Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
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Iโm so excited to be part of this amazing community!!
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Nominations are open for the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists! We're building a global resource to celebrate and connect inspiring Black scholars in STEM at all career stages. Nominate someone today! Details: forms.gle/7nq5s2xBENUF...
#InspiringBlackScientists
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Survey results identify how scientific research and teaching contribute to the graduate student mental health crisis. @naturebiotech.bsky.social
"Receiving overly harsh criticism or being scolded by a research mentor, and being held to unreasonable expectations..."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuroscientist & astrocyte enthusiast | Postdoc in the Allen lab @SalkInstitute.bsky.social | NINDS K99 |@lclark.bsky.social and Harvard PiN alum | she/her
brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
Developmental neurobiologist, Vision scientist, Axon lover. Asst. Professor at UTSW, she/her
https://varadarajanlab.org
asst prof in the star of the north
single-molecule microscopy and genetic manipulation of meiotic recombination @ lvdlab.org
banner: diffusion limited aggregation
๐ Lecturer (Research & Teaching) @UniGlasgow | ๐ง CUIDS Postdoc @Columbia ๐ PhD in Pharmacology @Vanderbilt | ๐ฌ Adhesion GPCRs & Neuropsychiatric Disorders | ๐ Leading Edge Fellow
Thinking about work, life, and balance. Looking for answers in the cerebellum.
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech
www.vanderheijdenlab.com
Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Incoming Asst. Prof @ UW-Madison. I study the cell biology of the neuroimmune system using zebrafish. I make pretty pictures. #FirstGen
Assistant Prof at EinsteinMed | studying chromatin biology in lung cancer
lafavelab.org
Assistant Professor at UC Davis studying snail eyes
Assistant Professor | Yale Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry | structural biology & virology of herpesviruses | didychuklab.org
Asst Prof/PI @ The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social
UC Berkeley MCB
www.theohainlelab.com
viruses and how cells restrict them
๐จ๐ด Assistant Professor at Stanford Microbiology & Immunogy. Gut microbiome sociomicrobiology and gene flow.
https://garciabayonalab.stanford.edu
she/her // nimh mosaic k99 fellow // computational neuroendocrinology @ princeton // center for applied trans studies sr fellow // leading edge fellow // pups-uaw // transsexual queen
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views & opinions are my own
cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. โง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ
hormones \\ neurons \\ genes \\ pdoc @tollkuhn lab \\ hanna gray fellow @hhmi \\ sr fellow @appliedtrans \\ transsexual รกndrรณgรฝne \\ queering the anthrocatastrophocene \\ alien behind sรฉn \\ simonesun.com \\ () optional, e is not
Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Leading Edge fellow | first-gen academic | molecular biologist studying effects of stress across the lifespan ๐ง ๐ฉธ๐งฌ
Understanding and engineering glycoimmunology | Asst Prof @ MIT BE, MIT ChemE, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research | jstarklab.com
cell & tissue biology, & sometimes frisbee | she/her
assistant professor @ UW Biochemistry
Assist prof โ Biochem @UW! Interested in morphogen signaling โ in the context of development, regeneration, and cancer. โค๏ธ๐ฆ
www.thekonglab.org/
