Caroline Kumsta

Nominations are open for the 2025 Sidney Brenner Thesis Award! Honoring an outstanding thesis in nematode biology defended Oct 1, 2024 – Sept 30, 2025. Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 Nominate here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Please share

Grad-student Tatiana Moreno in the lab wrote a comprehensive review about autophagy in human aging models! Go check it out! Congratulations, Tatiana

Low humidity enhances thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Celegans #PhenotypeData #Methods #NewFinding #Methodology micropublication.org/journals/biolo…

Do you perform C. elegans heat stress experiments? Are they inconsistent? Humidity may be a factor! New finding by Michelle and Diego: Low humidity enhances thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans doi.org/10.17912/micro… First micropublication for the Kumsta Lab!

We just published this review with @thehansenlab! Congratulations to first author Shaun Lim! Enjoy the read! Molecular Mechanisms of Autophagy Decline during Aging mdpi.com/2915226 #mdpicells via @Cells_MDPI

A couple weeks ago I had the honor to participate in a panel discussion at COMICON about the Apple TV series Foundation inspired by Isaac Asimov! Thanks @fleetscience for inviting me! It was a blast!! 💥🛸 @sbpdiscovery

Don’t give up on your ideas! Thank you to my lab and my mentors and supporters who believed in me and helped get me to this point! ❤️

The Kumsta Lab is now funded by the @NIA! It was a long road to get here with the first submission in Oct 2020, then July 2021, then Oct 2022 and finally Nov 2023!!! I kept on working on it, strengthened the preliminary data, simplified the writing and got lucky in the end!

@BaccarelliAA @NIH I would be grateful if the NIH increased their stipends to elevate this issue.

@BaccarelliAA @NIH What financial Source is used to supplement trainee salaries? As you are not supposed to use other NIH funding to support these student, some PIs at soft money institutions are having a hard time finding money sources to supplement. This disincentivizes students from applying.

@SanabriaLab Congrats! So well deserved!

@SunSherine @CSHL Welcome to San Diego and @sbpdiscovery

Thrilled to announce that the Sun ☀️ Lab is officially open today 🎉I am so grateful for the tremendous support and help I have received from so many amazing colleagues and friends from @CSHL and many other places 🥰I couldn’t make it alone

@BBParis1984 Congratulations

Today is a GREAT day - I have been informed that I am an Associate Professor with #tenure effective today! 🥳🥳🥳Immensely grateful to the trainees and colleagues who supported me in this journey! Looking forward to more years of fun science with this fantastic team! #womeninSTEM

The 3rd annual Rising Stars Symposium is an amazing opportunity for grad students to share their research, network with peers and faculty mentors, and learn about open postdoc positions at Sanford Burnham Prebys. Please retweet and apply today: bit.ly/3zx0GmQ

Great collaboration with the Hansen and Driscoll Lab, and a great conclusion to a long project! Congratulations to all co-authors!

Caviar, that’s what’s for dinner! Why? Cuz it’s Wednesday, the first day back at work and there is no point in waiting for the rare wins in science!

Save the date for the 3rd annual Rising Star Symposium at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla: May 1-3, 2023! Are you a PhD student about to graduate? Consider applying: sbpdiscovery.org/calendar/risin…

@ZaarlyLiz So sorry, still waiting to hear from both of those. Hang in there!

Two big grant rejections right before the holidays sucks. NIH- science is awesome, reviewer 2 “but she’s too early career for sustained DEIA work” (NIH ReWARD), NSF CAREER- is she even a scientist? Great DEIA work though. 🙄

@TerjeJohansen17 I really want to come visit one day to see the city and talk autophagy!

With this photo from Tromsø, The City of the North, I wish all of you a peaceful and Merry Christmas🎄🎄😀