Tigist Tamir

Our lab website is live tamirlab.org 😁

And… I am SO excited to share the first research preprint from my group! In this paper we determined several cryoEM structures to visualize the entire cell-to-cell bridging complex formed by TAM receptor and ligand, bringing into 3D a common graphical depiction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Extra! Extra! Read all about the new paper from @drstarbird.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring! Join our two awesome labs!

I know this awesome scientist! news.unchealthcare.org/2026/04/berl...

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Really excited and proud to share this episode of “Standard Deviation”, part of the “Out of Patients” podcast where I talk about my work with LSEF and what motivated me to do advocacy work. It’s a packed 15-minute episode, so please listen when you have time! www.mzpod.com/standard-dev...

Excited for the lab's first UNC Comp Med seminar. Yukun Niu will be presenting an exciting story that will be part of an upcoming preprint. Also, @phosphotig.bsky.social and SMS lab will be representing at ASBMB 2026 hope to see y'all there 😀 tamirlab.org/latest-news/yukun-at-unc-comp-med-seminar

Fellow new PI success PSA! @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social et al have an awesome preprint out! Super psyched to connect with @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social as well, I see collaborations in our future 😀

Are you an undergrad looking for a summer internship? Application season is underway! Check out these internship opportunities at Fred Hutch. Apply now: linktr.ee/fredhutch #datascience #statistics #labexperience

PSA! One of my favorite colleagues just put an awesome preprint out! check it out! #biochem @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

Thank you Boston Bioproducts!

What an awesome initiative, check out @drstarbird.bsky.social et al raising everyone up 🥰

$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research! For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in! I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply! 🧪🧠

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Attending #CellBio2025? Come join the Signaling Squad at our mini symposium on “Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Signaling Across Scales” in Room 120 from 9-11 am! I’m not saying we’re the best because there are so many great sessions, but it may be a save the best for last situation 😉

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Cancer Undergrad Research Educational Program 🔬 10-wk summer experience (May–July 2026) 💡 Hands-on cancer research, year-long coaching Present at the symposium & attend a national conference $6,000 stipend + campus housing Apply by Jan 20, 2025 @unclineberger.bsky.social unclineberger.org/curep

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Zara was an incredibly inspiring scientist, activist, and leader within our community of Leading Edge Fellows. She will be deeply missed by all those who had the pleasure of interacting with her.

Zara was an inspiration. We never met in person but became friends through Leading Edge. She zealously advocated for her ideals, but was also passionate about helping others realize why they should too. Her loss is gutting & the world is the worse for it. RIP, I'll do my best to continue the fight.

We are all better because of the energy, inspiration, brilliance, and tenacity that Zara was. A bright light, role model, advocate & snarky tweeter... everything I needed in a person when I was navigating dark times when we met in 2021. You will be missed deeply, Zara, but never forgotten ❤️

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some awesome, fundamental work here: Lucy Shapiro, on bacterial cell differentiation, Dirk Görlich and Steve McKnight on IDRs & protein gels in nuclear pores and biomolecular condensates, & Michael Welsh, Jesús González & Paul Negulescu, (overdue) for bench to bedside work on cystic fibrosis 🧪 1/2

✨ #TuesdayInspiration We’re celebrating ASBMB members Luis Cedeño–Rosario & Elizabeth Kaweesa, recipients of the Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social. This award honors outstanding early-career scientists advancing research. Congratulations! #ASBMBmembernews ow.ly/qy1450WU9xk

A highly lethal type of brain tumour often steals key nutrients to aid its aggressive growth — a habit that can be exploited to slow the cancer’s spread go.nature.com/42bZipf

"For our scientists" 🧪 By ellecordova on Instagram

Read former NIAID Director, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s, Whistleblower complaint. It mirrors the concerns we expressed in the Bethesda Declaration and confirms the administration knew full well the harmful consequences of their actions. (Scroll down to the bottom.) katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to my great friend and colleague @bradylabupenn.bsky.social for this well deserved award! @pennmedcso.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

This job is such that I did not get a single thing done on my main to do list this week, and yet I worked almost nonstop.

I am honored to be on the steering committee for this wonderful symposium that is highlighting scientists entering the job market. Tune in with us!

Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.

Good 🧵on grant terminations

I'd love to spot "mitochondrial challenges" just by giving a look to people.

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

In case you were wondering how hiring a $10 million football coach when the Legislature is implementing $70 million in UNC-CH budget cuts starting in fiscal year 2025, with ~$29.5 million in cuts occurring this year, here the answer: for "safety" most of us are banned from much of campus Monday

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

Guess what? We have an awesome seminar lined up for next week! Very excited to host Jess @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

defunding children's brain cancer research. @endpts.com

This year's Annual Review of Nutrition is out and full of really great reads. My contribution details the broad history of nutritional guidance in America & covers the forces (science/politics/culture) that have driven the evolution of nutrition guidance. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Dear president@harvard.edu, dear gaudet@mcb.harvard.edu, to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

If you believe that keeping your head down and being quiet will spare you from this fate, you are mistaken. This will be all of us.