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🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Rockefeller University hit the ground running at the JPMorganChase Corporate Challenge!

Team members from across campus came together for an evening of fitness, camaraderie, and friendly competition in Central Park. Whether chasing a personal best or enjoying a walk with colleagues, participants showed up with energy, enthusiasm, and plenty of team spirit.

Thank you to everyone who laced up their running shoes and represented the Rockefeller community. Events like these are a great reminder that some of our strongest connections are built outside the lab, office, and classroom.

Rockefeller's Research Assistant Association, which held its third annual poster session earlier this week, is designed to build community and skills among its early-career scientists.

The transition from undergraduate science to professional research can be daunting. New research assistants must learn not only experimental techniques, but also how to think critically about data and how to communicate effectively about their science. RURAA was created to facilitate that process—initially as a community-building group and, more recently, as a forum for professional development.

“RURAA is a terrific support system for research assistants across campus,” says Alexander Talaie, an assistant in Seth Darst’s lab, and member of RURAA’s executive board. “It makes it so much easier to connect with other research assistants and the broader community, and easier to navigate career paths and different application processes.”

The Rockefeller University » How research assistant positions at Rockefeller help launch careers in science Rockefeller musicians find joy in performing, but also community and inspiration in the creative practice.

Some of Erich Jarvis’ research at Rockefeller includes mice genetically engineered to produce more complex sounds. He and colleagues are scrutinizing key genes that are active in good vocal learners. Mice with a human version of a protein called NOVA1, for instance, made more complex vocalizations. To be clear, this isn’t a talking mouse situation yet. But research is moving fast.

Learn more in this Science News Magazine piece on AI and other tech advances that could someday enable chats with animals:

AI and tech advances may soon enable talking with animals Advances in decoding animal sounds might someday make animal translators a possibility.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project, led by Rockefeller's Erich Jarvis, is preserving the genetic information of endangered species with help from Google's AI tools. The group aims to sequence the genomes of every species on this planet and create a biological map of life on Earth, which will help researchers understand and protect the genetic diversity of animals.

How we’re helping preserve the genetic information of endangered species with AI Scientists are working to sequence the genome of every known species on Earth.