Maria Spies, PhD (she/her)
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A single-molecule biochemist studying #molecularmachines (de)stabilizing genome. @IowaBiochem All opinions and typos are my own. EiC, NAR Molecular Medicine
Iowa City, IA
Joined May 2013
I've added this new thing to my collection of jobs, Editor in Chief of the brand new journal, NAR Molecular Medicine To all my friends and colleagues in the DNA & RNA worlds - help us build this as a home for your best work connecting molecular mechanisms and human disease
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RT @FrogWalterLab: Check out latest from the Walter-Pellman collaboration, revealing how the replisome is remodeled in mitosis to allow CMG…
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RT @hERGologie: Unparalleled talent in this pool of Biophysical Society Fellows. Congratulations all! Biophysical Society Names Fellows fo…
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RT @ConstantinouL: We are pleased to inform you that the meeting “From Genome Instability to Cancer: A tribute to Angelos Constantinou” tha…
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An important and exciting step towards counteracting DNA repeat expansions in clinical setting. Read the new Editor's choice paper from the @VDion_and_Lab in NAR Molecular Medicine
Our article on how Cas9 nickase induces contraction of expanded CAG repeats is published! Go on, read it, you know you want to. One step closer to the clinic! (But still some ways to go…)
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RT @VDion_and_Lab: New manuscript! We can contract expanded CAG/CTG repeats in non-dividing cells using the Cas9 nickase and transcriptio…
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RT @OxfordJournals: Introducing Sarah R. Hengel from @NAR_Open’s Early Career Investigator Advisory Board. Sarah investigates the mechanism…
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RT @FrogWalterLab: Excited to share (with my 8 followers) graduate student Ernst Schmid’s “SPOC” classifier, which can pick a good AlphaFol…
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RT @HunterMeiosis: Genetic Recombination & Genome Rearrangements Conference. Register and submit your abstract now! Speaker slots and finan…
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RT @uiowa: On this day in 1958, late physics and astronomy professor, James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen Belt, a radiation field arou…
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I can finally close the chapter on RecBCD and my endeavors from postdoc days: A very nice paper by Pavan an other Kowalczykowski lab members (past and present)
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