Awesome news..a dream team! Thanks for bringing this to us Harmit S. Malik Maureen Barr. Excited to sign up already!

We are excited to announce Harmit S. Malik and Maureen Barr as Co-Chairs of the Allied Program Committee for #TAGC24 . Get ready for this conference of a lifetime!

Lucky to have a visit from Hironori Funabiki and Sophie Dumont to hear great science and get really good advice on projects!

About to leave beautiful Seattle.
Thx so much Emily Hatch Hutch Basic Sciences for kind invitation, and Sue Biggins & Chip Asbury for including me to Seattle Mitosis Retreat!
Exposure to great science enthusiasts, young or more established, energized and inspired me a lot!

.@TheRajanLab is recruiting a #postdoc interested in investigating new scientific directions at the intersection of innate immunity & neural control of metabolism. Great opportunity to join a phenomenal lab: social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1665… #CareersStartHere

Here is an updated plot showing the remarkable similarity in the patterns of where spike mutations occur in the #SARSCoV2 variant BQ.1.1 versus the long terms hotspots of evolutionary change in human CoV-229E.

Great to have Hironori Funabiki visit Hutch Basic Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for lovely seminar (🙏 Emily Hatch)- I counted ~4 😎 stories: how nucleosomes help assemble spindles and nuclear envelopes & control cGAS activity, CDCA7-HELLS in chromatin remodeling, 'magic' CryoEM of chromatin

'You start a conversation, you can't even finish it
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything!' (Talking Heads, 1977) David Bacsik leads the Bloom Lab & shows highly-transcribed viruses (talking) *don't* produce the most progeny (saying anything)! tinyurl.com/yckhkcn8

Thanks Adam Isabella for highlighting our latest cell shape chapter. Amazing work by recent grad Sophie Sichel and awesome collaborator Benjamin Bratton building on pioneering work by Jennifer Taylor with excellent reviewers from eLife - the journal including Alex Bisson making a better paper.

Excited for the return of our Current Biology Seminar series!

We’re thrilled to have Hironori Funabiki joining us from Rockefeller University to share his research on the roles of nucleosomes in chromosome Identity and Inheritance. All @FredHutch colleagues, don't miss a great talk!

2) Sophie Sichel and Dr. Nina Salama examine the protein interactions that twist the bacterial pathogen H. pylori into its helical shape: fredhutch.org/en/news/spotli…

1) Ariana Farrell, Bernadeta and Bloom Lab identify a new factor influencing the outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assays: fredhutch.org/en/news/spotli…

After 2 years and 48 (!!) articles, my time as the Basic Sciences editor for #ScienceSpotlight Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Hutch Basic Sciences has come to a close. I've loved being so engrossed in the division's work. Check out my last 2 pieces, out today:

In work led by Bernadeta Kate H D Crawford Caelan Radford, we develop pseudovirus system to deep mutational scan full #SARSCoV2 spike: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

TLDR: can now safely measure how all mutations to viral entry proteins affect antibody neutralization.

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Montoya for a successful thesis defense today Seattle MCB Program! I'm so proud of your accomplishments. Pre-print on her main thesis work 'A Virus-Packageable CRISPR System Identifies Host Dependency Factors Across Multiple HIV-1 Strains' coming soon-ish.

Excellent #postdoc opportunity @FredHutch Basic Sciences! @TheRajanLab is recruiting a postdoc interested in investigating new scientific directions at the intersection of innate immunity & neural control of metabolism. Apply here: social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1665… #CareersStartHere

Flying out of Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport? Keep an eye out for our freshly-branded posters (with some familiar faces)! ✈️