Dr. Sarah Walker

@CDMRP What happened to the CDMRP website? It’s been 404 for over a week? cdmrp.health.mil

@NG_NewGuy @News_8 What about this afternoon/evening? Do you think driving to Rochester from Buffalo and back from ~1:30 to 7 pm will be rough?

Current conditions in the Rochester area. First round of snow has left the area. Look for the next round to kick in around 9 AM. Commute to work should not be a problem. @News_8

Vote like your life depends on it because this idiot will be in charge of your health.

@ProfGoat @ShanaAdise It works well to decide who to interview by what the candidates write rather than likely biased letters. I served on 2 committees where we didn’t request letters until after deciding who to interview, using letters as a check instead of for ranking. We hired 2 successful people

@ShanaAdise Someone who served on and chaired several search committees here: we read those letters to decide who to bring to campus.

Hey search committees, requiring letters of recommendation prior to an interview is wasteful. The competitive job market means applying to 30+ jobs. It’s not fair to my LORs, especially if you aren’t serious about hiring me. Continued in comments

@AConcernedPare2 @arghavan_salles Me too, it was absolutely awful.

@arghavan_salles This happened to me 😭

@DrBritWilliams 2 cycles: 1st year-4 or 5 apps, 2 interviews, no offer; 2nd year-50 apps, 4 interviews, 3 x 2 body offers.

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

@DrLMRobinson Starting postdoc salaries in my field are over $60K, so that would be over $10K pay cut for people from my lab.

My lab has 2 postdoc positions funded by #NIH and #NSF to study novel ORFs and translational regulation in Arabidopsis and crops. Please retweet. jobs.plantae.org/jobs/20506097/…

Feeling very appreciative of the phenomenal postdocs in my lab past and present! Thank you Dalton, Houtan, Kris, and Kas for raising the bar in the lab and helping start and keep my research program going with your hard work, creativity and leadership!

Check out our lab’s latest paper on noncanonical translation initiation complexes! Beautiful structures Jacob and @haannguyen2 #structuralbiology #translation @Dunham_Lab jbc.org/article/S0021-…

@mike_feigin I wish I’d had one two weeks ago so I’d have had a recent booster while flying tomorrow, but I’ll take whatever Walgreens has available with slight preference for 6 w of higher abs with RNA. Drinking tons of fluids when I get it seems to prevent RNA vax side effects for me

@ctmurphy1 Could you zoom with a neutral arbitrator? Speaking with someone friendly present keeping things calm and reviewing facts can sometimes deescalate and avoid a negative option…which might be describing the contributions in ack. only since they won’t accept authorship

@jdpereira That is a not excellent way to retain people!

@ribowalker I did this while I was at Yale: they didn’t have any seats for my team, so I gave them my office and sat in the conference room right outside. Let that sink in. I was hired to run a core and there was nowhere for anyone else to sit.

Naive question regarding space: - what do you do with limited seats for the lab? Right now I have four seats, but if I hire/get undergrads/PhD students, there aren’t enough seats to go around (there are enough bays). But I want everyone to be able to sit though…

@DrHazmatic You’re in a great department, so I’d set up a mentoring committee and schedule meetings with a good mentor to get feedback when you don’t know what to do. Also, feel free to reach out if we can ever help. Go to conferences to recruit good people.

New preprint on collaboration with Yu and Luo labs. There is a bioorthogonal click screen of Hmt1 substrates suggesting lots of factors in translational control are methylated by Hmt1 in yeast, and evidence that Arginine methylation of eIF1A NTT loosens start codon fidelity.

@jobRxiv These positions have been filled. I just removed the posting. Thanks for the posts!

Translational Control Postdoctoral Researcher @ribowalker Two positions are available in the SUNY at Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences to study Translation Initiation Control in the Walker lab jobrxiv.org/job/university… #gene_expression_regulati... jobrxiv.org/job/university…

@DrHazmatic @Jacobs_Med_UB Congratulations and welcome to the faculty!

My lab values diversity and the excellence diverse backgrounds brings to our research. We aim to bring in people that contribute to and/or value diversity. Feel free to contact me directly by email with questions about positions in our lab.

WNY is a fun place to live for people with or without families. My favorite life things are the hiking and fun winter activities, amazing summer and fall, spring wildflowers, festivals, breweries and distilleries, without traffic and high housing costs of where I lived before.

We’re hiring at the postdoc level. If you know of people looking for a postdoc or research scientist position in molecular mechanisms of translational control, send them my way. ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/49438