Thank you Jeremy! I've been trying to make the case to my dept that since funding rates are so low, funding shouldn't be required for tenure. This is super helpful. When you get a minute, can you tell me how you came up with these figures?

Ribosome-NAC collaboration: A regulatory platform for cotranslational chaperones, enzymes, and targeting factors. @DeuerlingLab discusses how the NAC coordinates the fate of nascent proteins on the ribosome. http://dlvr.it/TQnW4n

Redefining lipid biology from droplets to ferroptosis https://www.europesays.com/ie/321196/ When most people think of lipids, they think of fat. James Olzmann thinks of life itself — how…

It is with deep sadness that we share that Michael J. Matunis, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has passed away. (1/4)

You know, I think it was literally last year, at age 69, that I discovered that the name of Coomassie Brilliant Blue stain, should in fact be "Kumasi" - because that's where it came from. That's right, from Ghana!

🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

Join SGD at #Yeast26 for cutting-edge #yeast research, networking opportunities, engaging talks, poster sessions, and workshops, for everyone from early career scientists to experienced researchers! Abstract submission by Mar5, early registration ends Apr16. See you there! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

@stephenfishbach.bsky.social My pre-ordered copy of Escape! arrived today! So excited to read this book by one of my favorite people who I've never met :)

Our paper on the structural and functional basis of the human dimeric OS9–SEL1L–HRD1 ERAD complex, together with @qilabuva.bsky.social, is now out! Huge congratulations to Leo, Emir, and Elina! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spring 2026 Rubenstein Lab. I'm fortunate to get to work this amazing group of students! Looking forward to what we will discover together this semester!

Chiming in here because we’re hiring a Research Technologist - Life Sciences (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in molecular biology of symbiosis. Please consider and/or share with others. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

One of the best & worst parts of this job is saying goodbye to amazing students! LiLi joined the lab as a freshman & did LOTS of great work. She is an author on 1 pub (so far) & received multiple grants + awards. A leader in the lab. The best attitude. So much growth over three years. 1/2

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

More information, abstract submission and registration here: www.indianaacademyofscience.org/events/annua...

Being a scientist is a lot like being an early cave explorer: you walk into a cave with backpack full of candles and slowly illuminate one cavern after another. Occasionally, you light on a new place that nobody in the world has ever been. This feeling is unmatched.

Paired with the show, Bob Goldstein created the world's longest microtubule, ascending the Genome Science Building's spiral stairs, to honor Emeritus Professor Ted Salmon

Some deep-sea facts for you! High pressure changes protein folding, requiring specialized enzymes to function at depth. Deep-sea life isn’t just tougher. It runs on proteins that often stop working at surface pressure. europepmc.org/article/med/...

Interested in lipids? Join us @ the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplet: From Mechanisms to Disease Conference (July 26-30, Scottsdale, AZ). Registration is now open! events.faseb.org/event/Lipid-... We are co-locating with the FASEB Phospholipids SRC! Register for one to enjoy BOTH meetings!

Here is our first publication of 2026 which is the first article of a special issue that mark the journal 40 anniversary - happy new year to all the #yeast community

Another YouTube Tutorial – This one on Proximity Labeling and connected to our recent EMBO J. paper (PMID: 41381733). This is a recording of a talk at the IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics in Little Rock AR. One of the top facilities in the country! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9P...

Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...

Here is the link for Helene's preferred charity. Family requests donations to the fight against pancreatic cancer in lieu of flowers letswinpc.kindful.com

Helene was so giving to others about her battle, and went through to make it into maybe the top 1% of survivors of pancreatic cancer, before succumbing Dec 19, 2025 all while losing her father to it. She supported @letswinpc.org and the family asks for you to consider supporting them as well.💔

Some absolutely beautiful artwork here! Really love to see #yeast #cerevisae representing so well in yet another category: #fineart 🍻🥖🩺🔬🧪🧬🎨 #YeastResearch

Great Bluetorial thread by Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social on preprint “Organelles harbour pH gradients” recently published by her lab!

@authorbillsullivan.com Unfortunately, we will be traveling Wednesday night and will have to break our tradition of live watching the #Survivor49 finale. BUT, we should still make our winner predictions - you get first pick!

Old Man vs the SEA

Our membership drives ends THIS MONDAY, December 15th! Don’t delay in getting new sign-ups! Winners will be sent discount codes following this date.

Holy cow the Zhou lab at UCLA is cooking with Isonet 2 - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Averaging-free direct visualization of ribosome translational state! #teamtomo #cryoet

I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others. Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP. Please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...

Happy to see our News & Views is out! We highlight two landmark papers demonstrating the potential for therapeutic targeting of FSP1 and #ferroptosis in in vivo cancer models. Beautiful work from @ubellackerlab.bsky.social, Thales Papagiannakopoulos, and colleagues. 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Schuldiner lab’s most impressive (or at least cutest) library yet!

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

How’s the #yeast community closing out 2025? SGD is saying a heartfelt farewell, revealing new Resource links, announcing a simple way to support the #Database you rely on, and more. Read our December newsletter: www.yeastgenome.org/blog/sgd-new... #SGD #science

If you're at #CellBio2025, please join us tomorrow at 9AM in Room 122 for a fantastic speaker lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Immediately following our session will be the keynote presentations by Eva Nogales & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz! @ascbiology.bsky.social

Congratulations to lab member Katie, whose Ball State Aspire Undergrad Research Grant was funded today! I'm proud of how Katie persevered through writing - & rewriting - her proposal! Looking forward to the work she will do to continue unraveling the genetic requirements for ER PQC!

#CellBio2025 Note that the app won’t list you as an attendee unless you manually add yourself to the list using your Profile link (under the little wheelie tool) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social

Hope to see you all at 10AM today!

Another wonderful undergraduate poster session at the Mentored Undergraduate Research Showcase at #ASCB #CellBio2025. Bravo! And if you are at the meeting in Philly, check out those folks' posters at the main poster sessions!

Wonderful panel on what we can do about science denial at ASCB 2025 with Ken Miller and Michael Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

#CellBio2025 This Wednesday, Dec 10 at 9:00 AM in Room 122 Please add it to your schedule!

2025 Rubenstein Lab Holiday party! ⛄🎄 I am so fortunate to work with such a hard-working, collaborative, and fun team of student scientists. 🔬 Of course, Basil thought the lab party was all about him (honestly, any party Basil is at *is* all about him). 🐾

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

New preprint out! We show that PROTAC-induced ubiquitination can bypass canonical ERAD to degrade ER membrane proteins. Wonderful collaboration w/ @dannomura.bsky.social and huge credit to grad student superstar Sydney Tomlinson! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On this #GivingTuesday please consider ABRCMS, one of the most significant and effective conferences to propel scientists toward PhD programs and careers in science. Support the ABRCMS 2026 Student Travel Award Fund! @asm.org abrcms.activehosted.com/p_v.php?l=3&...

Thanks to my Gen Z students and their newfangled slang, I am now very confused reading emails with subject line "It's Giving Tuesday"

If you’re going to be in Philly, don’t miss this session!

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!

I don't like the web portals and loathe the menu-based ranking systems used by too many programs, but I LOVE writing letters of recommendation for great students.