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Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Omid Gholamalamdari for developing a technique to label nascent transcripts in the worm intestine! This method allows us to measure pre-rRNA transcriptional activity and location in the C. elegans nucleolus.
Check out the preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.08.675001 and protocol: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzqr38vx1/v1
Congratulations to PhD student Brendon McGuinness for a beautiful talk describing his thesis work on “Trait plasticity and the maintenance of biodiversity”.
Congratulations to Nishant, Rabeya, Jané, and Lishi on a fun collaboration! Their model of active transcription-templated condensate assembly explains the rapid kinetics of nucleolar assembly in early embryos, and predicts the scaling of time to assembly with nuclear volume. Check out the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411964122!
Congratulations to postdoc Omid Gholamalamdari for a fantastic talk at the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences 2025 Annual Conference! He presented his work on the role of intrinsically disordered regions in nucleolus subcompartmentalization and function.
Steph is co-coordinating the KITP program on Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates, together with Jerelle Joseph, David Zwicker, and Frank Jülicher.
Congratulations to PhD student Lydia Hodgins for presenting her work from her rotation with the Vera lab at the Biophysical Society of Canada!
First lab BBQ with the new Weber grill. Wonderful to welcome back old friends, and say hi to new ones.
Weber Lab lets out our Rage to celebrate Peng’s PhD and Sara’s MSc. Congratulations, and thanks for all the hard work!
Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp, who used Hi-C data to reconstruct 3D polymer conformations of dinoflagellate chromosomes. Check out his preprint on bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634729v1
Big week in the Weber lab. Congratulations to Baljyot for receiving his diploma, and Peng for defending his thesis! Thank you both for all of your hard work, and good luck on your next adventure!
PhD student Peng A presents his thesis work to the department!
Congratulations to PhD student Brendon McGuinness, who used numerical simulations to explore the impact of intracellular constraints on the structure of microbial communities
Postdoc Laeya Baldini joined Moteur de recherche to discuss her work on changes in nucleolar structure during aging in C. elegans! You can listen to her interview here.
Team Worm takes over Heidelberg with two posters and a talk
Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp for presenting a poster at the CSHL meeting on Genome Organization and Nuclear Function!
Congratulations to PhD student Brendon McGuinness for giving a talk on his project at (Biology) Department Day!
Congratulations to PhD student Peng A and postdoc Laeya Baldini for presenting their work at the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology retreat!
Steph is spending part of her sabbatical working in Yves Barral’s lab at ETH. In addition to exploring the Swiss Alps, she’ll be studying regulation of ribosome biogenesis in budding yeast.
Shadi successfully completed her MSc, and we decorated cookies to celebrate. Congratulations, Shadi! Thank you for all of your hard work, and best of luck!
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