A big day for the lab! Huge congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Jerry Wei @lianjiejerrywei.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis! 🎓🥳🎉

Thrilled to share our latest work "Recessive PPTC7 deficiency triggers excessive mitophagy to cause a severe inborn error of metabolism with hypomyelinating leukodystrophy" - a collaborative effort documenting the first cases of PPTC7 mutations in humans. 1/n www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Student Award Alert! 🗣️ @mariabroering.bsky.social from the lab @nieminm.bsky.social earned the 2025 BMB Science Communication Award! This award is in recognition of her excellent scientific communication and reasoning during her first year as a rotation student. Congratulations, Maria!

Really thrilled to have our work on mitochondrial presequence strength out today @jcb.org. We establish quantitative parameters to better define "strong" and "weak" presequences both in vitro and in vivo. This work was spearheaded by the ever talented Youmian Yan, a BBSB graduate student in my lab.

Happy Halloween from the Niemi lab, dressed as the scariest lab technique, western blots. 😂

More exciting news from the lab - congratulations to grad student @mariabroering.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Science Communication award from our department!! This award recognizes her clarity in scientific reasoning and communication during her rotation. Congrats, Maria!! 🥳 #ProudPI

Super excited for Niemi lab grad student Hannah Pletcher, who placed second in the recent "What's Your Story" Sci-comm writing contest put on by The Scientist! Read more about the contest, as well as Hannah's winning entry, here: www.the-scientist.com/what-s-your-... #ProudPI

Very excited to share our latest work, “Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function,” led by the fantastically talented @washubbsb.bsky.social graduate student Youmian Yan. A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you!!😊 I am so grateful and excited to have officially joined the Niemi Lab and begun diving into the world of mitochondrial metabolism!