Chrystal Starbird

Huge congratulations to our ABRCMS 2025 award winners! 🏆✨

• Isaiah Diggs – Outstanding Poster Presentation
• Lily Williams – Outstanding Poster Presentation

So proud of the excellence, dedication, and growth these two have shown since joining my lab as freshmen. They shined on the national stage!

I’ll take the champagne! 🍾

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
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I see. Y’all did not come to play 🙌🏾

Y’all…we worked and Biochemistry was ahead but suddenly Immuno came back strong to steal the lead (😁). Let’s take back and lead and support our students! Details below #ABRCMS2025

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PAIR-UP session is about to start in 210A/B. Please come hear about some funded science and community building!

Everything.

One of my favorites!

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

I love it when songs tell people’s ages😁

Thrilled to be at ABRCMS in San Antonio to support the theme of “Empowering future leaders in the Scientific Workforce”- this meeting always reminds me of the promise for the future of science! @dmortonphd.bsky.social #RNA

We are SO excited to be at #ABRCMS2025! There are a few opportunities to hear from my lab. Nicole is applying to graduate school and Lesley to medical school, and both have been excellent additions to my lab! Come see their posters today!

You’ll be missed! I’m listening to a session now for students to ask questions about grad school, and there is still clearly so much excitement and interest despite the times 😁

See you soon!

We’re here! #SanAntonio #ABRCMS2025

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We just landed!

We just had to pull up and abort a landing because there were “too many planes approaching at the same time” 😬😰😬

Thanks for the good thoughts! He always worries, but I was like eek! Don’t say that out loud 😂

My husband just told me he had a nightmare about a plane crash last night… as he drives me to the airport 😬🙏🏾

ICE has been spotted in Durham today and people are scared but also mobilizing to support our neighbors on a level that's honestly awe-inspiring. If you want to help locally or donate from anywhere, Siembra NC is doing incredible organizing work already www.siembranc.org

If you’re going to be at #ABRCMS, there are a few opportunities to hear from my lab. Nicole is currently applying to graduate school and Lesley is applying to medical school, and both have been EXCELLENT additions to my lab. Come hear about their work! 👇🏾

Me too!

Definitely an interesting age 😁. He said next week he is going to teach me about the history of military tank design.

I just spent the evening learning about tornados from my 12 year old. I learned about CAPE, PWAT, surface rh, hodographs, etc. and some things I knew about, like the Venturi effect. I mean, he was drawing graphs, diagrams, and equations. I had no idea he knew this much 🤯

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill!
We seek creative scientists working in fundamental molecular, cellular, and computational areas. Basic and translational cancer research, all ranks.
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New preprint 🥳! We made photoclickable HaloTag ligands to precisely control protein labeling on living cells. With it, we can do some cool multicolor stuff. Huge congrats to Franzi and all co-authors! Check it out 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Holy crap. They're triaging 2 out of 3 applications that are submitted. 2 out of every 3 applications will not even have a chance for discussion.

Sharing this jic others with alpha-gal syndrome haven’t heard of options like this. Thanks @peiferlabunc.bsky.social for the tip!

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