Abby Buchwalter

😂 yup

Apple picking with the crew

Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!

We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.

Amazing - congrats Henry!

@al-sadylab.bsky.social sounds like you were right….

Thanks, Jaime! I was afraid of that….damn. We were having fun sketching but this would make 3/5 of us unable to take $$.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-077.html

OK, an NIH grant question that I would normally ask my PO but can't because of shutdown 🫠...

Interested in applying for NIGMS RM1 team grant with colleagues. Several of us are NIGMS-funded. Are we eligible? Funds for lab but not our salary, or no more GM funds for us, full stop? (see screenshot)

Promotional graphic for a special issue of Journal of Cell Science titled 'Cell Biology of the Nucleus.' Guest Editor: Abby Buchwalter. Submission deadline: 3 November 2025. The image features a stylized cell with a bright pink, heart-shaped nucleus on a black background. Text includes a call for papers.

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue:
Cell Biology of the Nucleus
Guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 3 November
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

#cellbiology #nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish

Cant wait to read and see how this exciting story evolved! Congrats all!

Also @ekhtn.bsky.social!

Back-to-school vibes with new PhD class arriving at UCSF… @devjanee.bsky.social rocked my world the other day with “happy 20th anniversary of being friends” text! We were those incoming PhD students at WUSTL 20 years ago. Yikes. Looking at you too @rolyanharas.bsky.social @thelucalab.bsky.social!

Congrats!!

Thank you Marina!

Last day to submit abstracts! Nuclear cell biologists, mechanobiologists, et al. don’t miss out - amazing interdisciplinary line up: computational biology, biophysics, development, genomics - we will have it all!

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Truth.

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NIPBL dosage shapes genome folding by tuning the rate of cohesin loop extrusion Cohesin loop extrusion is a major driver of chromosome folding, but how its dynamics are controlled to shape the genome remains elusive. Here we disentangle the contributions of the cohesin cofactors ...

New preprint with @gfudenberg.bsky.social

We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding.

This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇

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

Oh yes!

Thank you Christian! I hope we get to catch up soon.

thank you Michelle!

Ladder Rank Faculty Position – Assistant Professor University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

The basic sciences are HIRING at UCSF: open recruitment in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Please share and please apply! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

ASCB Announces 2025 Honorific Award Winners - ASCB Each year, the American Society for Cell Biology honors exceptional scientists whose research, mentorship, and leadership are shaping the future of cell biology. From groundbreaking discoveries to tir...

Just catching up to this - so many inspiring scientists among this year's ASCB awardees! Congrats, all. www.ascb.org/society-news...

I’m all for Newsom being a diva about this and making some noise!

Re:UCLA? I’ve been wondering this too.

Good news for NIH MIRA applicants. Grants.gov recently published the forecast notice for the reissuance of the EI/NI MIRA notice of funding opportunity. As indicated at the link, the estimated post date for the NOFO is Nov 3. www.grants.gov/search-resul...

Picture of Sarah plus Sarah Cohen, University of North Carolina WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research Presented to a woman or non-binary person in an early stage of their career (within seven years of appointment to an independent position at the nomination deadline) who is making exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology, is developing a strong independent research program, and exhibits the potential for continuing at a high level of scientific endeavor and leadership.

Big congrats to UNC's @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social , winner of the @ascbiology.bsky.social's WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. Sarah's work on organelle contact sites has helped revolutionize the field. 🧪
www.ascb.org/society-news...

1/3 It's official, our grants from the NIH/NIEHS have all been suspended. We were aiming to understand how arsenic, a chemical that millions of Americans are exposed to at high levels, is disrupting the epigenetic machinery.

Weekend reset in the Sierras - Lake Schmidell, Desolation Wilderness.