We have two great talks lined up for the final Friday Afternoon Seminars of the season! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4:00 in Pelton to hear about the latest discoveries from Yulong Su in the Eisenman Lab and Joy Chen in Human Biology’s @behnamnabet.bsky.social Lab.

Last week's fantastic seminar by Prof. Harmit Malik, "Genetic Conflicts Drive The Unexpected Rapid Evolution Of Essential Chromatin Proteins", can now be viewed on CPGE's YouTube channel! youtu.be/VxSppXrqGfI #chromatin #genomics #evolution #northwestern #genomics #proteins #dna #fredhutch

This year we presented a special introduction to the Weintraub Award Symposium featuring colleagues of Dr. Hal Weintraub telling stories about what made Hal such an exceptional scientist, mentor, collaborator, and friend. You can watch it here:

We are so incredibly excited to kick off the 2026 Weintraub Graduate Student Award Symposium today at 9 AM! It’s going to be a phenomenal day of talks and celebration of the outstanding achievements of the awardees.

Excited for an extra special Friday Afternoon Seminars on a THURSDAY! For everyone @FredHutch.org, don’t miss two fantastic talks today at 4:00 from Saket Mishra in the Hahn Lab and Rasika Venkataraman in Human Biology’s S. Lee Lab.

“Preprints: communicating at the speed of science” We’re thrilled to have @richardsever.bsky.social joining us from @openrxiv.bsky.social to speak at today’s Basic Sciences Division Guest Seminar. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at 11:30 in the B-suites.

Congrats to @basicsci.fredhutch.org's Dr. Jesse Bloom @jbloomlab.bsky.social on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! He joins 120 newly elected members recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. www.nasonline.org/news/2026-na...

“Democratizing Biologic Drugs” We’re excited to have Dr. Jim Roberts speaking at today’s Current Biology Seminar. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, join us at noon in Pelton for a great talk!

"Glial Control of Brain Circuits and Brain Tumors" For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss today’s Cancer Neuroscience Synergy Seminar presented by Dr. Benjamin Deneen at noon in Pelton.

The best part of the week is getting to learn about fascinating science at Friday Afternoon Seminars! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4 in Pelton to learn about the latest research from Ishita Joshi in the Tsukiyama Lab and Yeon Soo Kim in Human Biology’s Hsieh Lab.

We are incredibly grateful for our amazing research administrators. From keeping labs supplied, managing funding, and resolving problems big and small, @FredHutch.org Basic Sciences would not be a success without them. #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay

“The sensory and cellular origins of gut-to-brain signaling” We’re excited to have Dr. Marito Hayashi joining us from @uw-nbio.bsky.social to speak at today’s Current Biology Seminar. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

Can’t wait to hear Faith St. Amant from Human Biology’s Tapscott Lab and Barry Stoddard share their latest research at Friday Afternoon Seminars. For everyone @FredHutch.org, don’t miss two fantastic talks today at 4:00!

"An update on Huntington’s Disease, the world's most curable incurable brain disorder” We’re excited to have @jcarroll42.bsky.social speaking at today’s Current Biology Seminar. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

“Beyond FanDuel: Bet Hedging in the Brewer’s Yeast” We’re thrilled to have Dr. Andrew Murray joining us from @harvardmcb.bsky.social to speak at today’s Basic Sciences Lab Guest Seminar. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss it at noon in Pelton Auditorium!

Can’t wait to learn about some awesome science at Friday Afternoon Seminars! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4:00 in Pelton to hear Caitlyn Fain from the Parkhurst Lab and Alex Doan from Human Biology’s @davidmacphersonlab.bsky.social share their latest discoveries!

Join us in celebrating @irinakitop.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 GSA Mentorship Award! 🎉 From discovering C. elegans to building a career as a staff scientist at @fredhutch.org, she advances research while mentoring the next generation. Read more: buff.ly/5MRPgiN

"Effector-triggered immune responses in antiviral defense and pathogenesis" We’re thrilled to have @psmitchej.bsky.social speaking at today’s Current Biology Seminar! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton.

Excited for two great speakers at Friday Afternoon Seminars! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4:00 in Pelton to hear Pralaksha Gurung from @singhvilabglia.bsky.social and Julia Walker from Human Biology’s Holland Lab share their latest research!

Celebrating our lab manager Aida Flor de la Cruz, on her 30th anniversary of working at @fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org Aida is absolutely amazing at everything she does, from art, pottery, baking to microscopy, therapy, & drosophila genetics. We’re very lucky to have her.

We’re excited to have Sydney McGuire from the @lapointelab.bsky.social and Taiki Abe from Human Biology’s @alicebphd.bsky.social Lab sharing their latest research at Friday Afternoon Seminars. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss two fantastic talks today at 4:00!

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Parkhurst for being elected a #AAASFellow by @aaas.org! This is among the highest distinctions in science and the whole division is excited and proud of this recognition of her scientific discoveries, mentorship, and collegiality. www.aaas.org/news/aaas-we...

"Not all disorder is created equal: Functional disorder in Small Heat Shock Proteins" We’re excited to have Dr. Rachel Klevit speaking at today’s Current Biology Seminar! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

“Nervous tumors" For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a special Cancer Neuroscience Synergy Seminar presented by Dr. Moran Amit today at noon in Pelton.

The best part of the week is learning about awesome science at Friday Afternoon Seminars! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4 in Pelton to hear from @sarahtonin1.bsky.social in the @nlehrbach.bsky.social Lab and Sahana Kuthyar in Human Biology’s @jrmayers.bsky.social Lab.

"Sympathetic nerves regulate T cell differentiation" We’re excited to have Dr. Anna-Maria Globig joining us from the @alleninstitute.org to share her latest research at today’s Current Biology Seminar! For all our @fredhutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

We’re excited to have Sarah Huang from the @manusetty.bsky.social Lab and Kyusik Kim from Human Biology’s Collisson Lab sharing their latest research at Friday Afternoon Seminars. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss two fantastic talks today at 4:00!

"Disentangling the complexity of cellular aging: It’s complicated…" Looking forward to a great Current Biology Seminar! We’re excited to have Dr. Daniel Gottschling joining us from Calico Life Sciences to give a talk. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss it today at noon in Pelton!

We have some genetic sleuth work to share with you! What started as a rotation project turned into nothing short of an amazing collaboration between 4 labs in the zoo that is @basicsci.fredhutch.org. We found an essential histone chaperone long thought to be missing in most animals 🕵️‍♂️ bit.ly/4uf8sxz

We have two fantastic speakers lined up for Friday Afternoon Seminars! For everyone @FredHutch.org, join us at 4:00 in Pelton to hear Yihua Zhu from the Smith Lab and Serwah Danquah from Human Biology’s @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social Lab share their latest discoveries!

"Between Therapy and Relapse: The Hidden Life of Persistent Cancer Cells" We’re excited to have Dr. James Alvarez sharing his latest research at today’s Current Biology Seminar! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

Wendy Valencia Montoya Receives Weintraub Graduate Student Award for Groundbreaking Thesis on the Evolution of Sensory Worlds 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @basicsci.fredhutch.org @harvardoeb.bsky.social

Congrats to Wendy Valencia-Montoya on a superstar PhD co-advised by Naomi Pierce. By seamlessly integrating molecular biology with ecology + evolution, Wendy truly transformed how our lab approaches science - can’t think of better compliment than that! @harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social

Congratulations to our grad student Lifei Jiang!!!!! Well deserved

We have two great talks lined up for Friday Afternoon Seminars! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, join us at 4:00 in Pelton to hear about the latest discoveries from Xuhui Jin in the Adeyemi Lab and Niyati Rodricks in Human Biology’s Salama Lab.

Congrats🥂 to grad student Lifei Jiang, a Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardee. Advised by Kang and Brangwynne, her research is to understand the biological functions of biomolecular condensates in the context of cancers. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/ji...

Huge congratulations to Gabriella Chua ( @gnlchua.bsky.social) and Andrea Terceros, 2026 recipients of the Weintraub Award! The award, given by @fredhutch.org, is considered among the most prestigious prizes for graduate students in the biosciences: https://bit.ly/4sfaxI9

🤩 @fredhutch.org announced 12 recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which honors the exceptional achievements of #biosci grad students. Congratulations to the two Boston awardees: Keene Abbott from @mit.edu and Wendy Valencia Montoya at @harvard.edu#biosci https://bit.ly/3P4eelv

Congratulations to Keene Abbott, PhD, of @danafarbernews.bsky.social and @bostonchildrens.bsky.social who received the 2026 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for his outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.

Huge congratulations to my student Rohith Rajasekaran @born2raisecell.bsky.social (now a postdoc in Kole Roybal's lab at UCSF) on being selected for a Weintraub award! Super proud of you and all the work you've done!

If you want a science cleanse today, read and celebrate the accomplishments of these amazing young scientists

Congrats to all the Weintraub awardees! I spy UCSF’s own Ayush Midha on this list - very cool!

“These awardees stood out for their scientific originality, rigor and dedication to asking important scientific questions. They reflect the strength and promise of the next generation of scientific leaders.” - Dr. Bai, director of the Weintraub Award. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

Huge congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award! These twelve exceptional graduate students exemplify the bold, creative, and pioneering spirit embodied by Dr. Hal Weintraub. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

Join us for Violet Sorrentino's (@wormentino.bsky.social ) dissertation defense! Title: Investigating the role of phospholipid flippases in glial pruning of neuron endings Lab: Singhvi Lab, FH When: Wednesday, March 11, 1 p.m. PST Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email [email protected] for link)

Congratulations to Dr. Irini Topalidou on winning the 2026 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Mentorship Award! She was selected in recognition of her exceptional mentorship of more than 30 trainees and her published work on mentorship, STEM education and career choice. @basicsci.fredhutch.org

In new study led by Brendan Larsen, we map functional constraint across the Nipah virus F protein to define constrained epitopes for antibody targeting and identify mutations that stabilize the prefusion conformation for vaccine immunogens. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Big thanks to Aakanksha @singhvilabglia.bsky.social for the nomination, to J. Bai and @nlehrbach.bsky.social for supporting it, to A. Calixto, S. Karimzadegan, P. Gurung, J. Cattin-Ortola, M. Crawford, for their supportive letters and to all my mentees for making this job colorful and meaningful ♥️

Congratulations to @irinakitop.bsky.social on winning the 2026 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Mentorship Award. She was selected in recognition of her exceptional mentorship of more than 30 trainees and her published work on mentorship, STEM education, and career choice. buff.ly/6zAwQQ1

"Integrins and Internalization – promoting tolerance and resilience against attack" We’re excited to have @adamlh.bsky.social joining us from @benaroyaresearch.bsky.social to speak at today’s Current Biology Seminar! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!