How does #mitochondria function under #stress? In a new study published in nature, Dr. Craig Thompson & colleagues in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at MSK's Sloan Kettering Institute, provide insights to this fundamental question ⬇️ science.org/content/articl….

Congrats to former SDB #Scicomm intern Lydia Grmai, PhD 🇪🇷🔬🎶 who gave a standing room only talk ABRCMS. She’s starting a new lab Yale University! #drosophila #fertility #devbio

A lot of people want to bring Obama-era insiders back for party building purposes. While those folks ran successful presidential campaigns, they also oversaw some of the largest downballot losses in modern times. Party building is different. Look to people w/ recent successes.

Congrats to the around 850 #ABRCMS2024 Student Travel Award winners! ✈️ 🏆 All these students presented at ABRCMS for the first time this year, which is a huge achievement. We hope each and every one will be back again next year.

Thank you, Elias Tzoc-Pacheco, for closing the 2024 #MSKBridge Journal Club series. Shout-out to Elias for receiving the #ABRCMS 2024 Presentation Award in Cell Biology for a presentation titled "Exploring Metabolically Distinct Mitochondria & Associated Reductive Protein Assemblies."🏆👏

Since we mentioned #ABRCMS, here is a throwback memory to the three #MSKBridge Scholars who attended the conference this year: (L-R) Elias Tzoc-Pacheco (Elias Tzoc-Pacheco ), Donyell Logan, and Kelvin Fadojutimi.

New mitochondrial biology for Christmas! 😀😍

Trump blocks NIH review. I’m on a study section to review cancer grants but received this email today: NIH has paused all communication, as directed by the new administration (e.g. cnn.com/2025/01/21/hea… ), and that apparently includes a pause for all study section meetings

HHMI abruptly cut a $60 million program to boost diversity in STEM education - and scrubbed all mentions of it. "Now is the time that we need private funders to fill the gap that the new administration has left," Danielle Beckman tells me, in nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

New review by the Thompson lab Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Things I wish more people knew about doing science in the US (thread):

Wake up babe a new PCR protocol for eggs just dropped

#mRNAvaccines for #PancreaticCancer (PDAC) PART4 1. Out today in nature nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵👇🏽 [1/23]

Absolutely thrilled to receive funding through the Department of Defense's Concept Award mechanism to study mitochondrial mutations in RCC! Very thankful to Ed Reznik, Craig Thompson, and Robert Motzer MD & all collaborators and mentors for the support! Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center MSK Department of Medicine

Thrilled to have received the Scholar-in-Training Award from AACR - Joey's Wings Foundation for our abstract at #AACR25 on mitochondrial dysfunction in RCC! Very thankful for the support from Craig Thompson, Ed Reznik, Robert Motzer MD and everyone MSK Department of Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center!

A new collection of papers on #mitochondrialdisease is ready: biomed.news/bims-mitdis/20… Congratulations to all authors! Bims: Biomed News Gavin McStay Keshav K Singh, PhD Mitochondria News MitoSociety Highlight: Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria

I'm excited to share our latest story from the Lydia Finley lab, where we show that it's not just whether cells take up nutrients that matters, but how and where those metabolites are used . Out now in Nature Metabolism: rdcu.be/ejFTs 1/

#Preprint alert! Kevin (Yan-Ting) Chen, a brilliant GSK Graduate School graduate student and NCI F99/K00 awardee, identifies a novel, post-transcriptional checkpoint on intratumoral T cell function: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Yesterday, Rockefeller had the privilege of hosting the 2025 Tri-Institutional Breakout Prizes, recognizing exceptional early-career scientists. Congrats to Rockefeller's Veena Padmanaban, Weill Cornell Medicine's Nikos Koundouros, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Keunwoo Ryu!