Carolyn Bertozzi

TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY - MARCH 7 WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. standupforscience.net/march7

We can save science, protect health and defend this democracy, but we have to act NOW. Hit the streets! Make yourself seen and heard! Join us on the streets at rallies nationwide on March 7th! Don't sit this out. standupforscience.net/march7

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For those in the SF Bay area, please consider attending the SUFS rally this Saturday, March 7 at SF City Hall from 1-3 pm #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

fight2win.standupforscience.net/SF-March/

A photo of Doc Brown from Back to the Future holding jumper cables labelled "Deranged Activist" with a grant of NIH funding curves below it.

My weekly update on NIH funding

This includes awards made through 2/27/26

Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.

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Targeting immune cells in the aged brain reveals that engineered cytokine IL-10 enhances neurogenesis and improves cognition Immune cells populate the old brain, but whether they can be specifically targeted to improve brain function in older individuals remains unclear. Navarro Negredo et al. dissect how aging impacts brai...

Excited to share our new study using engineered immune proteins to quench inflammation in aged brains!!

Congratulations to Paloma Navarro and the entire team!

Fantastic collaboration with Chris Garcia's lab, Tony Wyss-Coray's lab, and Saul Villeda's lab!

www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

I just tried to register.

The March date is already listed as Full!

I did register for the April date. You have a chance to enter questions. I don't know if there will be another opportunity to do this.

Walk With Me: Sergiu Pașca, neuroscientist studying early brain development YouTube video by Stanford Medicine

Meet Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist whose work explores the biological basis of brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Discover a favorite “aha” moment and the place he seeks out when he’s not in the lab.
youtu.be/6QOptRJUH8k

Cancer Glyco-X 2026: Intersections of Cancer and Glycoscience Join us for Cancer Glyco-X 2026: Intersections of Cancer and Glycoscience at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

Check out this cool #glycotime conference @vai.org in May 2026, co-organnized by Sharon Pitteri @stanfordbiosci.bsky.social alongside Ginny Shapiro, Brian Haab, and Richard Drake.

www.vai.org/event/cancer...

The mass range of tandem mass spectra can be categorized into three main regions. For glycopeptides, the lower mass range contains mainly oxonium ions, the middle range contains mainly peptide fragments, and the high range contains charge-reduced fragments. All regions contain valuable fragment ion information, but they can only be simultaneously accessed by breaking the 5–10–15 rule.

MS/MS scan range can be an afterthought that doesn't receive attention in method design, but improper settings can affect experimental outcomes. This is especially true in glycoproteomics.

A #glycotime thread about a new #JASMS paper on this idea from @riley-research.bsky.social

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Chemistry Faculty, Banik and Rotskoff, named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows | Chemistry The award recognizes early-career scientists whose accomplishments mark them as the next generation of leaders.Grant Rotskoff and Steven Banik are among eight Stanford faculty to receive the 2026 Sloa...

Congratulations to Grant Rotskoff and Steven Banik on being named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows - honoring outstanding early-career scientists shaping the future of chemistry and discovery! 🎉

#SloanResearchFellows

chemistry.stanford.edu/news/chemist...

In the Walk With Me video series — walk with us as researchers tell their stories The new “Walk With Me” video series goes behind the scenes with some of the people who teach and make discoveries and care for patients at Stanford Medicine.

Get to know biomedical researchers @stanfordbiosci.bsky.social @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social through our new “walk with me” series

stanmed.stanford.edu/we-are-stanf...

Nutrient competition predicts gut microbiome restructuring under drug perturbations Systematic profiling of 707 drugs on their impact on stool-derived microbial communities shows that nutrient competition explains and predicts species shifts under drug treatment and that post-drug re...

Fascinating discovery by team @stanfordbiosci.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

New essay on LLMs and brain rot:
"LLMs do not inevitably corrode thinking. They amplify whatever epistemic posture you bring..."
sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

MAHA Is Pushing Glucose Tracking That Most People Don’t Need Surgeon General nominee Casey Means’ metabolic health theory isn’t based on the “gold-standard” science the movement promises.

My thoughts from last spring on Surgeon General nominee Casey Means' push for continuous glucose monitoring as a way of improving metabolic health: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Senior Scientist, Protein Sciences in South San Francisco, California, United States of America | Research & Development at Genentech Apply for Senior Scientist, Protein Sciences job with Genentech in South San Francisco, California, United States of America. Research & Development at Genentech

Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.

A lot of those on SI...

Antibody–lectin chimeras: new checkpoint inhibitors in the toolbox Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com

Great to see our work to engineer AbLecs as a new immunotherapy modality featured in @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Kevan Shokat, UC San Francisco | Chemistry About the Seminar“Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene: K-Ras”Somatic mutations in the small GTPase K-Ras are responsible for approximately 30% of

Professor Kevan Shokat (UCSF) will present a Student Hosted Colloquia on “Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene: K-Ras.” Join us today at 3PM in STLC 114. (Student Host: Kaan Tarhan)
chemistry.stanford.edu/events/stude...

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“On climate, the hour for collective action has already arrived. The science is here. What we need now is courage – courage scaled to the enormity of the task – so we may gift the next generation not only carbon capture, but a planet worthy of their hopes,”

Opinion | The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science

Deep, well sourced, moving, and enraging story from the NYT

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

#lipidtime

Outstanding post.

Fact and data driven with clear exposition.

Read it!

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Exciting! Stanford researchers have developed a UNIVERSAL INTRANASAL vaccine. A study in mouse models shows that vaccinated mice were protected against Covid & other coronaviruses. Still a long way to humans. This study was #NIH funded.

A potential game changer.
🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Color photograph of Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (2020 Chemistry Nobel, shared with Emmanuelle Charpentier for co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology). She's a professor at UC Berkeley, a pioneer in molecular biology, and one of the most influential scientists alive today. The portrait captures her in a more recent, casual style: shoulder-length silver-gray hair, bright blue eyes, warm smile, wearing small pearl earrings and a textured maroon/reddish-brown zip-up jacket over a lighter top, set against a plain light gray background.

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.

They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.

#WomenInSTEM

🎉 Faculty Announcement 🎉

Please join us in congratulating Professor Lynette Cegelski on her appointment as the Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry, an endowed professorship, recognizing excellence in research and leadership.

Learn more: chemistry.stanford.edu/news/lynette...

2026 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Congratulations to new Sloan Fellow @grant.rotskoff.cc @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social !!

sloan.org/fellowships/...

Congratulations new Sloan Fellow @stevenbanik.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏

Jennifer Doudna’s $1 Billion Plan To Bring Gene Editing To The Masses Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...

“The best that I can do in terms of making the next breakthrough or discovery is not to do it by myself, but to enable other scientists to do it”
— Jennifer Doudna

www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

FDA Decides to Review Moderna’s Flu Shot in Surprise Reversal The US Food and Drug Administration will review a Moderna Inc. flu shot made with mRNA technology, reversing a previous decision that shocked Wall Street and spurred a public verbal dispute between th...

Reason prevails--whew! FDA changes course after turning away Moderna's mRNA flu shot for older adults:

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 A trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’

“Jackson…tried to obtain a book needed for his studies from the white-only Greenville public library, but he was turned away…Jackson and seven Black high school students entered…for a peaceful protest…the Greenville library system became integrated in…1960”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...