It’s an honor to receive the ACS Chem Biol Young Investigator Award! I’m most grateful for the contributions from all past & present lab members — it is an award for all of you as much as for me. (& also grateful to still be considered young 😅) axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... @acsbiol.bsky.social 1/2

🚨🏆AWARD ALERT🏅🚨 The @acsbiol.bsky.social Young Investigator Award will honor a graduate student or postdoc in #biochem or #chembio at #ACSFall2025 with a symposium, plaque, and funding🤑. Nominations are due Tuesday April 1. More details: www.divbiolchem.org/awards/dbc-y...

Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology at Cornell should apply by Apr 14. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...

Our latest story: a protein-protein interaction between an E3 ubiquitin ligase and an autophagy adaptor affects liquid-liquid phase separation and sequestration of a key mediator of antioxidant signaling — but not via ubiquitination! Bravo to Lin Luan and Xiaofu Cao! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The actions of the Trump administration make me think of this quote 😞 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_t....

Are you a Japanese student interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in the US? The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has an exciting new fully-funded Global Science Scholars program to pair students who have received their undergraduate or doctoral degrees in Japan with US bioengineering and biomedical...

We asked a collection of chemical biologists, “What do you think are the most exciting frontiers or the most needed developments in your main field of research?” You can read that they said in our Feature “Thoughts for the future” – Free to read in January. rdcu.be/d5Ksw

Our paper about the development of programmable antigen-gated G-protein-coupled engineered receptors (PAGERs) is published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... PAGERs couple detection of a wide range of custom-defined antigen to a variety of output including transgene expression and cell signaling.

Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..