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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 1d

Stay tuned for announcements on hhmi.org

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 3d

Ed Yong’s book AN IMMENSE WORLD, which is all about animals and their senses, was revelatory for me in talking about how what we define as a problem depends entirely on what environment we’ve chosen to set up for people to navigate.

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 3d

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍
Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows
Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter
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Senior Director - Scientific Officer

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jul 2

Super-impressive - I’ve seen this peer review training in action. Something other institutions should replicate prereview.org/clubs/hhmi-t...

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Jorge E. Contreras @drcontrexin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Very proud husband moment: my wife just pulled off a rare double, 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski and McKnight Scholar! 🎉 Huge congrats as well to my colleagues Elisa and Sergey. A big moment for @ucd-physiology.bsky.social

While they prep the party, we’re heading off to celebrate in Barbados! 🎉🏖️🐬

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛

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UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wow, HHMI and McKnight back-to-back!! Couldn't be any prouder of you @doctheagrif.bsky.social!! Happy Juneteenth

Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛

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UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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UC Davis Physiology @ucd-physiology.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by HHMI. We’re immensely honored to have two #PMB faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social , among this inspiring group. An incredible and well-deserved achievement! @ucdavis.bsky.social

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · Jun 18

So stoked to see such amazing scientists and such amazing science in the HHMI Freeman-Hrabowski cohort. But in particular I am just so so so incredibly happy to be able to publicly celebrate the success of @alisonfeder.bsky.social! Go, Alison, go! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

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Elisa Zhang, Ph.D. @elisazhang.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’m thrilled to have been selected as an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, along with my wonderful #PMB colleague @doctheagrif.bsky.social Excited for what’s to come - we’re just getting started! 🚀 @ucdavis.bsky.social
@ucd-physiology.bsky.social

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UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛

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UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Jun 19

I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness.
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Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science

Neuroscientist, biologist and 2021 Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian joined Midday Edition to talk about how the Trump administration's effort to cut back on science spending is impacting researche...

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · Jun 3

Join the #VosshallLab as a postdoctoral scientist. Fully funded, right here in New York City @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Vosshall Lab

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Shira Weingarten-Gabbay @shiraweingarten.bsky.social · Nov 20

I'm delighted to share that I will be joining the Department of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School in January 2025. The Laboratory of Systems Virology will study the dark proteome of viral genomes to understand how viruses work their magic🪄 Thrilled to be back in beautiful Boston 🌟

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · May 31

See above job for international postdocs interested in animal and artificial minds. At @qmul.ac.uk we support postdoc applications marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #postdoc career development Cc @debivort.bsky.social @ocklenburg.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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IGMM-Montpellier @igmm-montpel.bsky.social · May 28

📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology!

RNA biology
Epigenetic regulation
Cell cycle regulation
Cancer, immunology
Virology

Application and information ⬇️
application.igmm.cnrs.fr

@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

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Judi Simcox @judisimcox.bsky.social · May 15

Thrilled to have our story on the regulation of lysosomal lipids out in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social! The work was led by two outstanding grad students Jess Davidson and Raghav Jain probing mechanistic control of energy expenditure @hhmi.org @uwbiochem.bsky.social

Cell Metabolism @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social · May 14

Online now: Hepatic lipid remodeling in cold exposure uncovers direct regulation of bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate lipids by phospholipase A2 group XV

Hepatic lipid remodeling in cold exposure uncovers direct regulation of bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate lipids by phospholipase A2 group XV

Davidson et al. demonstrated that liver lysosomes orchestrate the metabolic adaptation to cold by rewiring lipid processing. They show that phospholipase A2 group XV (PLA2G15) breaks down bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate (BMP) lipids to shift lysosomal function and metabolism in response to direct transcription factor EB regulation.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Apr 24

On dispensing with journal names as quality proxies: "If you can do it for people who have lived and breathed Cell [HHMI], you can do it for anyone" ht @leslievosshall.bsky.social youtu.be/_S6JvhKm7qY?...

A discussion on OpenRxiv with Richard Sever

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Leah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social · Apr 20

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨

Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Apr 17

WOW!! A new pre-print rethinking how mosquitoes, the world's deadliest animal, mates. Amazing work from Leah @leahhouri.bsky.social (former PhD student in my lab) conducted in @leslievosshall.bsky.social's lab. Huge implications (see below) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nadav Shai @nadavshai.bsky.social · Mar 5

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA
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See @oliviagoldman.net thread here

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Mar 6

Mosquito cell atlas! Congratulations on an incredibly ambitious and well executed project @oliviagoldman.net @nadavshai.bsky.social @leslievosshall.bsky.social et al !!!

Nadav Shai @nadavshai.bsky.social · Mar 5

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
See @oliviagoldman.net thread here

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Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · Mar 5

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.

Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵

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Photos of Aedes aegypti female (left) and male (right). Numbers indicate location of collected tissues (listed in legend boxes). Photos by Alex Wild.

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Mar 5

Kavli NSI @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social member & former Director Leslie Vosshall has been awarded the 2025 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for her groundbreaking work on the neural mechanisms of mosquito behavior. 🦟🔬

Congrats, Dr. Vosshall! 🎉 #Neuroscience #KavliNeuro
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Leslie Vosshall awarded the 2025 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience - MIT McGovern Institute

Today the McGovern Institute at MIT announces that the 2025 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience will be awarded to Leslie Vosshall, the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor at The Rockefeller Univers...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Feb 26

A mosquito cell atlas www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ht @leslievosshall.bsky.social

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

The female mosquito's remarkable ability to hunt humans and transmit pathogens relies on her unique biology. Here, we present the Mosquito Cell Atlas (MCA), a comprehensive single-nucleus RNA sequenci...

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · Feb 24

HHMI Science Department is hiring! We are looking for an outstanding immunologist/ cancer biologist to join our senior leadership team. Remote work eligible, 24 weeks a year onsite, possibility of running a small lab with HHMI support

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Senior Director - Scientific Officer

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