Amazing to see him live with Patti a few weeks ago. And dumbfounded to discover - also a few weeks ago - that he was the curator of the legendary 60s psych comp: Nuggets! Had no idea.

Tango forever! Post 2000 balls might as well be for a different sport…

Nailed it!

"Waymo's self-driving cars were put on pause by the company after the autonomous vehicles were baffled by the lack of traffic lights, getting stuck at intersections and causing traffic jams" Life comes at you fast! Famous last words. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

New ideas are needed for new technologies. It all starts in between the ears. Think before you do

I better dust off my undergraduate thesis data on Methanococcus igneus, and di-myo-inositol-1,19-phosphate...

Two time school shooting survivor!!! This is where we are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/u...

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

💥I am excited to present our first research paper from the lab about caveolae lipid trafficking 🎉 Led by my fantastic PhD candidate @estherocket.bsky.social Here we looked into caveolae mediated dietary lipid uptake and how this process is mechanistically facilitated 👇 1/n

I made a new friend @ #cellbio2025

Philly legal shark holiday spirit!

Check us out @ #cellbio2025 Sunday: Board 143: Poster by Franklin on machanoprotection of the nucleus 🔥 Board 150: Poster by Noor on GSK3b regulating microtubule vs actin septin association 🏆 Monday: Talk by Noor at 11:15 am Rm 115 Tuesday Board 233: Poster by TJ on neuronal ER-PM contacts 🦅

Lerche, Mathieu, @johannaivaska.bsky.social @ivaskalab.bsky.social et al. reveal that newly synthesized #integrins can bypass the Golgi to be actively delivered to specific plasma membrane regions, where they enhance cell protrusion and #adhesion. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

World AIDS Day memory In 1993 or 4, I sat in a meeting in the Johns Hopkins medical board room for a discussion about building another hospital to treat patients who could not be accommodated because Hopkins would be overwhelmed with AIDS patients. 1/2

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Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

NYTImes leading story www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Blessed to see Patti Smith live in DC late night at 78 years young. The raw intensity never leaves the bodies of these old dog punks! Fury, poetry, rock’n’roll

Eminem joining Jack White might be the first garage rock-hip hop fusion... (at least that I am aware of) Courtesy of thanksgiving football games becoming mini superbowls www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk5l...

Timely NYTimes post for #CellBio2025 10 more days until ASCBers weigh in on the debate! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...

new historical marker up in town!

Guess no time to digest that turkey. Back on the grant resubmission wagon...

New septin paper by our next door lab neighbors @ebrahim-lab.bsky.social, and on the cover of JCI Insight no less. Septin 9 reinforces intestinal epithelial junctions, preventing leaky gut and inflammation. Check it out!

Revealing acute consequences of rapid degradation of synaptic fusion proteins at individual synapses using Auxin-Inducible Degron 2 technology www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Pavement never broke into 90s alterna/MTV mainstream with their quirky tongue-in-cheek and off kilter song writing, but expanded the borders, possibilities and cred of a newly emerging indie rock DIY scene. Formed by UVA alums Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ww...

"Going forward, ICOs will be considering peer review information in its entirety. NIH ICOs will NOT rely on funding paylines in developing pay plans. Rather, ICOs will consider these scores in context of their and NIH’s priorities, strategic plans, and budgets..." grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

New paper from the lab on a new Gateway compatible toolkit for transgenesis in eukaryotes, led by former technician Will Gillespie. Open access @dev-journal.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Hells yeah

Ummmm... whatuh whu?

RIP penny! I guess the all American .99 price gimmick is dead with it too? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

One of my science heroes, Joan Brugge, talks about how science funding cuts are slowing their work on breast cancer prevention--share this widely www.facebook.com/60minutes/vi...

Bradknam style! The new meme for all exciting neuronal cell bio results. Use in a sentence: My axon extension movies are so sick, I am hopping around the lab Bradknam style.

6 am ice cream breakfast in Doha, Qatar? Why not!?!

I didn’t expect to run into Gritty in Pune India 😳

In @jcb.org, Peiyao Fan, Yang Chen et al. @pku1898.bsky.social show that tubular ER extends into retraction fibers and #migrasomes through #microtubule-dependent ER extension and ER-plasma membrane contact sites in migrating cells. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature #Migration #Organelles

In Pune, India for EMBO Cytoskeleton. Didnt have sitar performance and Filament cocktail bar in my bingo card but… hey! Come think of it every conference should feature a music performance by a local act and a bar called filament or tubule!

UVA Cell Biology got talent! Happy Halloween 🎃

Happy Halloween y’all… from the victors of the Creepiest award of the 2025 Spooktacular Carving Contest

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Do not fold, do not sign

Ooo-la-la!

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass... I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands) #WesternBlot #cellsky

Exciting news! Submissions are now open for the first @ascbiology.bsky.social #MBOC Spercial Issue on #Septins Submission deadline: April 30, 2026 RT and spread the word at #CellBio2025 www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...

NYTimes biopic and chronicle on Stephen Starr who can be credited for the start of Philly's culinary scene. Good source of restaurant names for your Philly ASCB lab dinners. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/d...

Happy to share the inaugural paper from the lab. We describe a molecular mechanism for the activation of outer dynein arm motors that power the vital motion of cilia. Open access link below: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a cool animated summary

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Kudos to NYTImes for running this! Misfit rock'n'roll drummers for 500... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/a...

How do cells navigate up gradients of adhesive proteins? 🤔 Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Write your program officer and grants management official TODAY and thank them! It takes 30 seconds and its really appreciated. The only reason they're remotely this close is because those folks are working 60 hour weeks under immense pressure