Husband | Dad | Cancer Biologist | Educator | Director; Center for Inquiry, Research, & Scholarship (CIRAS) @presbycollege | PhD @MCG_AUG

Clinton, SC
Joined June 2012
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been named Director of @presbycollege’s new Center for Inquiry, Research and Scholarship (CIRAS). Our goal is further bolster a research and scholarship culture among our talented PC faculty and students. 1/n 🧵 presby.edu/about/2024/07/12/…
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Whoop! Whoop! SC INBRE has been renewed for 5 MORE YEARS! DYK... SC INBRE’s Cycle V $21.3M award from @NIH NIGMS makes us one of SC’s largest & longest running federally-funded grants program? Read more at scinbre.org/about/inbre-v-an… @USCResearch @UofSCSOMC #WeAreSCINBRE
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I was happy to help mentor this study with my colleague Stuart Gordon. While not my area of expertise, it's always great to help lead student in producing positive data & moving science forward. Thanks to @Micropub7n for providing that space to publish. micropublication.org/journal…
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What would happen to most Theo Nerds’ heads if they ever adapt Buechner’s “Godric” to a movie.
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Since clammies are the “green yeast,” I feel like the yeast model organism gets to claim another Nobel Prize.
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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A journal Impact factor is analogous to measuring a person’s BMI. Both are clumsy measurements created for very different purposes than what they’re lazily used for now.
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Kirk Ferentz talking to his Iowa NIL donors.
Zero exaggeration that this is the greatest punt you will probably ever see you your lifetime.
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May we put on Dolly's coat of many colors and take a trip to William Berry's Port William this week ❤️
Losing Dolly Parton and Wendell Berry within a week of each other is an ineffable loss for a very particular demographic of southerners of which I am a part.
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Hug a Southerner if you see one, y’all. It’s been a hard week.
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A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
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In 1977, we lost the King. In 2026, we lost our Queen.
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Favorite movie you like because of your father.
Favorite movie you like because of your father.
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What do you your students work on between experiments? Answer: Their own sweaters with nucleosome packaging! May our data be as beautiful as Carlie’s sweatshirt design 😂
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It still baffles me that MAGA got peptides and the Left got mRNA in the divorce.
Guys, this is why companies spend a lot of resources doing rigorous internal testing for protein quality. You cannot trust the claims from vendors, you'll hear plenty of horror stories from people who have been in the industry long enough. Now apply this thinking to grey market peptides.
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Guys, this is why companies spend a lot of resources doing rigorous internal testing for protein quality. You cannot trust the claims from vendors, you'll hear plenty of horror stories from people who have been in the industry long enough. Now apply this thinking to grey market peptides.
Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures", but their own internal data.
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At @presbycollege, the professor of the year has the privilege to give the commencement address. I was given that privilege this year. Here is the YouTube of my speech. I hope it provided a level of encouragement for the 2026 class & for anyone else. youtu.be/KDJEh3PYT4o?si=BmE0…
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Someone should come up with an exchange rate between these two currencies.
JUST IN: Elon Musk says future currencies will only be "mass and energy"
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Could the folding of synthetic gene circuits in 3D shape how genes are expressed? Today @ScienceMagazine we report on the role of gene syntax in shaping feedback between transcriptional activity and genome folding for advanced circuit design🧵 (1/n)
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