Tim Stearns
@StearnsLab
Professor and Dean at The Rockefeller University. Cell biologist. Believer in the power of science education.
Excited that our nucleolus mapping paper just came out today in Nature! Truly an amazing study from even more amazing due of @sofiquinodoz & @jiang_lifei w/ @LafontaineLab & Sebastian Klinge and other fantastic co-authors nature.com/articles/s4158…
Excited to share a new preprint! (1)🔬The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear condensate, with a fascinating multilayered liquid-like structure, and is the site of ribosome biogenesis. But how does this multiphase architecture form and function? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.
In 1965, Margaret Dayhoff published the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, which collated the 65 proteins whose amino acid sequences were then known. Inspired by that Atlas, today we are releasing the Dayhoff Atlas of protein sequence data and protein language models.
1/ Better late than never, here’s a long thread of threads summarizing our MOSAIC preprint. If you’re curious about the process by which a new microscope is conceived and brought into the world, this is the thread for you. If you’ve come for eye candy, there’s plenty of that too…
In the July issue of #GENETICS, the 2025 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient @JasonWilliamsNY pens down a timely and pertinent essay—There’s never been a better time to be a STEM educator! Read here: buff.ly/sxE7wbv 1/2🧵
Saw @elliotkirschner’s new film about @RBReich’s last class taught at UC Berkeley. It’s a film about Reich’s remarkable life, but also about the power of teaching and the classroom. Check it out!
Are you an early stage researcher? Check out the newly released #FundingOpportunity for the #NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to fund exceptionally creative scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects. Learn more: bit.ly/4jXnbXQ
An amazing group of Freeman Hrabowski Scholars from @HHMINEWS! Great to see @Steve_Bonilla, who is off to an outstanding start at @RockefellerUniv hhmi.org/programs/freem…
Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.
NYC Postdocs! Join us for Postdoc Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register & spread the word: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W78… @StearnsLab @KelseyRMonson @rmassonix
Join us at 5:30 PM tonight at the NY Genome Center!
Dear NYC postdocs: the Postdoc Night Science is coming to our very own @nygenome on June 2, 5:30-7:30 pm! Let's dive into the art of asking the right questions, then network with fellow postdocs & find new science buddies 😊 Register below!
Exciting news! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @NatureMicrobiol We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4156…
It’s time again for Cell Biology at Scale (CB@S), an annual gathering for researchers from diverse disciplines to share ideas on how new technologies can transform #cellbiology! Co-hosted by #CZBiohubNY & @ChanZuckerberg. Learn more and register: czbiohub.org/events/cell-bi…
RIP Dick Garwin, who I had the pleasure of working alongside every summer for more than 20 years. A brilliant thinker and compassionate person, Dick is the perfect example of how high-level science advice has been critical to the success of the U.S. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/sci…
Itai and I, along with Kelsey, have been doing these sessions with postdocs across NYC. Great fun and much science buddy interaction! Join us at the New York Genome Center on June 2 for the final meeting before we take a summer hiatus.
NYC Postdocs! Join us for Postdoc Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register & spread the word: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W78… @StearnsLab @KelseyRMonson @rmassonix
Here’s a new approach to treating diseases caused by mutated proteins, including the rare but lethal liver cancer fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC). Many diseases are driven by mutations: sometimes a single change, sometimes two proteins fused together. (1/9)
GLP-1 agonists have transformed life for many people with type 2 diabetes and obesity. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize honors Daniel Drucker, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and Svetlana Mojsov for seminal contributions to GLP-1's discovery, characterization and…
Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.
Congrats to Alexandra Long @alexandraflong, the second student from our lab to start their own lab! Her lab is in Univ. Kentucky's Biology Dept, studying the evolutionary cell biology & biophysics of cellular organization. Check it out! alonglab.org
I’m excited to share our latest research from @musser_lab , published today in @Nature. Using two-color 3D MINFLUX, we directly visualized nuclear import and export events through transport-active nuclear pores. nature.com/articles/s4158…