Please spread the word! The @KeystoneSymp Epigenetics in Health & Disease meeting that @BradEBernstein and I organized is now open for registration! #KSEpigenetics27 📍 Banff | Apr 12–15, 2027 🎤 Short Talk & Scholarship: Dec 17 📝 Poster Abstract: Mar 23 keysym.us/KSEpigenetics27

To understand how the brain forms memories, feelings and behaviours has long been a dream for researchers. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain. This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.

Excited to share our new review on the developmental origins of brain cancer! We discuss how gliomas co-opt neural development programs and how the tumor–neuron interface may reveal new therapies. A joy to work with @BhaduriLab & @FilbinMariella! Link: shorturl.at/T12Mn

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. 🎗️ This month, we recognize the courageous children facing cancer and the families, caregivers, and communities who support them throughout their journey.

@FilbinMariella, MD, PhD, studies childhood brain cancers by directly studying the tumors of the patients she treats. By understanding the biology of these cancers, she is discovering new strategies to treat them. Learn more about her work here: bit.ly/4wTe697

Thrilled to share our collaborative work with @FilbinMariella, now online in Neuro-Oncology! We identify HDAC2 as a tractable target for H3K27M DMG growth in vitro and in vivo. Congrats to @JunQiLab and @FilbinMariella — excited for more to come together! academic.oup.com/neuro-oncol…

Today we honor those living with, surviving, or remembering someone with ependymoma, a rare brain and spinal cord tumor that affects far more than the body. For everyone this day feels personal to, we’re holding space with you. You are not alone.

Thrilled to share our latest study on pediatric ependymoma, out in @Nature! Biggest congratulations to all members of our international team, especially the labs of @VarunVenkatara2 and Kristian Pajtler, and fearless leader in my lab, @DaeunJeong10. @DanaFarber @BostonChildrens

We are pleased to announce the Fellows of the AACR Academy Class of 2026. We look forward to celebrating their pioneering scientific achievements at the AACR Annual Meeting in April. brnw.ch/21wZqOo #AACR26 #AACRFellows

Mariella Filbin (@FilbinMariella) is exploring how aggressive childhood brain tumors hijack normal brain activity to repair their own DNA. This research aims to break through radiation resistance in diffuse midline gliomas. 🧠 @DanaFarberNews

Incredibly honored to be part of this group! @DanaFarber @BostonChildrens

Fellowship Grant awarded to Kevin Lu of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, mentored by Robbie Majzner and Mariella Filbin. (co-funded by the Violet Foundation for Pediatric Brain Cancer) @Majzner_Lab @FilbinMariella

I am thrilled to work and publish together with my postdoc PI, Prof. Mo Movassaghi @ChemistryMIT to bring their sophisticated chemistry to potential therapy development. I am excited to keep learning from Mo and @FilbinMariella. Pic from: news.mit.edu

We're ending this Childhood Awareness Month with an empowering reminder to always face toward the sun

Excited to present our work and chair this #aacrpediatric25 session focusing on mechanisms in pediatric cancer. Great lineup including @TheRobertsLab1 @FilbinMariella highlighting emerging concepts in #epigenetics and #transcription dysregulation and how to target them!

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 🎗️This month, we hold space in our hearts for the brave children facing cancer and the families who love and care for them.

Congratulations to 2021 DSA grantee Daniel R. Wahl, M.D., Ph.D., and his team on a groundbreaking study showing how glioblastoma rewires glucose metabolism to drive growth. go.nature.com/41Eeaww

Mechanisms Underlying Childhood Cancer: Charles Roberts, Mariella Filbin, and Liling Wan will address this topic in a plenary at the AACR Conference on Pediatric Cancer (Sept 25-28; Boston). brnw.ch/21wTSTZ #AACRpediatric25 @TheRobertsLab1 @FilbinMariella @LilingWanLab

🚨 5 DAYS LEFT! The abstract submission deadline for WFNOS/SNO 2025 is THIS FRIDAY! 📅 Deadline: June 6 at 11:59 PM ET Present your research in Honolulu, Nov 19–23! Submit now: soc-neuro-onc.org/SNO2025

Excited to share our new story on drivers and communication networks in a lethal tumor in young children called ETMR. Fantastic collaboration with @hovestadt and team! @DanaFarber @BostonChildrens @DFBC_PedCare @broadinstitute #gograyinmay #endbraincancer 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻