Welcome, BBSB Incoming Students! 🎉 We’re excited to welcome five first-year students to our program this year! Pictured below at last week’s orientation, they’re now diving into scientific immersion training. Join us in giving them a warm welcome as we highlight each one in our upcoming posts!

Twins!! 👯 BBSB GSC Chairs, @klaudiofatmiri.bsky.social and @morganpayne.bsky.social, were spotted in matching program T-shirts! These two do so much for our students, so let’s take a moment to recognize and celebrate our amazing chairs! 🎉 (T-shirt design by @ellamozi.bsky.social )

GSC's main student event was a scavenger hunt this spring! Students split into groups and were sent to find objects or complete various tasks across the medical campus and local Forest Park area. What a super fun way to get together (and get some steps in 😅)!

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...

Now published! Big congrats to first author @gginell.bsky.social We are actively working improving/updating various aspects of FINCHES; don't hesitate to reach out if you run into issues, have questions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Niemi lab and @washubbsb.bsky.social graduate student Youmian Yan gave a fantastic presentation on her work at the @asbmb.bsky.social meeting in Chicago! #ProudPI (photo credit to @kerikozul.bsky.social)

How do cells achieve an optimal mitochondrial distribution? Excited to share a piece of this puzzle: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BBSB students and faculty were happy to welcome a new round of admitted students this year! It was a pleasure meeting and introducing you all to St. Louis and our program. Special thanks to Drs. Natalie Niemi and Andrea Soranno for their great efforts in organizing the admitted students’ visit!

A huge congratulations to Dr. Paige Hall from the Fremont lab for successfully defending last week! Her thesis, "Biophysical insights into emerging virus-host interactions," contained some really beautiful scientific work. Dr. Hall, BBSB is so proud! 🥳🥂🎉

The human sacrifice lives! And has returned to camp. #BM100

I might've drawn this lol

Still at ASCB tomorrow? Excited about the endoplasmic reticulum in neurons and other cell types? Join us in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Structure and Function Across Different Cell Types subgroup Dec 18th at 9:00am in Room 28C.

As you're planning out your ASCB schedule be sure to attend the organelle-focused special interest group hosted by @nieminm.bsky.social and myself Mon. 12/16 at 5pm Come hear a fantastic lineup of speakers including @walterwchen.bsky.social @themitotracker.bsky.social @lianjiejerrywei.bsky.social

Are you going to #ASCB2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social? Excited to be co-chairing a session on Organelle Biogenesis, Turnover, & Quality Control with @labfriedman.bsky.social on Monday, 12/16. We have a fantastic line up of speakers - see you there!

Gotta get this thing started somehow so here are some pictures of my cats (mostly) trying to help me with work