Recent events around trainee salary and NIH budgets remind me of when I was applying for a K99 and UW Madison administrators would not let me request the full 75k/yr salary allowed by the NIH
Recently learned about 2 trainees who got scooped. Not because a group did the work faster- because the paper sat on their PIs desk for over 2 years. PI didn't understand it despite countless hours of discussion. PI would make nebulous objections and ask for irrelevant additions
Excited to announce that my group has moved to
@CedarsSinai
in Los Angeles to join the new Department of Computational Biomedicine led by
@moorejh
. My first day is today!
๐จ๐จ๐จ BREAKING NEWS ๐จ๐จ๐จ
Final six funding bills include a $300 million increase in the NIH budget!
๐๐๐ Not huge but was expecting a cut
100 million more for Alzheimerโs
120 million more for cancer
75 million more for mental health
5 million more for opioid
Source below
Here is a rough breakdown how I spend my time each day:
10% exercise
10% eating
20% emails
20% taking care of baby
30% writing proposals and papers
30% sleep
10% reviewing papers
40% research
10% service
20% administrative stuff
Are you graduating with your PhD soon? Do you have interest or expertise in any of the following:
drug discovery
mass spectrometry
proteomics
lipidomics
metabolomics
AND/OR:
machine learning
R
python
bioinformatics
Please consider applying to my lab!
Do some people believe that transcriptomics is better than proteomics for generally getting an idea about new biology? (interpret 'better' however you want)
Or do most people want to do proteomics instead but its too expensive and inaccessible so they do transcriptomics?
Extremely excited to share our work published in Nature Methods!
The first example of shotgun proteomics without liquid chromatography, enabled by ion mobility.
Wonderful collaboration with
@nieminm
@Pagliarini_Lab
@Coon_Labs
@naturemethods
Excited to officially announce that we received a Notice of Award for my group's NIGMS R35 MIRA.
Huge thanks to everyone who helped with this, especially colleagues who read drafts, my group members, and the Biochem dept chair at MCW John Corbett
How do you deal with the R01 review comment "investigators are excellent but have no record working together" when it would take years to do the proposed work together. Not rhetorical, what has worked for you in the past? Publish a tiny paper together? Never work with new people?
Have you ever collected to omics datasets and struggled to combine the results in a meaningful way?
How can we automate multi-omic data integration?
In our recent paper
@OUPBioinfo
we automate multi-omic data integration with machine learning!
Its done! A complete draft of "A Comprehensive Overview of Modern Proteomics" along with the actual author order based on lines and figures added. Huge thanks to everyone who helped.
Authors: expect an email with the whole draft for final comments soon.
I am surprised and extremely grateful to be selected for the
@asmsnews
Research Award. It is an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as
@KM_Hines
and
@StacyMalaker
. Huge thanks to
@thermofisher
for sponsoring this award.
Drum roll, please... Congrats to the
@asmsnews
2023 Awards recipients! Join us in sending up a big virtual round of applause! We look forward to honoring them all in-person at
#ASMS2023
.
Full 2023 ASMS Awards announcement:
๐จDo you want to collect:
Proteomics
+
Polar metabolomics
+
Lipidomics
but worry about cost and throughput?
In our new preprint, we describe a 5 minute/sample method to collect them all SIMULTANEOUSLY:
@yumingjiang94
@IvanS_48
@ACovarrubiasPhD
I have interviewed a lot of people by now and surprised how many PhDs getting ready to graduate aren't allowed to preprint their work. It makes it harder for everyone. Why not preprint?
Please check out the latest preprint from my group:
Multi-Omic Integration by Machine Learning (MIMaL) Reveals Protein-Metabolite Connections and New Gene Functions
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Words cannot describe how grateful I am to be included alongside so many scientists I look up to in this virtual issue "Rising Stars in Proteomics and Metabolomics"
My sincerest thanks to
@JohnRYatesIII
and
@JProteomeRes
We dream of a world where proteomic data collection with mass spectrometry is 100x faster - down to 3 seconds per sample:
The Future of Proteomics is Up in the Air: Can Ion Mobility Replace Liquid Chromatography for High Throughput Proteomics?
Excited to share the first paper from my new lab!
"Peptide Correlation Analysis (PeCorA) Reveals Differential Proteoform Regulation"
with
@DermitMaria
in
@JProteomeRes
THEY WANT TO HIRE ME @ ASSISTANT PROFESSOR!
DM me with faculty startup package negotiation tips.... I'm hoping to get a new TOF TIMS pro or other ion mobility system included.
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#phdchat
I invite you all to contribute to a comprehensive tutorial about bottom up proteomics!
We will use
#manubot
() to write collaboratively with github.
Please retweet and consider contributing!
Link to project:
#TeamMassSpec
Delayed announcement: my wife and I decided to move to Milwaukee instead of West Lafayette. I joined Medical College of Wisconsin
@Medicalcollege
as Assistant Professor in Biochemistry. Excited to work with this incredible group of faculty!
Excited to announce that we received a NoA for our R21 from the NIA
These funds that will support a postdoc for two years to look for drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease using iPSC derived neurons, mass spectrometry, and machine learning
apply here:
Holy shit look at this
"... omics profiling for 105 individuals for up to 4 years... more than 1000 molecular seasonal variation changes in microbiome and host molecules; group into 2 major patterns... seasonal fluctuations depend on insulin resistance
Wow, a new
@NIH
R01 funding opportunity where preliminary data IS NOT ALLOWED.
Must be an early stage investigator.
Must be a significant change in direction.
First due date late January 2021
@OpenAcademics
#AcademicChatter
@JTFouquier
@AcademicChatter
We are always looking for computational biologists in Los Angeles, if you want to discuss please reach out when you are ready to look for jobs
My group is seeking a wet lab postdoc with experience related to mass spectrometry. Come apply your skills and learn about data science and biology. Message or email me with your CV and interests to apply.
I'm hiring 1-2 data scientists to work on [single-cell] proteome informatics and/or multi-omic data integration.
Postdoc or post-MS level.
Pay is much more than NIH minimum postdoc salary.
Please share w/ someone who might be interested.
2-yr exp.:
New high throughput proteomics preprint.
Move over "shotgun proteomics", get ready for "machine gun proteomics"
1,000 samples per day by capillary-flow LC/MS/MS
Over 3k proteins from 100 ng w/ 0.8 min gradient
1 minute plasma proteomics by direct infusion and nano particle enrichment!
A new way to think about fast plasma proteomics! ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ
Excellent work by postdoc
@yumingjiang94
We finally got our mass spec running and my technician grew some yeast mutations to test a crazy prediction I made w/ machine learning, and it appears to be true
Still looking to fill this computational postdoc position
75k/year minimum starting salary, starting immediately.
Open to many areas of research including single cell proteomics, multi-omics integration, deep learning applied to biology or chemistry
Updated posting for a computational postdoc in my group with interests in single cell and/or machine learning. Minimum pay is 70k/yr plus benefits. Join a diverse team of wet lab and computational scientists and learn new skills to get to next career step
Very excited to share the preprint for the second paper from my lab:
"Positional SHAP for Interpretation of Deep Learning Models Trained from Biological Sequences"
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?
Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind ofโฆ
Flight attendant: We need relative quantities of about 5,000 proteins from cultured cells.
Me: Okay. Iโm here.
After a long silence..
big update to the community proteomics tutorial by
@neely615
with input from
@pwilmarth
!
New section on databases, especially what are they and where do you get them?
Still many sections empty, please consider getting involved!