Day 10. Good bye Rome. Heading home after the most meaningful experience of life. This is a gift I will hold and cherish forever. I made some really good friends along the way. The places we visited were magical, the food exquisite but it really was the compania that made this trip such a success.

Day 9. Started the day with Mass in the basilica of st. Peter and then had the whole day free to ourselves. Enjoyed a bus tour of the city. Its toooooo hot to walk.

Day 8. We got to listen to the president of the Gregorian University, Fr. Mark Lewis, audience with the pope, saw the tomb of st. Peter in the vatican and visited the church of Gesu.

Day 7. Good bye Barcelona, hello Rome.

Day 6. In Barcelona. Visited the Basilica Santa Maria del Mar and La Sagrada Famalia. The later was the most moving experience I have had in this trip so far.

Day 5 at Manresa. Visited the cave where st. Ignatius wrote his spiritual exercises, and visited a basilica where he prayed. Also got to enjoy black rice for lunch. So so good.

At Montserrat, Spain.

I got the most amazing gift this summer. I was invited to join the Campania-Ignatian pilgrimage with some wonderful colleagues from @bostoncollege.bsky.social . This has been one of my best experiences. I am currently in Sos del Rey Catolico, Zaragoza in Spain.

Our newest review on septins as makers & breakers of membrane contacts in J Neurochem Fun writing with new PhD grad (and FASEB Septin Conference A/V Assistant Extrordinaire) TJ Holt Thanks @mcmurraylab.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social for input. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you are an ASCB member, please consider nominating a junior colleague with a strong, promising research program who is already demonstrating leadership in their field, department, and the broader community for the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. www.ascb.org/award/women-...

Ah great! Its exam week and Canvas is down. This should be fun.

OK, here we go. This is the good stuff. An awesome and technically innovatie new paper by good friends of mine including @profsharona.bsky.social, Bill Zagotta, and my next-door science neighbors Professor Suzanne Hoppins and grad student Sophie Hurwitz. 1/

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

I'm excited to tell you about the most recent preprint in my lab, demonstrating that a conserved spindle matrix protein, NPP-21/TPR, is required for the stronger checkpoint in germline cells during embryogenesis in C. elegans

NSF GRFP results are out! Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.) #NSF #GRFP

In their Review, Prasanna Katti, Antentor Hinton, Jr and colleagues discuss how imaging techniques have advanced our understanding of mitochondrial biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress. rdcu.be/fbd4a

I’m excited to be on the leadership ballot for an @ascbiology.bsky.social Council position. The past and present Council members are amazing scientists, mentors, and community members, so thank you to whoever suggested that I might be a good fit! It’s honestly an honor even to be nominated. ❤️

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

just got my summary statement 😭😭 and as I gear up to write a MIRA (re)submission, I'm trying to INTERNALIZE this thread: more declarative statements, less hedging more leading w/ conclusions, less leading w/ data more broad and expansive language, less narrow language maybe it'll work? 🤷🏽‍♀️

More than 2,000 people gathered on Capitol Hill to worship, sing and march to bring attention to the plight of immigrants in the United States. The event brought together United Methodist bishops, clergy and laity alongside faith leaders from several traditions. www.umnews.org/en/news/unit...

Postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Are you interested in the actin cytoskeleton? I am looking for a postdoc to examine the cellular, developmental or physiological role of Arp2/3 iso-complex driven actin polymerisation. Multiple aspects available. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc2026

I am finally getting around to discussing our preprint "Septins mediate cell-cycle-dependent exclusion of Cdc42 GAP Rga4 from growth sites in fission yeast" by a very talented grad student Justin McDuffie in the Das lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

New preprint from us and our friends in the Odorizzi lab at CU-Boulder – we find an apparent role for septin cytoskeletal filaments and vesicle transport from the Golgi to the vacuolar lysosome in budding yeast.

Cdc42 is a small GTPase crucial for #CellPolarity, but how does it contribute to #aging when upregulated? This study shows that the ER-anchored chaperone Ydj1 interacts with Cdc42, enhancing its stability & partitioning during asymm #CellDivision & aging in yeast @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qz7WaM

The Federal Council is proposing the dissolution of the Swiss Science Council. Independent fact-based, scientific advice should be available for policy decisions.

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell wall repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701985v1

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

Merry Christmas all. This year we got to celebrate with our family in India. Housefull of kids, nieces and nephews is so much fun. Kept up with tradition and attended midnight service, lots of plum cake and mutton pulao, karahi chicken and raita. The kids loved it.

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

I’ll be one of the panelists! I hope to see you there!

@ascbiology.bsky.social 's Women in Cell Biology (WICB) has yet another fantastic event today at 4pm, room 126A. A networking panel on "Thriving in Uncertain Times: Navigating Career and Funding Challenges". #cellbio2025.

If you are at #cellbio2025 you have got to come see "The scripts of Success: Award Winning Scientists Take the Stage with Humor and Honesty" in the CC 108 at 11am today.

The Das lab is well represented at #cellbio2025 in Philly. Come learn more about our research and about the Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD Program at Boston College.

This one is a must see. The title is the talk is "The Importance of Imagination, a Superpower, in Survival, Science, and Our Lives." How cool is that.

This thread and all of it! Hoping for a genuis savior is like waiting for A cure for all cancers. Not possible, cannot happen.

If you're on the job market and are working in any area of Plant Molecular Biology, check this out. We have a very strong group: Jeff Dangl, Joe Kieber, Greg Copenhaver, Jason Reed, Zack Nimchuk, and an incoming new assistant professor starting in January bio.unc.edu/people/facul...

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

I am leaving Rochester NY after attending the retirement fest of four giants in the field of evolutionary biology including my PhD advisor. This visit gave me a chance to revisit old haunts and reflect on my own somewhat unlikely origin story. 1/n

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Read more about this research in our ‘First person’ interview with Bethany Campbell: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Bethany Campbell, Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com and colleagues discover that endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Looks like year 2 grad students can no longer apply for the NSF GRFP. I hope I am wrong. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Our latest preprint on the role of the Arp2/3 complex in mitotic entry is now available @biorxiv. This work was done by Dhanya Kalathil, a very talented postdoc in my lab. The story started in 2019 when we were investigating the role of branched actin in cytokinesis. 1/