Kyle Cottrell
@kylecottrell.bsky.social
Father | Assistant Professor @PurdueBiochem (RNA editing and regulation) | Postdoc & PhD @WUSTL | MS & BS @MissouriState | #firstgen #NewPI #NIHMOSAIC K99/R00 (posts and comments are my own and do not reflect my employer)
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It's a new year and the Purdue RNA Club is back! Mark your calendars as we will be meeting September 11, October 2, 2026, November 6 and December 4, all 3:30-4:30 in ABE B061.
September 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
It's a new year and the Purdue RNA Club is back! Mark your calendars as we will be meeting September 11, October 2, 2026, November 6 and December 4, all 3:30-4:30 in ABE B061.
Switch to natives and you get beautiful blooms and pollinators.
May 23, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Switch to natives and you get beautiful blooms and pollinators.
This week the lab said goodbye to three undergraduate researchers. Estelle was the first person to join the lab. Renee and Madison joined not long after. Each have made important contributions leading to authorships. They are now off to dental, medical and graduate school! We will miss them greatly.
May 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
This week the lab said goodbye to three undergraduate researchers. Estelle was the first person to join the lab. Renee and Madison joined not long after. Each have made important contributions leading to authorships. They are now off to dental, medical and graduate school! We will miss them greatly.
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Today is the day! Our first Purdue RNA Club Symposium. Thanks to support from @rnasociety.bsky.social and #Lexogen.
May 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Today is the day! Our first Purdue RNA Club Symposium. Thanks to support from @rnasociety.bsky.social and #Lexogen.
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I’m super excited to be opening a lab at WEHI. We’ll be focussing on how double-stranded RNA is regulated in cells, how failures in these pathways drive disease and new therapies to manipulate inflammatory responses to RNA.
#newPI #RNAsky
#newPI #RNAsky
Say hello to our incoming lab heads! 👋 Excited to announce Dr Danika Hill, Dr Jacki Heraud-Farlow and Dr Sylvie Callegari will soon be establishing new labs at WEHI.
More info:
www.wehi.edu.au/news/excepti...
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More info:
www.wehi.edu.au/news/excepti...
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
bsky.app/profile/jack...
bsky.app/profile/prec...
February 6, 2026 at 5:51 AM
I wonder who gets spots in the Purdue summer camp before us plebs gets our chance to register? Must be nice to have a guaranteed spot and not have to block out your morning and stress over getting a good spot in the registration queue.
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I wonder who gets spots in the Purdue summer camp before us plebs gets our chance to register? Must be nice to have a guaranteed spot and not have to block out your morning and stress over getting a good spot in the registration queue.
Fuck.
The language in the bill restricts the amount of multiyear funding to the level is fiscal year 2025. The Senate bill limited it to that level in fiscal year 2024.
This is not good news...better than nothing, but thousands of lost projects.
3/5
This is not good news...better than nothing, but thousands of lost projects.
3/5
January 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Fuck.
Some us, not very many, started at community college and never took the ACT or SAT...
Which links to this proposed Act, which says "...requiring all parts of a state university system to publish every higher-education standardized test score (SAT, ACT, CRT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc.) of every faculty member..." and every applicant.
So it's super dumb, but not "SAT but not GRE."
So it's super dumb, but not "SAT but not GRE."
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January 2, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Some us, not very many, started at community college and never took the ACT or SAT...
Per tradition, the house has been built. Decorations tomorrow!
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Per tradition, the house has been built. Decorations tomorrow!
Done with the last lecture of the year! Looking forward to the next ~9 months of bench work.
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Done with the last lecture of the year! Looking forward to the next ~9 months of bench work.
New addition this year was homemade cranberry sauce. Don't know why I waited this long to do that on.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New addition this year was homemade cranberry sauce. Don't know why I waited this long to do that on.
Almost made it to Thanksgiving.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Almost made it to Thanksgiving.
We start the module on nerve gasses in my course today - queue Nick Cage!
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ALT: a man is kneeling down with his arms outstretched in front of a body of water with a bridge in the background
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October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We start the module on nerve gasses in my course today - queue Nick Cage!
Well, I'm going to find out, eventually.
Will CSR receipt and referral respect study section service for delayed NIH grant submission when those study sections didn’t meet? Stay tuned…
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Well, I'm going to find out, eventually.
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RNA Club returns on Friday with Iman Mevaa from the @kasinskilab.bsky.social presenting a talk titled Targeted Delivery of Tumor-Suppressive miR-34a for Osteosarcoma Treatment.
We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
RNA Club returns on Friday with Iman Mevaa from the @kasinskilab.bsky.social presenting a talk titled Targeted Delivery of Tumor-Suppressive miR-34a for Osteosarcoma Treatment.
We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
We will meet in ABE B061 at 3:30 on October 10.
My first trip out of the Purdue Airport went... well, it didn't. I ended up on the shuttle to ORD anyway. It could be great to fly out of LAF, but there probably needs to be more volume to make it reliable.
October 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My first trip out of the Purdue Airport went... well, it didn't. I ended up on the shuttle to ORD anyway. It could be great to fly out of LAF, but there probably needs to be more volume to make it reliable.
Important aster update!
September 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Important aster update!
How are we supposed to advise undergraduates interested in applying to graduate school soon? They are scared that their options will be limited. They don't know if it is better to rush to get in or wait until things maybe get better. They don't have as many options for post-bacc programs. It's rough
September 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How are we supposed to advise undergraduates interested in applying to graduate school soon? They are scared that their options will be limited. They don't know if it is better to rush to get in or wait until things maybe get better. They don't have as many options for post-bacc programs. It's rough
This preprint was accepted @rnajournal.bsky.social! It is now online ahead of print! @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social @purduernaclub.bsky.social rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This preprint was accepted @rnajournal.bsky.social! It is now online ahead of print! @cancer-inst-purdue.bsky.social @purduernaclub.bsky.social rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
Patience was rewarded. Wonderfully set and no soggy bottom.
September 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Patience was rewarded. Wonderfully set and no soggy bottom.
What to do while you wait for the apple pie to cool? Eat the mini pie you made with the extra pastry, of course. This hack brought to you by my grandma.
September 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
What to do while you wait for the apple pie to cool? Eat the mini pie you made with the extra pastry, of course. This hack brought to you by my grandma.
The fall bloomers are starting to make an appearance! Skip the mums, plant asters!
August 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The fall bloomers are starting to make an appearance! Skip the mums, plant asters!
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Welcome to the bsky account for the Purdue RNA Club! Our meeting dates for Fall 2025 are September 12, October 10, November 14, and December 5.
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Welcome to the bsky account for the Purdue RNA Club! Our meeting dates for Fall 2025 are September 12, October 10, November 14, and December 5.
Anyone in the West Lafayette area have an explanation for why they closed the right lane of River Road here? It's closed for maybe 200 ft. I think that they did this either to intentionally make traffic worse or to further aggravate the businesses that didn't sell their land.
August 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Anyone in the West Lafayette area have an explanation for why they closed the right lane of River Road here? It's closed for maybe 200 ft. I think that they did this either to intentionally make traffic worse or to further aggravate the businesses that didn't sell their land.