Matthew BergOur next @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar is coming up on Tuesday May 13th at 9am ET! Make sure you tune in to hear about exciting Canadian research 🍁 This month, we'll hear about retro-evolution of the ribosome and Akt signalling in breast cancer. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw
- Reposted by Matthew BergReminders: March 31 is the deadline for early-bird meeting registration and CSMB Fellows program applications. April 2 is the deadline for the CSMB Mentorship initiative applications. Details on our website:
- Don't miss out on these seminars! They've been awesome so far and these talks tomorrow sound like they will be equally as great!
- The @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar series continues tomorrow, March 11 at 9am PT/12pm ET. We have two great speakers lined up who will tell us about their research on the regulation of mRNA translation and an acetyltransferase important in signaling! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw
