The precious surprise gift for the Postdoc Appreciation Week. The Elowitz lab grad students are awesome!!!

The new special issue of Development is 🔥🔥🔥. dev.biologists.org/content/146/12 Reviews from Pulin Li + ElowitzLab, Samantha Morris, Fabian Theis and others on single cell techniques to understand cell fate and function.

Laura Resteghini (Bartel & Li labs) shares a few stories behind the rocks in her collection. Our series #BeyondTheLabBench looks at some of the traditions that make the Institute unique. Read the first post, on our rock collectors: ow.ly/kg3U50uI9AO MIT Biology MIT Science

First Whitehead Institute scientific retreat with the lab. Feeling inspired by everyone's curiosity.

The best cells speak for themselves. Our new system, intMEMOIR, allows cells to record lineage history in a digital format that can be recovered by imaging: biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

Beautiful work by my The Francis Crick Institute colleagues in the J.P. Vincent Lab @jpvincentlab.bsky.social A synthetic morphogen gradient made by secreted GFP can substitute for Dpp in the wing disc No cytonemes, argosomes, multiprotein particles, just diffusion & receptor binding science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…

An awesome place for tissue biology.

It's the 1st day of MIT's January Independent Activities Period! Check out our line-up of non-credit seminars — Skills in Science, Alternate Careers in Biology, and Immunity from Principles to Practice. Learn more and join us via Zoom: bit.ly/38fizbb

Part 2 speakers will discuss how the dynamic and timing of embryogenesis can be deciphered using new synthetic biology tools. Join us on 20 April! #ISSCRDigital Pulin Li ElowitzLab Teresa Rayon Leonardo Morsut Dr Naomi Moris ow.ly/rSHN50EpIyW

The CSB Application Assistance Program (CSBAAP) will hold a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 11/17 at 12 pm EST to help answer frequently-asked applicant questions! Join the webinar, submit your own questions, and learn more here: csbphd.mit.edu/admissions.

Really grateful for having the support from Allen Institute on our early-stage project. Excited for the brave trainees in my lab who took on the challenge. Cannot wait to see what they will accomplish in the next few years!

We are looking for a motivated physicist or engineer interested in developmental biology research to join us on an ERC project "MechanicalTube" - details and application here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/34255/ please help spread the word, thanks!

What an exciting day! My PhD advisor Dr. Len Zon and postdoc advisor ElowitzLab were elected to the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences on the same day. Congratulations to the two amazing scientists and mentors I was lucky to work with and learn from.

Our latest #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles features Gavin Schlissel, who studies cell signaling in the Li lab. In this Q&A, Gavin shares his many diverse interests, plus a lab horror story involving a flaming ethanol bath: wi.mit.edu/news/meet-whit…