Naama Aviram
@naamaaviram.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Sloan Kettering Institute | Postdoc @ the Marraffini Lab Rockefeller University | PhD @ the Schuldiner Lab Weizmann Institute | microbial defense systems
Scientist, immigrant, mom (she/her)
Scientist, immigrant, mom (she/her)
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Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
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For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
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📢 The #HIRI is looking for a #postdoc & a #PhD student to join the research group of @jenshoer.bsky.social. His lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of #phages with #RNA genomes during infection, host takeover & anti-phage defense. 🧫🦠 More info: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...
Working at HIRI
At the HIRI, we do not just value excellent research. Short distances, an open door policy, and a good working atmosphere—this is what distinguishes us from others. Have a look at our current job…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
Please RT!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
Please RT!
Any guesses what we are? 🧫
#microsky #LabLife #halloween
@annaadels.bsky.social @mollymonge.bsky.social @vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @mskcc.bsky.social
#microsky #LabLife #halloween
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October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Any guesses what we are? 🧫
#microsky #LabLife #halloween
@annaadels.bsky.social @mollymonge.bsky.social @vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @mskcc.bsky.social
#microsky #LabLife #halloween
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Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Congratulations! #WomenInScience
Developmental biologist Maria Jasin wins the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize - News
Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Awarded annually by ...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Congratulations! #WomenInScience
Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose & treat cancer.
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Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences offers the next generation of basic scientists a program to study the biological sciences through the lens of cancer
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September 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose & treat cancer.
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A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1
September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1
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Latest from the lab! Analysis of everyone’s favorite regulatory mechanism in bacteria — the RF2 programmed frameshift! Likely present in the ancestor of bacteria, use of this mechanism is influenced by stop codon usage! Big congrats to @cassidyprints.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Conservation and evolution of the programmed ribosomal frameshift in prfB across the bacterial domain | mBio
Translation termination is catalyzed by one of two release factors in bacteria, RF1 or RF2. It has been known for decades that RF2 levels in Escherichia coli are regulated by a programmed ribosomal frameshift within the prfB gene that encodes RF2. We ...
journals.asm.org
August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Latest from the lab! Analysis of everyone’s favorite regulatory mechanism in bacteria — the RF2 programmed frameshift! Likely present in the ancestor of bacteria, use of this mechanism is influenced by stop codon usage! Big congrats to @cassidyprints.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Congratulations Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social on receiving the Gruber prize today in Stockholm
August 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social on receiving the Gruber prize today in Stockholm
Happy birthday Molly! Wishing you an awesome day and looking forward to a year of experiments that (mostly) go as planned, unexpected discoveries, and plenty of lab laughter. You make our micro world brighter every day! 🎉🧬
First birthday as a PhD student in @naamaaviram.bsky.social’s lab! Thanks for making it so special and memorable! 🎶🎾👩🔬
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @annaadels.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy birthday Molly! Wishing you an awesome day and looking forward to a year of experiments that (mostly) go as planned, unexpected discoveries, and plenty of lab laughter. You make our micro world brighter every day! 🎉🧬
Outcome of Lego Lab happy hour 🧑🔬
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
@mskeducation.bsky.social
#LabLife #newPI
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
@mskeducation.bsky.social
#LabLife #newPI
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Outcome of Lego Lab happy hour 🧑🔬
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
@mskeducation.bsky.social
#LabLife #newPI
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
@mskeducation.bsky.social
#LabLife #newPI
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Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city.
www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city.
www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
Lego Lab happy hour!
@mollymonge.bsky.social
@annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social
#newPI
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@annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social
#newPI
August 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Lego Lab happy hour!
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@annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social
#newPI
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@annaadels.bsky.social
@vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social
#newPI
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1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab!
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
July 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab!
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
Another amazing discovery from the @audeber.bsky.social lab, working with @enzopoirier.bsky.social to demonstrate functional conservation of immune mechanisms across domains of life!
Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!
Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!
🦠🧍♀️From bacterial to human immunity.
We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity.
Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity.
Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org
July 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Another amazing discovery from the @audeber.bsky.social lab, working with @enzopoirier.bsky.social to demonstrate functional conservation of immune mechanisms across domains of life!
Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!
Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!
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Next up from our lab - a ring nuclease with a novel fold which cleaves all cOA species involved in Type III CRISPR defence. It's also found in plasmid and phage genomes, where it presumably functions as an anti-CRISPR.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Next up from our lab - a ring nuclease with a novel fold which cleaves all cOA species involved in Type III CRISPR defence. It's also found in plasmid and phage genomes, where it presumably functions as an anti-CRISPR.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Amazing opportunity
Now accepting applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... LOI Deadline: September 2, 2025 #bwfcasi
Career Awards at the Scientific Interface - Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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July 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Amazing opportunity
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Preprint: “Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling”
Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules
Congrats Nitzan Tal!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules
Congrats Nitzan Tal!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Preprint: “Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling”
Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules
Congrats Nitzan Tal!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules
Congrats Nitzan Tal!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
When you open a lab across the street from your postdoc lab 🙈
Thank you @annaadels.bsky.social for documenting your NYC adventures so beautifully!
#newPI #MicroSky #LabLife
Thank you @annaadels.bsky.social for documenting your NYC adventures so beautifully!
#newPI #MicroSky #LabLife
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
When you open a lab across the street from your postdoc lab 🙈
Thank you @annaadels.bsky.social for documenting your NYC adventures so beautifully!
#newPI #MicroSky #LabLife
Thank you @annaadels.bsky.social for documenting your NYC adventures so beautifully!
#newPI #MicroSky #LabLife
Things are cooking!
First transformations in the Aviram Lab!
@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
#newPI
First transformations in the Aviram Lab!
@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
#newPI
June 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Things are cooking!
First transformations in the Aviram Lab!
@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
#newPI
First transformations in the Aviram Lab!
@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
#newPI
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Join the #VosshallLab as a postdoctoral scientist. Fully funded, right here in New York City @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Vosshall Lab
Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We have an outstanding opportunity for a Postdoctoral Scientist to joi...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Join the #VosshallLab as a postdoctoral scientist. Fully funded, right here in New York City @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...
June 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...
What an inspiration @marlenebelfort.bsky.social!!
Beautiful and personal interview with @rnasociety.bsky.social:
www.rnasociety.org/dr--marlene-...
Beautiful and personal interview with @rnasociety.bsky.social:
www.rnasociety.org/dr--marlene-...
Dr. Marlene Belfort
www.rnasociety.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
What an inspiration @marlenebelfort.bsky.social!!
Beautiful and personal interview with @rnasociety.bsky.social:
www.rnasociety.org/dr--marlene-...
Beautiful and personal interview with @rnasociety.bsky.social:
www.rnasociety.org/dr--marlene-...
CRISPR-Cas regulation by a non-canonical sigma factor that seems to be linked to quorum sensing 🤯
Super cool work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Super cool work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MtvS Interacts With RNA Polymerase to Regulate the Francisella Type V-A CRISPR-Cas System
CRISPR-Cas systems endow bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements, playing a fundamental role in shaping microbial communities. Many organisms harbor more than one C...
www.biorxiv.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
CRISPR-Cas regulation by a non-canonical sigma factor that seems to be linked to quorum sensing 🤯
Super cool work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Super cool work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BEAUTIFUL work and great thread! Congratulations @leahhouri.bsky.social @leslievosshall.bsky.social 🎉
✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨
Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!
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Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
BEAUTIFUL work and great thread! Congratulations @leahhouri.bsky.social @leslievosshall.bsky.social 🎉
It was a truly incredible meeting, thank you @audeber.bsky.social and team for hosting!
Next year in NYC! 🤩
Next year in NYC! 🤩
It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring.
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
April 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It was a truly incredible meeting, thank you @audeber.bsky.social and team for hosting!
Next year in NYC! 🤩
Next year in NYC! 🤩