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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Aug 22

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

berkeleyMCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · Aug 20

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096

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Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hypermutable hotspot enables the rapid evolution of self/non-self recognition genes in Dictyostelium

Cells require highly polymorphic receptors to perform accurate self/non-self recognition. In the amoeba Dicytostelium discoideum, polymorphic TgrB1 & TgrC1 proteins are used to bind sister cells and e...

www.biorxiv.org

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Jul 14

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch, @memerman.bsky.social made fundamental discoveries about HIV, co-founded the field of paleovirology and mentored generations of scientists. bit.ly/4nMqOmr @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social

Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and consi...

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congrats Carla!

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · May 27

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.

Learn more about these exceptional scientists:

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · May 21

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congrats Tamanash!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Mar 7

#standupforscience2025
@ohainlelab.bsky.social

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Mar 4

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Mar 2

Nice!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Feb 21

We find better yield from preps grown at 30 in Stbl cells but have also prepped at 37 in standard dh5 with no recombination issues

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congratulations @memerman.bsky.social! - former trainee whose life was transformed by your mentorship 🙋‍♀️

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congrats to @memerman.bsky.social for winning the @fredhutch.bsky.social faculty conclave award for education, training, and mentorship. I cannot think of someone more deserving for three decades of transforming lives of trainees (and naive junior colleagues)!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Jan 31

Amazing! Congratulations @memerman.bsky.social. So very well deserved.

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Jan 9

I was able to catch up with quite a few old friends and make some new ones

And I can verify that those mountains really are just behind campus - beautiful!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Jan 9

I had a fantastic visit to the University of Utah Human Genetics Department this week full of fantastic scientific conversations

This was a trainee-invited seminar (the best!) so special thanks to the postdocs in the department for the invite

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Dec 13

Very nice story Ed, congrats!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Nov 10

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello! I’m new here. If you follow me on the other place give me a follow here so I can find you

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The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social · Dec 13

We are excited to welcome rotation student, Bridgett Rios, to the lab

Bridgett comes to us from the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Ph.D. program

Welcome Bridgett!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Oct 19

This is the first graduate student I've mentored to graduate so particularly special for me

This is also likely to only student I will have the privilege to have co-mentored with my own Ph.D. mentor (Michael Emerman)

Excited to see what's ahead for Joy

The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social · Oct 19

Congratulations to UW Pathobiology Ph.D. student Joy Twentyman on her successful thesis defense yesterday in Seattle

Way to go Joy!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Sep 28

I had a fantastic visit to UVA Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology for a Seminar this week

Many thanks to [email protected] for the invite!

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The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social · Sep 19

The Ohainle Lab is excited to welcome two @BerkeleyMCB rotation students this Fall: Anthony Vo and Michael Singer.

Welcome!

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Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social · Sep 15

UC Berkeley School of Public Health is hiring. Apply!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04071

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The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fantastic day on Lake Tahoe with the Ohainle Lab and the Nuñez Lab

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