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Joe Chambers

@joechambers.bsky.social

Researcher at the CIMR, University of Cambridge @MarciniakLab interested in cell biology, especially proteostasis and the ER.

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Very excited to announce that my first, first author paper, is now on BioRxiv! In this paper we unambiguously show #COPII coated vesicles in unperturbed human cells for the very first time!!

Make my day and check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM โ„๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฌโ„๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฌโ„๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฌโ„๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฌ

30.07.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 88    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids reveals that expression of pathogenic variant SFTPC-I73T disrupts endosomal function, epithelial polarity and wound healing Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal lung disease of progressive lung parenchymal scarring caused by the aberrant response of an alveolar epithelium repeatedly exposed to injury. Under...

New preprint alert! Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids to investigate mechanisms of epithelial dysfunction in familial ILD. Kudos first author @eimearrutherford.bsky.social and thanks @thecimr.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

22.07.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Thrilled to collaborate with @zhixingchen2.bsky.social Lab @pku1898.bsky.social !
We tested new PK Mem dyesโ€”gentle, photostable tools to label the plasma membrane in live neurons, making it easier to track growth cone motility & axonal transport. #liveimaging #neuroscience
tiny.cc/3qhp001

16.07.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Great opportunity!

24.06.2025 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic stuff by Sam and team!
3D tracking of individual proteins inside intracellular compartments. An amazing innovation towards understanding cellular environments.

11.06.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deep Visual Proteomics maps proteotoxicity in a genetic liver disease - Nature High-resolution spatial proteomics were used to map molecular events during hepatocyte stress in pseudotime across all fibrosis stages, recapitulating known disease progression markers and revealing e...

Our paper is out in Nature today! We use Deep Visual Proteomics (DVP) to dissect ฮฑ1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in human liver at single-cell resolution.
Let us take a tour through proteotoxic stress in intact human tissue โ€” one hepatocyte at a time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.04.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#newPI and time is running.

It has already been a month since I officially joined the University of Warwick as Assistant Professor. I am excited to announce and build the Fluorescence and Membrane Dynamics (FMD) Lab:

warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...

22.04.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 103    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Well done Jessy @jessyzhu-jiayi.bsky.social who gave her #biologists100 flash talk today about her new GCN2 activators

@biologists.bsky.social
@thecimr.bsky.social

28.03.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Fantastic Skytorial!

27.03.2025 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Congratulations @lily-wu.bsky.social for winning a poster prize at the @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 conference! What a superstar!
@thecimr.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social @matthoare20.bsky.social

27.03.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great to see this published! Congrats on a really beautiful paper!

25.03.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm thrilled that our paper is now online: www.nature.com/articles/s41... describing an elegant pH-triggered CIE. Thanks to everyone who made it an exciting and successful project @ewanmacdonald.bsky.social @cessvala.bsky.social @christianwunder.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday #microscopymonday

23.02.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The 16th ER & Redox club meeting ends. THANK YOU to co-organiser @fenech-lab.bsky.social & to everyone for outstanding presentations, discussions, posters and fun over the last 4 days in Namur. Huge thanks to @unamur.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @febspress.bsky.social for support and funding!

20.03.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic conference! Thanks so much to you and @fenech-lab.bsky.social for bringing us all together! What a great community.

21.03.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Special congratulations to the first and second authors, Natalia Brzozowska and Lily Wu!

Thanks to The MRC @ukri.org, CRUK, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, and @alpha1foundation.bsky.social for funding

10.03.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Selection for somatic escape variants in SERPINA1 in the liver of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency - Nature Genetics The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere with th...

Delighted to share our latest paper on alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, in @naturegenet.bsky.social.

A fun collaboration between groups of @matthoare20.bsky.social, @profmarciniak.bsky.social, and Peter Campbell.

@thecimr.bsky.social ky.social, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, Early Cancer Institute

10.03.2025 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

We present:

Direct-view oblique plane microscopy

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

13.02.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing Conference Alert!!
Registration is now open for EUROSERPIN2025. Come and join us in beautiful Brescia, Italy, this May to get excited about the wonderful world of serpin proteins!
Visit euroserpin.eu to sign up. Early-bird rates offered until February 28th.

30.01.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A novel human fetal lung-derived alveolar organoid model reveals mechanisms of surfactant protein C maturation relevant to interstitial lung disease | The EMBO Journal imageimageDisorders of surfactant protein biology cause dysfunction of alveolar type 2 cells and can lead to interstitial lung disease. This study describes the development of genetically manipulable, mature human fetal-derived alveolar type 2 ...

Great to see this collaborative effort out! Check out our new alveolar organoid model, ripe for studying disease mechanisms including those involving surfactant proteins:

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Front cover image to follow soon!

@eimearrutherford.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social

15.01.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

15.01.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great list. I would love to join, if there's still space please!

14.01.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
hireful.

We have a postdoc opportunity at the interface of metabolism and epigenetics! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿงฌ

The project will investigate novel metabolic factors driving diabetic cardiomyopathy๐Ÿซ€, and test targeted dietary interventions ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ

For more detail and to apply:
babrahaminstitute.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

08.01.2025 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Experience Postgrad Life Sciences | Enhancing diversity among life scientists of the future

โ€ผ๏ธDeadline 16th January 2025โ€ผ๏ธApplications are open for the 2025 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme. Paid 8-week summer internships aimed to enhance diversity among life scientists of the future!! @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk

07.01.2025 06:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great list! I would love to join if there's room, please?

05.12.2024 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ERโ€“plasma membrane contact sites deliver ER lipids and proteins for rapid cell surface expansion | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press

Taking back the ER -
rupress.org/jcb/article/...

04.12.2024 06:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

28.11.2024 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is great! I'd love to join the list please, if there's room.

28.11.2024 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Eric!

25.11.2024 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hullooooo Cell Biology friends. If you're heading to #CellBio2024 in (hopefully!) sunny San Diego this year, then come and check out our session on 'ER structure and function across cell types' Room28C- Dec18th 09:00am! See you there! **Please RT** ๐Ÿฅณ

19.11.2024 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Golgins support extracellular matrix secretion by collectively maintaining the Golgi structure-function relationship https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624265v1 The secretion of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins is vital to the maintenance of tissue health. O

Golgins support extracellular matrix secretion by collectively maintaining the Golgi structure-function relationship https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624265v1

21.11.2024 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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