The Pew Charitable Trusts has selected Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin to be a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences has selected postdoctoral associate Luiza de Oliveira Saad to receive two years of funding to conduct research.
Research from Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita’s lab finds that a retrotransposon, a genetic element thought of as a parasite, actually plays an important role in rejuvenating an important region of DNA, preserving fertility in flies.
Tomo Kumon is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita’s lab studying the function of repetitive DNA. We sat down with Tomo to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.
Eric Smith is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Iain Cheeseman’s lab studying proteins involved in cancer. We sat down with Eric to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.
Kathrin (Kat) Kajderowicz, a research assistant in the lab of Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin and graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named a recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
How do cells decide how long to pause division after they detect errors? Whitehead Institute Member Iain Cheeseman and colleagues identified that the key player is a previously undiscovered protein that was hiding in plain sight. Read more and also check out our Behind the Science podcast looking at the unexpected nature of this discovery.