Life in the Weinberger Lab

Lab Updates

January 2023

  • Congratulations to Leor for receiving Gladstone’s 2022 Outstanding Mentor Award!

  • Congratulations to Sonali recipient of Gladstone’s 2022 Distinguished Achievement in Scientific Leadership Award!

  • Congratulations to Gus and Karla recipients of Gladstone’s 2022 Core Values Award!

  • Congratulations to Leor for receiving the Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer Award at the 2023 Gordon Conference on Stochastic Biology!

  • Congratulations to Giuliana for winning Best Poster Award at the 2023 Gordon Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology!

December 2022

  • Congratulations to Neha, Maddie, and Karla for poster presentations at BayViro Symposium!

  • Sonali gave the opening talk at BayViro Symposium

  • Sonali gave a talk at the Univ. of Wyoming about the lab’s current work on open loop lethality

November 2022

  • Welcome to the lab, Clara!

October 2022

  • Leor gave the inaugural Research Innovators Lecture series at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute on the lab’s current work on TIPs

September 2022

  • Congratulations to Sonali for presenting a talk at the annual Gladstone Retreat!

  • Welcome Neha to the Weinberger lab!

  • Farewell to Maria, we will miss you

  • Congratulations to Sonali and the Weinberger lab on the publication of your paper “A single-administration therapeutic interfering particle reduces SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding and pathogenesis in hamsters” published in PNAS. Read it here (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2204624119)

July 2022

  • Leor gave a talk and Sonali gave two talks at the annual ASV meeting in Madison, Wisconsin

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Maddie Tencer!

June 2022

  • The Weinberger lab welcome our newest PUMAS intern, Daniela Lopez!

  • Leor spoke as a keynote speaker at the Vaccine Tech VIII ECI Conference in Sitges, Spain

  • Congratulations and farewell to Arjun for going to Graduate School at University of Washington, Seattle

  • Congratulations to Mike for his new position with Takeda. We will miss you, Mike!

May 2022

  • Leor spoke about stochastic latency at a HIM workshop in Bonn, Germany

  • Fathima presented a virtual poster at the 2022 CSHL Retroviruses Conference

  • Congratulations to the Weinberger lab and Sonali on the publication of your paper “Distributing autorepression circuitry generates ‘open-loop lethality’ to yield escape-resistant antiviral agents” published in Cell. Read it here (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35561685/)

March 2022

  • Congratulations to Gus and Xinyue for successful presentations at Gladstone’s annual SAB meeting!

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Lilly!

January 2022

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Maria!

November 2021

  • Congratulations to the Weinberger lab and Sonali on the publication of your paper “Identification of a therapeutic interfering particle-A single-dose SARS-CoV-2 antiviral intervention with a high barrier to resistance” published in Cell.. Read about it here (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34838159/)

October 2021

  • Xinyue presents at GRS and GRC for Stochastic Physics in Biology

August 2021

  • Congratulations to Xinyue, Sonali, Ravi, and Leor on the publication of your paper “A DNA repair pathway can regulate transcriptional noise to promote cell fate transitions” published in Science. Read it here (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc6506)

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Giuliana and Karla!

July 2021

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Binyamin, congratulations on EMBO Fellowship!

  • Congratulations to Sonali for her promotion to Research Investigator!

June 2021

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Fathima!

March 2021

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Daniel!

February 2021

  • Welcome to the Weinberger lab, Xinyue!

January 2021

  • Congratulations to Sonali, award recipient of Gladstone’s 2020 Distinguished Achievement in Science!

October 23, 2020

  • The lab was recommended for funding by the Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (JWMRP) in support of a Phase I clinical trial for HIV TIPs.

July 2020

  • The lab received an award, in partnership with VxBiosciences, Inc., to study TIPs as applied to COVID-19.

March 5, 2020

  • Leor spoke at the TEDMED conference in Boston, MA discussing the lab’s research with TIPs and his many years of work towards this technology.

  • The lab was awarded the NIH/NIDA Avant Garde Award for HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1).

February 4, 2020

  • The lab welcomed Xinyue Chen, a postdoc from Yale University.

  • The lab got together for the annual Weinberger Lab retreat held in Lake Tahoe.

December 6, 2019

  • Maike Hansen celebrated her last day with our lab today! She is starting her own lab at the Radboud University, Netherlands.

November 20, 2019

  • Leor presented the lab’s work at a handful of seminars, including ones at Duke and the US Military HIV Research Program.

October 29, 2019

  • Elizabeth Tanner was asked to speak at UC Berkeley earlier this month to discuss her work with TIPs. She also submitted a paper on TIPs for publication.

  • We welcomed to the lab a new postdoc, Dan Lewis!

  • Leor traveled to the University of Chicago to give a seminar about the lab’s work.

  • Gladstone celebrated its 40th Anniversary this month

September 25, 2019

  • Josh Glazier was awarded the Above and Beyond Award for his outstanding contributions to our lab.

June 14, 2019

  • The Weinberger lab together with IP/Legal and LGBTQ+ society organized the Gladstone wide happy hour. See the Lab Life section for a photo with Jamie the unicorn!

June 10, 2019

  • Welcome to the lab, Kelvin Du.

June 4, 2019

  • The inaugural 2019 GC3 Systems and Synthetic Biology Symposium was a huge success.  Thanks to Noam and Maike for organizing.

  • Speakers included Hernan Garcia, Roy Dar, Cheemeng Tan, Mike Simpson, Roy Wollman and Hinrich Boeger.

June 1, 2019

  • Congratulations to Sonali for winning the travel award to attend the International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR) conference.

May 2019

  • Congratulations to Casey for deciding to go to Grad School at Washington University in the fall! We will miss her dearly (especially her baking and beers).

May 20–22, 2019

  • The lab had a successful Gladstone retreat! Josh and Sonali presented posters and Noam was selected to give a talk.

  • Congratulations to Sonali for winning the Best Poster Award.

January 13, 2019

  • Congratulations to Noam, Elizabeth and Maike for being awarded the 2019 Gladstone Career Advancement Award. 3 of the 6 postdoc awardees are from the Weinberger lab. Not bad!

January 1, 2019

  • Congratulations Casey and Josh for being promoted to Research Associate II. We are grateful for all you do for the lab.

  • Gladstone postdoc salary has been increased an average of 15%! See for yourself here.

December 1, 2018

  • The Gladstone Annual Holiday Celebration was made all the more special when Casey was presented with an Above and Beyond award for her work at the lab including completion of novel and complex experiments for several critical grants, and working as a de-facto lab manager.
    November 30, 2018

  • The lab’s work was mentioned in a PEW article. Click here for more information.

   November 29, 2018

  • A terrific success for Elizabeth who won Best Poster at the prestigious HIV DART 2018 Conference in Miami.

November 2018

  • Weinberger Lab members shopped together to add to Gladstone’s donation to the  SF Marin Food Bank.

September 27, 2018

  • Sonali and Maike were both honored at Gladstone’s awards ceremony and celebration -

    • Sonali with a Career Advancement Award

    • Maike was awarded the Award of Excellence in Science and the Al Dorman Prize for Best Paper

September 19, 2018

  • More congratulations!  To Maike, Ravi and Leor who’s paper ‘Cytoplasmic Amplification of Transcriptional Noise Generates Substantial Cell-to-Cell Variability’ was published today in Cell Systems.

  • There is a great article on Gladstone’s site, detailing the science behind the paper - 

September 2018

  • Maike was featured in Gladstone’s Institutes’ Profile section.  You might want to ask her about bathtub racing…. click here.

August 2018

  • Congratulations, Noam, Sonali and Leor on the publication of your paper ‘Feedback-mediated signal conversion promotes viral fitness’, published in PNAS.  Read it here.

  • The study which prompted this paper uncovered the mechanism that allows the human cytomegalovirus - a leading cause of birth defects and transplant failures - to replicate. This could open new therapeutic avenues to treat not only cytomegalovirus, but other viruses too.  Read more

June 2018

  • Congratulations to Maike, Winnie, Elena and Casey on their paper, 'A Post-Transcriptional Feedback Mechanism for Noise Suppression and Fate Stabilization' published in Cell.  Click here.

  • We welcome Marie Wolf, Lab Manager, and Kevin Mutchnick, Research Assistant, to Weinberger Lab.

May 2018

  • A fascinating read!  Leor was featured in this article explaining how the HIV virus commits to remaining in either an active or latent state.  Read it here.

January 2018

February 2017

  • Anand received the Annual Gladstone Award for Scientific Excellence. Congratulations!

December 2016

  • Kay just submitted her PhD thesis and manuscript - busy December! Congratulations!

November 2016

  • Watch Leor give a talk at the Gladstone Fall Symposium - "Engineering Our Way to Next Generation Therapies". Starts around 11:20!

October 2016

  • Congratulations to Anand for being awarded the Mathilde Krim Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Research from The Foundation for AIDS Research! Press Release

June 2016

  • Congratulations to Anand for receiving the Gladstone Award of Excellence in Leadership!

  • Leor was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Congratulations!

May 2016

  • Elizabeth and Leor just published a review in PLoS Genetics (Click here). Congratulations!

April 2016

  • Maike just received the NWO Rubicon Fellowship! Congratulations!

  • Anand gave a talk at the 'Future Leaders in HIV
    Annual Research Symposium 2016'. He was also awarded the Early-Career Award of Excellence in Basic Science. Congratulations!

  • DARPA launched a new program exploring the development and design of Therapeutic Interfering Particles! (INTERCEPT Program).

January 2016

  • Maike Hansen joins the lab after completing her PhD from Radboud University in the Netherlands!

July 2015

  • Leor won the PI Mini-Prep Challenge Fundraising Event for the 2015 AIDS Walk with a final DNA concentration of ~750 ng / uL! He won despite having to wear handcuffs, not being able to look at the instructions, and was heard yelling "I'm just a theorist!" throughout the competition.

May 2015

  • Post-Doctoral Scholar Roy Dar, PhD. has accepted a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the department of Bioengineering. Congratulations and good luck Roy!

  • Post-Doctoral Scholar Anand Pai was recently awarded a CFAR grant! Congratulations!

  • (Former) Research Associate Luke Rast was accepted into the System Biology PhD. Program at Harvard University!

January 2015

October 2014