Teresa Lee
@snickclunk.bsky.social
ampersand enthusiast.
also Asst Prof & #newPI at UMass Lowell | chromosomes, C. elegans, STEMed+equity | via FIRST IRACDA @ Emory, MCB @ Berkeley, Carolina, & NCSSM | leewormlab.weebly.com
also Asst Prof & #newPI at UMass Lowell | chromosomes, C. elegans, STEMed+equity | via FIRST IRACDA @ Emory, MCB @ Berkeley, Carolina, & NCSSM | leewormlab.weebly.com
Last week, I hosted John Young for our departmental seminar & we heard about his evo-devo approach to understanding bird and amphibian limb development!🦤🐥🐸
We were in the same PhD cohort at Berkeley (we realized that it was nigh on 20 yrs ago😶) & I love catching up with his lab each year at NESDB.
We were in the same PhD cohort at Berkeley (we realized that it was nigh on 20 yrs ago😶) & I love catching up with his lab each year at NESDB.
February 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Last week, I hosted John Young for our departmental seminar & we heard about his evo-devo approach to understanding bird and amphibian limb development!🦤🐥🐸
We were in the same PhD cohort at Berkeley (we realized that it was nigh on 20 yrs ago😶) & I love catching up with his lab each year at NESDB.
We were in the same PhD cohort at Berkeley (we realized that it was nigh on 20 yrs ago😶) & I love catching up with his lab each year at NESDB.
🎉 LEE LAB PAPER ANNOUNCEMENT for this month's issue of #GENETICS! We're celebrating from both coasts, bc after defending her MS in 2024, Deepshi's now a biotech researcher in the Bay Area.
tl;dr: nucleosome remodeling is necessary to repair germline DNA damage 🧬
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
tl;dr: nucleosome remodeling is necessary to repair germline DNA damage 🧬
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
🎉 LEE LAB PAPER ANNOUNCEMENT for this month's issue of #GENETICS! We're celebrating from both coasts, bc after defending her MS in 2024, Deepshi's now a biotech researcher in the Bay Area.
tl;dr: nucleosome remodeling is necessary to repair germline DNA damage 🧬
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
tl;dr: nucleosome remodeling is necessary to repair germline DNA damage 🧬
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
And that's a wrap on another fun semester of Advanced Genetic Analysis! 🧬 This year, one of the big hits was our mini-debates about topics like genetic testing or human embryonic gene editing (where students wore the hats of various pro/con stakeholders for a congressional subcommittee mtg) 🤓
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
And that's a wrap on another fun semester of Advanced Genetic Analysis! 🧬 This year, one of the big hits was our mini-debates about topics like genetic testing or human embryonic gene editing (where students wore the hats of various pro/con stakeholders for a congressional subcommittee mtg) 🤓
Alack! The Biology Dept has fallen prey to the wiles of the Googly Eye Bandit, who's clearly out to impinge upon the dignity of my esteemed colleagues. Please refer to the official suspect sketch to help us ID the perp.
(Let's hope the Bandit doesn't target @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social next...)
(Let's hope the Bandit doesn't target @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social next...)
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Alack! The Biology Dept has fallen prey to the wiles of the Googly Eye Bandit, who's clearly out to impinge upon the dignity of my esteemed colleagues. Please refer to the official suspect sketch to help us ID the perp.
(Let's hope the Bandit doesn't target @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social next...)
(Let's hope the Bandit doesn't target @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social next...)
It's time for the return of seasonal daylight-savings-time lights in the lab! These go up in Nov and stay til Mar, because the darkness waits for no holiday. 🕯️
(They're currently a tasteful autumnal warm white, but we finally figured out to program them, so stay tuned for more festive colorways!)
(They're currently a tasteful autumnal warm white, but we finally figured out to program them, so stay tuned for more festive colorways!)
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's time for the return of seasonal daylight-savings-time lights in the lab! These go up in Nov and stay til Mar, because the darkness waits for no holiday. 🕯️
(They're currently a tasteful autumnal warm white, but we finally figured out to program them, so stay tuned for more festive colorways!)
(They're currently a tasteful autumnal warm white, but we finally figured out to program them, so stay tuned for more festive colorways!)
I'm esp proud of morphing my Ubx costume into cheapdate (it's my phenotype!!) with a lil help from trainees in acquiring an authentic KFC bag.
(Close observers will note the lack of C. elegans names, but we all know that Dpy or Let don't hold a candle to names in other models).
(Close observers will note the lack of C. elegans names, but we all know that Dpy or Let don't hold a candle to names in other models).
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'm esp proud of morphing my Ubx costume into cheapdate (it's my phenotype!!) with a lil help from trainees in acquiring an authentic KFC bag.
(Close observers will note the lack of C. elegans names, but we all know that Dpy or Let don't hold a candle to names in other models).
(Close observers will note the lack of C. elegans names, but we all know that Dpy or Let don't hold a candle to names in other models).
Happy all hallows from the Lee lab! 🎃🐈⬛👻 Here we are at the UMass Lowell Biology retreat dressed in all our mutant genetic glory🧬
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy all hallows from the Lee lab! 🎃🐈⬛👻 Here we are at the UMass Lowell Biology retreat dressed in all our mutant genetic glory🧬
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Another successful UML Biology retreat in the books! 🎃👻🧬 This year, we were at Taffeta Music Hall, and it was filled with costumes, science, lunchtime trivia, & minimal crowd-surfing (as requested by the signs).
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Another successful UML Biology retreat in the books! 🎃👻🧬 This year, we were at Taffeta Music Hall, and it was filled with costumes, science, lunchtime trivia, & minimal crowd-surfing (as requested by the signs).
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
The folks in the UMass Lowell Biology dept wish everyone a spooky All Hallows Eve! 🎃👻🐈⬛
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The folks in the UMass Lowell Biology dept wish everyone a spooky All Hallows Eve! 🎃👻🐈⬛
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Continuing my tradition of Nobel-prize-winning discoveries, this year's costume is Ubx!!!
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Continuing my tradition of Nobel-prize-winning discoveries, this year's costume is Ubx!!!
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
Ever since joining the lab, grad students Marybeth & Tahreem have done a fantastic job celebrating birthdays 🎂 (the whole shebang! cake, balloons, confetti, & even wrangling the group chat.)
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ever since joining the lab, grad students Marybeth & Tahreem have done a fantastic job celebrating birthdays 🎂 (the whole shebang! cake, balloons, confetti, & even wrangling the group chat.)
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
Today was the Lee lab's (only slightly late) end-of-summer & also start-of-semester lab celebration! We celebrated everyone's hard work with sunshine, turtles, goats, and of course, ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park. Here's to another great year with @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social!
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
September 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Today was the Lee lab's (only slightly late) end-of-summer & also start-of-semester lab celebration! We celebrated everyone's hard work with sunshine, turtles, goats, and of course, ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park. Here's to another great year with @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social!
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
Time for the 3rd annual summer Mondoux-Lee-Vieux mind-meld! (just more proof that worm-friends are the best friends🪱🤗)
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Time for the 3rd annual summer Mondoux-Lee-Vieux mind-meld! (just more proof that worm-friends are the best friends🪱🤗)
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
After #worm25 comes a @katzlab.bsky.social & friends reunion in Napa Valley, enjoying the great weather & wine & company! 🪱🍷 Featuring new PIs Brandon Carpenter & Jadiel Wasson who enjoy never giving their former PI a break from the shenanigans when he takes a lil wine nap in the shade.
July 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
After #worm25 comes a @katzlab.bsky.social & friends reunion in Napa Valley, enjoying the great weather & wine & company! 🪱🍷 Featuring new PIs Brandon Carpenter & Jadiel Wasson who enjoy never giving their former PI a break from the shenanigans when he takes a lil wine nap in the shade.
The Lee lab's back from #worm25 with new friends, new tips, and new ideas... another epic meeting in the books!
Thanks to those who came by to hear about our latest work (as shown below, Tahreem & Marybeth were both kept busy at their posters!).
Can't wait to catch up with everyone at #worm27!!!
Thanks to those who came by to hear about our latest work (as shown below, Tahreem & Marybeth were both kept busy at their posters!).
Can't wait to catch up with everyone at #worm27!!!
July 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
July 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
🪱🍻
(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
🪱🍻
(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
A wormy tradition is the trading of meeting badges at the last night party 🪱🎉
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A wormy tradition is the trading of meeting badges at the last night party 🪱🎉
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
Worm folks are the best folks!! And the proof lies in the twenty year tradition of WORM SHOW on the last night (all thanks to the heroic efforts of Morris Maduro & Curtis Loer)
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July 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Worm folks are the best folks!! And the proof lies in the twenty year tradition of WORM SHOW on the last night (all thanks to the heroic efforts of Morris Maduro & Curtis Loer)
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#worm25 is greatly missing the enthusiasm of @ethanewe.bsky.social at this meeting! He gave a great virtual talk this morning, featuring a hot-off-the-presses story from his postdoc in the Rechavi lab. 🤩
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#worm25 is greatly missing the enthusiasm of @ethanewe.bsky.social at this meeting! He gave a great virtual talk this morning, featuring a hot-off-the-presses story from his postdoc in the Rechavi lab. 🤩
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱
July 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱
"Meiosis is mysterious and dangerous." 🧬🪱
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
July 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Meiosis is mysterious and dangerous." 🧬🪱
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
What a treat! #worm25 gets to hear the latest Nobel laureates, Victor Ambrose & Gary Ruvkin, reflect on their discovery of microRNAs, our supportive worm community, and the impact of curiosity-driven science. 🪱🎉
@lcochella.bsky.social is moderating, but once they get going, they're on a roll!
@lcochella.bsky.social is moderating, but once they get going, they're on a roll!
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What a treat! #worm25 gets to hear the latest Nobel laureates, Victor Ambrose & Gary Ruvkin, reflect on their discovery of microRNAs, our supportive worm community, and the impact of curiosity-driven science. 🪱🎉
@lcochella.bsky.social is moderating, but once they get going, they're on a roll!
@lcochella.bsky.social is moderating, but once they get going, they're on a roll!
Great catching up with everyone at #worm25!
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
June 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Great catching up with everyone at #worm25!
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
We're psyched to share our #worm25 posters!
🔵 On Sunday, Tahreem will show our latest story on how DAF-12 germline-to-soma affects transgenerational heterochromatin accumulation (coming soon to a preprint near you!) 🎉
🔵On Tuesday, Marybeth will show off some new-to-the-lab transcriptomic analysis 🧬🙌
🔵 On Sunday, Tahreem will show our latest story on how DAF-12 germline-to-soma affects transgenerational heterochromatin accumulation (coming soon to a preprint near you!) 🎉
🔵On Tuesday, Marybeth will show off some new-to-the-lab transcriptomic analysis 🧬🙌
June 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We're psyched to share our #worm25 posters!
🔵 On Sunday, Tahreem will show our latest story on how DAF-12 germline-to-soma affects transgenerational heterochromatin accumulation (coming soon to a preprint near you!) 🎉
🔵On Tuesday, Marybeth will show off some new-to-the-lab transcriptomic analysis 🧬🙌
🔵 On Sunday, Tahreem will show our latest story on how DAF-12 germline-to-soma affects transgenerational heterochromatin accumulation (coming soon to a preprint near you!) 🎉
🔵On Tuesday, Marybeth will show off some new-to-the-lab transcriptomic analysis 🧬🙌