Celeste

Thanks Helen, couldn't have done it without your support!!😁❤️

BWF Expands Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program to Support 14 Pre-Doctoral Scholars - Burroughs Wellcome Fund DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP)—fourteen outstanding pre-doctoral scientists whose work re...

Congratulations to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund GDEP awardees @bwfund.bsky.social, including Lazear Lab grad student Celeste Robles! @celeste-robles.bsky.social
www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-exp...

Brand-new PhD candidate Abbie Weight is standing in lab wearing a yellow sweater and a big well-deserved smile. She is holding an inflatable T-Rex with signs saying "Congratulations Candidate!!!" and "Yay Abbie!". She also is holding a stuffed alpaca wearing a tiny party hat.

Congratulations to Abbie Weight @abbieweight.bsky.social who did a great job on her qualifying exam and is officially a PhD candidate! Abbie is using genetically diverse mice to understand the host factors that control susceptibility to La Crosse virus and other neuroinvasive arboviruses.

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...

Thank you!!

Excited to see a new cohort of @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellows. I have seen the impact this program has had and am glad its continuing. Special congrats to UNC's Celeste Robles and her advisor Helen Lazear, continuing a long tradition of amazing Gilliam Fellows here

🥳🥳 So excited for us!!!

2025 Gilliam Fellows program announcement highlighting graduate student Celeste Robles from UNC Chapel Hill (advisor Helen Lazear)

So proud of Celeste Robles @celeste-robles.bsky.social for being selected as a 2025 Gilliam Fellow! Thrilled to be joining the Gilliam community @hhmi.org
www.hhmi.org/programs/gil...

Thank you girly 🥹💜💜

Big congrats to Celeste, so happy and proud of you 💗 happy to see a fellow IMSDer and friend from UNC win 🥳🎉

AHHHH Thanks JP!!

SO PROUD & EXCITED TO SEE ANOTHER UNC BBSPER JOIN THE GILLIAM COMMUNITY! WELCOME!

I REMEMBER MENTORING CELESTE FROM HER REU DAYS HERE AT UNC! LET’S GOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you!! 😁

I wish you guys could've seen my jaw hit the floor when I got the email! So honored to be a part of the 2025 Gilliam Fellow cohort!! 😄

Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉

The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

Group photo of the Lazear Lab outside

So many accomplishments to celebrate as we close out this academic year! I'm so lucky to get to work with these awesome folks in the Lazear Lab!
@mdedloff.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @viralvibes365.bsky.social @monicareece.bsky.social

Group photo of the Lazear Lab at ASV 2025 in Montreal. We are wearing our name badges and everyone is smiling because our presentations are done and went great!

Composite photo of Lazear Lab members during their presentations. Margaret, Mikhala, Abbie, and Cormac are giving oral presentations; Mikhala, Nigel, and Celeste are standing in front of photos. An ASV 2025 meeting logo is at the top.

The Lazear Lab at #ASV2025 - great to see all these folks present their cool work on so many different viruses! @amersocvirology.bsky.social
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