Teresa Lee

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

Are you starting an independent position this fall?!!?? Congrats! Please take a few minutes to answer our survey about your experience with the faculty job market. #AcademicSky 🧪

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

One of the best parts of being a new PI is connecting with others just starting out! I loved meeting folks at #2026SDB & catching up with old science friends like @leilarieder.bsky.social & @biyolokum.bsky.social 🤗 (don't be fooled by the $$$, that was just us settling the bill for everyone 😅)

Thank you for a fantastic #2026SDB meeting, @socdevbio.bsky.social - as you can tell from Choose Development! fellows Rae & Thiago, we had a grand time in Vegas! See everyone next year in St. Louis!

The Lee lab has landed in Vegas for #SDB2026!! Choose Development fellow Thiago Borges is giving his poster TONIGHT - come talk to him at A34 and hear about the transgenerational changes in C. elegans heterochromatin! 🪱🧬🪱🧬

What a pleasure to host alum Nayelis Manon as a special guest of the Lee lab meeting! (@kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social & @honorscollegeuml.bsky.social c/o 2024) She's now a PhD student at Michigan Tech, and has come over to the dark side of C. elegans germline chromatin 🪱 🧬 🪱 🧬

This paper is now online at @currentbiology.bsky.social. This marks the end of my postdoc and I’ll be joining @imperiallifesci.bsky.social as Imperial College Research Fellow in October! 🎊 🥳🍾 www.cell.com/action/showP...

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

"Louis Pasteur said that chance “favors only the prepared mind.” Public money pays for the trained person, the prepared mind, to be paying attention when a lucky accident happens." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o... 🧪 1/4

Russell Vought's one rule to rule them all isn't in effect yet. Write to Congress AND comment on the proposed rule by 13 July. WE CAN STOP IT. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268

Goodbye Madison! The Lee lab had a great time at #MAPSS + #DevCell, including the time-honored tradition of nametag swapping on the last night. See y'all in Japan! 🪱 🇯🇵🪱 🇯🇵 🪱 #wormtopicmeeting2026

A new result from Brandon's CURE class, hot off the presses!! He got laughs when describing how his students were disappointed by their unexpected result, and were rewarded with an impromptu lecture about the awesome power of worm epistasis 😅 @bscarp84.bsky.social #wormtopicmeeting2026 🪱 🧬

🎶 Here's the story of a wormy meeting 🎶 We hear the true tale of how two C. elegans meetings reunite in Madison to form one powerhouse worm lineage! #MAPSS 🤝 #DevCell (kudos to the members of @katzlab.bsky.social for their vocals!) 🪱 #wormtopicmeeting2026

What a fantastic first full day of #MAPSS + #DevCell! We kicked off bright & early with @katzlab.bsky.social, where I chaired the Cell Bio of Aging session, and ended with a gorgeous sunset on the famous UW terrace with worm friends old & new (incl @kacylynn.bsky.social!) 🪱 #wormtopicmeeting2026

Another reason to support your non-profit society journals!

🪱 Worm friends, here we come! 🪱 The Lee lab is fueled up and ready to head to C. elegans #MAPSS + #DevCell 2026 - see y'all soon in Madison!

Lab henna party to celebrate recent successes! Posed around the (requested) berry chantilly cake are celebrants Thiago & Kelin, who graduated college! 🙌 And grad students Marybeth & Tahreem who passed their quals! 🥳 (and the lil hand is Tahreem's daughter celebrating her henna butterfly)

There is a straightforward mechanism for the public to comment. Former NIH program office Elizabeth Ginexi has written an exceptionally helpful guide on how to so, with detailed suggestions. 3/n elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

They reduce the role of peer review by making all grant decisions at the discretion of a political appointee, allow grant termination without cause, seriously restrict foreign collaborations, remove federal funding for open access fees, and seriously damage the science enterprise in America. 2/n

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Cheers to the completion of the fifth annual Lee lab bootcamp week 🧋 🧬🪱 Thanks to our returning members who all pitched in to help train the new folks! Hot science summer, here we come! 😎

Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/NXVak 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/PHtGH

And my own take on some of the key points in what OMB/Vought is trying to do here: "If you wanted to cripple science research and were disappointed that Congress continued to fund it, this is the sort of document you would produce."

Felicitations continue with welcoming the latest graduates of #uml2026 🙌 🎓🎉 I met Lee lab seniors Kelin and Thiago *before* college even started, as members of my first-gen pod, and I've been Sabreena's faculty advisor since she transferred to bio (she's joined the Fish & Lee lab's for her MS!)

Celebration festivities continue with @honorscollegeuml.bsky.social stoles to graduating seniors! This year it's Thiago Borges (soon to start his PhD at Boston College!). 🎉🎓 As a bonus, we also wrangled a photo with some (of the many!) Biology honors students. Congrats to all!

Worm-friends, we can't wait to science with you in Japan! 🪱 🇯🇵🪱 🇯🇵🪱 🇯🇵 🪱 Save the date for #worm27!

One last farewell from your #NESDB2026 organizers - Mansi, John, and me (all Berkeley MCB alums!). But the countdown starts NOW.... only 50 weeks til #NESDB2027! We're *delighted* to introduce next year's team: Becca @radikes.bsky.social, Juanma, & Jess. See y'all next time!

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...