David W. Sanders!
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Southwestern. My lab studies damaged things. Sometimes we fix them. Hiring! Write if interested in postdoc or tech position. https://www.davidwsanders.com
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!The Senate version of the NIH appropriations bill has language that limits the use of multiyear/upfront funding. Please call your Senators and Representatives to make sure it is in the final bill. We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
- DPRIT passes! $3-billion Texas investment in dementia research: www.alz.org/news/2025/te...
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!(1/10) How do diverse leukemia mutations converge on the same molecular program? In #RibackLab first manuscript @cp-cell.bsky.social, collaboration with @goodell-lab.bsky.social shows that disparate mutations rewire shared protein networks to form nuclear condensates called C-bodies.
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!mStayRose is published in JBC 🥳🎉 Congratulations @wsctt.bsky.social @sporemohan.bsky.social and team for the monumental effort to make a non-natural amino acid incorporating fluorescent protein accessible. It's based on mStayGold, bright, and photostable: www.jbc.org/article/S002...
- Ut southwestern is recruiting! 3-milly start-up for tenure-track or tenured PI positions in O’Donnell Brain institute. Basic and translational neuroscientists both. If I can call myself a neuroscientist, so can you! Please consider reposting :) #DPRITisComing apply.interfolio.com/174927
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Colliding ribosomes are potent signals of cellular stress. But do cells use ‘programmed’ ribosome collisions to regulate gene expression? I’m excited to present a new story from my lab led by Frederick Rehfeld(@fred-rehfeld.bsky.social) which revealed that the answer is YES! Read on to find out how👇
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Proud to announce that we received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award to develop a new class of genome editing tools!
- Dr. Graham Erwin @grahamerwin.bsky.social receives NIH New Innovator Award! www.bcm.edu/news/dr-grah... @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcmgenetics.bsky.social #BCMCancerCenter
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
- Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡 See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...
- Humbled to announce that we received a New Innovator award. I thank the NIH’s civil servants for their hard work during a stressful funding cycle. I thank the leadership (and chair, Marc Diamond) at UTSW for betting on my lab’s high risk, high reward research. www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/art...
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Dr. Graham Erwin @grahamerwin.bsky.social receives NIH New Innovator Award! www.bcm.edu/news/dr-grah... @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcmgenetics.bsky.social #BCMCancerCenter
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by David W. Sanders!🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!A tremendous honor! Thrilled & humbled to receive 2025 Keio Medical Science Prize for launching LLPS #phaseseparation field (= #softmatter + #cellbio) w collaborators esp @HymanLab. & Congrats to Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social. www.princeton.edu/news/2025/09... #KeioMedicalSciencePrize
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- Reposted by David W. Sanders!🎉 JUST ANNOUNCED: @haozhulab.bsky.social named project co-leader for UTSW liver cancer SPORE. His project will study how to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma — which accounts for >85% of liver cancer cases across the nation. Read more ⬇️ cri.utsw.edu/zhu-named-co... #relentlessdiscovery 🧪
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!🔬 APPLY NOW: Seeking faculty scientists in #stemcells #TissueRegeneration #metabolism & #cancerbiology. You ready for #relentlessdiscovery at our collaborative Institute? Learn more at cri.utsw.edu/careers & apply before Oct. 15. 🤜💥🤛 #jobs #faculty #facultyjobs #ScienceJobs 🧪
- I lost some faith in academic science over the years. But selection of McKnight for a Lasker restores my idealism. Days later, I'm still smiling. To see my scientific hero recognized is quite special. Sure, confused as to why "this" and not the many "thats". But clubs and committees, man.
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- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Proximity-specific ribosome profiling using LOV-BirA reveals two distinct strategies for mitochondrially-localized translation: one for long coding sequences and one for short. It was a pleasure to contribute to this beautiful work from Jonathan Weissman @weissmanlab.bsky.social and Jingchuan Luo
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- Cryo grid optimization is not science. It’s not art either. It’s nihilism. Ugh. Guess I should add some pickle juice to my protein.
- Great department! Most departments at UT Southwestern are actively or will soon be actively recruiting new PIs. Please consider joining us!
- Fiedler does it again! Discovery of protein oligophosphorylation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
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- Human DNAJC7 knockouts get ALS: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Thrilled and deeply honored to be named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Huge congrats to my friend and colleague @cri-utsw.bsky.social Javi, who’s also joining the Pew family as a Pew-Stewart Scholar. CRI is on fire—let’s go make some bold, groundbreaking science happen! 🔥🧪✨
- Congrats! 👏👏👏 Two CRI scientists named 2025 Pew-Stewart & Pew Scholars — Javier Garcia-Bermudez, Ph.D. & @hrshin.bsky.social — to advance cancer, biomedical research 🧪 Read more about their #relentlessdiscovery ⬇️ cri.utsw.edu/two-children... @pewtrusts.org
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- this is a pretty incredible case study. congrats to the patient, Damien, @ndosenbach.bsky.social, and the dozens of others who contributed to this important clinical research.
- I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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- Reposted by David W. Sanders!The nuclear lamina strengthens the nucleus and organizes the genome. So what happens when you acutely degrade it in living cells? Not what we thought! (1/n) www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
- Reposted by David W. Sanders!Excited to announce that our collaboration with @briandaniels.bsky.social has been published today! So happy for everyone involved, but especially me and Marissa 😆. Check it out if you're interested in #neuroinflammation and the #BBB www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- You may die, but sialophosphoproteins will live forever. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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