New preprint! Our work together with @agtebo.bsky.social : our 'NanoBlocks' strategy to generate fluorescent biosensors from binders such as nanobodies. Proof-of-concept sensors with ALFA nanobody & Erbin PDZ domain shows the concept in vitro, in cells, and for FACS. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Interested in metabolism? So are we! My lab has been exploring the cell biology of energy metabolism in the nervous system, and we are looking for postdocs. Cool sensors and microscopy, great work environment. Please help me spread the word!

We are recruiting for a project extending our current work using machine learning for fluorescent biosensors at Janelia! We have both experimental and computational positions posted: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. March 15th-20th 2026 Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

🧪Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe developed by the Pedram Lab & collaborators, gives scientists an unprecedented look at the extracellular matrix—the collection of organized molecular structures that fills the spaces between cells in our bodies. www.janelia.org/news/looking...

the lab is recruiting scientists! we are particularly excited about engineering fluorescent proteins and biosensors using high-throughput assays and machine learning. questions? please get in touch!

As West Virginia University plans to cut apparently its entire foreign language program, it's whole graduate program in math and a slew of other traditional liberal arts, it seems worth resurfacing my NYTimes piece from last April:

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui