Gustavo Silva lab at Duke
@thesilvalab.bsky.social
Research lab @DukeU studying cell response to stress | Ubiquitin | Gene Expression | Diseases
Always promoting Diversity, Inclusion & Equity | #BLACKandSTEM
Always promoting Diversity, Inclusion & Equity | #BLACKandSTEM
It is really cool to see our work being feature on the cover of the newest issue of @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social !
The design is great and captures the complexity of the system! I hope you enjoy the article!
The design is great and captures the complexity of the system! I hope you enjoy the article!
📢 Our September issue is now online!
🎨 The cover "Fine-tuning translation under stress" highlights a Review from @thesilvalab.bsky.social and co in the ribosome ubiquitination code.
Cover designed by Katie Kirby from the VI4 AIR program.
Access the full issue 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch....
🎨 The cover "Fine-tuning translation under stress" highlights a Review from @thesilvalab.bsky.social and co in the ribosome ubiquitination code.
Cover designed by Katie Kirby from the VI4 AIR program.
Access the full issue 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch....
September 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It is really cool to see our work being feature on the cover of the newest issue of @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social !
The design is great and captures the complexity of the system! I hope you enjoy the article!
The design is great and captures the complexity of the system! I hope you enjoy the article!
I'm excited to have this review article out in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social ! In a collaboration with the Darnell lab, we discuss the complexity of the ribosome ubiquitin code and what the field has done to crack this intricate signaling code!
📣 Online now - the Review "The ribosome ubiquitination code: fine-tuning translation under stress" from
Haleigh Wooters, Neil Nimmagadda, Alicia Darnell, and @thesilvalab.bsky.social .
#Ubiquitination #TranslationalReprogramming #StressResponse
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPPS3S6Gf...
Haleigh Wooters, Neil Nimmagadda, Alicia Darnell, and @thesilvalab.bsky.social .
#Ubiquitination #TranslationalReprogramming #StressResponse
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPPS3S6Gf...
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm excited to have this review article out in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social ! In a collaboration with the Darnell lab, we discuss the complexity of the ribosome ubiquitin code and what the field has done to crack this intricate signaling code!
I'm so excited and relieved that our NIH R35 grant has been renewed!! NoA received and grant actually started this July!!
We will continue to advance our research on ubiquitin and translation control for the next 5 years!!
Hoping to see more posts like this from y'all too🙌🏾🙌🏾
We will continue to advance our research on ubiquitin and translation control for the next 5 years!!
Hoping to see more posts like this from y'all too🙌🏾🙌🏾
July 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm so excited and relieved that our NIH R35 grant has been renewed!! NoA received and grant actually started this July!!
We will continue to advance our research on ubiquitin and translation control for the next 5 years!!
Hoping to see more posts like this from y'all too🙌🏾🙌🏾
We will continue to advance our research on ubiquitin and translation control for the next 5 years!!
Hoping to see more posts like this from y'all too🙌🏾🙌🏾
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Jorge Mato, named a 2025 Faculty Scholar!! Faculty Scholar is the highest honor given by @duke-university.bsky.social faculty to undergraduate students for academic and research excellence!!
today.duke.edu/2025/06/four...
today.duke.edu/2025/06/four...
Four Undergraduates Whose Research Studies Are Winning Acclaim | Duke Today
today.duke.edu
June 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Jorge Mato, named a 2025 Faculty Scholar!! Faculty Scholar is the highest honor given by @duke-university.bsky.social faculty to undergraduate students for academic and research excellence!!
today.duke.edu/2025/06/four...
today.duke.edu/2025/06/four...
Amid all, it is energizing to hear nice news! Nine incredible colleagues and myself have been named Bass Chair Professors and inducted to the Bass Society of Fellows for excellence in teaching and research!
We got medals and we will receive a physical chair 🪑!! ☺️
today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-...
We got medals and we will receive a physical chair 🪑!! ☺️
today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-...
April 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Amid all, it is energizing to hear nice news! Nine incredible colleagues and myself have been named Bass Chair Professors and inducted to the Bass Society of Fellows for excellence in teaching and research!
We got medals and we will receive a physical chair 🪑!! ☺️
today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-...
We got medals and we will receive a physical chair 🪑!! ☺️
today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-...
My department (Biology) at Duke University is seeking applicants for the position of Instructor B for the Microbiology (212L) lab sections. This course introduces major concepts in biology through the lens of microbiology!
Share it with your network!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29941
Share it with your network!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29941
Duke University, Biology
Job #AJO29941, Instructor B, Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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April 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My department (Biology) at Duke University is seeking applicants for the position of Instructor B for the Microbiology (212L) lab sections. This course introduces major concepts in biology through the lens of microbiology!
Share it with your network!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29941
Share it with your network!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29941
So happy to see my colleagues succeeding! Congratulations Alissa!!! 🔥
Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!
February 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So happy to see my colleagues succeeding! Congratulations Alissa!!! 🔥
Reposted by Gustavo Silva lab at Duke
It's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾🔬🌻🌱
plantae.org/2025-black-h...
plantae.org/2025-black-h...
2025 Black History Month: Black Plant Scientists Spotlight | Plantae
An initiative originated by Kevin Cox Jr., PhD, Plantae carries on Kevin’s tremendous effort of bringing visibility to several exceptional scientists and their work across the science community.
plantae.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's Black History Month and I'm excited to bring another edition of "28 Days, 28 Black Botanists" - now posted as a blog on Plantae! Thanks to @aspbofficial.bsky.social for continuing to support this fun tradition of mine! 💪🏾👨🏾🔬🌻🌱
plantae.org/2025-black-h...
plantae.org/2025-black-h...
Reposted by Gustavo Silva lab at Duke
Watching (needed) energy, collaboration & collective effort about NIH indirect costs by institutions/societies & the difference in energy & collective efforts around rollback of DEI took me back to impetus to write "Make equity essential to expedite change in academia"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Make equity essential to expedite change in academia - Nature Microbiology
In response to COVID-19, universities and other education providers pivoted rapidly from in-class learning to digital course instruction. Student tuition was deemed essential, thus swift change ensued...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Watching (needed) energy, collaboration & collective effort about NIH indirect costs by institutions/societies & the difference in energy & collective efforts around rollback of DEI took me back to impetus to write "Make equity essential to expedite change in academia"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When they came for Black & Brown folks, or #DEI efforts, I heard very little commotion
Only now with these new directives has the scientific community become concerned with the future of research & academic institutions
It will not stop here. If you are not rich & conservative, you are at risk!
Only now with these new directives has the scientific community become concerned with the future of research & academic institutions
It will not stop here. If you are not rich & conservative, you are at risk!
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When they came for Black & Brown folks, or #DEI efforts, I heard very little commotion
Only now with these new directives has the scientific community become concerned with the future of research & academic institutions
It will not stop here. If you are not rich & conservative, you are at risk!
Only now with these new directives has the scientific community become concerned with the future of research & academic institutions
It will not stop here. If you are not rich & conservative, you are at risk!
As this is a delicate political moment, in which words are being weaponized, can we get some of the language right?
DIVERSE is a feature of group, not a person! A person is what they are. There is no such thing as a diverse hire/employee. Thank you.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
DIVERSE is a feature of group, not a person! A person is what they are. There is no such thing as a diverse hire/employee. Thank you.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
Diversity in STEM: What It Is and Why It Matters
Innovations resulting from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields have positively touched nearly every aspect of human life.
www.scientificamerican.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As this is a delicate political moment, in which words are being weaponized, can we get some of the language right?
DIVERSE is a feature of group, not a person! A person is what they are. There is no such thing as a diverse hire/employee. Thank you.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
DIVERSE is a feature of group, not a person! A person is what they are. There is no such thing as a diverse hire/employee. Thank you.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
Maybe some folks can learn something with this very educational video during Black History Month #BlackSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56b...
A Tale of O Video on Diversity
YouTube video by trainerstoolchest
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Maybe some folks can learn something with this very educational video during Black History Month #BlackSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56b...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56b...
Reposted by Gustavo Silva lab at Duke
Extremely important thread. NIH (and what will likely be NSF next) are and have been important agencies for *all* of us, whether you know/understand that yet or not.
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Extremely important thread. NIH (and what will likely be NSF next) are and have been important agencies for *all* of us, whether you know/understand that yet or not.
Reposted by Gustavo Silva lab at Duke
Hello #Bluesky! New & happy to be here.
I’m an assistant prof @ #DukeBME & #DukeMedicine. My research group develops patient-specific preclinical models to uncover human disease mysteries & discover safe and effective therapies. #StemCells #Organoids #MPS #DiseaseModels #Biomaterials #KidneyDisease
I’m an assistant prof @ #DukeBME & #DukeMedicine. My research group develops patient-specific preclinical models to uncover human disease mysteries & discover safe and effective therapies. #StemCells #Organoids #MPS #DiseaseModels #Biomaterials #KidneyDisease
November 23, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Hello #Bluesky! New & happy to be here.
I’m an assistant prof @ #DukeBME & #DukeMedicine. My research group develops patient-specific preclinical models to uncover human disease mysteries & discover safe and effective therapies. #StemCells #Organoids #MPS #DiseaseModels #Biomaterials #KidneyDisease
I’m an assistant prof @ #DukeBME & #DukeMedicine. My research group develops patient-specific preclinical models to uncover human disease mysteries & discover safe and effective therapies. #StemCells #Organoids #MPS #DiseaseModels #Biomaterials #KidneyDisease
"Scientists as political advocates" - Important call to action from @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
"we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:54 AM
"Scientists as political advocates" - Important call to action from @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
"we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ok, here we are 🔵🦋!
We are a lab at #DukeUniversity studying protein dynamics, gene expression, cellular response to stress, and their relationship to health and disease!
Our team is also very focused on promoting equity and diversity in higher education!
Check us out: sites.duke.edu/silvalab/
We are a lab at #DukeUniversity studying protein dynamics, gene expression, cellular response to stress, and their relationship to health and disease!
Our team is also very focused on promoting equity and diversity in higher education!
Check us out: sites.duke.edu/silvalab/
November 21, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Ok, here we are 🔵🦋!
We are a lab at #DukeUniversity studying protein dynamics, gene expression, cellular response to stress, and their relationship to health and disease!
Our team is also very focused on promoting equity and diversity in higher education!
Check us out: sites.duke.edu/silvalab/
We are a lab at #DukeUniversity studying protein dynamics, gene expression, cellular response to stress, and their relationship to health and disease!
Our team is also very focused on promoting equity and diversity in higher education!
Check us out: sites.duke.edu/silvalab/