It’s a tradition that I ask my “Physics III” class to create some memes about our class material. It’s *also* a tradition that they’re super good at this. Please enjoy, like and share! 🧪 (I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!) (Front pic is my own entry.) 1/17

Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ACSChemBio and #Biochemistry invite submissions to a special issue on Lipids and Lipidation guest edited by @chembiobryan.bsky.social and me! Find details in the #CallforPapers and submit your exciting findings to one of these journals by May 31, 2026. axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... #lipidtime

Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!

Proud to share a preprint of our paper on how bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C senses lysosomal membrane tension in anticipation of membrane lesions to initiate net ER-to-lysosome lipid transfer for efficient lysosomal repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beautiful piece of work! Congratulations!

Prof. Hamilton Smith at J. Craig Venter Institute, a Nobel laureate for discovering type II restriction enzymes, passed away last night. @jcvi.org @nobelprize.bsky.social A huge loss in Science, but his legacy will be remembered. www.jcvi.org/about/hamilt...

An event honoring late Prof. Clyde Hutchison at J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the "Father of Microbiology" and first person to observe bacteria with a microscope! 🔬 Learn how microscopes made microbiology possible, leading to innumerable insights for biology, medicine & technology. asm.org/articles/202...

The views were pretty spectacular! #Chur #Calanda

amazing #lipidtime story from Tontonoz lab! Lipid scrambling and cholesterol accessibility IN T-CELLS regulates nutrient uptake in small intestine 🤯🤯 Physiology is so weird! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

“Treat questions as threats” 😅😅

New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr

Extracellular ATP is an environmental cue in bacteria @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Lab hike in the #DresdnerHeide… lots of mushrooms today! And apparently we’ve recruited a new feline lab member 🐈

🫴🏻 Binding of Bacillus subtilis dynamin‐like protein DynA to the bacterial membrane is essential for effective phage defense: Shafqat - The FEBS Journal - Wiley Online Library febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #subtiwiki

How awesome to catch up with old Simonslab mates in #Saarbrücken at #CellPhysics2025 🎉 It was a wonderful well-organized and inspiring conference, congratulations to the organizers! Credit to @biancaschrul.bsky.social for the lovely photo 🤩 @sciezgin.bsky.social

Lipids are so hot right now 🔥

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Always skip breakfast before a talk 😅

We’re excited to report work led by postdoc Jennifer Porat in the lab, finding that DNA accumulates on the surface of living cells and that the secreted extracellular protein DNASE1L3 can modulate its levels on B and T cells. With a new twist for ATAC-seq as well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Humans began travelling into space in 1961 with single orbits of the Earth. Now Bacillus subtilis! 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #subtiwiki Thank you @joergstuelke.bsky.social for the reading recommendation!

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

Loved listening to all the fantastic talks at #BiomembraneDays2025 — such a cool atmosphere to learn and get inspired! Also nervous but excited to present my poster and share my work. Huge thanks to the Saenz group and my amazing supervisor James for making it possible ✨ 💅🏻

I’m truly honored to have received the Poster Award at #BiomembraneDays! Huge thanks to the organizers for an excellent conference and to the Saenz Lab for their continuous support!

Celebrating the last night of Biomembrane Days with a proper German meal 🍺

Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for winning the @lipotype.bsky.social poster award at #BiomembraneDays Berlin! 🎉🔥 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

Super cool talk!!

"We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. We see ubiquitous algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our teenagers’ mental health." --Tim Berners-Lee www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are the lipids associated with static protein structures there as long-lived ligands or an effect of preferential solvation? This computational-experimental framework shows the way! #lipidtime #compchem www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deep ocean microbes are starving but does feeding them fresh carbon make them eat the old stuff? Our new study shows it doesn’t. The persistence of this carbon appears to come from its chemical stability, not from microbial starvation. 🌊🦠 🧪 #MicroSky #MarineSky journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

🌶️ Lipids bring the heat 🔥 Lipids don’t just shape membranes, they influence cellular metabolism. We show that tuning lipidome composition strongly alters metabolic heat flow in the minimal cell JCVI-Syn3B 🦠 Fantastic collaboration with Karim Fahmy’s lab (HZDR) 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉 Congratulations to Varvara Kramkova on a successful Master’s thesis defense, exploring the minimal set of lipids required to sustain life 🦠 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

Beautiful sky at sunset in Dresden this evening

🎉Congratulations to Tess Rudd @tessrudd.bsky.social on successfully defending her Master’s thesis, exploring the evolution of membrane phenotypes in the Minimal Cell 🦠 JCVI-Syn3 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

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👇Awesome paper emergency 🚨

Breakfast at sunrise on the @ceskedrahyofficial.bsky.social 🚂 from Prague to Dresden

Throwback to 40 years ago, when crowds of WHOI staff and family members, journalists and film crews welcomed R/V Knorr back to Woods Hole after a joint [email protected] expedition discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic. 👉Dive into #Titanic discovery: go.whoi.edu/titanic-1985

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Have you published lipid-protein interactome data? Please let us know, we’d love to include it in the repository. The goal is to build a centralized hub for the scientific community. Huge thanks to Gaelen Guzman, a graduate student/postdoc in the lab who built it from scratch.

Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕

Dylan's study is now out in @jacs.acspublications.org! Key new experiments by Yuan-Ting Cho support a model for why a rare three-tailed lipid, NAPE, might accumulate during stroke & heart attack: as a protective response to promote lactate export as cells shift to glycolysis doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

So honored to be awarded the ERC Starting Grant! I am very grateful for this support and looking forward to more exciting #lipidtime 🥳 Also, we will have positions available next year. So stay tuned!

The #cephalic #furrow story from @yuchiunwang.bsky.social perspective. The saga is even longer than what’s in my thread. Worth reading 👇

Here is a demonstration of ice nucleation protein made by Pseudomonas syringe in my #Bio350 #Micronauts in my #Microbiology course at @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology