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/

Our latest is now available @jcellsci.bsky.social. The final research article from Bethany Campbell's thesis work. Endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Hello Bluesky: Long time listener, first time poster! Excited to share the first publication of my Ph.D. work studying the development of appendage shapes in @plosbiology.org! The zebrafish caudal fin is quite distinctive, and we examine the timing and mechanisms of how its shape might come to be!

Caudal fins show great variation in shape between diverse fish species. New research reveals that #developmental cues in embryonic tissues involving the Sonic hedgehog pathway imprint fin #morphology, highlighting a critical window for modulating appendage morphology. 🧪 plos.io/4mydLnA

ASCB Cell Bio 2025, is in Philadelphia 12/6-10. Apply for a Familycare Grant by 9/3. These flexible awards ($500) can be used towards any eligible family care expense that makes it easier for you to attend the Annual Meeting. www.ascb.org/grants-award...

Attention yeast researchers! This new study benchmarks the latest fluorescent proteins in yeast — comparing brightness, stability, pH robustness, and more. The characterized plasmids are available at Addgene. https://twp.ai/4ipK7q

This looks really interesting. It is going to require some time and attention…

Congratulations to all the fellows elected this year! A special shout out to my dear friend @veronicasegarra.bsky.social. Thank you to you and all the fellows for your contributions to cell biology and the community.

Congratulations to all the @ascb awadrees and special shout out to the #WICB awardees @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social for WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research and Kristen Verhey for the Sandra Masur Senior Leadership award.

Our latest by the very talented postdoc Dr. Samridhi Pathak, “Differential gene expression drives cell-cycle-dependent transition from monopolar to bipolar growth in fission yeast.” Now available on @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social 1/x

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

Come and be our new Chair of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech! www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

I’m at #pombe2025 with the small but mighty international fission yeast community talking about everything from heterochromatin to membrane fusion to lateral gene transfer. This is such a great community. Thanks to @drpombe.bsky.social and colleagues for putting this together!

Congrats to the amazing ‪@jiwasa.bsky.social‬, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social' Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Watching her create an innovative career in molecular animation & the impact it has on science and education has been breathtaking. www.ascb.org/society-news...

Congrats to Kristen Verhey ‪@kjverhey1.bsky.social‬, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's Sandra Masur Senior Leadership Award. She combines remarkable scientific insight into molecular motors with leadership and mentoring in cell biology 🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...

Big congrats to UNC's @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social , winner of the @ascbiology.bsky.social's WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. Sarah's work on organelle contact sites has helped revolutionize the field. 🧪 www.ascb.org/society-news...

I’ll be taking over our internal and external seminar series fall 2026. Any suggestions on what to do or not do to have an excellent series? For external, currently, we have 3 named lectures invited by students/postdocs and the rest are filled by an open call to faculty to nominate speakers.

I would be so embarrassed if I did not get this. 😌 Wordle 1,502 4/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Proudly presenting Simon’s @simonsterson.bsky.social‬ paper on asymmetric apportioning of old mitochondria biasing intestinal stem cells for the Paneth cell linage through aKG-dependent metabolism @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42... @helsinki.fi @metastem.bsky.social 🧵1/8

How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you to @septinlab.bsky.social @mcmomany.bsky.social and @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social for organizing a fantastic septin meeting. I learned a lot and was delighted to share our research. It was great to meet old colleagues and make new connections. #SeptSRC

🧪Hey Sciencers, We're looking to make a library of 50-100 plasmids that differ in ~60bp stretch. The differences will be designed (not random). The library will then be screened for a phenotype. What is the best way to do this? Cost is an issue.

Nominate a colleague or yourself for the WICB @ascbiology.bsky.social Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Award for late career scientists with outstanding scientific achievements, coupled with leadership in mentoring women and underrepresented groups. Deadline, June 30th. www.ascb.org/award/sandra...

Nominate a colleague or yourself for the @ascbiology.bsky.social WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. Open to women or non-binary people in early career, within 7 years of appointment to an independent position at the nomination deadline (June 30th). www.ascb.org/award/women-...

I have thoughts about this. NIH allows a PI to mention in the biosketch how the pandemic impacted their lab. But it is not required. So folks who were not impacted because they did not sit down their lab do not mention it. This is unfair. 1/

Just standing here, asking reviewers for fellowships to double check when an assistant professor started their lab and ask, 'well what might have happened early on in that process that could have slowed down publications?'

I teach intro mol/cell bio. I emphasize conceptual understanding rather than memorizing facts. So far AI really lacks in that aspect. It is consistently wrong when it has to synthesize higher order thinking from multiple nuggets of facts. Right now it does more harm than good.

Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)

It's my favorite time of the year!🎉 Commencement and graduate hooding. Congratulations to Daslab students, Dr. Bethany Campbell and Dr. Marcus Harrell. Also Dr. Harrell was awarded the dissertation award in science and math. Well done.

Wodehouse was one of my favorite authors when I was young. I once had a serious laughing fit while reading his book on a bus ride. It was so funny that I just could not stop. I am surprised his work is not that well known in the US. I recently reread one of his books and it still hit the spot.

I can't imagine what Michael @baym.lol is going through. What hurts most is the futility of this. This benefits no one and harms everyone. We scientists do what we do because we belive in the betterment of humanity. What happens to society if scientists decide to walk away?

With all the craziness around us these days, we need moments of pure joy. I found mine last night at the Indian Ocean concert at the Somerville theatre. Took me back to my IIT mood indigo days.

Phew! I could not bear the walk of shame if I had missed this one. Wordle 1,421 6/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My first grant as an independent PI was from NSF. NSF also awarded me the CAREER award. I deeply believe in NSFs mission. So, whenever I am asked to serve on their panels, I agree. I am desperately praying that the drastic changes announced in NSF do not happen.

Lux Capital & @wolfejosh.bsky.social are launching the Lux Science Helpline - a $100M commitment to support American scientists whose research is threatened by funding cuts, bureaucratic hurdles, and career roadblocks - that expands our Lux Labs program. www.luxcapital.com/news/our-hel...

Is there an article on how AI is not great for doing science and its disadvantages far out weighs the advantages? I want to share that with our grad students who do not seem to be fully aware.

The Das lab was well represented at the Hamilton symposium and undergraduate research day at Boston College. Erik Flores-Reyes, Olivia Chinsen and Uma Patel presented their research.

Earlier today, AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh testified as a bipartisan witness before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, warning that without immediate action, the U.S. runs the risk of losing its position as a global leader in biomedical research and innovation.

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?

Did you know… It’s free to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no submission charges, page charges or colour fees. We also plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish🌳 For details, visit our website: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Excited to share our preprint “BoltzDesign1: Inverting All-Atom Structure Prediction Model for Generalized Biomolecular Binder Design” — a collaboration with @martinpacesa.bsky.social, @Zhidian Zhang, @Bruno E. Correia, and @sokrypton.org 🧬 Code will be released in a couple weeks

How is mitochondrial volume maintained across successive generations of dividing cells? In our new preprint, we show how fission yeast cells use mitochondrial activity to control division timing and maintain mitochondrial homeostasis! (1/n) 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This thread!!🤩🤩

Join my fantastic colleagues at UMass Lowell! They are looking for a director of the core research facilities. careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/e...

So much this! "The problem is that asking the right questions requires the opposite of having zero education. You can’t just learn how to craft a prompt for an A.I. chatbot without first having the experience, exposure and, yes, education to know what the heck you are doing"

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