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Jacob Smith

@jacobsmithsci.bsky.social

PI @UniBarcelona @IBUB_UB. https://sites.google.com/view/smithlab-ibub/home?authuser=0 Circadian clocks and inter-organ crosstalk.

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Mitochondria-derived nuclear ATP surge protects against confinement-induced proliferation defects - Nature Communications The authors uncover a mechano-metabolic adaptation where confinement induces rapid mitochondrial relocalization to the nuclear periphery, generating localized nuclear ATP surges that support chromatin...

πŸš€ We’re excited to share our latest publication in collaboration with Verena Ruprecht's group at @crg.eu

Mechanobiology meets Nuclear Metabolism

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

30.07.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰ Congrats @ritoghose.bsky.social and @sdelcilab.bsky.social Beautiful data!!

01.08.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Functional liver genomics identifies hepatokines promoting wasting in cancer cachexia Cancer-induced liver changes promote body wasting through secreted factors, with circadian regulators and hepatokines being important contributors to cancer cachexia.

πŸ§ͺ Really cool new #circadian paper looking at the role of the liver clock in inter-organ crosstalk with muscle during Cachexia "Functional liver genomics identifies hepatokines promoting wasting in cancer cachexia": Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

22.07.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Part time (20h per week) technician/predoc position available in my lab at the University of Barcelona 🧬⏰ studying circadian rhythms & inter-organ crosstalk.

Starts 1st Sept 2025.

Contact via email link in website (sites.google.com/view/smithla...) for more info

#ScienceJobs #Barcelona #Circadian

23.06.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeh a lot do for sure- its really sad- about 50% voted for him at least (49.9% of popular vote was for Trump in 2024). Reminds me of the percentages for Brexit in UK (another terrible and embarrasing decision), 52% for, 48% against. Signs of deeply divided populations...

16.06.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ§ͺ Encouraging to see people standing up against tyranny and fascism in the US. The Trump administration’s anti-science and pro-war agenda isn’t just dangerous at home β€” it threatens progress and stability worldwide. Enough!

14.06.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies β€” it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

05.06.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 818    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 16

US science folks: it's been really heartening to see all the Stand Up For Science posts. Thank you for showing the backbone and resolve that most institutions have lacked.

08.03.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Great to see US scientists protesting in response to the insanity that is the US "government" right now. @standupforscience.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ

07.03.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New preprint from the lab! 🚨

🧫 New galactose #CRISPR screening strategy
🎯 481 genes required for #OXPHOS
βš™οΈ #FAM136A in IMS proteostasis
πŸ‘‚Mito defects in #Menieres disease

by @marcellharhai.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

A short thread 1/5

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

30.01.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

Congrats and many thanks for sharing, this is really informative!

30.01.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Pablo! πŸ™

08.01.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, you can check my post for the free SharedIt link. If it doesn't work let me know

07.01.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check my profile for the sharedit link, thanks

07.01.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As we age, our circadian clock goes off-track, which may contribute to age-related diseases. A new review paper gets into the mechanisms and potential ways to prevent the decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.01.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5
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Circadian clock communication during homeostasis and ageing Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Communication between the circadian clocks of different cell and tissue types supports the daily rhythms of homeostatic processes that maintain bodily...

πŸ§ͺ ✍️ Please check out our new review on intercellular and interorgan communication between circadian clocks ⏰🧬 out today in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology πŸŽ‰
@natrevmcb.bsky.social
! Here is the SharedIt link for free access: rdcu.be/d5ppE

03.01.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Congrats to you, your team and collaborators on a series of amazing manuscripts! πŸ‘πŸ€―

06.12.2024 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this is quite wild!

06.12.2024 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Pancho, can I be added please? πŸ™

04.12.2024 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.

30.11.2024 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

Hi Christian, could you please add me to this? πŸ™ all the best

29.11.2024 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this is cool. Non natural cis elements designed in silico that are more effective than natural

26.11.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you just moved to BlueSky and interested in #chronobiology, find some of your community here!

Want to be added? Reply with evidence your work relates to chronobiology.

go.bsky.app/Sw8L4aS

With all the new people coming over, I’ll repost weekly for the next month or so.

πŸ§ͺ 🌍 πŸ¦‘ #EvoBio

25.11.2024 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 0
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Liver and muscle circadian clocks cooperate to support glucose tolerance in mice Smith etΒ al. rescued circadian clock function in liver and muscle in otherwise clock-less mice, finding that glucose tolerance is achieved only when feeding rhythms and Bmal1 function in liver and mus...

Hi Nicholas πŸ‘‹, could you add me please πŸ™πŸ•™πŸ’ͺ www.cell.com/cell-reports...

25.11.2024 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This month we published 2 MANUSCRIPTS in @natureportfolio.bsky.social , nature communication
1. Natalia Pardo discovers the role of nuclear MTHFD2 in centromere stability
2. Espinar and Garcia-Cao reveal the role of nuclear IMPDH2 in the DNA damage response.

Nuclear Metabolism is on πŸ”₯

22.11.2024 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Molecular biologist: I forgot to add the primers to the cup

24.11.2024 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
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Hey @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, I think you need to add another icon here πŸ¦‹

22.11.2024 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
word cloud showing research focus of Jacob Smith. Main words are circadian, clock, liver, muscle, metabolic

word cloud showing research focus of Jacob Smith. Main words are circadian, clock, liver, muscle, metabolic

πŸ§ͺ Word cloud from papers to date. I'd say it sums up my research focus pretty well! (scholargoggler.com). Thanks to a post from β€ͺ@mojoshark.bsky.social‬ for the idea

21.11.2024 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria - Nature Mitochondria are able to maintain two competing metabolic pathwaysβ€”oxidative phosphorylation and the reductive synthesis of proline and ornithineβ€”by generating two mitochondrial subpopulations that ar...

Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.11.2024 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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