"Fruit flies have a lot of fun gene names. Some of my favorites are Asterix and Obelix, which are named after a French comic book, because I have childhood associations with them," postdoc Julia Wucherpfennig says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"Fruit flies have a lot of fun gene names. Some of my favorites are Asterix and Obelix, which are named after a French comic book, because I have childhood associations with them," Julia Wucherpfennig says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
Julia Wucherpfennig studies Wolbachia — a bacteria that lives inside about half of all insects, generally without harming them. The research has real-world implications for pest control. Read our latest postdoc Q&A: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles @remlehmann.bsky.social
"I'm working with a legume called pigeon pea, which is an underutilized crop that has received less attention than globally utilized crops...My project is trying to increase the genetic diversity of pigeon pea," postdoc Sonia Boor says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
"It’s always been important to me to think about how what we do in the lab is shaped by everything around us, and to think about how the work we do at the bench affects society as a whole," Michelle Frank says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
Advice from postdoc Alisa White in the Page lab: "Don’t get married to any one idea. You could accidentally get an interesting result that might end up being a launching point for your career." wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"I talk to my patients about research a lot, to the point where I even show them the latest literature on certain topics," postdoc and gastroenterologist Jaspreet Sandhu says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles @jswlab.bsky.social
"Recently I’ve been working on understanding a new type of code that we found in protein sequences that guides a protein to its destination within cells," Henry Kilgore says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"I see my interest in the outdoors as being a catalyst for my scientific activities and capabilities, because when I'm outside and doing physical exercise, my brain is playing games with the problems I’m working on," postdoc Henry Kilgore says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Alisa White, a postdoc in the Page lab studying sex differences in the brain, recalls the moment she became interested in foundational research. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"Puberty is something we all go through and is fundamental for species propagation, yet we don’t talk about it much and we still don’t know everything about it," says Alisa White, a postdoc in the Page lab studying sex differences in the brain. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"For anyone who enjoyed playing in the dirt as a kid, this is just the best job," postdoc Amelie Raz says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"One question I've been interested in for a long time is understanding how it is that the brain is able to balance the need to learn new things and adapt to new experiences while maintaining the stable connections," Michelle Frank says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Our latest Postdoc Q&A features Michelle Frank, who studies how brain cells regulate RNA to flexibly adapt to different inputs. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Our latest Postdoc Q&A features Michelle Frank from the Bartel lab. Michelle is interested in how the brain balances the ability to learn new things with the need for maintaining stable connections. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles @bartellab.bsky.social
"Growing up I wasn't familiar with the academic pathway. However, in school, I had an excellent biology teacher who sparked my interest in the subject," Luiza de Oliveira Saad says. From the archive, read the full Q&A: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Read our latest postdoc Q&A with Henry Kilgore, who studies how chemistry influences where proteins localize in the cell: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Our latest postdoc Q&A features Henry Kilgore, a postdoc in the Young lab studying how protein chemistry influences where in the cell proteins localize: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"I’d really love to be able to pinpoint the mechanisms that help germ cells keep their totipotent programming," says Sheri Grill, a postdoc in @remlehmann.bsky.social's lab. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Meet Sonia Boor, a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Mary Gehring’s lab studying how to make the crop plant pigeon pea more resilient against climate change. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Pavana Rotti, who studies the neurobiology of opioid use disorder, discusses her work-life balance as both a parent and a postdoc. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"Some animals, like hamsters, can drop their core body temperature to as low as 4 degrees Celsius when they're hibernating...part of our research is understanding why these different capacities exist," postdoc Christopher Reid says. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
"The less familiar you are with a field’s existing biases and assumptions, the more open you will be to new approaches and ideas," postdoc Christoph Gäbelein says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
Our latest #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles features Christoph Gäbelein, a postdoc in @remlehmann.bsky.social's lab studying how oocytes avoid the effects of aging during their long dormancies: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
"Pigeon pea provides a key source of nutrition for about a billion people worldwide, but there isn’t much known about it," postdoc Sonia Boor says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
"Torpor as a behavior appears in many unrelated mammals and birds. Part of our research is understanding why these different capacities exist," postdoc Christopher Reid says. #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
Our latest #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles features Christopher Reid, a postdoc in the Hrvatin lab studying how mammals regulate their core body temperatures. Full profile on our website: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
Meet Sheri Grill, a postdoc in the Lehmann lab studying how germ cells regulate their genes in order to remain totipotent: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh... #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
From the #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles archive: Brad Wierbowski is a postdoc in the Bartel lab studying the turnover of messenger RNAs. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-wh...
