Tigist Tamir

We are excited for Yukun to present her project at UNC Comp Med — Tigist Tamir Yukun will be presenting her project at UNC Comp Med Seminar this week!!

Excited for the lab's first UNC Comp Med seminar. Yukun Niu will be presenting an exciting story that will be part of an upcoming preprint. Also, @phosphotig.bsky.social and SMS lab will be representing at ASBMB 2026 hope to see y'all there 😀
tamirlab.org/latest-news/yukun-at-unc-comp-med-seminar

Fellow new PI success PSA! @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social et al have an awesome preprint out! Super psyched to connect with @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social as well, I see collaborations in our future 😀

Are you an undergrad looking for a summer internship? Application season is underway! Check out these internship opportunities at Fred Hutch.

Apply now: linktr.ee/fredhutch

#datascience #statistics #labexperience

PSA! One of my favorite colleagues just put an awesome preprint out! check it out! #biochem @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

Thank you Boston Bioproducts!

What an awesome initiative, check out @drstarbird.bsky.social et al raising everyone up 🥰

$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!

For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!

I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!

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🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455

#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Attending #CellBio2025? Come join the Signaling Squad at our mini symposium on “Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Signaling Across Scales” in Room 120 from 9-11 am!

I’m not saying we’re the best because there are so many great sessions, but it may be a save the best for last situation 😉

It often gets lost that since URM are hugely underrepresented, the number of white scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds benefiting will be higher than the number, eg of Black scientists benefiting from this prior interest of the NIH.

NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.”

MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling

Next installment of American Science, Shattered:

www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Cancer Undergraduate Research Education Program (CUREP) - UNC Lineberger Our objective is to create a summer undergraduate research program in a collaborative partnership with two other North Carolina universities. Our goal is to enhance the success rates of undergraduate ...

Cancer Undergrad Research Educational Program
🔬 10-wk summer experience (May–July 2026)
💡 Hands-on cancer research, year-long coaching
Present at the symposium & attend a national conference
$6,000 stipend + campus housing
Apply by Jan 20, 2025
@unclineberger.bsky.social
unclineberger.org/curep

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/

Zara was an incredibly inspiring scientist, activist, and leader within our community of Leading Edge Fellows. She will be deeply missed by all those who had the pleasure of interacting with her.

Zara was an inspiration. We never met in person but became friends through Leading Edge. She zealously advocated for her ideals, but was also passionate about helping others realize why they should too. Her loss is gutting & the world is the worse for it. RIP, I'll do my best to continue the fight.

We are all better because of the energy, inspiration, brilliance, and tenacity that Zara was. A bright light, role model, advocate & snarky tweeter... everything I needed in a person when I was navigating dark times when we met in 2021. You will be missed deeply, Zara, but never forgotten ❤️

Dr. Weinberg was a MOSAIC scholar and awardee. A brilliant scientist with a strong community service record. Her contribution to making science a safer and better place will never be forgotten. She will be in our hearts forever. 🩷🌷🩷

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

Amazing! I laughed so hard when I finally realized what was going on. Excellent group costume 👏🏾

Wildfire smoke induces GM3 ganglioside lipid accumulation and transcriptomic shifts in mouse lung tissue: A smoke signal story Wildfire smoke is a growing concern due to continually rising exposures and links to numerous adverse health effects. Lipids are essential regulators …

If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some awesome, fundamental work here: Lucy Shapiro, on bacterial cell differentiation, Dirk Görlich and Steve McKnight on IDRs & protein gels in nuclear pores and biomolecular condensates, & Michael Welsh, Jesús González & Paul Negulescu, (overdue) for bench to bedside work on cystic fibrosis 🧪 1/2

Cedeño–Rosario and Kaweesa win research award The award honors outstanding early-career scientists studying cancer, infectious disease and basic science.

✨ #TuesdayInspiration

We’re celebrating ASBMB members Luis Cedeño–Rosario & Elizabeth Kaweesa, recipients of the Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social. This award honors outstanding early-career scientists advancing research.

Congratulations! #ASBMBmembernews
ow.ly/qy1450WU9xk

Brain tumours in mice grow more slowly when starved of key amino acid Nature - Some glioblastomas steal serine from their environment — a weakness that opens the door to treatment.

A highly lethal type of brain tumour often steals key nutrients to aid its aggressive growth — a habit that can be exploited to slow the cancer’s spread

go.nature.com/42bZipf

"For our scientists" 🧪

By ellecordova on Instagram

Read former NIAID Director, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s, Whistleblower complaint. It mirrors the concerns we expressed in the Bethesda Declaration and confirms the administration knew full well the harmful consequences of their actions.

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Congratulations to my great friend and colleague @bradylabupenn.bsky.social for this well deserved award!
@pennmedcso.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands on her head and the words so much stuff behind her ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands on her head and the words so much stuff behind her

This job is such that I did not get a single thing done on my main to do list this week, and yet I worked almost nonstop.

I am honored to be on the steering committee for this wonderful symposium that is highlighting scientists entering the job market. Tune in with us!

Congrats! Excited for you 🤩

Photo of Jaye Gardiner, a Black woman with long curly black hair, wearing dark green glasses and a coral colored sleeveless top, holding an iPad with the words “Jaye’s 1st day” written largely. Underneath it’s written “as an assistant professor 9/2/2025” although that doesn’t come out as clear in the photo.

Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG