Eleanna Kara

Protocol for automated analysis of biological images using Python code Image analysis in Python provides greater flexibility and an open-source alternative to commercially available software. In this protocol, we present …

New publication from our lab! We developed Python based pipelines for the analysis of confocal images. This protocol paper is tailored to a biologist without much coding experience. It is the resource I wish I had when I first started this line of work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A still satellite image of the blizzard of 2026 in the Northeast United States. This image contains the GeoColor product from the GOES-19 weather satellite from the evening of 2026-02-23.

A view we will not soon forget.

The Blizzard of 2026.

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Neeharika, for winning a competitive Aresty research grant!!! 🥳 This is the 6th student award from our lab within less than 1 year ☺️

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳

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@zs-biophys.bsky.social we also got one!

Midnight confocal session 🔬

Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.

Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field

This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And difficult to get 😂 I managed to get it from the official tik tok shop.

Here is our lab’s mascot!

@zs-biophys.bsky.social I had the privilege of meeting this avatar today 😂

Defining RNA oligonucleotides that reverse deleterious phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) with prion-like domains (PrLDs), such as FUS and TDP-43, condense into functional liquids, which can transform into pathol…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪

NYC Part 3

NYC part 2

Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Thank you, this is very helpful!

Do they also announce the scores for the middle 1/3rd of the grants? Or just for the top 1/3?

Of course the lab flooded on the last day of experiments before the holidays 😂 🐠

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

The lab's posters at the CellBio conference 😁

EMBO reception at the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts 🎭

Philadelphia

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Maia Wang, for winning the first prize in the brain art competition at the Rutgers brain health institute annual symposium for her watercolour of an axon! Great job to all our lab members who submitted 5 fantastic pieces 🖼️

New York

Our PhD student’s, Jose’s, first poster presentation of his first author preprint on alpha-synuclein condensates!

Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis Alpha-synuclein (αSyn) inclusions, termed Lewy bodies, are the characteristic neuropathological feature of Parkinson's disease. Growing evidence points towards a role of aberrant liquid-liquid phase s...

The latest preprint from our lab!

Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis

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

Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome Grammars inferred using NARDINI+ (GIN) is a resource that uncovers molecular grammars of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) across the human proteome, revealing how distinct grammars underlie pro...

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available

go.nature.com/479Sni6

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!