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Megan Westwood

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biophysics PhD candidate in the Keane lab | research includes RNA structure and dynamics, NMR, and so much more | love my dogs | πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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A practical guide to RNA NMR spectral analysis for undergraduate students Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful analytical tool that can be used to determine the structures of both small organic molecules and large biomacromolecules. Many undergraduate...

I'm also late in posting this work, but really proud of Megan @mnwestwood.bsky.social, Sydney, and Jocelyn for their contributions to making RNA NMR spectroscopy more accessible for novice learners! Check out their preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

20.11.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Structural Features Within Precursor microRNA-20a Regulate Dicer-TRBP Processing MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression of target messenger (m) RNAs. To maintain proper miR…

Glad to see this work out in its final form! Congrats to the team!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.07.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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2nd defense of the summer! Congratulations to Dr. Aldrex Munsayac! It has been a pleasure to work with and learn from you!

25.06.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œEnding a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million.”

10.06.2025 11:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

πŸ“œ Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
πŸ‘―β€β™€οΈFollow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

Read and sign here πŸ‘‰ www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

09.06.2025 12:06 πŸ‘ 455 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 33
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Congratulations to Dr. Arhin for an outstanding thesis defense earlier this week!

06.06.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How's school?

06.05.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 611 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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In silico discovery of compounds targeting NPSL2: a regulatory element in the human oncomiR-1 primary microRNA. NPSL2 is a stem loop element within the oncomiR-1 polycistronic primary microRNA (miRNA) cluster. NPSL2 is predicted to mediate conformational rearrangements within oncomiR-1 to regulate the biogenesi...

New preprint from the lab - Grace has been instrumental in leading the lab into the RNA-targeting space.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.05.2025 15:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RNA xkcd.com/3056

26.02.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 17840 πŸ” 2559 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 171

The NMR is my one true ally at work, her magnetic aura does so much for me

04.12.2024 15:57 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Given my lab the day off on Friday, in case they have somewhere more important to be… #standupforscience

05.03.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this but with parafilm in winter

25.02.2025 04:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

16.11.2024 10:56 πŸ‘ 1708 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 21

NOBODY TELL MY STUDENTS ABOUT THIS HACK!

24.01.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0