Jackson Lab @ Vanderbilt

Picture of Sandra Schmid, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco E.B. Wilson Medal Presented to distinguished researchers for their far-reaching contributions to cell biology over a lifetime in science.

Congrats to Sandy Schmid , a scientific hero, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's E.B Wilson Medal. She shaped our understanding of molecular mechanisms & regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is a leader in the cell biology community & a remarkable mentor🧪
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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 ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬

The Bethesda Declaration

“Good luck to us all”, as Derek writes. Signed!

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Mark your calendar and spread the word ...
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social

#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Has anyone heard if the NIGMS R35 may be discontinued? The updated notice (March 31) for established investigators now has expiration date in mid-May.

@marymunson4.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social

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Linocut portrait of biochemist and medical researcher Maud Menten (1879-1960) with the Michalis-Menten equation in blue and a histology image in pinks and purples in the background.

Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵

Thank you to Vanderbilt for featuring our NIH-funded work! Very proud of this story and amazing team behind it.

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Hundreds gather to protest cuts to medical research funding, crackdowns on DEI Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, hundreds of protesters filled the Capitol steps in downtown Nashville. Among several other initiatives, the Trump Administrat...

Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, WPLN health reporter @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social says hundreds of protesters filled the Tennessee State Capitol steps in downtown Nashville on Friday.

Stand Up For Science TN (Nashville) was a success! Thanks to everyone who came out and @campbell4tn.bsky.social and @aftynbehn.bsky.social for coming out and adding their voices to the fight!

@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

Great turnout in Nashville today! Proud to be a scientist this and every day.

Thank you!!

Love it! Ready here in Nashville.

Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️

Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

Getting ready in Nashville. (Featuring poster work with my favourite two little scientists) #standupforscience2025

Thank you to the French! Amazing.

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

INBOX: March 7th — NASHVILLE + nationwide #StandUpForScience rallies as Trump & Musk dismantle the federal government while enriching themselves even further with taxpayer money.

More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely

Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"

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Save the date in Nashville!

Happening today #BPS2025

Thank you Autumn!

Black chemists you should know about These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry

Black chemists you should know about: These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry.

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#BlackinChem #BlackHistoryMonth #chemsky🧪

Quote on a red background stating: '... forthright communication about research questions is more urgent than ever." - H. Holden Thorp and Meagan Phelan, Science Journals.

For authors, talking to the media “can be an opportunity to provide the unvarnished truth in response to tough questions,” write @holdenthorp.bsky.social and Meagan Phelan in this week’s #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3EOWJR2

Greater than the sum of its parts: the role of VARP-SNX27 binding in endosomal “supercomplex” formation In cells, multi-subunit coat protein complexes are responsible for coordinating the transport of transmembrane proteins and lipid cargo between membranes. At the endosome, cargo trafficking is medi…

Excited to present our new story in Science Advances at #bps2025 meeting next week. Thanks to Vanderbilt CSB for featuring our work!

www.vanderbilt.edu/csb/2025/02/...

We need scientists more than ever in light of current developments. I hope all of us advocate strongly for what we do and why to friends, family, and representatives in our local and federal governments.

And finally, and today especially, we sincerely thank NIH for funding. I am incredibly proud of my lab for tackling an important biological question and tough set of experiments with rigor and the highest standards. Hardworking talented people are our greatest asset to drive science forward.

These data raise new questions about endosomal recycling mediated by coat proteins, with important implications for human health and neurodegenerative diseases driven by endosomal mis-sorting. We welcome feedback on our current model, which builds on important work from many labs around the world.