My first PhD student defended today. Congratulations to Dr. Adonis Rubio!!! Proud of you and all your accomplishments, and can’t wait to see all that you do next 👏🏾🍾🥂
Christopher Barnes
@cobarnes27.bsky.social
www.thebarneslab.com Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Based on a new NOA recieved this month, we are looking for a postdoctoral fellow with solid foundation of molecular skills, creativity, and translational passion to help us develop innovative CARs for targeting discrete subsets of T cells. DM or email me if interested
Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.
Thanks for the invitation UTSW PROVIDES!!
Dr. Arnaldo Díaz@ajdiazphd.bsky.social · 4mo agoGreat to host Dr. Christopher Barnes as part of the UTSW PROVIDES Seminar Series! Thank you for visiting, sharing your science, and engaging with our faculty and students. Wishing you continued success! @cobarnes27.bsky.social
Great to host Dr. Christopher Barnes as part of the UTSW PROVIDES Seminar Series! Thank you for visiting, sharing your science, and engaging with our faculty and students. Wishing you continued success! @cobarnes27.bsky.social
📢 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Dr. Christopher Barnes to our PROVIDES Seminar Series! Dr. Barnes is an Assistant Professor of Biology and a HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Stanford University. Don’t miss the chance to learn about his research. Details in the flyer ⬇️ @cobarnes27.bsky.social
The 2026 #BlackInBiophysics Symposium at #BPS206 has concluded. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 Congratulations to all the speakers and to the co-chairs of this session, Drs. Breann Brown and Wade Zeno for organizing and for highlighting the exceptional science done by our members! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)
#YearInReview @cobarnes27.bsky.social, @adonisrubio.bsky.social & team have designed a series of dual or “bispecific” antibodies, called CoV2-biRN, which could potentially resist the ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as other coronaviruses in the future: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19
A Stanford-led team has found two antibodies that can work together to defeat all SARS-CoV-2 variants. More research is needed, but the approach could help in the development of treatments to keep…
news.stanford.edu
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being named an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! chemh.stanford.edu/news/christo... @hhmi.org
Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources. 🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF
Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)
Sarafan ChEM-H@stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 11mo agoOpen faculty position! We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help! At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials! Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by @hhmi.org! We’re proud to have to #BlackInBiophysics faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @cobarnes27.bsky.social among this outstanding group. We wish you the best in this next stage of your careers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
hhmi.org
Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @hhmi.org 🎉 🍾 www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
hhmi.org
A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.
The Bethesda Declaration
science.org
COCO GAUFF WINS THE FRENCH OPEN 🏆 The American takes down Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to claim her second women's Grand Slam singles title.
Join me at the @aai.org ASPIRE awards symposium and networking in room 312 starting now with @cobarnes27.bsky.social @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social and Mohammad Arifuzzaman #AAI2025
"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'" www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
science.org
Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
cbsnews.com
We are happy to see Sharyn Alfonsi and @60minutes.bsky.social covering the existential crisis facing science in the United States. Huge swaths of the public are unaware of Trump's dismantling of research. From big media stories to conversations with friends--every bit counts! #standupforscience
60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · last yr.Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes. https://theatln.tc/jxfvKla3
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
Racial affinity groups are under attack. Now is the time to redouble our commitments to these vital organizations that make science better for all. Proud to pen this letter with @khadlily.bsky.social and many @wocineeb.bsky.social colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protect US racial affinity groups
On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...
science.org
Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics? @hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1! 🧵
"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
nature.com