Assistant Prof @WashUGenetics, chromatin-mediated regulation of development. Former postdoc @fredhutch, former grad student @UNC_Biology. Views my own.
Joined October 2019
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We published a detailed protocol for our Plate-CUT&Tag method on @protocolsIO to accompany our recent preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…)--give it a try! Feedback welcome! dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocol…
It feels very apropos to have this announcement preempted by a government shutdown 🥲 but I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for the tireless work of the reviewers and staff of the Office of the Director who saw fit to give us this chance.
Congratulations to Michael Meers, PhD, on receiving the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in support of his research developing new tools to guide stem cell differentiation. A well-deserved recognition of his innovative work.
medicine.washu.edu/news/wash…
Given this is a Director's award, I'd be remiss to ignore the broader context of what @NIHDirector_Jay is presiding over right now at the NIH. These were my full thoughts when asked for a quote for this piece on what this means to me and our lab.
On our three year lab anniversary (give or take a few days!), I'm proud to share the first original work produced within the Meers Lab: Plate-CUT&Tag! Take a look: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/3
This work was spearheaded by Brittany Johnson, the very first Meers Lab member who has now moved on to a PhD at @IBiSatNU, with big assists from Gabe Boyle and Jay Sarthy at Seattle Children's and David Spencer here at WashU. Hoping this is the first of many for the lab! 3/3
While you're at it, check out this nice new preprint from Dave's lab that makes use of Plate-CUT&Tag data to characterize chromatin states at intermediately 5mC-methylated regions that play key roles in AML: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 4/3
Death, taxes, and "the PI is too inexperienced and requires a senior co-mentor for this student's F31" 🙃
Michael Meers retweeted
Listen to this NPR story when Dr. Mike Meers was interviewed on Planet Money about university funding!
npr.org/2025/05/28/125324725…
Thank you @Erika_Beras for including me in this in depth @planetmoney piece on the mechanics of research funding at universities—I give it a 👍🏻👌👏👨🔬 emoji 🙃npr.org/2025/05/28/125324725…
Thank you @TheEconomist for this important, well reasoned piece. economist.com/leaders/2025/0…
Typical of this White House: a non-expert decrying all that’s wrong, using “evidence” that amounts to anecdotes, offering mealy-mouthed solutions (wtf is “gold standard science” anyways?) as a pretext to destroy without any strategy to build. whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…
@MichaelKratsios I’m begging you to talk to any scientist about what’s going on and to strategize on actual solutions. Happy to talk at any time.
Michael Meers retweeted
In the right conditions, antibiotic resistance can happen extremely fast. Here is an example from my own work of bacteria overcoming an antibiotic in just eleven days in a giant petri dish:
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Another great piece on how students at WashU are organizing to oppose the threat to biomedical research in this country stltoday.com/news/local/educ…
So it sounds like the MRAA Study Section for ESI MIRA may not meet tomorrow as scheduled? Anyone have confirmation of this?
Thank you @michelemunz for quoting me for this piece. Incidentally @Eric_Schmitt made a factually incorrect statement in it: this does NOT mean more money for lifesaving research, it means LESS--this is a CUT to future therapies and cures, full stop. stltoday.com/funding-cuts-wi…
