Julia Brunner

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/

Verleihung der ASciNA Awards 2025 an drei Forschende aus Österreich in Washington, D.C. Caroline Moosmüller, Alexander Lercher und Gabriele Wadlig wurden für ihre exzellenten Publikationen mit den ASciNA Awards 2025 ausgezeichnet.

Auszeichnung exzellenter österreichischer Wissenschaftler:innen in den USA: 3 Forschende erhalten heuer #ASciNA Awards für während ihrer Forschungsaufenthalte entstandene Publikationen: Wir gratulieren Caroline Moosmüller, Alexander Lercher u. Gabriele Wadlig! 👏 #BMFWF

www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Member Highlight: Alexander Lercher on Innate Immune Memory and Real-World Microbe Responses - Biweekly newsletter of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society My name is Alexander Lercher, and I am currently a Postdoc in the lab of Charlie Rice at Rockefeller University in New York, and I am particularly excited about studying immune responses in the context...

Innate immune memory is wild 🧠
Alexander Lercher from Rockefeller dives into how cells remember past infections and prep for future ones. Type I interferon doing way more than just fighting viruses!
Full interview: buff.ly/5TKEJ9o
#CytokineSociety #ImmuneMemory #TypeIInterferon #CellsHaveMemoriesToo

Congrats!!! So happy for you :)

Data Scientist / Software Engineer in Computational Biology (f/m/d) - Vienna (Landbezirke) (AT) job with Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), ÖAW | 12842231 The Rendeiro lab at CeMM is recruiting a highly motivated data scientist to join our international team studying human aging and pathology.

🚨 We're hiring! The Rendeiro Lab @cemm.oeaw.ac.at is looking for a data scientist or software engineer to work on open-source tools for spatial, histological & multimodal data.
Ad: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More info: rendeiro.group

Extremely happy to be awarded the Sidney & Joan Pestka Post-graduate award!
Thank you @cytokinesociety.bsky.social and all my mentors, colleagues and collaborators throughout my career so far!

The integrated stress response fine-tunes stem cell fate decisions upon serine deprivation and tissue injury Novak et al. discover that dietary serine impacts whether hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) prioritize hair growth or skin repair after injury. HFSCs gauge metabolic stress using the ISR and accelerate re-epithelialization while delaying hair regeneration when serine-deprived. These findings suggest new metabolic and pharmacologic strategies to enhance wound repair.

Online now: The integrated stress response fine-tunes stem cell fate decisions upon serine deprivation and tissue injury

Text reads "Congratulations to the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows" followed by the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org. Below are the headshots and names of the 40 new Leading Edge Fellows. They are Cel Welch Lianna Wat Maria Toro Moreno Sarah Talley Xulu Sun Ines Sturmlechner Virginia Savy Amelie Raz Kali Pruss Caterina Profaci Sarah Pierce Melissa Pamula Kehinde Odufowora Patricia Nano Ariana Musa de Aquino Nour El Houda Mimouni Kathleen Martin Brea Manuel Mable Lam Miri Krupkin Elaine Kouame Megan Kirchgessner Sumin Kim Shubhangini Kataruka Geraldine Jowett Andrea Jones Leanne Iannucci Emily Heckman Allison Girasole Florencia Fernandez Chiappe Tonie Farris Hannah Elam Erin Doherty Xiaoyun Ding Maria Bustillo Julia Brunner Debadrita Bhattacharya Lorena Benedetti Ashley Anderson Krisha Aghi

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.

Learn more about these exceptional scientists:

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Intracellular metabolic gradients dictate dependence on exogenous pyruvate Nature Metabolism - Jackson et al. provide insight into how metabolic adaptations that accompany cell state transitions drive reliance on exogenous nutrient availability, focusing on pyruvate as a...

I'm excited to share our latest story from the
@lydiafinley.bsky.social lab, where we show that it's not just whether cells take up nutrients that matters, but how and where those metabolites are used. Out now in @naturemetabolism.bsky.social: rdcu.be/ejFTs 1/

Postdoc Night Science NYC! Next session is Friday 4-6pm at MSK, to learn and practice the creative scientific process! The topic this time is the import/export of ideas. Yael David join us too! @davidlabmsk.bsky.social
Limited spots: docs.google.com/forms/d/12bB... @kelseymonson.bsky.social

All the best for your next steps, Ushma!!

Postdoc Night Science NYC March 14th, 2025 4:00-6:00pm @ Memorial Sloan Kettering CC ZRC 138 On the importing & exporting of ideas across fields

Postdoc Night Science NYC is coming to @mskcancercenter.bsky.social!
#MSKPostdocs, come join Drs. @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @kelseymonson.bsky.social to explore and practice the creative scientific process. In this session, they will discuss how to import and export ideas across different fields.

Congrats again!!

Cooperative nutrient scavenging is an evolutionary advantage in cancer Nature - Nutrient-starved tumour cells cooperate by secreting aminopeptidases that digest oligopeptides in the microenvironment, creating a shared pool of free amino acids.

First: I apologize for never coming here and now doing so only to brag 😬
Second: I am very proud of the people in our lab. We are a small group in a Bio department and this work took an enormous amount of effort from every one here.
rdcu.be/eaxEz

I’m really proud to announce the 2025 Cancer Metabolism Showcase and Workshop, May 5th and 6th, 9:30 AM - 3 PM EST. This year, our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell from VUMC.

I'm excited to come together, talk science, and support researchers in our field.

www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org

Super proud of my bench mate and her work on differential metabolic dependencies in pediatric rhabdo; now online at @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social - @katrinaparas.bsky.social who’s going to help me with cloning when you’re gone?!

Our latest preprint identifies (targetable!) metabolic programs intrinsic to different cancer cell states in rhabdomyosarcoma, out just in time for @katrinaparas.bsky.social's thesis defense tomorrow!

I hope you will join @lydiafinley.bsky.social and me for two days of great science on metabolic support of development and cell fate. Deadline for scholarships and short talk abstracts is Feb. 6.

What if we could look at a human tissue image🔬and quantify its biological age?🧬 And how could we get the same insights without collecting the tissue sample? In our new @biorxivpreprint, we create "tissue clocks" ⏳to do just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 📝 #aging #tissue thread below⬇️

How do past viral infections influence future viral diseases? We found that SARS-CoV-2 recovery protected from severe influenza A virus disease. But how come? There seemed to be some antigen-independent immunological memory going on..

Paper at Immunity: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...