Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. π Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
09.02.2026 20:03 β π 74 π 26 π¬ 3 π 1
Thank you @mollyherring.bsky.social for the stunning showcase π
Like what you see? Come ExM with us! Letβs flood the internet with microbial marvels π¦
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroEvoSky π§ͺπ¬π
@dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @embl.org @erc.europa.eu @embo.org
04.02.2026 20:43 β π 99 π 31 π¬ 2 π 2
If you're interested in the regulation and/or evolution of complex cell behavior, this could serve as an opportunity to join our lab as a postdoc. I would be happy to consult on proposal development if we've got a good alignment of goals, skills, and interests. DMs or emails welcome.
06.02.2026 18:23 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Thx for @mollyherring.bsky.social for featuring our recent work with @centriolelab.bsky.social and our quest with @gautamdey.bsky.social & the support of the @moorefound.bsky.social to look for the beauty in every #eukaryote out there using #Expansion #Microscopy #UExM
04.02.2026 19:30 β π 42 π 17 π¬ 0 π 1
Now in print at ACS Synbio! Introducing Aviatar: a concept for inducible translocation to any cell compartment using only a 1-component probe
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
02.02.2026 12:21 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
EiraBio
Our company has a new name, Eira Bio (www.eirabio.com) (formerly K2 Therapeutics), but the same important mission to apply our advanced synthetic biology, directed evolution, and protein design technologies to discover and develop next-generation antibody-based medicines for a range of diseases!
01.02.2026 12:43 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Our new paper just out!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
31.01.2026 13:53 β π 13 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0
SynBYSS
The International SynBYSS Conference is focused on bringing together the synthetic biology community with the explicit goal of developing young...
#SynBYSS conference is scheduled on Jun 8-11, 2026 in Barcelona. Given the 100-year celebration of Architect Gaudi in Barcelona, we suggest early booking of hotels.
Details can be found: www.jcvi.org/events/synbyss (speakers, abstract submission & registration)
@jcvi.org @marcguellc.bsky.social
31.01.2026 12:00 β π 9 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Spindles lacking Ase1 adapt more resiliently to compressive force from the nuclear envelope than normal spindles.
Taylor proudly holds a troll doll named Thelonius she has adopted as a lab mascot, along with a copy of her preprint!
Final model figure of our manuscript indicates that compression force from the nuclear envelope regulates spindle biochemistry.
We've got a new preprint posted, you can read all about it (and see a picture of our recently adopted lab mascot) here: eltinglab.github.io/news/taylorB...
The bottom line of this work is that we reveal new ways that S. pombe spindle biochemistry is regulated by force from the nuclear envelope.
27.01.2026 23:09 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
CytoTape in a neuron
Our CytoTape work is published today in Nature @nature.com! CytoTape is a genetically encoded, flexible, intracellular protein tape recorder for spatiotemporally scalable and multiplexed recording of cellular activities continuously across weeks in vitro and in vivo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
26.01.2026 20:49 β π 58 π 19 π¬ 4 π 3
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
24.01.2026 19:31 β π 60698 π 18942 π¬ 1407 π 742
"Use it or lose it." This is great advice for exercise, but when cells need to slow down or go dormant, they need to store ribosomes to recover growth in the future. They use hibernation factors to do this. Here is our latest story on how archaea hibernate ribosomes (1/7):
doi.org/10.64898/202...
20.01.2026 15:53 β π 37 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
ALT: a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
π’ Open faculty position β Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! π§¬π
SPREAD THE WORD
Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
16.01.2026 17:49 β π 45 π 39 π¬ 1 π 1
Yet another fantastic study by my amazing colleague @jasonrcantor.bsky.social -- the spatiotemporal organization of glycolytic machinery / ATP production at play here is so interesting. Congrats to @thebiokimist.bsky.social and the team on a beautiful paper!
16.01.2026 16:44 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
For ~century, weβve asked: why do proliferating cells ferment glucose even when O2 is around? Iβm thrilled to share our latest work @natmetabolism.nature.com, led by @thebiokimist.bsky.social. By leveraging conditional essentiality in HPLM, we propose a provocative new answer to this classic Q. π§΅
16.01.2026 16:26 β π 55 π 27 π¬ 3 π 2
Membrane editing with proximity labeling reveals regulators of lipid homeostasis - Nature Chemical Biology
Coupling an optogenetic lipid-modifying enzyme with proximity labeling reveals protein networks and mechanisms regulating lipid homeostasis in the membranes of target organelles.
Thrilled to share our latest study, led by @reikatei.bsky.social, in @natchembio.nature.com! We began by asking a simple questionβhow do cells know if they have too much of a lipid in a particular membrane, and how do they respond to rectify this imbalance?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More info π
07.01.2026 14:59 β π 154 π 61 π¬ 7 π 7
New preprint! We found that the flavin-dependent halogenase RebH catalyzes sequence-tolerant Trp bromination in peptides π§ͺhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694899v1
21.12.2025 03:58 β π 33 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
New in ACS SynBio: led by Dennis Bolshakov, we used the awesome power of yeast to define how expression levels, noise, and sequence program the dynamics of synthetic protein waves, allowing us to genetically encode new cellular timescales stable over generations!
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
17.12.2025 15:24 β π 27 π 11 π¬ 2 π 1
π¨New preprint(1/2)! We show that RTK fusion oncoproteins broadly suppress EGFR signaling. How? Sequestration of adapters as the shared principle.
Led by superb PhD student Carol Gao.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Implications for drug tolerance/resistance, and includes one big surpriseπ«§.π
16.12.2025 12:05 β π 19 π 18 π¬ 2 π 1
Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University!
GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027
GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027
Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists!
More details to come! Please repost!
12.12.2025 14:58 β π 61 π 37 π¬ 3 π 2
#Cellbio2025 come see the latest from the lab, including on opto/thermogenetics, condensates, RTK fusions, stress granules, biosensors of clustering. Talks and posters today and tomorrow!
08.12.2025 12:12 β π 8 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
08.12.2025 11:21 β π 58 π 37 π¬ 2 π 3
Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.
05.12.2025 14:36 β π 70 π 16 π¬ 4 π 1
Thanks Claudia ! Full credit to Maggie for making the story so epic in scope. Also: will you be at ASCB this year? Hope to see you again some time soon
03.12.2025 19:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So happy to announce our new preprint, βA geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.β We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63Β°C (145Β°F) π₯ - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky π§΅
25.11.2025 20:41 β π 492 π 163 π¬ 16 π 31
Our new preprint describes Plasmodium NEK4 as a key regulator coupling meiotic initiation and morphogenesisβa critical step for malaria transmission. This involves MTOC-driven nuclear movement strikingly analogous to "horsetail" movement in fission yeast.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
24.11.2025 16:07 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Wow! Remarkably complete story on the logic of phenotypic plasticity in a predatory protist - congrats @cellraiser.bsky.social et al!
18.11.2025 20:52 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Working on self organization, cilia, and IFT. Cell biologist, CLEM and cryo-EM expert at Human Technopole. Was a serious fencer in a previous life. Love pottery!!! πΊ
Assistant Professor at UMich, PhD at MIT,
NIH Director's New Innovator Awardee,
MIT Technology Review's Innovator Under 35,
www.spatialbiodynamics.org
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) provides comprehensive biological information for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae along with search and analysis tools to explore these data, enabling scientific discovery.
We are the Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics group at the University of Vienna. This is a lab member-run account.
https://archaea.univie.ac.at/
cell & tissue biology, & sometimes frisbee | she/her
assistant professor @ UW Biochemistry
Synthetic biologist, V. natriegens booster, Sheets torturer & asst prof Chem @ Williams College
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern studying the evolutionary diversification of cytoskeletal proteins
(Re)searcher of non equilibrium steady states living at the interface of physics and biology. Leading the Living Patterns lab @EPFL
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lpl/
zookeeper to two tiny humans, professor, cell herder, bioelectrician, 'professional' storyteller, and waterbears just because. see us at:
cohenlab.princeton.edu
Tsundoku practitioner; retired cell/molecular biologist, recombinant protein expression, genome editing; conservation of wolves, prairies, democracy; fan of dogs, old movies, maps, music (rock & classical)
Postdoc in the Fritz-Laylin lab, fascinated by obscure protists. Evolutionary Cell Bio research on amoebae & cytoskeleton. Sometimes art. she/her.
Husband, Dad, and PhD.
RNA Biochemist/Bioinformatician in the Hogg lab at the NIH NHLBI, studying the effects of spliceosome dysfunction on the transcriptome.
AP Giannini Postdoc Fellow with Max Krummel @ UCSF
Previously Stanford Immunology PhD with Ravi Majeti, Broad Institute, MIT
Can be found thinking about myeloid cells, teaching, & dancing
amycfan.su.domains
π¦ The Papa Lab, based in Puerto Rico π΅π· | Cracking the developmental blueprint of life through comparative multigenomics. We study two native butterfliesβπ»ππππππππ’π πβππππ‘βππππ & π·ππππ’π ππππ₯ππππ’π βto understand how genes shape form and function.
Senior scientist and lab manager in the Aaron Whiteley Lab at CU Boulder.
Associate Professor at MIT BE : http://ashansenlab.com
Interested in understanding the relationship between 3D genome structure and function
