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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

Excited to see work led by @autophazeke.bsky.social, @minghaochen.bsky.social, Thanh Nguyen, and Ainara Claveras out in @science.org today, the culmination of a 15-year project to understand structurally how the synthesis of the critical lipid of autophagy, PI3P, is regulated. tinyurl.com/ywvjh8u4

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Our new FASEBJ paper. We looked into mTOR Ser1261 phosphorylation in human and mouse muscle, proposed by Diane Fingar's lab to be first an Akt and then AMPK site regulating mTORC1 and 2 activity. Clearly AMPK site but impact on mTORC unclear in our hands faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Mitochondria consist of networks of cylindrical tubes, right? Not necessarily! - in our new preprint, @gavsturm.bsky.social investigates how mitochondria transiently adopt a beads-on-a-string morphology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

You want to build an apparatus for time-resolved cryo-EM? Easy: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Exciting news! #MembraneTrafficking online seminars with @felixmendu.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social and me are back! Check the spectacular Jan-April 2025 lineup. Details (Zoom links, calendar invites) on the mailing list, Slack group & website: felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Scientific Director, Cal-Cryo. We are looking for an outstanding microscopist to run our cryo-EM facility (two Krioses and an Arctica), increase training, engagement, and collaboration on campus, expand our user base, and join our community of cutting edge cryo-EM researchers. tinyurl.com/ykasna3p

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no #7262: When you're editing a project, try changing the font before you start. It tricks your brain into seeing your words anew, making it easier to spot typos or areas that might need work.

submitted 42 days ago • 28 comments

Wow. This is the first neat paper of 2025! From a baby plate of HEK cells and a uL column

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Out now! @marcoyannic.bsky.social and his former colleagues at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub have unveiled a new study in Cell. The team led by Manuel Leonetti mapped the subcellular distribution of thousands of proteins to create an atlas of the human proteome ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypn65duk @univie.ac.at

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

How eating fiber->short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) metabolites->anti-cancer effects nature.com/articles/s42... nature.com/articles/s42...

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

A unique postdoc position in academic drug discovery is open in the Hurley lab. We have a biochemistry-driven Parkinson’s disease drug discovery project funded and supported by SPARK-NS, which has an innovative model that turbocharges drug discovery in academic labs. (thread continues)

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Every year, I give my lab (and myself) a "mini-sabbatical" to pursue creative endeavors outside of regular work/studies. So I spent some time reflecting on my thoughts on #AI + the role of professors in this AI transformation via a short film 📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MPs... #AcademicSky

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

submitted 69 days ago • 21 comments

Check out the latest Discover ASAP episode with @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, a member of CRN Team Hurley, who is making science beautiful and accessible. From mitophagy to #PD research, her work shows how #OpenScience thrives with clear, creative communication. Learn more 🖼️ 🎥: bit.ly/3VK6Dt4

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

"Till you have sequence confirmation, you are not cloning but clowning." 🧬⭕🤡 - Lab Saying. #PILife #AlwaysBeCloning

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

1/ A new series of #CryoSPARC tutorial videos from this year’s S2C2 #cryoEM image processing workshop are now online! These videos will be interesting to all users and especially those newer to #cryoEM. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

So excited to present my work at #CellBio2024 San Diego 14-18 Dec within the #Science and #Art Subgroup: Bridging Two Creative Universes. My talk “The Art of Science: Making Ideas Visible” is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec 17 - 5:05 pm, Room 33B. Abstract booklet: Abstract 2010, S368. Come join us!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Who are some amazing cryoEM/cryoET, mass spec, and light microscopy scientists coming to San Diego for ASCB? I’m making a list for a potential pre-ASCB workshop at UCSD December 13th. Spread the word and let me know if you know a good candidate to speak at such an event!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to have the printed science art by Dorotea @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, Please check her website: my-art-science.com, IG: my_art_and_science, LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dorotea-f.... She will be exhibiting some of her art at the #ASCB2024 Art/Science UCSD Park & Market on Dec 17th!

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to share our work developing a new class of modular synthetic GPCRs, out today @Nature! Check it out nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

Very excited to present the structural and mechanistic basis for stress response silencing by the monster E3 ligase SIFI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 86 days ago • 8 comments

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying to solve it, but this limits our potential impact. For more listen to this really interesting @nightsciencepod.bsky.social episode! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6KMh... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

How to write a grant? 1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Our story on the TSC:WIPI3 lysosomal-recruitment complex is now live in Science Advances. Equal-first co-authors @luptoncj.bsky.social & Laura D'Andrea. Work lead by @drellisdon.bsky.social. Funding from @deptofdefense.bsky.social & Australian Research Council. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

First post on bluesky gotta be the structure of mTORC1 on membrane! A great collaboration and interesting frontier for SPA cryoEM!

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments