Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, study prostate cancer, fan of 3D printing, photography, soccer and action figure. Dad of two corgi.
I did nothing but cheerleading; all credit goes to our fantastic postdoc, Dr. Yaru Xu,
@Yaru00473993
and the other incredible coauthors. We are super grateful to
@ElizSMcKenna
for leading the way with the review process and to the reviewers for their amazing support.
Our work on Nature Cancer today: Ectopic activation of JAK-STAT is the crucial executor of lineage plasticity. It is specifically required for stem-like and multi-lineage cancer cells, but NOT neuroendocrine-like cells.
@PCF_Science
@utswcancer
Just got tenured and feeling a surprising calm now. Immense thanks to all my lab people, collaborators, colleagues, mentors and friends who carried me cross the line. Now, back to my 80-page response-to-reviewers letter and the pile of R01 reviews due today.
Check out our 1st paper on CHD1's unexpected role in prostate cancer: "The Heterogeneity, the Plasticity and the Resistance". A joyful collaboration with the Sawyers lab, a work supported by PCF.
@CharlesSawyers
@Cancer_Cell
@soulehoward1
@PCF_Science
Check out our 3rd paper on Cancer Cell: "Braking Bad: How Loss of SYNCRIP Drives Prostate Cancer's Mutational Chaos and Resistance." Discover how SYNCRIP, as an innate molecular brake, controls APOBEC-driven mutagenesis, tumor heterogeneity & resistance:
Ever wondered about the E2 enzyme driving AR ubiquitination and degradation? We've found it! "UBE2J1 is the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme regulating androgen receptor degradation and antiandrogen resistance".
@PCF_Science
@utswcancer
@UTSWCancerBio
It’s mighty tough to say goodbye to all my awesome mentors and dearest friends at UTSW. Y’all are forever family in my heart, and we’ll always be true Texans, no matter where we roam.
Our new paper was published online today at
@CD_AACR
. If you are attending
#AACR2024
, please visit our poster today to hear the first author, Dr. Yaru Xu, discuss her fascinating work.
@PCF_Science
@utswcancer
Feeling immense pride today as Carla becomes the first student in my lab to cross the finish line. She delivered an outstanding thesis defense and earned her PhD. I hope she enjoys the coffee mug I chose for her. Congratulations, Dr. Rodriguez!
@CarlaRo95
@UTSWCancerBio
Check out our newest work revealing JAK-STAT’s crucial role In Lineage Plasticity-driven AR Targeted Therapy. Back-to-back with stories from
@CharlesSawyers
lab, Pe’er lab and Hsieh lab.
Check out this awesome new Cancer Cell paper from the Sawyers lab: How cancer-associated fibroblasts secreted NRG1 to support prostate cancer cells escape AR targeted therapy.
@Cancer_Cell
@CharlesSawyers
Met the Neowise comet tonight, 70 miles north of Dallas. Photos taken with tripod, 30 seconds exposure. See you next time in 6800 years, Neowise.
#NEOWISE
#neowisec2020F3
#cometNEOWISE
My 5-year-old asked me if we can make an Olaf after watching Frozen II. OK, here you go. The best part of being parents is having the chance to fulfill someone‘s dream. Don’t remember my dream as a 5-year-old boy gre up in a small town in northwestern China.
My first student, Choushi, just got his PhD! So proud yet sad to see him go. We celebrated with a cake featuring his top achievement: all the memes he presented in lab meetings. My pre-defense speech took revenge for his "dedication" in my earlier tweet.
Farewell to our incredible student, Choushi, as he continues his scientific journey as a postdoc in the lab of the legend
#ToddGolub
. In honor of Choushi’s famous quote, 'Brad Pitt is PERFECT,' we've prepared some heartfelt goodbye gifts.
Today, our summer SURF intern, a prodigy finishing a 4-year U. Wisconsin BS degree in 2 years, ends her course. She wrote code, solved key exp issues, and contributed 7-8 major panels to our revision paper. A great grad school catch this fall!
I am saddened that this remarkable comic book-style cover was not selected, but I do not want it to remain hidden: "Braking Bad: How Loss of SYNCRIP Drives Cancer's Mutational Chaos and Resistance", read the paper on Cancer Cell:
A two weeks biology experiment: we got this little one unexpected from a plant we bought, and now she is a beautiful butterfly! My 5 year boy is so amazed and started to read insect books I bought.... yes that’s the plan
BREAKING NEWS: CPRIT announces 74 new grants for over $112 million to expand innovations in cancer research and prevention in Texas. Check out the release for the entire list of awards.
#CPRIT
#TexansConquerCancer
He finished this 14+ set in only one day, which is his 7th birthday gift..... need to find him something more challenging than LEGO, maybe a gene editing project? 😆
We tired the Jimmy Kimmel Prank "I told my kid we ate all his Halloween Candy", we felt so sorry but also so lucky when the 5 years old said "it's OK". L😂
Our very own trainee postdoc Dr. Xiaoling Li
@XiaolingLi8
presented her work at SBUR annual meeting: SYNCRIP is the molecular brake of APOBEC-driven mutagenesis and resistance, recently published on Cancer Cell.
#SBUR2023
#proudmentor
Best conference I have attended, amazing talks and fantastic venue. Presented our latest work on prostate cancer lineage plasticity, published in
@CD_AACR
#EMBOCancerEvo
#lineageplasticity
I am truly honored to receive this award from SAU, a society comprising many pioneering scientists I have long admired. However, I am neither a star nor rising. The real stars are my extraordinary trainees and our Philip espresso machine, tirelessly working behind the scenes.
Congrats to
@ZedaZhang
and
@CharlesSawyers
for the Cancer Cell Cover Story! This is really a nice cover, my favorite
#MiyazakiHayao
Style. Also read great preview from Drs. Jacob J. Orme and Haojie Huang :
I will present our recent work at the NextGen Stars Spotlight Session I: Models, Tumor Heterogeneity, and Epigenetics, Tuesday, June 23, 9am to 11am ET
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II kicks off Monday, Follow the meeting via
#AACR20
for the latest groundbreaking science, plus highly relevant talks on COVID-19 and health inequities and disparities.
Just gave my first online lecture of Cancer Biology, got a lot of great questions from students, actually more than my in person class last year. Students’ safety and healthy are always the priority.
@UTSWCancerBio
@utswcancer
Got to office 9am Saturday and thought I was the first, then found my student was already here for an hour. Impressed, keep up the hard working and you will find some great things!
#proudPI
It’s so awesome to be back at the Coffey-Holden Prostate Cancer Academy, I missed this meeting so much! The only meeting requires 10 mins presentation+20 mins questions
#coffeyholden
#prostatecancer
@PCFnews
My 6 years old boy’s first fishing experience, caught a catfish and released it because “his mom wait him for dinner” 😅 ok man but what about your daddy’s dinner tonight? 😆
Bought 124 used books on Facebook for his little library, all like new condition, total cost $20. Guess he will stop asking for new books for a while 😆
Cannot do our favorite Christmas tradition in person, so we had a zoom Secret Santa this year! Whoever gave me this dog face mask, don't let me find out who your are LOL
#SecretSanta
Our own Dr. Su Deng
@turabbit
presented the crucial role of Jak-stat inflammatory signaling in lineage plasticity and antiandrogen resistance at Gordon Research Conference Hormone-dependent cancers
#GRC
@utswcancer
@UTSWNews
Zoom is so much better when coming to visual lab meeting. We will still keep our lab meetings this way but with journal club, grant/paper writing workshop, project brain storm and lab comedy show et al. 🤣 Keep as a team and we will all go over this together.
Giving a talk at Baylor College of Medicine and saw my buddy
@stranddw
is also giving talk here today. Feel like a Dallas boys’ prostate cancer field trip to Houston 😂