Teresa Lee

ampersand enthusiast.
Asst prof @UMassLowell | chromosomes, C. elegans, STEMed+equity | #newPI @UML_Biology | via @FIRST_IRACDA, @berkeleyMCB, @UNC, & @NCSSM

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

I am so pleased to share some happy news, despite these uncertain times - this coming fall, I'll be joining @UMassLowell as an assistant professor of @UML_Biology!

Stay tuned for Lee lab updates on chromatin, longevity, epigenetics, and of course, #celegans!

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

🎉 Congrats to Tahreem and Marybeth for breezing through their qualifying exams!!! 🙌🪱 🧬 As you can see, big milestones in the Lee lab warrant big bursts of confetti 🎊
(although the confetti canon might've been more alarming than the QE itself 😅)

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Cheers to the completion of the fifth annual Lee lab bootcamp week 🧋 🧬🪱 (and special thanks to @KCSciences_UML for funding three folks this year 🙌).

Hot science summer, here we come! 😎

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

- and my proposal writing ride-or-die @cdokafor, (who has the magic touch for grants! 🙌). My wish for all new PIs is that you find someone as thoughtful and helpful (and as willing to read long things on short notice) as her!

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

One last piece of news to cap off the year.... the Lee lab is now funded by an✨NSF CAREER✨

We'll explore how transgenerational inheritance affects the earliest decisions in C. elegans embryos AND build new CUREs for our first-gen students. 🪱🧬

Funding makes us feel 👇

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

- UML friends @SGigWolf, Natalie Steinel, & Freddy Chain for provided much needed feedback & sanity during writing;
- @KCSciences_UML and @UMLResearch for all the grantsmanship support;
- *everyone* at the NSF (esp with the year they've had), including my PO @chud8;

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

And as always, huge thanks to @HonorsUML, @KCSciences_UML, RHSA, and @UML_Biology for supporting these folks through college!

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Felicitations continue with welcoming the latest grads of #uml2026
🙌 🎓🎉
I met Lee lab seniors Kelin & Thiago *before* college started, as members of my first-gen pod, and I've been Sabreena's faculty advisor since she transferred to bio (she's in the Fish/Lee for her MS!)

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Celebration festivities continue with bestowing
@HonorsUML stoles upon our graduating seniors! This year it's Thiago Borges (soon to start his PhD @biologyBC!). 🎉📷 As a bonus, we also wrangled a photo with some (of the many!) @UML_Biology & @KCSciences_UML honors students.🙌

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Worm-friends, we can't wait to science with you in Japan!
🪱 🇯🇵🪱 🇯🇵🪱 🇯🇵 🪱
Save the date for #worm27!

[Surojit Sural @surojitsural]

The 26th International Worm Meeting will be held in Kobe, Japan from July 18 to 22, 2027. Save the date! #Worm27

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

One last farewell from your #NESDB2026 organizers - Mansi, John, and me (all @berkeleyMCB alums!). But the countdown starts NOW.... only 50 weeks til #NESDB2027!

We're *delighted* to introduce next year's team: Becca @radikes, Juanma, & Jess. See y'all next time!

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

The posters at #NESDB2026 are bustling and crowded, but that's half the fun!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by one of the Lee lab's posters, shown below in situ: PhD students Tahreem & Marybeth, and graduating senior Thiago @tgborges12 (also a @SocDevBio Choose Dev Fellow!)

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

We love to see a crowded & buzzy poster session! 😍🤓
We had a whooping 130 posters at #NESDB2026 (that thankfully still fit in Swope 😅) and thank goodness enough folks pitched in to ensure everyone had a few poster judges. 🙌🙌🙌

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

It's a perfect day to head on down to Woods Hole for #NESDB2026! The Lee lab has arrived, and we can't wait to welcome y'all to what's going to be a fantastic meeting!
@SocDevBio

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Springtime is graduation & celebration time! 🥳 We are so proud of Lee lab senior Thiago Borges, who won the Outstanding Scholar AND Excellence in Research awards from @UML_Biology 🙌🙌🙌

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

🪱🧬Calling all worm-friends to join us in Madison this summer!! 🧬🪱

Even better, it's a special two-fer meeting, with MAPSS and DevCell sessions featured. Abstracts for talk consideration are due next Fri Apr 3 - submit here!
https://t.co/5hmZ3hKZaJ

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

We love celebrating Lee lab trainees inside and outside the lab! (You can tell from her hair and tie-dyed labcoat that CeCe's a colorful personality💜) Check out this profile highlighted her time as a member of the marching band, Honors college, and rockstar undergrad researcher:

[Kennedy College of Sciences at UMass Lowell @KCSciences_UML]

March is Women’s History Month! 💜

At @UMassLowell’s Kennedy College of Sciences, we celebrate the women leading groundbreaking research, inspiring our students, and strengthening STEM every day.

Learn more about CeCe Allen: https://t.co/PKLQnTqou7

#WomensHistoryMonth

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

My lab had a BLAST being movie stars for a day! 📽️ 🎬 We love showcasing the amazing opportunities for student research @UMLResearch, & everyone pitched in to brainstorm what lab tasks would make good b-roll (they insisted we show off our brand-new-at-the-time episcope 😂)

[Kennedy College of Sciences at UMass Lowell @KCSciences_UML]

Interested in research? The Lee Lab at UML explores epigenetics, chromatin, and aging using C. elegans. Students can gain hands-on experience and contribute to exciting discoveries! @snickclunk @UML_Biology

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

🪱Worm-friends! Join us this summer in Madison for the C. elegans topic meeting(s) - MAPSS *and* DevCell 🪱

Early birds get the you-know-what, and the early registration deadline is THIS FRI: https://t.co/C0o6y2PUrT

It's buy-one-get-one, and who out there doesn't love a deal??

[Teresa Lee @snickclunk]

Last week, I hosted John Young for our dept seminar & we heard about his evo-devo approach to bird and amphibian limb development!🦤🐥🐸
We were in the same @berkeleyMCB grad cohort (nigh on 20 yrs ago😶) & I've loved catching up with his lab each year at NESDB.