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Mustafa Mehkary

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Neuroscience MSc (thank you @Neurasmus), PhD student at the University of Toronto working on Huntington's disease research.

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I turned 27 today. I feel old and I reaalllyy didn't think I'd make it this far, that things would be pretty good overall. 10-11 years ago, my mom was dying of Huntington's disease. After I found out what the disease was and the consequences, it was a dark time.


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Are you a young person in the US wanting to help others impacted by HD? APPLY TO BE A MENTOR TODAY! This program is in partnership with the National Youth Alliance at HDSA and HDYO. Learn more by scanning QR code or visiting hdyo.org.

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CALLING ALL HD COMMUNITY MEMBERS! You have the chance to make a difference! HDYO has launched their first global survey in the new survey series to better understand how we (as a global advocacy community) can best support YOU! @EHDN_GRANTM @EuroHuntington @HDA_tweeting

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life in the postdoc-PI pipeline

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Elsevier is losing editors


Had a great time at the CHDI meeting last week in lovely Croatia presenting some recent work by the lab! It's wild and a privilege actually meeting people and discussing Huntington's disease research with people who's work you grew up reading 😊

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When your PCR fails and you realize you forgot to reverse one of your primers

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Reading something, the grad student barely retains anything.

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Breaking News - JOIN-HD Reaches Milestone! They Juvenile Onset HD Global Registry (JOIN-HD) has pre-enrolled over 50 patients and family members from 10 different countries. This is an exciting milestone as the registry given the rarity of JoHD and having launched in February.

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Me every time I talk to my supervisor @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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A PhD is all about transformation — transforming bacteria, transforming cells, transforming into an empty husk of what you used to be


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When my PI asks me to explain one of my discussion points @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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When my PI asks me to present my latest data. @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Welcome! The 2nd HDYO Young Adult Congress is officially open! We’re very excited. Hope you are too. Please come and join us during the weekend. Matt, BJ and Jenna are starting the celebrations at 4.30pm with looking back at HDYO over the last 10 years. We’ve come a long way!

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Currently thinking about how in the 70s a Pakistani artist sampled the famous Cuban song ‘Guantanamera’ and gave us this masterpiece:

From Huzaifa

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1st year phD coursework


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