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/

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.