Sahand Rahi
@sjrahi
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Professor of Physics at EPFL, Head of the Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems
Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined July 2020
How do cells deal with persistent damage? Checkpoints arrest cells when there are errors but what happens if the arrest is very long? In our study out in Nature Physics (, we analyzed whether checkpoint override (adaptation) is a beneficial strategy...1/6
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@davidsuter_epfl @maxvcg Hm, you just made me think of illegal grant money… a totally untapped source. Maybe high acceptance rates? Any leads?
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RT @1806patrick: @DD_Geopolitics Dude looks like he just decided to join the Olympics when he woke up this morning.
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RT @historyinmemes: "Scientists said that humans would only be able to run the marathon under 2 hours in 2075, but I proved them wrong," sa…
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Having to rely on semester students to finish a project.
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Exactly how I imagine reviewers react when they first see one and then another paper of theirs cited in my manuscript.
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Pretty much exactly what my students say when they stroll in late for lab meeting.
I am so sorry I cannot stop watching this video. There’s an old boss I wish I could send this too.
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“Watch and learn, kid,” he responded when I warned him not to take on the university administration when it comes to ordering lab equipment from eBay versus approved vendors.
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It all started when they were freshly minted PIs and the chair of the department left it up to them to decide how to share the storage space in-between their lab spaces.
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“These results lack novelty; bipedalism was invented millions of years ago. Further, the authors have failed to demonstrate any advantages with respect to just lying down. Finally, they fail to cite …”
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