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According to the 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking Open edition of over 2,800 universities from 120 countries, Rockefeller has the highest percentage of most frequently cited scientific publications. Way to go, Rockefeller! 👏 👏 👏
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Researchers in the Vosshall lab have discovered the first evidence of what happens when a female mosquito chooses to mate for the one and only time in her life.
We spoke to @leslievosshall.bsky.social and @leahhouri.bsky.social about their unexpected findings. See the full Q&A:
Happy to see our recent work on SLC25A45 featured on the cover of @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social . Huge thanks to @yuyangliu.bsky.social for the design! @KivancBirsoy @rockefeller.edu
06.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Current treatments for autoimmune diseases have significant shortcomings, including high cost and supply shortages. A new alternative from the #RavetchLab achieves the same effectiveness when tested in mice at a fraction of the dose. @science.org
06.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In today's episode, Neuroscientist Erich Jarvis explores the connections between birdsong and speech:
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The #TarakhovskyLab, as part of an international team of scientists, has identified a new molecular pathway that shifts microglia into a protective state. The findings may lead to Alzheimer's therapies that can reprogram the brain’s own immune defenses.
05.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It turns out female mosquitoes are in charge during sex. A study found they give a subtle signal when they accept a mate, a overturing decades of assumptions about mosquito behavior.
I wrote about this fascinating work by @leahhouri.bsky.social, @leslievosshall.bsky.social et al for @nature.com:
Good luck to Rockefeller's Clare Cahir, Heloise Carion, Erika Layfield, Julia Losner, Dan Oh, Ethan Seltzer, Taylor Wallace, and all other runners in the NYC Marathon this Sunday! 🏃🏽 🏃🏽♀️ 🏃🏽♂️
31.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A global effort, led by @leslievosshall.bsky.social and @nadavshai.bsky.social, just made the most dangerous animal in the world a lot easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day.
Learn more about the first head-to-toe cellular atlas of the mosquito, published in @cellpress.bsky.social, below.
In @nature.com: Using AI and other cutting-edge techniques, the Klinge lab has captured the first near-continuous "molecular movie" of ribosome formation—revealing, frame by frame, how cells build the protein factories that make life possible.
More here: https://bit.ly/3LbHTaF
The first detailed look at how mosquitoes mate from @leslievosshall.bsky.social's lab reverses the assumption that male mosquitoes control the process, finding that a subtle female behavior dictates whether mating will take place or not. @currentbiology.bsky.social
More here: https://bit.ly/4huwEpL
Congratulations to Rockefeller's Steve Bonilla, who has been named an @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Bonilla's lab is pursuing insights into the fundamental rules of RNA folding, structure, and dynamic function.
27.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greg Alushin (@alushinlab.bsky.social) is decoding how the body’s building blocks sense and respond to force, with implications for everything from cancer to developmental disorders. In this Q&A, he discusses where his work on the cytoskeleton could lead us:
24.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Have you signed up for our science newsletter yet? Subscribe now to stay on top of the latest discoveries taking place right here at Rockefeller, delivered monthly to your inbox: https://bit.ly/34Ez7YI
23.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A new @pnas.org study from Michael Rout, working with a team led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, solves the long-standing mystery of how NPCs make split-second decisions about which molecules to allow to pass through their molecular gates: bit.ly/4hleGGd
21.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rockefeller's Jeff Friedman has won the 2025 Albany Medical Center Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious prizes in biomedicine. Friedman is recognized for his discovery of leptin, which established a biological basis for obesity. Congrats, Jeff!
17.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss this piece in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @vcallier.bsky.social on @danielkronauer.bsky.social's latest work! His lab discovered that a protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.
Svetlana Mojsov has won the 2025 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine! She is recognized for her discovery of GLP-1, a gut hormone central to insulin regulation and now the basis of widely used diabetes and weight-loss treatments. Congratulations!
10.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to @veenapadmanaban.bsky.social of the @sohailtavazoie.bsky.social lab, who was honored at the Blavatnik Awards Ceremony this week! Veena's work established neurons as novel drivers of breast cancer metastasis and uncovered actionable therapeutic targets. Learn more below:
09.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A study from the @danielkronauer.bsky.social lab has revealed a new form of olfaction gene regulation that may be broadly shared across insect species—opening up a new window into studying connections between genes and social behaviors. Read a Q&A with the scientists:
02.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
By boosting a single protein, PI31, the Steller lab restored a cleanup system in the brain—potentially pointing toward a new strategy for treating Alzheimer's and related disorders.
Read a Q&A with Steller about this work below:
Happy Science Saturday! Rockefeller's annual science festival for kids that connects world-class scientists with kids from across the city was a smashing success 🧪 🔬 🧬
27.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to the 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winners, recognized for their roles in developing a novel treatment for cystic fibrosis. Remarks from Rockefeller president Rick Lifton detail the remarkable history and impact of this discovery.
26.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, developmental biologist Maria Jasin of @mskcancercenter.bsky.social was awarded the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, the preeminent international award recognizing outstanding women scientists. Congratulations!
#WomenInStem
🎶 The Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series opens the 2025–26 season with the acclaimed Beo String Quartet joined by pianist Ilya Yakushev on September 30. Learn more about the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts and buy tickets below.
24.09.2025 18:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new study from the #BradyLab marks a breakthrough in accessing the so-called microbial dark matter that lurks everywhere on our planet. We asked Sean Brady and lead author Jan Burian how the findings may kickstart a new era of discovery in microbiology.
23.09.2025 18:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The first day of fall has arrived, and campus will soon be glowing with rich autumn colors. From the riverfront to the tree-lined paths, the changing foliage brings a new season of beauty to Rockefeller.
22.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This #PostdocAppreciationWeek, we celebrate postdocs at Rockefeller and beyond! In these short Q&As, we invite you to meet a few of them, hear about their work, and get a glimpse of the interests and experiences that inspire them outside the lab.
19.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1A new study in ants from @danielkronauer.bsky.social reveals a previously unknown mechanism that ensures that each olfactory neuron expresses only one odorant receptor, with broad implications for the study of gene regulation. #RockefellerScience
https://bit.ly/4pwPFLY
