Christopher Barnes
@cobarnes27.bsky.social
www.thebarneslab.com
Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University
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#YearInReview @cobarnes27.bsky.social, @adonisrubio.bsky.social & team have designed a series of dual or “bispecific” antibodies, called CoV2-biRN, which could potentially resist the ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as other coronaviruses in the future: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19
A Stanford-led team has found two antibodies that can work together to defeat all SARS-CoV-2 variants. More research is needed, but the approach could help in the development of treatments to keep…
news.stanford.edu
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#YearInReview @cobarnes27.bsky.social, @adonisrubio.bsky.social & team have designed a series of dual or “bispecific” antibodies, called CoV2-biRN, which could potentially resist the ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as other coronaviruses in the future: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo...
@hhmi.org
@hhmi.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo...
@hhmi.org
@hhmi.org
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Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources.
🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF
🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources.
🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF
🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF
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Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
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Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
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Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by @hhmi.org! We’re proud to have to #BlackInBiophysics faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @cobarnes27.bsky.social among this outstanding group. We wish you the best in this next stage of your careers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
www.hhmi.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by @hhmi.org! We’re proud to have to #BlackInBiophysics faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @cobarnes27.bsky.social among this outstanding group. We wish you the best in this next stage of your careers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @hhmi.org 🎉 🍾
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
www.hhmi.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @hhmi.org 🎉 🍾
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.
The Bethesda Declaration
www.science.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.
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COCO GAUFF WINS THE FRENCH OPEN 🏆
The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.
The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.
June 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
COCO GAUFF WINS THE FRENCH OPEN 🏆
The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.
The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.
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Join me at the @aai.org ASPIRE awards symposium and networking in room 312 starting now with @cobarnes27.bsky.social @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social and Mohammad Arifuzzaman #AAI2025
May 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Join me at the @aai.org ASPIRE awards symposium and networking in room 312 starting now with @cobarnes27.bsky.social @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social and Mohammad Arifuzzaman #AAI2025
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"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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We are happy to see Sharyn Alfonsi and @60minutes.bsky.social covering the existential crisis facing science in the United States.
Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts!
#standupforscience
Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts!
#standupforscience
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
April 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We are happy to see Sharyn Alfonsi and @60minutes.bsky.social covering the existential crisis facing science in the United States.
Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts!
#standupforscience
Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts!
#standupforscience
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The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes. https://theatln.tc/jxfvKla3
April 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes. https://theatln.tc/jxfvKla3
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
April 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
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Racial affinity groups are under attack. Now is the time to redouble our commitments to these vital organizations that make science better for all. Proud to pen this letter with @khadlily.bsky.social and many @wocineeb.bsky.social colleagues
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protect US racial affinity groups
On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Racial affinity groups are under attack. Now is the time to redouble our commitments to these vital organizations that make science better for all. Proud to pen this letter with @khadlily.bsky.social and many @wocineeb.bsky.social colleagues
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics?
@hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1!
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@hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1!
🧵
March 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics?
@hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1!
🧵
@hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1!
🧵
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"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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All of these grant terminations coming out of the NIH aren't just devastating - they're forced actions, sloppily handled by an administration that is trying to cancel science that it does not understand.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
A Decade of Cuts in a Matter of Days
The Trump administration’s rapid terminations of NIH grants is its most aggressive attempt yet to control American science.
www.theatlantic.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
All of these grant terminations coming out of the NIH aren't just devastating - they're forced actions, sloppily handled by an administration that is trying to cancel science that it does not understand.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Wow, major breakthrough in the development of broadly neutralizing bispecific antibody therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, led by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social 😃
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bispecific antibodies targeting the N-terminal and receptor binding domains potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
Bispecific antibodies incorporating a cross-reactive NTD-specific antibody are resilient to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.
www.science.org
March 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Wow, major breakthrough in the development of broadly neutralizing bispecific antibody therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, led by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social 😃
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!