David Drubin

We are seeking a new Staff Research Associate: 75% research, 25% lab management. A recent graduate with a major in molecular and cell biology or a similar field is ideal. Staff Research Associate (9613C), Molecular & Cell Biology.
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Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus

Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/s...

Check out the animation: movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
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The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Science Communication Lab The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl

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I enthusiastically recommend 'The Last Class,' which pays tribute to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Professor Robert Reich and highlights our duty to educate future generations. It is showing in various cities. www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch
Directed by ‪@elliotkirschner.bsky.social‬

This City Was Just Named the Healthiest Place to Live in the U.S. for 2025 Berkeley, California, was named the healthiest city in the U.S. by Niche.com.

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Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science - Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science

Congrats to Thomas D. Pollard (Drubin Lab) who received the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! 👏🧪 @drubin.bsky.social
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Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 Imaging Cell Dynamics Date: 11 – 14 May 2026 Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain Register your interest

After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti.
To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.

Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?

Find out more and apply:
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I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Cell biologists, join FASEB for a new level of collaboration on dynamic cytoskeletal systems research! Noted researchers @drubin.bsky.social and @ivatolic.bsky.social are the keynote speakers at this inaugural conference. Will you be there? View the full agenda and save your space: buff.ly/Bz0Dyxh

Force-insensitive myosin-I enhances endocytosis robustness through actin network-scale collective ratcheting Force production by Type-I myosins influences endocytic progression in many cell types. Since different myosin-I isoforms exhibit distinct force-dependent kinetic properties, it is important to invest...

Congrats to my fantastic coauthors on this work with a surprising conclusion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

While the U.S. lays off health researchers, this Toronto hospital network plans to ramp up recruitment | CBC News Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off t...

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"If you are a university, you may have to say, figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you're just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, 'That's why we got this big endowment. We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium'...because academic freedom might be a little more important."

Barack Obama on what universities should do: “We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium...because academic freedom might be a little more important." +

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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

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The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

Stanford, Cal and UCLA investigated in Trump's anti-DEI campaign The Trump administration says it has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCL...

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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state’s own NIH The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader.

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ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU - Research Professional News Commission also planning a dedicated meeting to coordinate similar efforts among member states

ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU

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New info on NIGMS training page

Trans-Departmental Basic Biomedical Sciences:
The goal of this program area is to broaden the scope, institutional and geographic distribution of NIGMS basic biomedical research training programs.

Info at the bottom of this...

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UCSF Loses Top Heart Surgeon Over Trump’s Hostility Toward Canada | KQED A leading heart surgeon from Canada who was set to start at UCSF this month changed his mind, citing “the evolving political climate” in the U.S.

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Very useful information from UC about your rights re: search and seizure of your electronic devices at the US border. TL;DR: the “border search exception” to the 4th Amendment gives the CBP broad discretion, but there are some limits. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...

Using funding to 'force concessions' threatens institutions, Princeton president says Columbia University agreed to comply with a series of demands from the Trump administration about how it will handle protests, antisemitism and academic departments. The university faced a deadline to...

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We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz ABSTRACT. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is a Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus. Throughout her career, Jennifer ...

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Call For Two Group Leader Positions - Strasbourg-Ville, Bas-Rhin (FR) job with IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) | 12837602 The Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) is seeking two outstanding group leaders to establish independent research teams.

Come start your lab in beautiful Strasbourg 🇫🇷 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Nobel laureate, elected officials warn of threats to science - UW Medicine | Newsroom

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Trump Raged at Columbia Over $400 Million Decades Ago. Sound Familiar? A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University.

When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.”

That drama dates back 25 years.