It was such an amazing workshop!! An enjoyable experience organizing this!! Thank you very much to all wonderful speakers and to you, Teresa @snickclunk.bsky.social for joining this!! Let’s make more!! 🪱🔬🧬

From @hsph.harvard.edu Hotamışlıgil Lab, @renata-goncalves.bsky.social identifies an important mechanism that leads to liver dysfunction in obesity—defective coenzyme Q metabolism. This finding paves the way for more targeted diabetes & metabolic disease treatments. Read more: hsph.me/mitoT2D

What a days for the lab!! Sarvesh Rajkumar defended his Honor Thesis at Brown University, Lina Blanco Rodriguez gave a great talk at the regional PREP program, and Purbasha Dasgupta presented her terrific work at the AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION 53rd Annual Meeting in Alaska!! 👏🙌🎉 So proud of them!!!

Today we hosted the first New England LatinX Conference! We thank the science and panel speakers, all the 150 participants, our co-organizers (@giosg.bsky.social and the NEx scientists, and the Harvard GSAS LatinX students), and sponsors (New England Biolabs, Guilliam Fellows Program, and Beantown)

Worm friends: The C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program is signing up mentees! Click on the link to be matched with a mentor and/or to join a peer-mentoring group. Please spread the word, and share with your lab members and worm friends! 📢 1/n

🚨On behalf of the Latinx Scholars at HMS and the New England Latinx Scientists, we are excited to invite you to the first New England Latinx Conference on April 12th at the Waterhouse Room, HMS. 🧫🔬🔭🥼🧪 Register here. It is free!! 🆓 harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📢 spread the word!!

Worm people: we have ~60 people signed up to be mentors for this year's C. elegans Mentor Match program. If you are thinking about it, please sign up now! Please repost to spread the word! 1/n

Worm people: We are looking for a postdoc to join the C. elegans Mentor Match committee. This is a great opportunity to shape a global mentorship program and gain leadership experience. 📩 DM or email me and Andrea Calixto if interested—and please spread the word! 🙌

✨✨The 2025 Keystone Symposium on Aging and Gerotherapeutics is coming up and early bird registration ends today! Very excited about our speaker lineup. Check it out! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Universal Single Copy Knock-In System in Caenorhabditis elegans: One Plasmid to Target All Chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627295v1

Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans??? Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳 Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy! #Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you planning to perform single-copy insertions in C. elegans??? Check out our first lab paper!! 🥳 Our *Universal SKI System* uses just one plasmid that can be inserted into any chromosome! Easy peasy! #Celegans #CRISPR #worms #research #science #techniques www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to the Longevity Summit at the Buck Institute next week! Speaker lineup is fantastic including Eric Verdin, @agingdoc.bsky.social, Jamie Justice, and many more! @buckinstitute.bsky.social

🎉 So honored to be part of this amazing cohort!! Thanks tons to American Federation for Aging Research @AFARorg for trusting us!! We are so excited to move forward with this project!! 🧬🔬 www.afar.org/grantee-prof...

My lab is looking for a computational postdoc with expertise in AI/ML using genomics single cell datasets. If you are excited about diving into the mysteries of aging and longevity research using large genomics datasets, please apply! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38...

🎉 100+ mentors and counting! Be part of this amazing initiative. 🌱 Sign up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program today, before we begin enrolling mentees!

🚨🔥Check out our last work on how we uncoupled different protein functions in longevity!! Thanks to William Mair and our collaborators at Brunet lab and @colaiacovolab.bsky.social!! And of course, the whole TheMAIRLab!!! www.nature.com/articles/s43...