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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 26d

Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Congratulations! #WomenInScience

Developmental biologist Maria Jasin wins the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize - News

Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Awarded annually by ...

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · 27d

Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose & treat cancer.
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Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences offers the next generation of basic scientists a program to study the biological sciences through the lens of cancer

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · 29d

I am SO happy for you and your lab!! Well deserved and great relief!

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Sep 5

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1

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Heather Feaga @heatherfeaga.bsky.social · Aug 19

Latest from the lab! Analysis of everyone’s favorite regulatory mechanism in bacteria — the RF2 programmed frameshift! Likely present in the ancestor of bacteria, use of this mechanism is influenced by stop codon usage! Big congrats to @cassidyprints.bsky.social
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Conservation and evolution of the programmed ribosomal frameshift in prfB across the bacterial domain | mBio

Translation termination is catalyzed by one of two release factors in bacteria, RF1 or RF2. It has been known for decades that RF2 levels in Escherichia coli are regulated by a programmed ribosomal frameshift within the prfB gene that encodes RF2. We ...

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David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social · Aug 23

Congratulations Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social on receiving the Gruber prize today in Stockholm

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happy birthday Molly! Wishing you an awesome day and looking forward to a year of experiments that (mostly) go as planned, unexpected discoveries, and plenty of lab laughter. You make our micro world brighter every day! 🎉🧬

Molly Monge @mollymonge.bsky.social · Aug 22

First birthday as a PhD student in @naamaaviram.bsky.social’s lab! Thanks for making it so special and memorable! 🎶🎾👩‍🔬

@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @annaadels.bsky.social

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Aug 14

Outcome of Lego Lab happy hour 🧑‍🔬

@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
@mskeducation.bsky.social
#LabLife #newPI

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city.

www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

Chair Search

Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Aug 13

Lego Lab happy hour!

@mollymonge.bsky.social
@annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social

#newPI

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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab!
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Jul 26

Another amazing discovery from the @audeber.bsky.social lab, working with @enzopoirier.bsky.social to demonstrate functional conservation of immune mechanisms across domains of life!
Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!

Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · Jul 24

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity.

We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity.
Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next up from our lab - a ring nuclease with a novel fold which cleaves all cOA species involved in Type III CRISPR defence. It's also found in plasmid and phage genomes, where it presumably functions as an anti-CRISPR.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

A new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Avi Flamholz @flamholz.bsky.social · Jul 16

Amazing opportunity

Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · Jul 2

Now accepting applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... LOI Deadline: September 2, 2025 #bwfcasi

Career Awards at the Scientific Interface - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · Jul 14

Preprint: “Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling”

Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules

Congrats Nitzan Tal!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Jul 4

When you open a lab across the street from your postdoc lab 🙈

Thank you @annaadels.bsky.social for documenting your NYC adventures so beautifully!

#newPI #MicroSky #LabLife

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Jun 30

Things are cooking!
First transformations in the Aviram Lab!

@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
#newPI

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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

Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We have an outstanding opportunity for a Postdoctoral Scientist to joi...

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lizkellogg.bsky.social @lizkellogg.bsky.social · Jun 2

our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · May 22

Ordered the book and can’t wait to read it!

Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · May 22

What an inspiration @marlenebelfort.bsky.social!!
Beautiful and personal interview with @rnasociety.bsky.social:

www.rnasociety.org/dr--marlene-...

Dr. Marlene Belfort

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · May 9

CRISPR-Cas regulation by a non-canonical sigma factor that seems to be linked to quorum sensing 🤯
Super cool work!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MtvS Interacts With RNA Polymerase to Regulate the Francisella Type V-A CRISPR-Cas System

CRISPR-Cas systems endow bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements, playing a fundamental role in shaping microbial communities. Many organisms harbor more than one C...

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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Apr 28

BEAUTIFUL work and great thread! Congratulations @leahhouri.bsky.social @leslievosshall.bsky.social 🎉

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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Naama Aviram @naamaaviram.bsky.social · Apr 12

It was a truly incredible meeting, thank you @audeber.bsky.social and team for hosting!
Next year in NYC! 🤩

Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · Apr 11

It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring.
Vive la science, et vive Paris!

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