Kate Jiang 🧬 @kyyjiang.bsky.social

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Kate Jiang 🧬 @kyyjiang.bsky.social

Kate Jiang 🧬 @kyyjiang.bsky.social

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🇨🇦🇨🇳she/her PhD student who studies mutagenesis in yeast. I like cats and higher-ed. Trying to retire from @transcriptsblog but very proud of our works.

University of Toronto Katılım Nisan 2018
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Kate Jiang 🧬 @kyyjiang.bsky.social
In a strange turn of events I ended up interviewing my own supervisor (wasn't my idea but everyone else was too busy lol). Also if any fellow biochem people is interested in interviewing their own PI please hit us up
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In this new series of Transcripts, we challenge the faculties in the UofT biochem department with 20 rapid-fire questions to learn about them inside and outside of academia. The first piece features @drgrantwbrown ! transcripts.blog/2025/09/22/20-…

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Read Grace's article in Transcript's Blog on Biochemistry Day, where 70 high school students explored careers, toured labs, and discovered the excitement of biochemistry! transcripts.blog/2025/08/18/bio…
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Rayan Chikhi
Rayan Chikhi@RayanChikhi·
🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
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Labmate found this growing in autoclaved YPD (!) and it is now our new lab mascot. Just kidding, it’s gotten the bleach treatment it deserves. I think this qualifies @ContamClub
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TDRR - Toronto DNA Replication & Repair Symposium
Are you a trainee in Toronto's genome instability community? Submit an abstract for the opportunity to present a poster or oral presentation at this year's TDRR symposium! Abstract submission deadline is March 2nd, 2025. Registration HERE: forms.gle/15SiCR6cES5cWQ…
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Joshua McManaway
Joshua McManaway@jrmcmanaway·
The English PhD discourse is basically a Rorschach test. You see how few people understand what goes into a doctorate. You see how few people think about the humanities as a key to being human. It's really sad to see people reduce all education to its market value. I don't want
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Oded Rechavi@OdedRechavi·
For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study
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Kate Jiang 🧬 @kyyjiang.bsky.social
I referred to this as the “I’m gonna embarrass everyone in the lab including myself” costume. Pretty proud of the dino silhouettes though. And for the record I’m not even an evolutionary biologist. At least not yet.
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Razvan Borza
Razvan Borza@rborza_·
🚨 Great alternatives to BioRender are now available!! 📢 @NIAIDNews offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone to use. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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