Caroline McCormick

1/6 🧬New paper at @CellSytemsCP led by @SashaFanari! What if the “fifth nucleotide,” pseudouridine (Ψ), in mRNA dynamically responds to cell state? We used nanopore direct RNA sequencing + Mod‑pID to map Ψ in a neuron‑like SH‑SY5Y line under “normal” and “perturbed” conditions (healthy, RA‑differentiation and unhealthy, neurotoxicant Pb2+poisoning).

I never thought I would say this, but I miss R. Excel sucks.

IVT-derived unmodified human transcriptome paper is live! Resource for the #nanopore community. Congrats to the team 🙌🏼 gigabytejournal.com/articles/129 @CAMcCormick20 @mitenjain @NUBioE1

Latest preprint from recent grad (!!) @CAMcCormick20 Recently developed nanopore tools have identified psi modifications on mRNAs, but the functions remain unknown. From the list of candidate sites, we need to cull it down to the most interesting 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

First hooding ceremony as a faculty member—so fun!! Congrats to all grads!!

Finally a full group shot! Congrats ⁦@SepidehTavakol2⁩ 🤗👩🏻‍🔬

Congratulations to my first student @SepidehTavakol2, for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!! I am so proud of you and all of your hard work!! 🥳

We got a DOCTOR IN THE LAB !!! 🧬🔬 congrats @SepidehTavakol2 on earning those 3 letters && congrats @SRouhanifard on your first PhD graduate!!

@SRouhanifard notes of endearment

i draw figure doodles on tiny scraps of paper and deliver them to the lab. sometimes they make sense

Daughter just laughed and said to me “boys can be scientists too???” 😂

Have you heard the news? Our alumna Samantha Johnson '21 made the @Forbes 30 under 30 Boston list for her robotic hand Tactile ASL Translational Use Machine (Tatum). Check it out: forbes.com/sites/forbesun…

Me realising it’s already august and I’ve procrastinated for too long

As someone who just formed my committee, IMO a descriptive email should precede a meeting. Mine included 1) a brief introduction, 2) abstract-esque research description 3) how this PI's expertise would be beneficial. Everyone's busy; let's be time efficient

Nothing makes me trust a paper more than if it's written cautiously, tries hard not to overstate or over-interpret the data, openly discusses weaknesses & alternative explanations. Tell me all the caveats, understate the conclusions, remind me that your model is speculative.

From personal experience, @arjunrajlab is an awesome mentor!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Me: I’m going to have a super productive day northeastern internet: you thought wrong

Our raptureFISH method is live! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… @Yifang17957864 @JakeLPotts @KeqingN @CAMcCormick20 @NUBioE1 @ACS_Sensors 1/4

petition to have journal submissions adopt the college admissions "common app" platform

Lab flash talks at AGTD meeting 🙌🏼

As I said, housing is preventative medicine. Without affordable & good quality housing, there is NO foundation upon which people can achieve health.