Andy Truman PhD

Super excited to share our latest work on the Hsp70 chaperone code "Mechanosensor-mediated Hsp70 phosphorylation orchestrates the landscape of the heat shock response" out now in @NatureComms :nature.com/articles/s4146…. @UNCCBiology @unccharlotte #hsp70

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@may_khanna Absolutely!

@TrumanLab I know an excellent postdoc looking. But she’s trained as a synthetic chemist who wants to learn more biology. Would you be willing to train her? Superb background.

We are looking for motivated postdocs to join our lab starting Spring 2027 to study the Hsp70 Chaperone Code and Proteostasis, see here for more details: trumanlab.org/open-positions

@arjunrajlab @AdamRochussen Past productivity demonstrates the feasibility of carrying out the good ideas proposed, especially for major grants like an R01. For pilot studies/seed grants then less so.

"Whichever way you slice it, publication history doesn’t mean anything about whether your current ideas are any good." I think there is where we just fundamentally disagree :). I think a lot of people can write down ideas that sound like they are good. Far fewer can actually execute. Regarding my aversion to the system—I think it's more that I believe it to be far less meritocratic. But I suppose time will tell.

As a trainee, I much prefer the message: “if you come up with good ideas & test them rigorously, it will work out”, which is exactly what this grants scoring change will mean. No longer considering “track record” seems like a good change that will favour younger scientists.

@MicahGoldrich @p_maverick_b @ATinyGreenCell Absolutely agree

@p_maverick_b @ATinyGreenCell This should warrant a class action lawsuit. The money, time and effort wasted on antibodies not acting in the way they are purportedly work

We're so used to reagents being unreliable in biology that many people probably bought these antibodies, spent weeks troubleshooting them, and then marked them as "bad" without reporting back to Thermo... We just accept that you have to sift through multiple antibodies every time you design a new assay

Can someone start a journal called “Cell Atlases” so that the rest of the journals can go back to publishing interesting things?

Our paper in @Nature today 🥳 We tracked 6,438 mice from puberty to death and mapped the genetics of *when* you die, not just whether a gene associates with lifespan. nature.com/articles/s4158… 59 loci. Two decades of data. Thread 👇 #Longevity #Aging #Genetics #Healthspan

@GabrielaChiosis @chiosislabmskcc @SsGq2009 Congratulations!

Congrats to Ranveer Kamboj on winning 1st place (Health & Medicine) at the NJ Academy of Science Research Symposium for his summer research in the @chiosislabmskcc under the mentorship of @SsGq2009. Excellent work & great to see it recognized 👏🔬 #STEM #NJAS2026 #ResearchImpact

@GabrielaChiosis @NatureComms Thanks @GabrielaChiosis !

Congratulations to @TrumanLab on their recent paper nature.com/articles/s4146… in @NatureComms

We are recruiting! If you are passionate about technology development, protein engineering, computational design, directed evolution, chemical biology - please reach out! (The setting is pretty nice too…)

@Dr_Perreault Who decides what is low impact?

So many new STEM PhDs pumping out 20+ low impact papers/year. ECRs over 50, and they train their students to do the same. We need to stop rewarding this behaviour as we are the ones responsible. It's us who sit on the awards, promotion, membership, and hiring committees.

New article about our research: science.charlotte.edu/2026/02/23/unc…

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@_inc0_ Twist

Hey bio hackers! Where do you order your DNA from? Addgene is useless unfortunately..

We are looking for talented graduate students to join our group for Fall 2026 studying the role and regulation of Hsp70 PTMs! If you are interested please check out trumanlab.org

Trilled and humbled to received the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Research Award by Department of Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte. Thankful to my mentors, collaborators, current/former lab members, friends and family. ⁦⁦@EMGSUS⁩ @ASBMB⁩ ⁦⁦⁦@unccharlotte⁩

New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!

We are recruiting! open position for Asst Professor in Biological Sciences--Apply online at jobs.charlotte.edu, position number #006728

Didn’t think I could love @TwistBioscience more, but then they sent me a goodie bag of cool stuff for my 11 year old daughter 🔥🔥🔥