We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
In Memoriam: R. Bruce Nicklas (1932-2025). Leocadia Paliulis commemorates the life of Dr. Nicklas who was a mentor, a polymath with a great sense of humor, and a link to the beginnings of chromosome research. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellDivision #Chromosomes
Océane Marescal, @iaincheeseman.bsky.social et al. show that quiescent cells disassemble their #centromeres through the transcriptional downregulation of most #centromere proteins while preserving those required to maintain centromere identity. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
In @jcb.org, Océane Marescal, @iaincheeseman.bsky.social et al. show that quiescent cells disassemble their #centromeres through the transcriptional downregulation of most #centromere proteins while preserving those required to maintain centromere identity. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
On July 1st, I'll be joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment in the Division of Molecular Therapeutics within MCB and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.
For 40 years the 8-nt ‘Kozak Sequence’ was thought to mark sites of translation initiation. In a new study, we revise this model by identifying an ~80-nt sequence—the extended Translation Initiation Sequence (eTIS)— that guides ribosomes to correct start sites. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Also check out this more detailed description of the work by lead author Bram Verhagen!
If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk
We are #hiring! #GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology.
Application deadline: May 22, 2026
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How can cells maintain gene expression despite minimal transcription during prolonged mitotic arrest?
@iaincheeseman.bsky.social @jimmy-ly.bsky.social et al reveal global transcriptome stabilization in mitotic cells, partly because of reduced mRNA deadenylation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Leading Edge Fellows Program
Journal of Cell Biology
Journal of Cell Biology
www.biorxiv.org
Rockefeller University Press
Michael Ward
Marvin Tanenbaum
Marvin Tanenbaum
The EMBO Journal
Tami Lieberman
IRB Barcelona
Potential areas of focus for postdoctoral fellows participating in the MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Program include, but are not limited to, the following: Your complete application should include: In the...
Happy to share our preprint!
Using massively parallel reporter assays, single-molecule imaging, deep learning and cryo-EM, we decode the sequence requirements for translation initiation and describe the “extended translation initiation sequence” (eTIS) that modulates start codon recognition.
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