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Dissecting molecular mechanisms that regulate protein and cellular homeostasis. https://shao.hms.harvard.edu
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Cup? Platter? Stained glass? Our imaginations were inspired (even during uncertain times!) by these beautiful molecular complexes: the Erlin and prohibitin complexes implicated in quality control at the ER and mitochondria, respectively. Check them out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

How do cells achieve an optimal mitochondrial distribution? Excited to share a piece of this puzzle: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

~1 week left to register for the EMBO workshop on RNA meets protein decay! #EMBOrnaDecay Come join us for a fun time and invigorating scientific discussions in Vienna! meetings.embo.org/event/25-rna...

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Amazing meeting last week in Germany: 130th International Titisee Conferences on Stress Signalling in Development and Disease organized by Brenda Schulman & @micharapelab.bsky.social !

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My thesis work on codanin-1/CDAN1 and the histone chaperone ASF1 is officially out! Take a look here:

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

@samanthasedor.bsky.social's pet project taking us into completely new directions is out in print form! rdcu.be/edKuA

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Check out these insights into (and the importance of) delivering ubiquitin-independent proteasomal substrates for degradation in the nucleus!

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to our own Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas for recieving the Wiley Prize for his work on the Notch Signaling pathway! We deserved recognition for a pioneer in developmental biology. newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

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Join me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott for our two week CSHL course on microscopy & image analysis starting March 24, 2025! Applications are due 1/31/25. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that the Brown lab has an opening for a postdoc fellow: brown.hms.harvard.edu/jobs/242. This might suit someone from the #cilia community interested in learning structural biology. Deadline extended to the 10th Jan.

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Introducing Dr. Samantha Sedor! #PhDone

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So many things happen on proteasomes! It was fun to dig into how a the active thioreductase TXNL1 engages the regulatory particle! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments

Happy to be making our first post on bluesky - a photo from our recent departmental retreat. Looking forward to sharing new discoveries and news from our trainees and faculty, as we continue to build a cell biology community here - check us out at cellbio.hms.harvard.edu

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

A small molecule degrader of the translation termination factor eRF1 = a metal-dependent molecular glue on ribosomes Learn more here! rdcu.be/du2ZX

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Check out the protein compartmentalization and sorting minisymposium at #cellbio2023 today starting at 3:30 pm in Room 254A!

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