Honoured to receive the IMP Birnstiel Award this year! So grateful to my mentor @iaincheeseman.bsky.social for all of his help and encouragement!! Very thankful to the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social community and the wonderful collaborations within the institute—especially @bartellab.bsky.social 😊🥳

New preprint! Graduate student Océane Marescal leverages quiescence - proliferative hibernation - to reveal unexpected dynamics for “constitutively”-localized centromere proteins. To understand the logic of cell division, you need to consider non-dividing cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Unprompted, the 14yo told me she has a deep hatred for Comic Sans. I love that kid so much.

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

I got a nice gift from stellar Cheese lab graduate student Matteo Di Bernardo from his travels - who knows my love of tea. But I'm trying to figure out whether there is a message in that this tea promotes cognitive function. A little help never hurts, I guess. :-)

Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Led by @katiecorker.bsky.social, ASAPbio is currently working on several exciting initiatives. We hope new board members will help us to be even more effective in developing these initiatives and realizing our goals! @gautamdey.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social

I was a @asapbio.bsky.social boardmember until 2023. It was a powerful opportunity to work with an incredibly thoughtful group of people committed to expanding what communicating and assessing scientific research could look like. If this sounds like your jam, definitely apply!

A genuine opportunity to make a positive difference for science - accelerating discovery and communication in the life sciences. Apply to join the @asapbio.bsky.social board.

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Jimmy Ly, a graduate student in Whitehead Institute Member Iain Cheeseman's lab, has received the Porter Prize for Research Excellence from @ascbiology.bsky.social. Congratulations, Jimmy! www.ascb.org/society-news... (@jimmy-ly.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social)

I am incredibly grateful and honored to be recognized with the Keith Porter Prize 🥹🥳 — thank you, @ascbiology.bsky.social and @iaincheeseman.bsky.social for being the best mentor!! Congratulations to the other awardees and I am looking forward to meeting everyone in Philly

Thrilled to see Cheese lab graduate student @jimmy-ly.bsky.social recognized by this award from @ascbiology.bsky.social. Jimmy has done amazing and creative work and is also truly kind and supportive to everyone around him. A great human and amazing scientist. So well deserved. Congratulations!

We're hiring an IT Project Manager at #WhiteheadInstitute in Cambridge, MA! Join a collaborative team and help our remarkable scientists make paradigm-shifting discoveries and unlock the potential of tomorrow. If you're a problem-solver and team-builder, we encourage you to apply! #Hiring #ITJobs

Beautiful work by Katya Khalizeva from @iaincheeseman.bsky.social lab, uncovering a surprising feedback loop to globally suppress mRNA decay during mitosis! This helps explain how cells maintain their transcriptome during a mitotic arrest without new transcription! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What does the Vienna BioCenter offer - Hear it directly from our fellows! Sounds good? Apply now to join our Postdoc Program. The VIP³ call is open–16 fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowships in an interdisciplinary environment: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

We're recruiting junior team leaders @mrc-lms.bsky.social This time we're looking for those working in human metabolic disease. It's a great place to start your lab. Fantastic colleagues, exciting science, world class facilities. Join us! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

Are you an MIT postdoc in the life sciences? Come join my new initiative, the KendallSqBio Postdoc Symposium on Sept. 10, 2025! ✅ Present your science ✅ Connect with other postdocs ✅ Build your community Abstract deadline July 11th! forms.gle/iXMTYfqgLKWR...

At my daughter’s 8th grade graduation. The beautiful ballon backdrop keeps rotating to read SOS 5 instead of 2025. I can’t think of anything more on brand to represent this year thus far.

New pre-print! Ryan Kim et al distinguish the roles of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint as a surveillance pathway only triggered by mitotic errors vs a mitotic timer that is required in every cell division. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Optical Pooled Screening has transformed large-scale cell biology, but lacks robust end-to-end computational strategies to process these Tb-sized datasets. New from Di Bernardo et al (@mat10d.bsky.social‬): Brieflow. A game changer for OPS + new biological insights www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Whitehead Institute celebrated the legacy of its Founding Member and Former Director Gerald Fink, who is known not only for his pioneering work in yeast genetics, but for his mentorship to scientists whose discoveries have reshaped a range of scientific fields. wi.mit.edu/news/whitehe...

Thrilled to join the amazing Boettcher community and be named a 2025 Boettcher Webb-Waring Investigator! @cuanschutz.bsky.social

MIT folks! I’ll be speaking on Tuesday at Whitehead Institute/MIT at my postdoc advisor Gerry Gink’s retirement symposium. Check out the livestream: web.mit.edu/webcast/wi/s...

Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita, who studies how genetic information is passed from parents to offspring, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Full story on our website: wi.mit.edu/news/yukiko-...

Congratulations to Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita, who has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences! www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na... @nasonline.org

😱 😱 😱 Major life goal achieved, though not for the reasons I’d hoped. I will be on @thisamericanlife.org tomorrow. 🧪 www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-gr...

I guess at least it was reviewed.

Deeply honored to receive the Edgerton award and thanks to all the great and supportive people at MIT and in the lab who made it possible!

Amazing start to EMBO workshop Cells4Climate resilience>>https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-climate-resilience>>day 1 energy captured here youtu.be/KFRFSPHdjFM

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday's symposium, "AI: Advancing Foundational Biology," for fascinating insights into how AI is currently accelerating biology research. For those who missed the event, a recording of the webcast is available online: web.mit.edu/webcast/wi/s...

I am both humbled and thrilled (humbly thrilled) to announce that I have been appointed Executive Editor of Life Science Alliance 🥳 @lsajournal.org This young journal is the open access/nonprofit Captain Planet from the combined powers of @embopress.org, @rupress.org, and @cshlpress.bsky.social.

🤯🤯🤯 we have so much fundamental biology left to learn!!

🔥🔥🔥New work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social and @iaincheeseman.bsky.social on the numerous distinctly localized protein isoforms generated by alternative translation initiation sites

An elegant solution

Excited to share my work with @iaincheeseman.bsky.social! We show that alternative translation produces differentially localized protein variants mutated in rare human diseases. This was a fun collaboration, blending cell biology with evolution and clinical genetics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint drop! Check out work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social et al for how protein isoforms generated by alternate translation initiation create dual localization, contribute to mitochondrial function, and are mutated in disease. "Blue-tutorial" thread below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Countdown to an epic new pre-print. Mitochondria are cells within our cells. They need the same core activities - replication, transcription, translation. How do cells enable these diverse activities in both compartments? We uncover an unexpected + broad strategy with ancient origins. Stay tuned!

In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

A small appeal to young scientists looking for internship and PhD positions - websites are hard to maintain, papers can take years to publish & often end up behind a paywall. Read the preprints if you really want to know what a lab is up to. If they don’t preprint… this tells you something too ;)

just taught this to my Genetics class yesterday, highlighting the 70 years of basic research that went into understanding the genetic modification that underlies the current CRISPR therapy for sickle cell anemia. such an exciting time in science 🧪!

Happy Pi Day! MVH Lab's two delicious contributions to Pi day:

Parenting tip of the day: If you have a teenager who is having a hard time adjusting to the time change, you can help wake them up with a gentle "Oh no. We need to get to the airport. We're running late". Worked wonders.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

Today, the NIH announced a decision “to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR).” www.nih.gov/news-events/... 1/n