Min Wu

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Thanks so much Gerry! What can be better than being in the company of the most dedicated fellow scientists working on topics close to our heart but bring diverse perspectives-- I really enjoyed this ASBMB session!

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Amazing microscopy from Bewersdorf/Rothman groups shows golgins in a striking four-layered structure at the Golgi rim. Biochemical reconstitution shows long filaments. Does a Golgi stack form due to golgin filament properties rather than dedicated stacking proteins?
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Incredible 4Pi and pan-expansion imaging of the Golgi 👇

advocating for funding support from your institution would be great. we have a number of supporters but the broader the base the greater the stability

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

provocative

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Flyer for Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium at Cornell University, with QR code at bottom to obtain more information

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...

Benjamin Widom, influential physical chemist, dies at 97 | Cornell Chronicle Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.

A beloved professor and legend 🙏 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

Tang was super famous among chemists in China when we were undergrads. I had no idea what he did, or that he was in the same field as Hoffmann. Synergy in science is beautiful

Value of chemistry undergraduate education in life sciences and medicine is very underappreciated.

An alarming trend for UK undergrad science courses. Not only in itself, but because it reduces the pool of second-level science teachers with the confidence and skills to teach it.

Check out the stunning movie by @xianglejerry.bsky.social from @wumin-lab.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 ASCB Video Contest! Traveling waves of FBP17-EGFP at the cortex of immune mast cells #ASCB2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

Another one, OH Petersen published strong papers against IP3 oscillator in favor of CICR (Wakui 1989 Nature, 1990 Cell ). Then read the discussion?

Interesting contrast on record (fancy publications) vs. off record (also published ...)
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for example, Xenopus oocytes sea urchin egg is often cited as examples where calcium continue to oscillate independently of external calcium, it is also controversial whether fertilization needs external calcium. This exchange between Jaffe and Whitaker explains: 2/n

while researching on the history of calcium oscillation, I really enjoyed reading this book from a 1995 Ciba Foundation Symposium (organized by M. J. Berridge). Each chapter is followed by a heated discussion, almost in the format of twitter, but in the 90s. 1/n

I will be representing @wumin-lab.bsky.social group to present our recent work at ASCB, on Monday Dec 16th, 11:15 AM! Board Number B19, P1714. Come have a chat! I'd probably also be dropping teasers on where our follow-up study is heading 😎

Look at these distinct clusters exhibited by N-WASP and Arp2/3 ! Is branched #actin polymerization the sole driving force for nucleating cortical actin waves? Cross-talks within the actin network can be messy, so how can we study such complexities? #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

Please visit our formal postgrad Jerry Chua's poster if you will be at ASCB. #CellBio2024

When Jerry started to work on actin, my view was, what can you possibly learn about actin that is new 🤭. I am glad that he ignored me and followed his heart ~ @xianglejerry.bsky.social