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Iain Cheeseman
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Whitehead Institute and Department of Biology, MIT. Lover of cell biology and cell division. Aspiring to do good science and to do good.
Cambridge, MA
cheesemanlab.wi.mit.edu
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Aug 31, 2021
    With the new academic year starting, and many people beginning fresh as graduate students, post-docs, or junior faculty, I have been thinking a lot about the core philosophies that govern my own perspectives on science. So I thought I would share. Welcome to The Tao of Cheese
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Sep 7, 2022
    Today marks exactly 15 years since I started as a PI @whitehead + @MITBiology, ~25 years since starting grad school @berkeleyMCB, and ~33 years since my first lab job (as a dishwasher at UIUC). Happy Birthday Cheese Lab! ... so I needed to update my faculty profile photo.
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    May 4, 2022
    You know that you are in Cambridge, MA when…
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Mar 3, 2022
    After almost 15 years as an ⁦@MIT⁩ faculty member, I found out this week that there is a whole room full of bananas for students to take. A ROOM FULL OF BANANAS! That keeps being refilled. This somehow filled me with surprising joy. This sh*t is bananas. B a n a n a s
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Aug 2, 2022
    No matter the result, an amazing part of being a PI is getting messages like this. It is truly awesome to be able to live vicariously through someone else’s science, passion, and hard work (and to be the 2nd person in the world to know something new). Thanks ⁦@AllyNguyen9⁩
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Apr 11, 2022
    Welcome to the inside story of the MIT Banana Lounge. If you’re just tuning in, I learned about a fantastical room @MIT full of bananas. As an MIT faculty member + free food lover, it blew my mind. I recently met with the @MITBananaLounge team – amazing secrets now revealed!
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Jan 25, 2018
    Introducing the world's oldest time-lapse movie of a dividing cell. Hand drawings by Walther Flemming from 136 years ago captured at periodic intervals. And he nailed it. The beauty of mitosis never ceases to amaze me.
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Feb 28, 2020
    I’m trying to interpret this hotel sign. The closest I can get is “don’t hide in a hanging box if C. elegans are attacking you”.
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Jan 23, 2024
    After 16.5 years as a PI @WhiteheadInst and @MITBiology, it is with complex emotions that I officially relinquished my bench this week. I love working in the lab and the beauty bench science, but it was needed by others. We had a great run. I will miss you my friend.
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Nov 7, 2022
    Project Vesuvius now published! In collaboration with @BlaineyLab, we created a resource of cellular phenotypes for knockouts of every essential human gene using pooled optical screening. Explore your favorite gene. Discover new functional relationships.
    The phenotypic landscape of essential human genes
    From cell.com
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Jul 7, 2018
    Everyone can win. Science is not a zero sum game. Celebrate victories from others and live vicariously through their beautiful science.
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    Michael Baym
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    Jul 6, 2018
    Lets flip that meme around: what’s something that should be obvious, but your profession seems to misunderstand?
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Feb 14, 2020
    My life is now complete. As part of her computer class at school, my 11 year old daughter designed and 3D printed a customized tube rack just for me. Proud parent. Happy scientist. Ready to take our experiments to the next level.
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Oct 22, 2021
    As biologists, we often try to simplify. Take a Western blot where you crop out the "real" band corresponding to your protein. But there is so much more to discover. This movie shows a highly studied cell cycle protein. Stay tuned - next week I will reveal these hidden isoforms!
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    Iain Cheeseman
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    Jan 5, 2023
    This is huge! American Cancer Society post-doc fellowships now open to all post-docs in the US (with appropriate visa) regardless of citizenship status. Fantastic move from this great organization in its support of trainees and science.
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    Postdoctoral Fellowships Award
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