From MBoC… Cells move cargo in clever ways. John Salogiannis (University of Vermont) reveals how the protein AcbdA helps peroxisomes hitchhike on early endosomes—connecting intracellular transport with fatty acid metabolism. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

The Reck-Peterson lab at Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a technician or staff scientist to work on Aspergillus projects. Broad background in fungal biology and techniques required. Bioinformatics skills preferred. Find out more at: reckpetersonlab.org.

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

Give the laurels to the one who earned them. A thread that aims to attribute credits to the originators of important ‘firsts’ This is on the making. Please contribute to accurate historical records with comments and reading recommendations 🧵👇

My postdoctoral mentor N. Ronald Morris passed away on Nov. 20, 2025. He was 92. I am forever grateful to his mentorship and his visionary use of Aspergillus nidulans as a genetic system to explore fundamental questions in cell biology. www.hillsboroughfuneralhome.com/obituaries/D...

I had fun checking out the endomap site (endomap.hms.harvard.edu/network). Surprisingly, PRPF40A (pre-mRNA splicing, Huntingtin-interacting, Aspergillus homolog Prp40A involved in cytoplasmic dynein function) connects to axonemal dynein light intermediate chain polypeptide, which is interesting!

www.dha.mil/News/2025/05... Very proud of my colleague @pskcellbio.bsky.social and her lab for this important work on the clearance of misfolded GPI-anchor proteins out of the ER (supported by the NIH)! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Preprint from our lab is out! We identified a peroxisome-localized acyl-coA binding protein AcbdA - that regulates peroxisome movement. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Congratulations to members of my lab and the Christensen lab @christensenlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beautiful work! Aside from the motor cooperation theme, this paper shows an insightful structure of the FHF complex (initially isolated by Wade Harper lab at Harvard. Xu et al 2008 MBoC). The structure contains FTS, the C-terminal part of Hook3 and FHIP1B. What a journey! Congrats to Abid Ali et al!

Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdoctoral fellows to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to [email protected]. Please share and repost!

Happy to share this short spotlight piece kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... published online by @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social for an interesting paper about an unexpected mechanism behind Kinesin-1-mediated meiotic spindle positioning in C. elegans @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

LC8 moonlighting (most likely) in channels. Nice work!

An interesting read. Neil Gow just gave a fantastic talk at the #ecfg17 on fungal cell wall components- on mannose polymers that can either be a flag or a mask for different immune cells. The part on the malaria parasite is also fascinating.

Today in #journalclub, we looked at this fantastic new method from the @doudna-lab.bsky.social in Nature Biotechnology! They show how CRISPR–Csm enables single-molecule live-cell imaging of endogenous RNAs. Super cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

our first serious attempt to understand F-actin (F standing for filamentous, among other things) in Aspergillus nidulans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Review in Nature Case et al. Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am excited for this opportunity to chair the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/01...

The deadline to attend the “Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience” EMBO meeting is Feb 1st! We are bringing together scientists, funders, and policy makers. Join us for this exciting meeting: meetings.embo.org/event/25-cli...

Time to share our organelle proteome paper out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/nzwz We created a spatial map of human cells using organelle immunoprecipitation at scale. Locate your fav protein among the 7,600 we mapped across 19 subcellular compartments: organelles.sf.czbiohub.org/ 1/3 🧪

I'm looking to database organelle dyes which work in fungi. Please comment if you can contribute w/ details. We regularly see @mrccmm.bsky.social that some don't work in some fungi, but I just don't think it's been tested properly #Mycoscopy I started this w/ Alex Lichius years ago, tip of the 🧊!

Best way to start 2025! Thrilled to share our Nature paper about the structures of axonemal components from sperm flagella and from epithelial cilia of the oviduct and brain ventricles. Great collaboration with Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai and @alanbrownhms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is an great opportunity. Andrew, his science, and his team are amazing!

A very cool study revealing an important role of Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein (FMRP) in the local translation of a mitochondrial fission protein near its site of action. It really enhanced the understanding of the disease mechanism of Fragile X syndrome. Congratulations to all authors!

My family don’t want me to mix my love of fungi with the decoration of the family Christmas tree. ….. But I’m allowed my own one! @mrccmm.bsky.social

We have a very cool (I know I am biased😁) project for a computational biologist (postdoc) interested in cancer evolution in collaboration with Nicky McGranahan’s lab! Perfect opportunity to expand your computational skills too! 👉 www.godinholab.com RT please 🙏🙏🙏👍👍

my first post in this network will be to honor Archibald Garrod, one of the forefathers (arguably the most ignored) of modern genetics.

Excited to share the first published paper of my postdoc - a collaboration with Yildiz and Dumont groups led by Merve Aslan, on the fascinating dynein adaptor NuMA. Lots of super cool insights on how NuMA can activate dynein during mitosis. Thanks to @carter-lab.bsky.social for the support!

I’m so excited to organize the #Lysosomes Subgroup at @ASCBiology 2024 meeting on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 3:15pm, Room 33B. Lysosomes naturally lend themselves to puns. So…Don’t be 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒄. Join us for fresh, 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈-edge talks and puntastic times. It will 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 if you miss it.

Led by myosinactincrazy, this pack is on the way…. Simply ask the leader to add your name

“Behind the Paper” commentary on our recent publication demonstrating regulation of Golgi PI4P and downstream processes by a SYS1–ARFRP1–ARL5–ARMH3–PI4KB axis go.nature.com/4fKotEg

Where does pattern come from inside cells? in this revised preprint, @aralbright.bsky.social Shows that regionalization of mRNA in a Stentor cell depends on dynein motors and the microtubule cytoskeleton doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)

If you’re interested in how molecular motors coordinate to power intracellular trafficking events (e.g. endocytosis), I’ve got a PhD position available to study this at vibrant Bristol uni. In this project, we will capture highly dynamic events by #cryoEM, single molecule imaging & cell biology. 🔬❄️🧪

In remembrance of those lost to COVID-19, I created a Spotify playlist featuring songs by musicians who passed away from the disease: open.spotify.com/playlist/6jE.... So much beautiful humanity gone.

Single cells can learn without a brain, but how? Our new preprint from @deeparajan.bsky.social describes a model for habituation in Stentor coeruleus, based on receptor internalization and recycling, along with new experiments inspired by the model. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This post is about a commentary that I wrote with Xin Yong about recognition of cargo vesicles by tethering factors involved in endosomes to TGN retrograde transport.

First #JournalClub on the blue side: an exciting story about dynein at the kinetochore and its role in biorientation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So proud of Adam Fenton and his work defining the role of FMRP in the local regulation of mitochondrial fission in neurons via local translation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

p38 MAPK/MK2 phosphorylate the small heat shock protein HSP27 on multiple sites and HSP27 directly binds to p62, the lysophagy adapter, to influence lysophagy…. beautiful work!