Prof. Breaker is an RNA biochemist, Sterling Professor, and Dean of Science at Yale University with appointments in the Departments of MCDB and MB&B.
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Joined July 2015
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Computational Biophysics and Biochemistry: Faculty Position Opening in the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale.
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It's nice to see SAM/SAH riboswitch from different angles.
Crystal structures from @lilley_mj @LinHuang2008
Single-molecule FRET analysis from @taekjip @TingWeiLiao2
In-line probing from @RonBreaker
SAM/SAH riboswitch academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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Have you seen all these recent spliceosome #cryoEM structures and just wished you could see the bigger picture beyond all the snRNPs and RNAs and a million protein names? Check out our review! annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10…
Minimum detail, many pretty pictures, and LOTS of MOVIES
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We are delighted to express our warmest congratulations to Vice President Scott Strobel, who has been named Yale’s next provost, the university’s chief academic and budgetary officer
Scott A. Strobel, a renowned educator and researcher who has led a number of major initiatives over the past two decades, has been named Yale's next provost. bit.ly/2qqlmgW
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Our manuscript revealing that modest amounts of magnesium inhibit growth of strains missing a large noncoding RNA is available online! @RonBreaker – at New Haven, CT
Recently accepted: Disruption of the OLE ribonucleoprotein complex causes magnesium toxicity in Bacillus halodurans.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Identification of the first NAD(H) riboswitch!
Two tandem aptamer sequences controlling translation initiation of the nadA gene, involved in NAD+ biosynthesis.
ADP-moiety of NAD+ bound with a Kd of ~90 µM.
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Couldn’t have done it without the discovery of this natural #riboswitch by the Breaker group! What do other riboswitches hold for #SynBio applications? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22…
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Check out our article (@RonBreaker) in this special issue on Regulating the Central Dogma! It involves a class of riboswitch RNAs that bind DNA and RNA nucleoside diphosphates to regulate enzymes that convert various nucleotide compounds into nucleoside monophosphates.
DNA -> RNA -> Protein: the central dogma of biology. Or is it? Our latest Special Issue on Regulating the Central Dogma, guest edited by Chuan He @UChicago, highlights advances in #epigenetics & #epitranscriptomics that challenge the traditional paradigms pubs.acs.org/toc/bichaw/58/5
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"Tom [Steitz] was a wonderful colleague‐engaged, optimistic, modest, sympathetic, and easily amused... He was a specialist in terrible puns."
If you haven't already, read Olke Uhlenbeck's heart-felt obituary for Tom Steitz: rnajournal.cshlp.org/content…
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"I hope to have made a reasonable contribution to the science that I love, and be known as a reasonable person." Sincere and heartfelt congratulations to Professor Joan Steitz on her eminently deserved lifetime achievement award from the Lasker Foundation! youtube.com/watch?v=0DHx6QAc…
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Our dept, Yale Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, is hiring for an Asst. Prof position! Any biological system, topic, approach. Brand new building opening in a year. mcdb.yale.edu apply.interfolio.com/53379
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Even more ykkC riboswitches! “Subtype 2c” RNAs are most similar to the #riboswitch class for PRPP. These RNAs bind nucleoside diphosphates to regulate genes encoding nucleotide hydrolase enzymes. Thanks to my co-authors Harini and @RonBreaker! pubs.acs.org/journal/bichaw#…
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My last day in the Breaker lab! It’s been an amazing four years at Yale and it’s so exciting to see my projects make their way into the official #riboswitch poster. A huge thanks to my advisor @RonBreaker. Next stop: Denver! – at New Haven, CT
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Yale Science Building Reaches New Heights! Click the link for the full story.
mcdb.yale.edu/news/yale-scie… … #MCDBYale #YSB #YaleScienceBuilding
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Our 2018 Scaringe awardees: Fuguo Jiang from @doudna_lab, Madeline Sherlock from @RonBreaker lab, & Boxuan Zhao from the He lab! CONGRATS! 🎊
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Yale will rename Calhoun College for Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D.
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Congrats to HHMI's 34 new Gilliam Fellows and their mentors! hhmi.org/news/gilliam-fellow…
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Madeline Sherlock of Yale University takes home an #RNA2016 poster prize!