The Lee Lab manuscript titled “Disruption of a ∼23-24 nucleotide small RNA pathway elevates DNA damage responses in Tetrahymena thermophila” was published online in Molecular Biology of the Cell this May. This is the first manuscript published by the Lee Lab, on which many current and former lab members assisted, and we hope that there will be many more to come! The manuscript covers our investigations into the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway that produces ~23-24 nucleotide small (s)RNAs in the ciliated eukaryote Tetrahymena thermophila. Specifically, we investigated phenotypic and gene expression impacts on cells when genes involved in the RNAi pathway are disrupted. Read our paper for more information!