Teresa Lee
@snickclunk.bsky.social
ampersand enthusiast.
also Asst Prof & #newPI at UMass Lowell | chromosomes, C. elegans, STEMed+equity | via FIRST IRACDA @ Emory, MCB @ Berkeley, Carolina, & NCSSM | leewormlab.weebly.com
also Asst Prof & #newPI at UMass Lowell | chromosomes, C. elegans, STEMed+equity | via FIRST IRACDA @ Emory, MCB @ Berkeley, Carolina, & NCSSM | leewormlab.weebly.com
Happy all hallows from the Lee lab! 🎃🐈⬛👻 Here we are at the UMass Lowell Biology retreat dressed in all our mutant genetic glory🧬
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy all hallows from the Lee lab! 🎃🐈⬛👻 Here we are at the UMass Lowell Biology retreat dressed in all our mutant genetic glory🧬
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Featuring: Hh, chpd, lfng from the mighty 🪰, Shh & sparc from 🐟, & Mario from 🐣.
Another successful UML Biology retreat in the books! 🎃👻🧬 This year, we were at Taffeta Music Hall, and it was filled with costumes, science, lunchtime trivia, & minimal crowd-surfing (as requested by the signs).
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Another successful UML Biology retreat in the books! 🎃👻🧬 This year, we were at Taffeta Music Hall, and it was filled with costumes, science, lunchtime trivia, & minimal crowd-surfing (as requested by the signs).
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
Stay tuned for costume updates from the Lee lab (we had a GREAT theme this year 🤓)
The folks in the UMass Lowell Biology dept wish everyone a spooky All Hallows Eve! 🎃👻🐈⬛
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The folks in the UMass Lowell Biology dept wish everyone a spooky All Hallows Eve! 🎃👻🐈⬛
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
My favorite might be our dept chair masquerading as Waldo, complete with a Waldo-decoy to fob off disgruntled students, or professors, or deans @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social 😂
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Continuing my tradition of Nobel-prize-winning discoveries, this year's costume is Ubx!!!
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Continuing my tradition of Nobel-prize-winning discoveries, this year's costume is Ubx!!!
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
It honors Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, & Eric Wieschaus's work on the genetics of development 🧬🪰
(Please clap for the accuracy of those wing veins on *both* pairs of wings.)
Reposted by Teresa Lee
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Ever since joining the lab, grad students Marybeth & Tahreem have done a fantastic job celebrating birthdays 🎂 (the whole shebang! cake, balloons, confetti, & even wrangling the group chat.)
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ever since joining the lab, grad students Marybeth & Tahreem have done a fantastic job celebrating birthdays 🎂 (the whole shebang! cake, balloons, confetti, & even wrangling the group chat.)
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
We had to lure Tahreem with a pretext of "help designing new qPCR primers", but the surprise was worth it! 🎉
Reposted by Teresa Lee
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 34:
- UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets
- Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions
- faculty firings at Texas A&M
& so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 34:
- UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets
- Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions
- faculty firings at Texas A&M
& so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 34
Sept 6-12, 2025 - the purpose of a parachute
buttondown.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 34:
- UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets
- Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions
- faculty firings at Texas A&M
& so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 34:
- UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets
- Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions
- faculty firings at Texas A&M
& so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Today was the Lee lab's (only slightly late) end-of-summer & also start-of-semester lab celebration! We celebrated everyone's hard work with sunshine, turtles, goats, and of course, ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park. Here's to another great year with @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social!
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September 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Today was the Lee lab's (only slightly late) end-of-summer & also start-of-semester lab celebration! We celebrated everyone's hard work with sunshine, turtles, goats, and of course, ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park. Here's to another great year with @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social!
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬
Reposted by Teresa Lee
🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Reposted by Teresa Lee
Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
August 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
I love this idea for helping trainees learn how to become project closers & get their data all wrapped up and ready to publish 🎁 - can't wait to implement this ice-cream challenge for our next hot science summer!
I am proud of my #NewPI activity this summer so I want to #humblebrag about a little.
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.
So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.
They did it!
August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I love this idea for helping trainees learn how to become project closers & get their data all wrapped up and ready to publish 🎁 - can't wait to implement this ice-cream challenge for our next hot science summer!
Reposted by Teresa Lee
Reskeeting with Alt Text so everyone can read this quote from Tressie McMillan Cottom in the NY Times
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reskeeting with Alt Text so everyone can read this quote from Tressie McMillan Cottom in the NY Times
Reposted by Teresa Lee
🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
August 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
Time for the 3rd annual summer Mondoux-Lee-Vieux mind-meld! (just more proof that worm-friends are the best friends🪱🤗)
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Time for the 3rd annual summer Mondoux-Lee-Vieux mind-meld! (just more proof that worm-friends are the best friends🪱🤗)
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!
I loved having this convo with @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's Early Career Leadership program! 🤓🪱🧬These trainees had *such* insightful questions about leading a team & navigating a research career 🙌
Check out my incredible colleague @snickclunk.bsky.social's new @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Leadership Dialogue interview on her journey across diverse academic environments! You are such an inspiration and represent #worm25 so well! youtu.be/_4rQZ-ho2GM?...
Leadership Dialogue Series: Teresa Lee
YouTube video by Genetics Society of America
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I loved having this convo with @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's Early Career Leadership program! 🤓🪱🧬These trainees had *such* insightful questions about leading a team & navigating a research career 🙌
After #worm25 comes a @katzlab.bsky.social & friends reunion in Napa Valley, enjoying the great weather & wine & company! 🪱🍷 Featuring new PIs Brandon Carpenter & Jadiel Wasson who enjoy never giving their former PI a break from the shenanigans when he takes a lil wine nap in the shade.
July 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
After #worm25 comes a @katzlab.bsky.social & friends reunion in Napa Valley, enjoying the great weather & wine & company! 🪱🍷 Featuring new PIs Brandon Carpenter & Jadiel Wasson who enjoy never giving their former PI a break from the shenanigans when he takes a lil wine nap in the shade.
The Lee lab's back from #worm25 with new friends, new tips, and new ideas... another epic meeting in the books!
Thanks to those who came by to hear about our latest work (as shown below, Tahreem & Marybeth were both kept busy at their posters!).
Can't wait to catch up with everyone at #worm27!!!
Thanks to those who came by to hear about our latest work (as shown below, Tahreem & Marybeth were both kept busy at their posters!).
Can't wait to catch up with everyone at #worm27!!!
July 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
July 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
🪱🍻
(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
A wormy tradition is the trading of meeting badges at the last night party 🪱🎉
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A wormy tradition is the trading of meeting badges at the last night party 🪱🎉
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)
Worm folks are the best folks!! And the proof lies in the twenty year tradition of WORM SHOW on the last night (all thanks to the heroic efforts of Morris Maduro & Curtis Loer)
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July 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Worm folks are the best folks!! And the proof lies in the twenty year tradition of WORM SHOW on the last night (all thanks to the heroic efforts of Morris Maduro & Curtis Loer)
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#worm25 is greatly missing the enthusiasm of @ethanewe.bsky.social at this meeting! He gave a great virtual talk this morning, featuring a hot-off-the-presses story from his postdoc in the Rechavi lab. 🤩
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#worm25 is greatly missing the enthusiasm of @ethanewe.bsky.social at this meeting! He gave a great virtual talk this morning, featuring a hot-off-the-presses story from his postdoc in the Rechavi lab. 🤩
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌
Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱
July 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱
"Meiosis is mysterious and dangerous." 🧬🪱
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
July 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Meiosis is mysterious and dangerous." 🧬🪱
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌
Reposted by Teresa Lee
It was such an amazing workshop!! An enjoyable experience organizing this!! Thank you very much to all wonderful speakers and to you, Teresa @snickclunk.bsky.social for joining this!! Let’s make more!! 🪱🔬🧬
Great catching up with everyone at #worm25!
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl @rnareylab.bsky.social & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It was such an amazing workshop!! An enjoyable experience organizing this!! Thank you very much to all wonderful speakers and to you, Teresa @snickclunk.bsky.social for joining this!! Let’s make more!! 🪱🔬🧬
Reposted by Teresa Lee
