News

Jing-Ke Weng was a featured speaker and panelist in the forum of Origins: Earth’s Journey Toward Life held at Carnegie Institution for Science on April 9th, 2018.

Sophia Xu receives the 2018 NSF graduate research fellowship! Big congrats!

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. For the 2018 competition, NSF received over 12,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers.

Tomas’s review article on natural product modulators of human sensations and mood is the featured cover article in the upcoming issue of Chemical Society Reviews. Please check out this very cool and comprehensive paper!

The Weng lab and the Fujita lab report using a ‘crystalline sponge’ to streamline the structural analysis of complex natural products from milligram quantities in crude mixtures. Please check out the paper here.

Mike’s new paper on decoding medicinal natural product salidroside biosynthesis in golden root is out. Congratulations! Here is the news release.

Bastien’s paper on engineering the imperfect herbicide-resistance BAR protein is out. Please see the news release on this study here.

Roland’s paper on new terpene biochemistry from red algae is out. Congrats! Click the news release here.

Food Evolution screening at the Coolidge Corner Theater + panel discussion moderated by Christopher Lydon of WBUR’s Open Source, and featuring Jing-Ke Weng of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Timothy A. Wise of Small Planet Institute and Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, 9/24 @ 2pm.

Fu-Shuang’s perspective paper on traditional herbal medicine is out. Congrats!

Join us on May 6 for the Whitehead Symposium, Whitehead Institute’s signature event in New York City. This annual breakfast event is an opportunity to hear a comprehensive review of the latest research being conducted at Whitehead. This year’s program features keynote presentations by Founding Member Harvey Lodish and Faculty Mary Gehring and Jing-Ke Weng. Additional information and registration details are now available.