It’s important that you speak up & share your struggles. Specially #womeninscience who are facing unique challenges. It’s unfortunate that academia isn’t set up to support mothers let alone a grad-mom who has a premature newborn after a traumatic birth during a global pandemic!

I’m excited to share my favorite research story from grad school! Thanks to Laura Kiessling for letting me work on this cool project during my PhD. advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/38/e…

Register today for a screening and discussion (to be held on October 1) of Picture a Scientist, which features faculty from MIT Science and beyond! Register below to receive your viewing link when it goes live (48 hrs before the Oct 1 event). tinyurl.com/picscientist

Today saw an appalling revelation in our community. Racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic sentiments have no place in academia or anywhere and we will always stand against them. We won’t be silent.

Excited to share new work from Daria Kim and @vicmarando demonstrating a monomer selective glycan functionalization method in mycobacteria. Check it out now on BioRxiv. #glycotime #mycobacteria #biocatalysis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This morning at #ACSSpring2022, @vicmarando is presenting on biosynthetic glycan labeling at 9:05 AM in the Hilton. Then this afternoon, check out Robert Lyle McPherson and Christine Isabella, Ph.D. at 3:30 PM today in the Hilton, discussing work on lectin-sequencing. Hope to see you all there!

Christine Isabella defended in Jan 2021. She worked on the lectin project and did everything from crystallography to flow on human 💩 samples. She was a huge presence in the dept, serving as WIC+ president. She's finishing up a visiting assistant professorship at Bowdoin College

(1/2) We’re excited to welcome Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., as a Scientific Advisor. A Professor & Senior Physician at Rockefeller University and an Investigator at @HHMINEWS, he’s known for research on the molecular aspects of the immune system’s adaptive and innate responses.

Congrats to our CEO Lovisa Afzelius for being recognized by Endpoints News as one of the top 20 women who are supercharging biopharma R&D for 2022! Read more about Lovisa and other inspiring stories from #womenleaders in our industry: endpts.com/special-report… #WomeninBiopharma

Lectin-Seq: a method to profile lectin-microbe interactions in native communities biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Excited to share a pre-print of our work in the Kiessling Group describing interactions between human lectins and stool microbiota. Some highlights below: (1/4) x.com/biorxivpreprin…

Robert Lyle McPherson and Christine Isabella, Ph.D. headed up a team that explored the specificity of human lectins for human commensals. So fortunate to have such talented researchers in the Kiessling Group and amazing collaborators in the Xavier Lab Eric Alm groups. #glycotime #microbiome

What does the most abundant human lectin (ZG16B) in our mouths bind? MIT Science study spearheaded by Soumi Ghosh finds it interacts with common commensals (+an oral mucin). Such a fun collaboration of Kiessling Group, Imperiali, and Ruhl groups pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #glycotime

Could human oral lectin ZG16B be the missing link in our understanding of the oral microbiome? Tried to unlock its role in regulating microbial growth and promoting balance. Honored to be a part of team Imperiali lab Kiessling Group Stefan Ruhl Catherine L Grimes tinyurl.com/2ujr4xhm

Check out the latest work from Laura Kiessling and the Kiessling Group, “Lectin-Seq: A method to profile lectin-microbe interactions in native communities", recently published in Science Advances! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news…

I want to link to the fantastic coworkers (on twitter) that carried out the study Robert Lyle McPherson Christine Isabella, Ph.D. Rebecca Walker dallissergio @sunhee_bae_ Darryl Wesener Anthony Gaca mel halim Amanda Dugan Mike Wuo Soumi Ghosh Eric Alm Xavier Lab #glycotime