Cameron Berry
@cameronwberry.bsky.social
Developmental Biologist studying 3'UTRs and translational regulation, Postdoc @ScienceStowers in @BazziniLab, @RNASociety Junior Rep - @KCRiBS Exec Board - PhD @DevBioStanford - 🏳️🌈 He/him #FirstGen
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The deadline for @RNASociety awards for graduate students, postdocs, PIs and others is Oct 5th! Awards include a cash prize, complimentary attendance at the RNA Society Meeting in Strasbourg and other benefits! www.rnasociety.org/awards
September 22, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The deadline for @RNASociety awards for graduate students, postdocs, PIs and others is Oct 5th! Awards include a cash prize, complimentary attendance at the RNA Society Meeting in Strasbourg and other benefits! www.rnasociety.org/awards
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🧬 Preprint! 🧵
Our goal is to genetically manipulate every embryonic germ layer to enable high throughput in vivo studies. We previously showed mouse ectoderm can be targeted by amniotic injection, enabling cell-specific manipulation, lineage tracing, and knockouts.
But how to reach mesoderm?
Our goal is to genetically manipulate every embryonic germ layer to enable high throughput in vivo studies. We previously showed mouse ectoderm can be targeted by amniotic injection, enabling cell-specific manipulation, lineage tracing, and knockouts.
But how to reach mesoderm?
September 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
🧬 Preprint! 🧵
Our goal is to genetically manipulate every embryonic germ layer to enable high throughput in vivo studies. We previously showed mouse ectoderm can be targeted by amniotic injection, enabling cell-specific manipulation, lineage tracing, and knockouts.
But how to reach mesoderm?
Our goal is to genetically manipulate every embryonic germ layer to enable high throughput in vivo studies. We previously showed mouse ectoderm can be targeted by amniotic injection, enabling cell-specific manipulation, lineage tracing, and knockouts.
But how to reach mesoderm?
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The Brantley Lab is hiring a Research Technician/Lab Manager!
Looking for someone with a strong foundation in molecular biology, a team player, and excited about basic science.
If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35995
Looking for someone with a strong foundation in molecular biology, a team player, and excited about basic science.
If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35995
Research Lab Technician
The Brantley Lab is seeking a Research Technician who is passionate about basic science and being a reliable, collaborative member of an academic research team. Research in the Brantley Lab uses quant...
spartantalent.uncg.edu
September 17, 2026 at 7:47 PM
The Brantley Lab is hiring a Research Technician/Lab Manager!
Looking for someone with a strong foundation in molecular biology, a team player, and excited about basic science.
If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35995
Looking for someone with a strong foundation in molecular biology, a team player, and excited about basic science.
If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share!
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35995
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Applications are now open! 🎓🔬
#StowersGrad is now accepting applications for our fully funded PhD program. No tuition. No application fee. No standardized test requirement. Just world-class mentorship in the heart of Kansas City.
📅 Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI
#StowersGrad is now accepting applications for our fully funded PhD program. No tuition. No application fee. No standardized test requirement. Just world-class mentorship in the heart of Kansas City.
📅 Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI
September 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Applications are now open! 🎓🔬
#StowersGrad is now accepting applications for our fully funded PhD program. No tuition. No application fee. No standardized test requirement. Just world-class mentorship in the heart of Kansas City.
📅 Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI
#StowersGrad is now accepting applications for our fully funded PhD program. No tuition. No application fee. No standardized test requirement. Just world-class mentorship in the heart of Kansas City.
📅 Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI
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Excited to share our newest work! We asked whether RNA molecules need to be in a specific place in the cell to do their job. We found that a single RNA must reach the midbody, the structure that pinches two dividing cells apart, for cell division to finish efficiently. 🧵⬇️
August 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Excited to share our newest work! We asked whether RNA molecules need to be in a specific place in the cell to do their job. We found that a single RNA must reach the midbody, the structure that pinches two dividing cells apart, for cell division to finish efficiently. 🧵⬇️
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In a new (ish) preprint, we used CRISPR barcodes to label germline stem cell clones in zebrafish, then tracked their contributions to sperm production for 2 years. Instead of staying stable, individual clones rose, fell, and disappeared over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Clonal dynamics deviate from neutral drift in zebrafish spermatogenesis
Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) maintain male fertility, but how their clonal dynamics change with age remains poorly understood. Here, we use in vivo CRISPR barcoding in zebrafish to label SSCs and ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
In a new (ish) preprint, we used CRISPR barcodes to label germline stem cell clones in zebrafish, then tracked their contributions to sperm production for 2 years. Instead of staying stable, individual clones rose, fell, and disappeared over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
August 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
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🎉 Happy #RNADay!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Day Art & Baking Contests! Special thanks to Lexogen, the exclusive industry sponsor of the 2026 RNA Society RNA Day Art & Baking Contests, for supporting this initiative.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Day Art & Baking Contests! Special thanks to Lexogen, the exclusive industry sponsor of the 2026 RNA Society RNA Day Art & Baking Contests, for supporting this initiative.
August 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM
🎉 Happy #RNADay!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Day Art & Baking Contests! Special thanks to Lexogen, the exclusive industry sponsor of the 2026 RNA Society RNA Day Art & Baking Contests, for supporting this initiative.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Day Art & Baking Contests! Special thanks to Lexogen, the exclusive industry sponsor of the 2026 RNA Society RNA Day Art & Baking Contests, for supporting this initiative.
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A huge congratulations to Zheng and the entire Guo lab for this beautiful story! Very cool mechanism!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intestinal stem cells count self-renewal divisions to switch multipotency - Nature
In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
A huge congratulations to Zheng and the entire Guo lab for this beautiful story! Very cool mechanism!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How do transposons jump when they’re released from host control?
I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs.
Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper:
“piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs.
Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper:
“piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts
In Metazoa, transposon expression is suppressed by the piRNA pathway, and disruption of this pathway leads to rampant transposon expression. However, it remains unclear whether increased transposon ex...
www.biorxiv.org
July 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
How do transposons jump when they’re released from host control?
I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs.
Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper:
“piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs.
Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper:
“piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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From specialized #ribosomes to translational control, the 2026 Stowers Research Conference will explore the latest discoveries shaping our understanding of protein synthesis across #biology. #SRCKC26
🗓 October 21–23, 2026
📍 Kansas City, Missouri
Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so
🗓 October 21–23, 2026
📍 Kansas City, Missouri
Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so
July 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
From specialized #ribosomes to translational control, the 2026 Stowers Research Conference will explore the latest discoveries shaping our understanding of protein synthesis across #biology. #SRCKC26
🗓 October 21–23, 2026
📍 Kansas City, Missouri
Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so
🗓 October 21–23, 2026
📍 Kansas City, Missouri
Register now: bit.ly/43Vb9so
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Translation initiation by the Kozak mRNA sequence is based on a conformational readout on the ribosome pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42420270/ #cryoem
July 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Friendly reminder! There’s still time to enter the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by lexogen.
🎨 RNA-inspired art
🧁 RNA-inspired baking
🏆 Up to $500 USD in prizes (per category)
🎨 RNA-inspired art
🧁 RNA-inspired baking
🏆 Up to $500 USD in prizes (per category)
July 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Friendly reminder! There’s still time to enter the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by lexogen.
🎨 RNA-inspired art
🧁 RNA-inspired baking
🏆 Up to $500 USD in prizes (per category)
🎨 RNA-inspired art
🧁 RNA-inspired baking
🏆 Up to $500 USD in prizes (per category)
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Celebrate RNA Day 2026 with creativity!
The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen.
Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!
The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen.
Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!
June 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Celebrate RNA Day 2026 with creativity!
The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen.
Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!
The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen.
Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!
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New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵
June 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵
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We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
June 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
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My lab is currently recruiting 2(!!) postdocs in RNA structural biology/biochemistry! Full details can be found below and on our website (sites.lsa.umich.edu/keane-lab/op...).
June 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
My lab is currently recruiting 2(!!) postdocs in RNA structural biology/biochemistry! Full details can be found below and on our website (sites.lsa.umich.edu/keane-lab/op...).
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Finally out in @Cellcellpress!
Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis.
This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis.
This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
mRNA 3′ UTRs chaperone intrinsically disordered regions to control protein activity
Highly conserved mRNA 3′ UTRs act as co-translational chaperones for intrinsically
disordered regions (IDRs), preventing inter-domain misfolding and enabling biogenesis
of fully active proteins.
www.cell.com
June 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Finally out in @Cellcellpress!
Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis.
This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis.
This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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One of the major highlights of the RNA Society Conference last week was the hike that JR Scientists took to Mount Royal. It was a great opportunity to stay active, connect with fellow scientists, and enjoy the outdoors.
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June 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
One of the major highlights of the RNA Society Conference last week was the hike that JR Scientists took to Mount Royal. It was a great opportunity to stay active, connect with fellow scientists, and enjoy the outdoors.
Read more.
Read more.
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Out now in Science! Our study challenges long-standing assumptions about transcription factor specificity in eukaryotes. Novel single-molecule measurements of TF behavior in living cells reveal an independence of locus-specific binding from DNA sequence recognition.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unstructured transcription factor interactions enable emergent specificity
How intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) shape chromatin binding and nuclear organization of transcription factors (TFs) remains unclear. We used proximity-assisted photoactivation (PAPA), a single...
www.science.org
June 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Out now in Science! Our study challenges long-standing assumptions about transcription factor specificity in eukaryotes. Novel single-molecule measurements of TF behavior in living cells reveal an independence of locus-specific binding from DNA sequence recognition.🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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@drsusanna.bsky.social paper is now out in its final form. Relative to the original preprint, we now show additional mutant data and a better way to display heat maps of gene activation.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Rapid transcriptional response to a dynamic morphogen by time integration
Using quantitative live imaging, Brantley et al. reveal that cells decode dynamic
BMP signaling during dorsal patterning of the Drosophila embryo by integrating activity
over time. These results advan...
www.cell.com
May 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
@drsusanna.bsky.social paper is now out in its final form. Relative to the original preprint, we now show additional mutant data and a better way to display heat maps of gene activation.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Excited to share a new preprint from the lab led by @lukekoblan.bsky.social and William Colgan in which we describe our efforts to define a quantitative cell fate map of mouse embryogenesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
May 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab led by @lukekoblan.bsky.social and William Colgan in which we describe our efforts to define a quantitative cell fate map of mouse embryogenesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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If you want to know what 3′UTRs with long conserved sequence stretches do, check out our BioRxiv preprint doi.org/10.64898/202....
They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.
They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.
May 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM
If you want to know what 3′UTRs with long conserved sequence stretches do, check out our BioRxiv preprint doi.org/10.64898/202....
They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.
They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.
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Major new work by the #TransCODE Consortium out today in @nature.com.
Read all about our efforts to shed light onto the forgotten areas of the human proteome. #Microproteins #Peptideins #DarkProteome
This was a huge global collaboration, in part funded via #NIH
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Read all about our efforts to shed light onto the forgotten areas of the human proteome. #Microproteins #Peptideins #DarkProteome
This was a huge global collaboration, in part funded via #NIH
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins - Nature
A large-scale proteomics analysis of the dark proteome by the TransCODE Consortium reveals many translated non-canonical open reading frames to encode microproteins and peptideins.
www.nature.com
May 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Major new work by the #TransCODE Consortium out today in @nature.com.
Read all about our efforts to shed light onto the forgotten areas of the human proteome. #Microproteins #Peptideins #DarkProteome
This was a huge global collaboration, in part funded via #NIH
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Read all about our efforts to shed light onto the forgotten areas of the human proteome. #Microproteins #Peptideins #DarkProteome
This was a huge global collaboration, in part funded via #NIH
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Site-specific, multi-kilobase insertions and over-writes in mammalian cells, without DSBs, HDR, recombinases, integrases, transposases, or active cell cycling? Using fully or predominantly single-stranded DNA donors?
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April 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Site-specific, multi-kilobase insertions and over-writes in mammalian cells, without DSBs, HDR, recombinases, integrases, transposases, or active cell cycling? Using fully or predominantly single-stranded DNA donors?
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