Seychelle Vos
@seyvos
Robert A. Swanson (1969) Career Development Professor of Life Sciences @MITbiology, interested in molecular machines that manage nucleic acids, views are my own
So excited to be part of this fantastic team!
BREAKING NEWS / @CANCERGRAND We are excited & proud to announce that we are part of Team KOODAC, a global research team with outstanding expertise that is awarded by Cancer Grand Challenges for developing oncoprotein degraders to target the drivers of solid tumors in children.
The short talk abstract and scholarship deadline for the Keystone Interplay of Chromatin Architecture and Transcription Regulation is tomorrow (23 January)! Get your abstracts in to be part of a great meeting in Banff this spring. keysym.us/KSChromatin25

Start off the New Year on a high note and submit your abstract for @KeystoneSymp Interplay of Chromatin Architecture and #Transcription Regulation, this March/April in Banff. Short talk abstract and scholarship deadline are only 1 week away! tinyurl.com/txn-keystone #KSChromatin25

Our collaborative AGO2 work with the Bartel lab is published! @AMohamed_98 and @wyppeter used cryo-EM and biochemistry to determine the structure of AGO2 in a slicing competent conformation with a fully paired RNA. Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/AGO2-slicing
Happy 2025! Excited to finally share our published slicing structure of human AGO2, the catalytic structure for RNAi by siRNAs and miRNAs. This was an amazing collab effort between @seyvos lab and Bartel lab with @AMohamed_98
The short talk abstract deadline for the Keystone Interplay of Chromatin Architecture and Transcription Regulation meeting is coming up (Jan 9). The meeting is being held jointly with the Epigenetics in Development and Disease meeting, and it will be awesome! #KSChromatin25

A childhood interest in the complex worlds within an organism that the naked eye cannot see ultimately led Praise Lasekan to the BSG-MSRP-Bio program at MIT, working in the Vos Lab @seyvos biology.mit.edu/bsg-msrp-bio-s…
Congratulations to graduate students @AMohamed_98 from our group and @wyppeter from the Bartel lab on determining the structure of human AGO2 in the slicing conformation. This was a challenging project with many exciting results. Read our preprint to learn more!
After years of planning & hard work, we are excited to present the structure of human AGO2 in the slicing conformation, paired to a fully complementary RNA target, revealing the structural basis of the reaction that powers RNAi. (1/5) @AMohamed_98 @seyvos biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
See Bonnie, a grad student in the Vos lab, talk about her work here!
WATCH: Bonnie Su, a graduate student in the @seyvos Lab, discusses studying the early stages of gene transcription. youtu.be/dtr6KNpaMSQ
Congratulations to Nika Fendler on her recent graduation and her work on MORC2! MORC2 is a GHKL ATPase involved in gene silencing. Nika identified how it binds DNA and showed that it can capture multiple DNAs. Read more about it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#MSRPBio is my favorite program at MIT. I loved meeting with this year’s group on Monday. Thank you @MandanaMsrp for organizing such a wonderful program and bringing great students to MIT for the summer every year!
#MSRPBio 2024 students meeting with Seychelle Vos, a biology faculty and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @MITBiology @HHMINEWS @seyvos
Proud of our labs contributions to this paper! Big shout out to postdoc TJ Russell and masters students Katha Schneider and Annika Brem.
#MSRPBio 2024 students meeting with Seychelle Vos, a biology faculty and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @MITBiology @HHMINEWS @seyvos
Congratulations to twitter less Bonnie Su on her first paper from the lab! Bonnie shows that NELF can bind Pol II in two distinct confrontations that support either pausing or elongation. She did this using actively transcribing complexes. Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…
The HHMI Freeman Hrabowski application process opened today. It is a fantastic program for supporting strong mentoring and research. It is a privilege to be part of this amazing program. You can learn more here: hhmi.org/programs/freem… #FHScholars
The proteasome is an FDA-approved target for cancer, but targeting its different sites has been limited until now. With a cue from nature, we designed a suite of inhibitors to complement current treatments like Velcade. Read my debut as a first author here tinyurl.com/y4wxzyab
What does it take to degrade a protein? Turns out all you need is a C-terminal amide. In a great collaboration between @jcornlab and @bode_lab we identified C-terminal amides as a degron recognized by SCF/FBXO31. @matthias_muhar @RaHofmann
C-terminal amides mark proteins for degradation via SCF/FBXO31 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio
I am very humbled to have been selected as a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. Big thanks to my lab, my postdoc and PhD mentors, and my fantastic colleagues at MIT. You all made this happen. #FHScholars #MITBiology hhmi.org/news/hhmi-name…
Meet the newest addition to the Vos lab @seyvos @MITBiology . Still in training, and resting in preparation for the long weekend.
The 9th New England Cryo-EM Symposium will be hosted this year at Harvard Medical School on Nov 9th, 2022. We look forward to welcoming researchers from New England and beyond to @harvardmed! More details and registration: tinyurl.com/2xtyauzx