On Father’s Day, I’m grateful for my Baba & all fathers who stand beside their girls, instilling values of service, humility & strength. ThankU for believing in us & teaching us to fight for a world where every woman & man can live w/dignity & freedom
#MahsaAmini
#ZanZendegiAzadi
Thank you for the many kind comments. You have breathed new life for my family. We are only here to support & serve as we can. This is the moment for
#MahsaAmini
#Neda
#KianPirfalak
... &many amazing brave Iranians fighting for the future we always hoped for Iran
#ZanZendegiAzadi
For anyone wondering what
#PaulFarmer
was doing in the hours before his passing, with permission from my colleagues in Sierra Leone, I am sharing this sweet text exchange about our work together there from Saturday.
I learned
#MahsaAmini
was about to start school for microbiology & have tried to learn more, but all the news is of her passing, not her life. Can anyone tell me more about her? I want to know & share her story, and that of all the women in Iran fighting for freedom.
I love you mom. ThankU for giving me an enchanting childhood, full of adventure & love. ThankU for how you care for Parisa & me, your family, all those around you & beyond. ThankU for the 🔥 in your belly & your desire to do good in the world. Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️
This
#MothersDay
I am celebrating my mom w/this footage of her & the many caring mothers in my life from our time in Iran. Thinking of the extraordinary mothers in Iran today like
#NasrinShakarami
fighting for their children
#ZanZedegiAzadi
#shine
✨❤️
Happy Mother’s Day. To my amazing mother who has been there for me throughout my life, shining her beautiful light on my darkest days. And to all the mother’s fighting for a better world for their children
#zanzendegiazadi
Over the last 48 hours I have been asked the same question many times in many ways - ‘Is the Provincetown outbreak due to this being a largely LGBTQ+ community?’ It is NOT. A thread on the dangers of
#othering
in outbreaks.
#ptown
#delta
#covid
1/14
5 months after
#MahsaAmini
's murder and as kids are killed in plain view, the 🌎is still on the sidelines. Politics aside, a health/human rights perspective provides unassailable principles for the 🌎 to heed - new in
@naturemedicine
- & 🧵1/8
It is an honor to works towards DEIA as a team with you all. Thank you
@Nih
@NHGRI_Director
for this amazing honor alongside Bettie Graham &
@CartneyAnn
Congrats to
@PardisSabeti
in winning
@NIH
NHGRI's inaugural Outstanding Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
#DEIA
in the Genomics Workforce ♥️
ThankU so much to all the contributors to our most recent massively multiplexed diagnostic efforts, published in
@nature
today. You can read about our Cas13-based technology for nucleic acid detection, and its relevance to SARS-CoV-2, here
On Nowruz 💐 my ❤️ is w/my native country Iran & all they are going through now. Please know my lab & I are heads down focused in the effort. More on that soon. For now sharing pics of my sister and my childhood in Iran. Stay safe & well
#flattenthecurve
#happynowruz
@sabeti_lab
Grateful to speak
@FardadFarahzad
on 24 about the situation in Iran. The 2 appearances show my recent haircut. While that movement has passed & I already cut it once early on, my mom & I cut it again recently in renewed solidarity with women in Iran.
It is
#WorldChildrensDay
. This is
#KianPirfalak
an aspiring robotics engineer killed by adults who should have been protecting him. To Kian & all those children in peril, I am so sorry we have let you down. You are our North Star & why me must keep fighting for a better world
Congrats to
@ac_stanton
@sabeti_lab
@harvard
Virology PhD graduate successfully defending a tour de force thesis “Massively Parallel Approaches to Functional Characterization of Natural and Engineered VIruses” 🎓🧪 🦠 1/10 🧵
In writing this thread for our paper supporting human rights in Iran, I almost added “looking at you USA 👀” but thought it didn’t need to be said. Apparently it did.
#Mahsa_Amini
#zanzendegiazadi
The 🌎should not empower a gov’t that executes innocent people. Iran's
#IRGC
kills people on the streets with live ammo and chemical attacks and through sham trials. Maximum pressure against the regime is needed to underscore that state-sanctioned murder is unacceptable. 2/8
New research article
Optimisation and evaluation of viral genomic sequencing of
#SARSCoV2
rapid diagnostic tests: a laboratory and cohort-based study
#COVID19
#OpenAccess
#OA
🎉🍾
We celebrate and congratulate our outstanding collaborator, Dr. Pardis Sabeti
@PardisSabeti
on her recognition in
@genome_gov
's first Outstanding Award for Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the genomics workforce. 🧬
Congratulations to
@Sameed
Siddiqui on his successful PhD defense @ MIT Computational Biology
@sabeti_lab
“Insights on Serology, CRISPR Diagnostics, and Machine Learning Architectures for Biological Sequences” 06.07.2024 🧵 1/12
Congrats 🎉 to newly minted DR. Brittany Petros,
@sabeti_lab
@harvardmed
on the successful defense of her PhD thesis “Genomic methods for the surveillance and epidemiologic inference of respiratory viral pathogens” 1/11🧵
Wishing everyone health, safety, and peace and the moments of joys that we have in these tumultuous times, hoping for 2021 to bring new light for all, ❤️✨from the
@sabeti_lab
This is another terrific, deep, profound piece by
@Edyong
, one of my all time favorite writers, & it is because of great respect for him that I am moved to say that one part of the piece deeply upset me... 1/8
🚨I wrote the Atlantic’s next cover story on the COVIDization of science. No other disease has been scrutinized so intensely, by so much combined intellect, in so brief a time. This piece is about both the victories achieved & the weaknesses exposed. 1/
Really excited to have this work out in
@NatureComms
! I feel so grateful to have worked with such an incredible team from
@CCigass
and
@sabeti_lab
for the first project of my PhD
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still lack a testing and surveillance system to stop SARS-CoV-2 or respond to new variants that might emerge. How did we get here and where can we go? A thread based on our
@NEJMperspective
1/11
.
@sabeti_lab
was fortunate to host 🌟 undergrad Ekbal (Eke) Djibril in
@BroadInstitute
Summer Research Program 2024. Current
@HowardU
sophomore in Health Science, Eke is on a path to benefit society through her brilliance & dedication to science, service, and equity
#BHM
🧵 1/7
A’Doriann Bradley joined
@sabeti_lab
in July 2020, the height of COVID-19. A recent grad of
@univmiami
w/ a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, she brought an extraordinary innovative mindset, scientific curiosity, & hard work to a grateful diagnostics team
#BlackHistoryMonth
1/10
In our latest
#FirstRounders
podcast, co-founder of Sherlock Biosciences & co-author of Outbreak Culture
@PardisSabeti
talks about her family fleeing the Iranian revolution,
@sabeti_lab
's role in the Ebola outbreak of 2014 and her near-fatal ATV accident
Last night, I had the honor of meeting
@FirstLadyBio
, of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 an absolute 🌟. Since taking office, she has been on a journey to empower women & girls across the country and spreading awareness across the world, as she did
@Harvard
today 1/4
.
@sabeti_lab
was fortunate to host brilliant rotation student Shandukani (Shandu) Mulaudzi. A South Africa native w/
@Columbia
CompSci BS now PhD student
@harvardmed
Bioinformatics&Integrative Genomics. Despite her short time w/us, she left a lasting impact
#BlackHistoryMonth
1/5
We are looking for a staff research scientist to help advance our CRISPR-based technology CARMEN for large scale
#COVID
diagnostic testing. I would love your help spreading the word or interest!
@sabeti_lab
#blaineylab
@broadinstitute
Wishing you a roaring 20's, as we honor the accomplishments of the past while recognizing the need for progress to continue into the future, enriched by the diversity, inclusion, and mutual respect
#2020
@sabeti_lab
#holidaycard
What is special about Ptown is not its outbreak, but its rapid detection and unprecedented tracing thanks to the ptown community and govt as well as MADPH
@Massgov
@broadinstitute
@PIH
and others. 4/14
For 8 years Adrianne Gladden-Young elevated
@sabeti_lab
viral genomics and inspired us all. Here is a brief history celebrating the brilliant mind & powerful voice of
@agladdenyoung
#BlackHistoryMonth
1/16
So grateful to meet with leaders in
@broadinstitute
facilities operations today, these and other 🌟 staff are the true heroes 🦸♀️🦸♂️that make the Broad a magical place to work and
@sabeti_lab
science happen 🙏❤️
We othered India as well. ‘They don’t have a good healthcare’ ‘They don’t have vaccines.’ ‘They don’t have sanitation’. Many different ways to say, this is YOUR problem. We have done the same dance in every outbreak I have ever witnessed. And we have always paid the price. 14/15
🎓
@harvard_oeb
@sabeti_lab
PhD
@tomkinsc
has 18 publications including leads on viral persistence & reinfection, & multimodal outbreaks tracking. Chris is is a compbio & engineering ✨always there to help e.g. installing LN generator in Sierra Leone & w/mpox analysis
@acegid
🙌
I know that you didn't fail me if you care enough to create an image with that adorable little guy and say that you did, I am rooting for him and for you
.
@MireilleKamariz
joined
@sabeti_lab
as a
@Harvard
Society Fellow, after a stellar PhD w/
@CarolynBertozzi
, We are grateful this 🌟 spent time with us on her amazing career journey, sharing a passion for creating tools to counter infectious disease in Africa
#BHM
🧵1/10
My mom reminded me that after I shattered my pelvis & knees in 2015, I cut my hair the same way. She said then, as your hair grows, so will you heal. I did tx to Iranian doc
#rezafirouzabadi
and loved ones. I hope the same transformation & healing for the people of Iran in 2023
The 🌎should not empower a gov’t that executes innocent people. Iran's
#IRGC
kills people on the streets with live ammo and chemical attacks and through sham trials. Maximum pressure against the regime is needed to underscore that state-sanctioned murder is unacceptable. 2/8
Regime change toward a secular democracy is the unambiguous goal of the majority of Iranian people and a path to peace for Iran, the Middle East, and the world. As Iranians pursue that goal, the world can and must do more to support them.
#zanzendegiazadi
#MahsaAmini
7/8
To those fighting in Iran. We see you. We hear you. We are inspired by your bravery. We are with you. To the world leaders out there who can bring them support, please help them in this fight for their freedom and lives.
#MahsaAmini
#zanzendegiazadi
‘A lifetime for one truth, that I’m alive and so are you, we are here, we are the proof’ Sharing a song written amidst the Ebola outbreak, thinking of those we lost and all those still here in this fight in 2021. Happy new year
One new year's resolution is to better celebrate the amazing trainees I have the privilege to share time with, even if that means spending more time on social media that is natural for me. So here I belated share some 2022 successes
Congrats to Jon
@AriztiSanz
@sabeti_lab
@mit_hst
Medical Engineering PhD for the successful defense of his thesis “From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment” 🎓 04.04.2024 1/12 🧵
Paul was seeing patients in Rwande, dreaming up new ways to support Sierra Leone, sharing kind thoughts about Minister Demby and Minister Moinina Sengeh, sending love to everyone, with the pure delight, humor and humility of Paul.
In answer to a recurring question “When can adults finally stop wearing masks indoors?” I find myself articulating in various ways ‘when our kids can’. Put simply, in my personal view -- We adults don’t have to wear masks when kids don’t have to wear masks. 🧵1/8
I am overwhelmed by the amazing & kind wishes for my family. I am grateful to you and to all the mothers and fathers out there fighting to make the world better for their children.
WATCH: “It’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids character matters.”
- a beautiful 2 minutes from
@VanJones68
🇺🇸❤️
Our
@sabeti_lab
@broadinstitute
scientists partnered w/
@BostonGlobe
for rapid H5N1 testing, and we are here to continue support -- “There is a unique moment of opportunity to keep our farms protected and thriving through testing and surveillance.”
Wuhan is a reminder that understanding how viruses evolve is critical in outbreaks, proud of this tour de force by Aaron Lin w/
@sabetilab
@LubanLab
@nih
creating new tools and studying mutations in Ebola virus nucleoproteins, recently published in Viruses
This is the nightmare scenario of why a viral threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. We can not wait to see where this virus will go. We need to move together globally against SARS-CoV-2, or it will come for our children.
@Aaron_E_Lin
and I are thrilled to share our pre-print “Single-cell profiling of Ebola infection in vivo reveals viral and host transcriptional dynamics” out now on
@biorxivpreprint
! [1/8]
The
#ptown
community is exceptionally public health and community oriented. They reached out to each other on social media and through private chats to tell each other about their diagnoses, encourage each other to get tested, and support each other through the process. 5/15
The ⬆️ in RSV cases after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (SC2) is often attributed to an “immunity debt”: an ⬆️ in the population susceptible to RSV due to little RSV transmission during 2020. But does the evidence support this hypothesis? A preprint🧵 (1/12)
Thank you Paul, my teacher and friend, for shining some of your great light on me, and on all of us. We will remain in this fight for a better world with you always.
Tinna-Sólveig Kosoko-Thoroddsen is a brilliant, curious scientist & wunderkind, graduating from
@MIT
& admitted to medschool at age 19.
@sabeti_lab
was fortunate she chose to take a moment from her accelerated path to build viral diagnostics w/us
#BlackHistoryMonth
1/6
Honestly, this got me 🥲 How am I so fortunate to have such brilliant humans in my life that think of me so kindly? Not a day goes by that I am not inspired by and grateful for you Steve.
Honestly, not a day goes by without being impressed and inspired by something my mentor
@PardisSabeti
is accomplishing. Huge congratulations to your election to the
@theNAMedicine
today!
As we wrap up
#BHM
2024, I want to thank these four amazing individuals currently making
@sabetilab
history – Geranah Nerette, Tomi Siyanbade, Ian Baudi & Marietou Paye 🧵 1/5