Geoff Faulkner
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Geoff Faulkner
@Faulkner_Lab
Professor, University of Queensland. Retrotransposons and genomics. Views my own. Scholar publications: https://t.co/xQu0hWudj1 @faulknerlab.bsky.social





I doubt the stated phenotype here is due to changes in L1 mRNA. The ASO and CRISPRi KD approaches (Figs 1, S1, S2) reduce L1 expression by <10% and these small changes are noted as efficient and significant KD. Stats were done on tech reps to give p<0.05 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…







Our collaborative NIH-R01 to study the role of TEs in ALS was awarded today, in collaboration with Davide Trotti and Piera Pasinelli (ALS Center at Thomas Jefferson University). Our lab in London will soon advertise a 5-year postdoc position. Please reach out if interested!




My lab is looking for PhD students with a background in physics and/or biochemistry/quantitative biology. If interested, please apply to the VBC graduate school. Deadline: Oct 15th.



Happy and proud to share my lab’s study on how DNA methylation and the HUSH-MORC2 corepressor work together, out last week on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A fantastic collaboration with our colleagues at @JakobssonLab @Lund_Stem...1/7






