Education
- PhD, 1993, MIT
- AB, 1988, Physics, Harvard
Research Summary
We study how cells ensure that proteins fold into their correct shape, as well as the role of protein misfolding in disease and normal physiology. We also build innovative tools for broadly exploring organizational principles of biological systems. These include ribosome profiling, which globally monitors protein translation, CRIPSRi/a for controlling the expression of human genes and rewiring the epigenome, and lineage tracing tools, to record the history of cells.
Awards
- Ira Herskowitz Award, Genetic Society of America, 2020
- European Molecular Biology Organization, Member, 2017
- National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery, 2015
- American Academy of Microbiology, Fellow, 2010
- National Academy of Sciences, Member, 2009
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, Tel Aviv University, 2008
- Protein Society Irving Sigal Young Investigator’s Award, 2004
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Assistant Investigator, 2000
- Searle Scholars Program Fellowship, 1997
- David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, 1996
Recent Publications
- Triaging of α-helical proteins to the mitochondrial outer membrane by distinct chaperone machinery based on substrate topology. Muthukumar, G, Stevens, TA, Inglis, AJ, Esantsi, TK, Saunders, RA, Schulte, F, Voorhees, RM, Guna, A, Weissman, JS. 2024. Mol Cell 84, 1101-1119.e9.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.01.028PMID:38428433 - Triaging of α-helical proteins to the mitochondrial outer membrane by distinct chaperone machinery based on substrate topology. Muthukumar, G, Stevens, TA, Inglis, AJ, Esantsi, TK, Saunders, RA, Schulte, F, Voorhees, RM, Guna, A, Weissman, JS. 2023. bioRxiv , .
doi: 10.1101/2023.08.16.553624PMID:37645817 - Ras-mutant cancers are sensitive to small molecule inhibition of V-type ATPases in mice. Tolani, B, Celli, A, Yao, Y, Tan, YZ, Fetter, R, Liem, CR, de Smith, AJ, Vasanthakumar, T, Bisignano, P, Cotton, AD et al.. 2022. Nat Biotechnol 40, 1834-1844.
doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01386-zPMID:35879364 - Mapping information-rich genotype-phenotype landscapes with genome-scale Perturb-seq. Replogle, JM, Saunders, RA, Pogson, AN, Hussmann, JA, Lenail, A, Guna, A, Mascibroda, L, Wagner, EJ, Adelman, K, Lithwick-Yanai, G et al.. 2022. Cell 185, 2559-2575.e28.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.05.013PMID:35688146 - Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution. Yang, D, Jones, MG, Naranjo, S, Rideout, WM 3rd, Min, KHJ, Ho, R, Wu, W, Replogle, JM, Page, JL, Quinn, JJ et al.. 2022. Cell 185, 1905-1923.e25.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.015PMID:35523183 - Mapping transcriptomic vector fields of single cells. Qiu, X, Zhang, Y, Martin-Rufino, JD, Weng, C, Hosseinzadeh, S, Yang, D, Pogson, AN, Hein, MY, Hoi Joseph Min, K, Wang, L et al.. 2022. Cell 185, 690-711.e45.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.045PMID:35108499 - Functional single-cell genomics of human cytomegalovirus infection. Hein, MY, Weissman, JS. 2022. Nat Biotechnol 40, 391-401.
doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01059-3PMID:34697476 - CRISPR-based functional genomics in human dendritic cells. Jost, M, Jacobson, AN, Hussmann, JA, Cirolia, G, Fischbach, MA, Weissman, JS. 2021. Elife 10, .
doi: 10.7554/eLife.65856PMID:33904395 - Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing. Nuñez, JK, Chen, J, Pommier, GC, Cogan, JZ, Replogle, JM, Adriaens, C, Ramadoss, GN, Shi, Q, Hung, KL, Samelson, AJ et al.. 2021. Cell 184, 2503-2519.e17.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.025PMID:33838111 - Single-cell lineages reveal the rates, routes, and drivers of metastasis in cancer xenografts. Quinn, JJ, Jones, MG, Okimoto, RA, Nanjo, S, Chan, MM, Yosef, N, Bivona, TG, Weissman, JS. 2021. Science 371, .
doi: 10.1126/science.abc1944PMID:33479121
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