Act like they have a 20-seat margin in the Senate and a 75-seat margin in the House.

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

🚨Hear, hear, fellow microbial cell biologists!🚨
🦠 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology will be represented again at this year’s CELL BIO (ASCB-EMBO) meeting! The deadline to be considered for a talk in our Minisymposium is June 9. Help us spread the word!
www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

In MBoC:

αβ-Tubulin heterodimers assemble into microtubules critical for cell division, transport, and cilia. This review covers their evolution and regulation, providing insight into how cells maintain robust microtubule networks.
https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-05-0247

Senate votes 50-49 to overturn mining ban near Boundary Waters The vote clears the path for Twin Metals to reapply to open an underground copper mine near Ely, just outside the wilderness area. Conservation groups argue mining in the region poses an unacceptable ...

The Senate has narrowly overturned the mining ban that blocked mining in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. This means Twin Metals can reapply for leases and permits to mine copper, cobalt, and nickel there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

225,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS AT RISK. Senate votes tomorrow on HJR 140. It would strip protections from the Boundary Waters watershed and open the door to toxic sulfide mining near one of the most protected wilderness areas in the country. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121

a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with pictures of various microbes

New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @deemteam.bsky.social: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic Tree of Life with independent phylogenomic data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #Bioinformatics #Algae

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

You know this is shameful. He literally has destroyed NIH--he's not an advocate for reform. I am shocked you and the NAS think he should be platformed--he was just at CPAC USA, destroying anything that was left of his credibility

Our paper is out m in BioEssays! We explore how a process-based view of biology, focusing on dynamic interactions rather than individual molecules, can reshape how we think about cell polarity, opening up new questions and ways of doing cell biology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We set out to confirm that this gene is in fact embedded in the sponge chromosome - and it was! Together we phylogenetic analysis, we conclude this gene was acquired from a euglenozoan-like protist by lateral gene transfer 30-300 mya likely coinciding with their transition to freshwater.

We are so grateful for all the collaborators who brought their expertise to this project: Sally Leys, April Hill, Jennifer Shepherd, Fabien Pierrel, @arnausebe.bsky.social and all their team members. Please check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.08.717022

Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury

I have officially started my new position as a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) 🇯🇵. My new research group will focus on the cell/molecular biology of parasitic Excavata & amoebae (incl. Trypanosoma, Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, & more) (1/3)

You might be able to stow a backup stash of pens as ballast…

Marketing photo of an overhead storage rack for a minivan.

I believe the printouts can be stored up here!

Forgive my naïveté as an occasional western blotter, but what is actually the problem with this? It seems like the appropriate comparisons are from the same image. Would it be acceptable if each distinct image was in its own box?

Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective Date: 6-9 December 2026 Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK Organisers: Elena Casacuberta and James Gahan Early-career researchers apply for a funded place

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. Find out more www.biologists.com/workshops/de...
#BiologistsWorkshops

This is bad for medicine too www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

The UW quad with cherries in bloom

This cherry blossom season is extra fun for us.🌸

Students sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Yoshino cherry trees on the University of Washington quad, and found nearly identical clonal relatives in Japan!

A great project with Alex Harkess and the American Campus Tree Genomes (ACTG) project

Today was also the lab’s first sampling trip, hunting for archaea around Davis!

As someone advising students who have limited coding experience and who have been using LLMs and AI tools to assist with computational projects, and having limited experience using LLMs/AI in computational projects myself, this is a useful cautionary tale

It’s Impact Week at the MBL—and tomorrow is Giving Day. But your impact doesn’t have to wait.

🔗 Give now: mbl.edu/give

Microtubule end stabilisation by cooperative oligomers of Ska and Ndc80 complexes - The EMBO Journal During mitosis, properly aligned chromosomes stabilise microtubule ends with the help of kinetochores to ensure timely segregation of chromosomes. Microtubule-binding components of the human outer kin...

Happy to see the first paper from the lab published in the EMBO J today: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In it, we reconstitute self-assembling cooperative oligomers of human Ndc80 and Ska kinetochore complexes that stabilise microtubule ends, and study these samples using cryoET and TIRF

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race The NIH Data Book page reporting Research Project Grants (RPG) and Fellowship awards by race has been updated for FY2025. Completely unsurprisingly, despite the impression that may have been convey…

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...

Gotcha, that makes a lot of sense! 🙏

I’m just trying to understand how one might conceivably submit 10 proposals per year. Though perhaps that is part of the point here…😞

Forgive my ignorance but if each institute has only 3 R01 review cycles per year, does that mean to submit 10 proposals you need to submit to >3 institutes? Or can you submit multiple distinct R01 proposals per cycle per institute?(as if that doesn’t sound maddeningly difficult already…)

Our first cancer biology preprint is up! TRIM9 switches melanoma cell phenotypes. First author @klukasik.bsky.social has taken the lab into new directions for sure in a fun collaboration with @coronin.bsky.social. We can't wait to hear what you think.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not?
In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death.
This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan.
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