Great to be back at my Alma mater WSU Pullman 🐾!!! Makes 2011 feel like yesterday. Go cougs.

We try to focus on the process (doing interesting science with good people) rather than the product (papers and funding). Good process -> I believe the products will come. My observations of product-focused labs with lousy process: miserable environments that are rife with fraud.

After spending the last 15+ years studying the genome and its relationship with cardiovascular disease risk, I can appreciate how little we actually know. It is therefore distressing to watch this rush to irreversible genome editing as a first line therapeutic. Reeks of hubris.

Happy postdoc appreciation week. May we show appreciation for postdocs as the invaluable, highly trained scientists they are by providing the salaries, benefits, and respect they deserve. Despite still learning on the job (like everyone is), they are not 'trainees.'

New Tucker lab gear courtesy of our departing star RA, Emily Marshall (2nd from left), graduate of MVCC Mohawk Valley and University at Albany. She always got our vibe, and did some awesome science here. We'll miss her greatly, but our loss is the PhD program at University of Rochester's gain.

If I never read the word 'atlas' in an article title again, I will be a happy (well at least happier) person...

Kind of disheartening that this has to be asked.
Stop exploiting them as 'just trainees' and give them salary and benefits befitting the skilled staff scientists that they are. Doesn't have to be on par with industry, but can't be as ridiculously imbalanced as now.

I may be biased... but vote for the bear!

Fun nugget while checking instructions/suggestions from NIH while writing a new R01. Speaks back to the nature.com/articles/d4158…. Junior people, don't dare to be 'too innovative!!!'

Many thanks Stephen King for helping the recruiting efforts to my lab in famous Utica (genetics.mmri.edu)! What place did I get in order to spend the rest of my life here🤔
In seriousness, although it ain't perfect, there's no place I'd rather live and work. It's home.

Oh I don't know, maybe because most systems involved with funding/publishing are designed to strip out the joy and creativity until your lab either a) closes, or b) does boring work to 'get by.' My best 'disruptive' ideas have been harshly dismissed at trad funding sources.

An awesome opportunity for creative postdocs and instructors to make big strides (and take some ambitious chances) in an severely understudied CV disease area.

Bit behind on promoting this, but glad to be part of some great work spearheaded by Kaushik Amancherla from Vanderbilt Transplant Center. Demonstrating high quality single cell data from biopsy-size samples should open a lot of doors both in transplant rejection and beyond. More to come!

So great to see everyone, it was a pleasure to present! #AHA2022

A beary good genome: Haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level assembly of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) buff.ly/3CDZyRO Photo Credit: Dave Shumway, buff.ly/3RWrh4T Ellie Armstrong 🦁🐯🐻 Blair W. Perry Nathan Tucker Kiran V Garimella @[email protected] @jansenht Joanna Kelley

September's beautiful cover image accompanies a new Genome Report - A beary good genome: Haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level assembly of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) buff.ly/3LpyvMR Photo Credit: Dave Shumway, ForTheLoveOfBears.org

Excited to share our paper, out today in nature, where we characterize transcriptome variation in human tissues by long-read sequencing. Huge thanks to Dafni Beryl Cummings Garrett Garborcauskas Daniel MacArthur and other collaborators. 🧵
nature.com/articles/s4158…

If I rob the convenience store down the street for a couple thousand dollars, I'll probably go away. But if I steal millions from the American taxpayer with fraudulent research, I'll get a 'self investigation' by my employer, who also benefits from the thievery. What a joke.