Woo Lab

@thewoolab

Official Account for Christina Woo’s Lab @HarvardCCB | chembio, protein mods, chemoproteomics, TPD | Student-run account | tweets by Christina signed CMW

Cambridge, MA

Joined April 2015

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jul 20

We hope everyone is as in love with this cover as we are! 🤩

EElla Marushchenko@Ella_Maru · Jul 20

💚My New Cover for @thewoolab @Harvard 💙 This art illustrates the discovery that #cereblon, a key protein in the cell’s waste disposal system, recognizes small chemical tags called #cyclic_imides (shown here in green at the tips of proteins). These naturally form at the end of…

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jul 17

The Woo lab has minted another Ph.D, and the lab’s first-ever PhD for the @chemical_phd program! Congratulations Dr. Farah Kabir on a brilliant dissertation ✨ Best of luck for the road ahead! 💐🧗🏽‍♀️🎱❤️

thewoolab's tweet image. The Woo lab has minted another Ph.D, and the lab’s first-ever PhD for the @chemical_phd program! Congratulations Dr. Farah Kabir on a brilliant dissertation ✨ Best of luck for the road ahead! 💐🧗🏽‍♀️🎱❤️

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jun 20

Three cheers for Ethan and Hannah, who presented our two-part story of cyclic imide degron formation and detection at the @HarvardCCB Symposium today! 🥳🤩🎊

thewoolab's tweet image. Three cheers for Ethan and Hannah, who presented our two-part story of cyclic imide degron formation and detection at the @HarvardCCB Symposium today! 🥳🤩🎊

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jun 17

Check out our lab's newest pub, live in ACS ChemBio! We report interesting CRBN-independent activities of N-alkylated lenalidomide derivatives, or "capped imides." Congrats to Farah and all of the authors! 🥳💐 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

thewoolab's tweet card. Lenalidomide is a thalidomide derivative that engages the E3 ligase substrate receptor cereblon (CRBN) to promote targeted protein degradation. Lenalidomide possesses a glutarimide moiety, which is...

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jun 13

Woo Lab represent! Chembio in the Pub was a blast!

DDan Nomura@DanNomura · Jun 13

Awesome being back in Boston for #ChemBiointhePub ahead of the Bioorganic Chemistry GRC!

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jun 12

Another Woo Lab Ph.D. is in the books! Congratulations to Dr. Mark Leon-Duque for a fabulous defense talk and a multifaceted Ph.D.!🫡✨🎉Good luck for what’s to come; you will be missed 🩷

thewoolab's tweet image. Another Woo Lab Ph.D. is in the books! Congratulations to Dr. Mark Leon-Duque for a fabulous defense talk and a multifaceted Ph.D.!🫡✨🎉Good luck for what’s to come; you will be missed 🩷

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · May 28

The Woo Lab’s very own Dicle Ezgi Eckinci wins the Hoopes Prize for her senior undergraduate thesis! Congrats Dicle 🥳🥳 @ezgi_ekinci1

MMCB_Harvard@MCB_Harvard · May 28

Senior MCB, CPB, and Neuroscience Concentrators Receive the Thomas Temple Hoopes and Henderson Prizes @RachelleGaudet @AdamEzraCohen @HekstraLab @VMurthyLab @DulacLab @MicrobiomeTcell @JeeyunC @mlgredler @RivasElenaRivas @denic_lab @rnett42 @MaxPrigozhin mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · May 28

Cereblon (and its buddy, the cyclic imide) is Once Again in the spotlight! Excited to share the lab's latest pub, highlighting the effects of cyclic imide stereoisomers on CRBN activity! 🥳✨ Congrats to Yuka, Saki, and all the authors 🫶 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

thewoolab's tweet card. Thalidomide, lenalidomide, and their derivatives mimic glutarimide and aspartimide protein modifications that give rise to a motif recognized by the E3 ligase substrate adapter cereblon (CRBN). These...

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Apr 11

Big congratulations to our second years Yuli, Xavier (@XavierBTao), and Ethan (@EthanYFeng)for passing their PhD Qualifying Exams! 🫡🥳🌟(P.S-our stock photo models ARE wearing gloves 😉)

thewoolab's tweet image. Big congratulations to our second years Yuli, Xavier (@XavierBTao), and Ethan (@EthanYFeng)for passing their PhD Qualifying Exams! 🫡🥳🌟(P.S-our stock photo models ARE wearing gloves 😉)

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Apr 7

Meet our lab’s latest Ph.D! Big congrats to the newly-minted Dr. Steven Cheng (@scheng23), who gave a fabulous defense talk last Friday 🫡 Best of luck for the road ahead! 🟦🎼🥳✨

thewoolab's tweet image. Meet our lab’s latest Ph.D! Big congrats to the newly-minted Dr. Steven Cheng (@scheng23), who gave a fabulous defense talk last Friday 🫡 Best of luck for the road ahead! 🟦🎼🥳✨

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Apr 2

Our favourite E3 ligase adapter Cereblon is in the spotlight with our newest review by Wenqing! Check it out now and learn about the various chemical biology efforts to understand and explore CRBN activity 🥳🫶⭐️ pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

thewoolab's tweet card. ConspectusThe E3 ligase substrate adapter cereblon (CRBN) has garnered widespread interest from the research laboratory to the clinic. CRBN was first discovered for its association with neurological...

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jan 13

The Woo Lab is officially on BlueSky 🦋! Give us a follow @thewoolab.bsky.social ~~ and don’t worry, we won’t be abandoning this app, just expanding our horizons 🩵💙

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Jan 3

Happy New Year from the Woo Lab! Excited to share our first tweet of 2025🥳 Check out our work on C-terminal cyclic imides and their formation/regulation in PNAS! Congrats @WenqingXu1997 and all authors 💜 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Dec 25

Happy Holidays from the Woo Lab! 🎁✨ May your holiday season be cheery, merry and bright ✨

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Woo Lab@thewoolab · Dec 6

Congratulations on a brilliant Ph.D and a fabulous defense talk, Dr. Wenqing Xu (@WenqingXu1997 )!! Your lovely presence will be missed and we wish you the best of luck as you begin your postdoc in the Elledge Lab!👩🏻‍🔬🌻✨❤️

thewoolab's tweet image. Congratulations on a brilliant Ph.D and a fabulous defense talk, Dr. Wenqing Xu (@WenqingXu1997 )!! Your lovely presence will be missed and we wish you the best of luck as you begin your postdoc in the Elledge Lab!👩🏻‍🔬🌻✨❤️

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