Andre Catic

Out now! Our newest paper on how blood stem cells retain their regenerative potential and vitality with age. Paper link: nature.com/articles/s4155… More info and video abstract: tinyurl.com/4u7hud78 #StemCells #Aging #Hematopoiesis Summary below:

@jmvyasmdphd @ColumbiaMed @Columbia Congratulations, Jay!

So excited to join @ColumbiaMed! I have focused my career on supporting the next generation in academic med. The Vagelos Institute for Biomedical Research Education will leverage strengths of @Columbia to build the best environment for physician-scientists from UME to faculty!

@HongjieLi5 @NIHDirector @bcmgenetics @BCMFromtheLabs @BCMCancerCenter @bcm Congrats Hongjie to you and the strong showing of @bcmhouston

Not Nobel, but really glad to receive @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Award. pursue: commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/A… #NIHHighRisk @bcmgenetics @BCMFromtheLabs @BCMCancerCenter @bcm

This position is perfect for someone seeking to establish their independent research career within a vibrant and supportive scientific community.

This weekend saw the first reunion of my MD class @uni_ulm. I could not attend but was luckily kept in the loop by friends and colleagues. Can’t believe the Audimax is still colored in “poison green”.

@Ferraro_lab Good to hear from you, Francesca! Let me know if can help in any way.

Out now! Our newest paper on how blood stem cells retain their regenerative potential and vitality with age. Paper link: nature.com/articles/s4155… More info and video abstract: tinyurl.com/4u7hud78 #StemCells #Aging #Hematopoiesis Summary below:

@challenlab That’s just mean! 😄 I believe most of us actually do intend to follow through on the Specific Plans.

“Specific Aims” or as they will now be known “Concepts of a Plan”

Online today @NatureCellBio “Perturbing TET2 condensation promotes aberrant genome-wide DNA methylation and curtails leukaemia cell growth” Congratulations to Lei, Tingting and team! Thanks @ZhouLaboratory for the collaboration! nature.com/articles/s4155…

@Yun_Nancy_Huang @NatureCellBio @ZhouLaboratory Congratulations to our friendly neighbors at TAMU!

@TaishiYonezawa Regardless, it was a great talk, Taishi. Congrats on your findings!

I left a massage 💆at a scientific meeting, but not message 🤦

Well deserved and thanks for the wonderful lecture!

Congrats @DiStefano_Lab !

We look forward to hosting you in Chicago for #ISEH2024! Taking place at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, we will be steps away from restaurants, theaters, museums and @NavyPier. Take advantage of your stay in addition to the ground-breaking science! iseh.org/2024Travel

I am sad to hear of the passing of Leonard Hayflick, a giant in aging research. One of the most amazing exchanges I’ve ever witnessed at a conference was related to the Hayflick limit. It was one of my first conferences as a PhD student, in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Although it was a big gerontology conference, there were many parallel sessions, and I was in a not-very-popular session in a small room, with only a few people attending. I was sitting in the front row. A Russian scientist was presenting a new theory of aging. Halfway through the talk - which apart one incident I barely remember - someone from the back asked a question. The presenter went on to explain in his Russian accent that his theory was based on the Hatflick limit and that, for reasons I don’t remember, it led to aging of tissues. A couple of minutes later, the same American voice from behind me interjects again. A bit annoyed, the Russian scientist again brings up the Hayflick limit and repeats his arguments before continuing the talk. A few minutes later and - you’ve guessed it - yet again the same person from the back interrupts and questions the presenter. You can see the frustration building up in the Russian scientist's face. He stares behind me and in a patronising voice asks: “Excuse me, sir, are you familiar with the Hayflick limit?” And I just hear a voice from behind me go: “I am Leonard Hayflick!” RIP Dr Hayflick

On bioRxiv today, we raise serious concerns over a recent @nature paper describing ReDeeM, a new single-cell mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing / analysis method. Here are three things that you need to know: 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Deciphering ER stress-unfolded protein response relationship by visualizing unfolded proteins in the ER: cell.com/cell-reports/f…

@GinaBortoletto @ronparchem Congrats, Angelina (and Ron)!

One down, one to go! Big thanks to @ronparchem for hooding me at the ceremony. What an honor it is to be the first Parchem Lab graduate 🎉 #MSTP #PathMatch25

Great things are happening at @ISEHSociety's ExpHem journal. Check out the special Issue on Metabolic control in hematopoietic homeostasis edited by @The_Ito_Lab. Authors include @Nina_CabezasW, @TheKingLab, @pietras_eric, @DaphnaNachmani and more ➡️ exphem.org

.@TIME's Inaugural TIME100 Health List: @PeterHotez named one of 100 most influential people in global #health in 2024. bcm.edu/news/times-ina… @BCM_TropMed @bcmhouston

@SignerLab @ISEHSociety @CSCIColumbia @majetilab @rosslevinemd @TheKingLab Great news for the field and so well deserved!

Honored to be named the @ISEHSociety Janet Rowley Award winner. Grateful to my amazing @SignerLab team, brilliant collaborators & generous mentors. Big congrats to this year's other awardees @CSCIColumbia @majetilab @rosslevinemd @TheKingLab - all remarkable scientists & mentors!