Teresa Lee
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
- Reposted by Teresa LeeBeen hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
- Reposted by Teresa LeeDr. Mark Peifer (@peiferlabunc.bsky.social)argues that understanding the history of eugenics is critical for up-and-coming geneticists and should be included in college curriculums. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-e... @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social
- Reposted by Teresa LeeLate job posting: My department is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in microbiology! Please share with anyone interested in working at a PUI. We have a preference for someone who can teach Medical Microbiology, but other than that the focus is open-ended. Happy to answer qs.
- Reposted by Teresa LeeY'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
- Reposted by Teresa LeeLive thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour: 🧵
- 📽️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🎣)
- Reposted by Teresa LeeA good time for a reminder that the BIO Directorate will hold a Virtual Office Hour on Thursday www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
- 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...)
- Reposted by Teresa LeeI am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...
- I've loved serving on the Board of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social! 🧬 It's been an honor to give back to the community that's given me so much, not to mention *so much fun* to brainstorm what comes next for genetics and the folks who love it 🤓
- I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌
- Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- 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!)
- Reposted by Teresa LeeRead this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- 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 🐣.
- 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 🤓)
- 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 😂
- 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.)
- Reposted by Teresa Lee@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
- 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! 🎉
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- 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! 🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
- Reposted by Teresa Lee🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥 🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥 Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams #ImpeachTheQuack @standupforscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Teresa LeeFly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
- FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
- I love this idea for helping trainees learn how to become project closers & get their data all wrapped up and ready to publish 🎁 - can't wait to implement this ice-cream challenge for our next hot science summer!
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- 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!
- I loved having this convo with @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's Early Career Leadership program! 🤓🪱🧬These trainees had *such* insightful questions about leading a team & navigating a research career 🙌
- 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!!!
- 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!)
- 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)
- 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) 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
- #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! 🙌
- 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. 🙌
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- Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.
- 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!
- Reposted by Teresa LeeFor #worm25, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the #Celegans community to easily follow: C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW C. elegans #2 (50+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG ==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added! cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #CeleganSky 🪱 🧪 1/nat://did:plc:6ru4qlucwxaltgakvtliznng/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l23ovbrvgw2t
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- 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! 🪱
- Reposted by Teresa LeePaul Sternberg with important WormBase news #worm25
- I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱 Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
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- 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 🧬🙌
- Good early morning #worm25!!! The Lee lab is en route to California for grad students Tahreem & Marybeth's first-ever worm meeting 🪱🪱🪱 Are we completely awake? No! Are we super excited to see worm friends very soon? You betcha! 🥳
- Loved this workshop at #2025ICDB, where @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social & Kevin Alicea-Torres helped us understand that the best way to combat misinfo is to start with curiosity (instead of correction).💪 Thanks to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social & @spiraldoc.bsky.social for pushing us out of our comfort zones!
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- Time for awards at #2025ICDB! First, @mads100tist.bsky.social wins the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComm award for his advocacy of science & inclusion, but also for being hilarious, thoughtful, and the most online. 🤩🔥 He reminds us to resist, because our strength lies in community & diversity 💪 🙌
- Look who found me at #2025ICDB! I first met @sadewill.bsky.social at a southeast regional @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting waaaay back when - now we're both in new positions AND she's on the cusp of starting her own lab 🤩. Meet people at conferences, folks!! Science-friends are the best!
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- So excited to be bringing Choose Development! fellow Thiago Borges to gorgeous San Juan for the @socdevbio.bsky.social & Int'l Congress of Dev Bio meeting! 🇵🇷 👉Check out our latest story at his poster on Saturday, abstract 359, board C20 (coming soon to a preprint near you!) #2025ICDB
- 🎉The lab celebrated tech-extraordinaire Scott with a boardgame+ party night! We had Uno, Overcooked!, Mario Kart, Monopoly (now a card game??), & Tetris (now a board game??? Also guess who's a bad loser at Tetris...) Scott's starting his PhD at Minnesota, & we wish him the best on his new adventure!
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- The Lee lab held our fourth annual bootcamp week to kick off yet another hot science summer! 🧬🪱🤓 Apparently word has spread, because we had a special guest peeking in throughout the week... here lab tech Scott is showing all humans & avians how to autoclave biohazard trash appropriately.
- Words of wisdom from @youngshull.bsky.social on how to consider my role as an educator & mentor! A super a helpful framing for me as I re-think my assignments for the upcoming year...
- Reposted by Teresa LeeGov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.” www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz...
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- Reposted by Teresa LeeOpening for a #postdoc in the lab available immediately. Please spread the word. DETAILS HERE: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c... cc: #academicJobs #postdocJobs #microbiome #Celegans #organoids #IBD #PathSky #Medsky #AcademicSky 🧪 🧬 🦠
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- Reposted by Teresa LeeI hope you are attending Worm2025 in June. Please consider submitting to our awesome Worm Art Show. It is as good as the science. Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025. Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community. genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...
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- Had a blast "stole-ing" our honors thesis students at the @honorscollegeuml.bsky.social brunch today! Alex & Allie both joined the lab in their first year, and it's been a joy to watch them grow into strong leaders & excellent scientists (and even better to watch their family get a bit misty-eyed) 🥰
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- Celebration season continues with Alex Beaudoin's senior honors defense! 🎉 He found a surprise interaction between dauer stress & our long-lived chromatin mutants (stay tuned for the manuscript coming soon!) And huge thanks to @honorscollegeuml.bsky.social for supporting his three years in the lab 🙌
- Reposted by Teresa LeeLove worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? We’re hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
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- Our final lab meeting this semester was a Tacos Lupita lunch 🌯🌮 (a true Lowell classic!). Hoping that fuels everyone up for finals & end-of-year festivities 💪
- Reposted by Teresa LeeI and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...
