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!

We’re excited to have Riku Yasutomi from the @cbmoens.bsky.social Lab and Mohamed Adil from Human Biology’s Haffner Lab sharing their latest research at Friday Afternoon Seminars. For everyone @FredHutch.bsky.social, don’t miss two fantastic talks today at 4:00!

"AI-enabled peptide design for diverse structures and functions" We’re excited to have @gauravbhardwaj.bsky.social joining us from @uwmedchem.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!

Friday Feb. 27 at 12pm CT, Prof. Steve Henikoff presents the Monthly Seminar on Physical Genomics: "Histone Overexpression In Cancer" live on Zoom! Registration is free at tinyurl.com/2rw8n7bt #northwestern #cancer #genomics #research #chromatin #dna #science #biology #cpge #fredhutch #research

The Bai Lab makes a new discovery uncovering a critical link between a neuron’s synaptic vesicle shape and the quality of neuronal communication, revealing a relationship between vesicle size and release probability.

"Reconstitution of mammalian life cycle in vitro" We’re excited to have @nobuhamazaki.bsky.social joining us from @uwgenome.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!

#Seattle showing up. 💙 💚 Fred Hutch's South Lake Union campus is glowing green and blue for the @seahawksofficial.com and the #12s. CONGRATS, CHAMPS! 🏈 🏆

It’s almost the best part of the week: Friday Afternoon Seminars! Excited for two great talks from Heather Borror in the @rasilab.bsky.social and Andrew Brane in Human Biology’s Collisson Lab. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don't miss it at 4pm in Pelton.

"The main natural reservoir of influenza A is waterfowl," says @jbloomlab.bsky.social of Fred Hutch. "There is a huge diversity of influenza A circulating in waterfowl, and influenza A has almost certainly circulated in those birds for far longer than recorded human history." https://bit.ly/4t3lldw

"Shuffling, Writing, and Augmenting Mammalian Genomes" @sudpinglay.bsky.social is joining us from @uwgenome.bsky.social to speak at today’s Current Biology Seminar and we couldn’t be more excited! 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 Mehedi Hassan from the Buck Lab and Rashmi Mishra from Human Biology’s Hsieh Lab share their latest discoveries!

"This is a worse than average flu season, that’s for sure." Fred Hutch's @jbloomlab.bsky.social and John Huddleston weigh in on a surge of #flu cases this season, which they say is driven in part by a high rate of mutation in the #H3N2 flu strain. https://go.nature.com/4qXWLsR

.@fredhutch.org is seeking applications for the 8th Annual Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award which recognizes outstanding and diverse postdocs who are conducting cancer, infectious disease or basic science research. Apply by Feb. 1, 2026: https://apply.interfolio.com/176955 #MendezSymposium

"AI-assisted Developmental Genetics" We’re excited to have @coletrapnell.bsky.social joining us from @uwgenome.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!

“Gene regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes with synthetic CRISPR-Cas systems" We’re excited to have Dr. Jesse Zalatan joining us from @uwchemistry.bsky.social to speak at the first Current Biology Seminar of 2026! For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, don’t miss a great talk at noon in Pelton!

Can’t wait for the first Friday Afternoon Seminars of 2026! Excited to hear about the latest research from Kami Ahmad in the Henikoff Lab and Wei Li from Human Biology’s Berjona Lab. For all our @FredHutch.org colleagues, join us in Pelton at 4PM for two great talks!

"I don't see any reason to think that this is an unprecedentedly bad one, but current indicators are that it may be substantially more severe than the typical winter flu season," said @jbloomlab.bsky.social, a scientist at Fred Hutch who studies viral evolution. https://cbsn.ws/4qBApgt

Apply for the Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award! Honoring a Fred Hutch physician-scientist’s legacy, this award supports outstanding postdocs advancing cancer, infectious disease & basic science research. Details: https://bit.ly/49w4UxI #cancer #postdoc #science

We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Toshio Tsukiyama on being awarded the David and Deborah Lycette Endowed Chair for Cancer Research. This endowment was made possible through a generous gift from David and Deborah Lycette. www.fredhutch.org/en/ways-to-g...

.@fredhutch.org is seeking applications for the 8th Annual Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award which recognizes outstanding postdoctoral fellows from any discipline who are conducting cancer, infectious disease or basic science research. Learn more and apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/176955

Here's to another year of bringing together groundbreaking science and comprehensive care to push the boundaries of what’s possible for patients and their loved ones. Wishing you a #HappyNewYear from all of us at Fred Hutch! 🎉