microtubule architects, cellular engineers, fireworks of life, biochemists, scientists, teamwork, 🌈

Princeton, NJ
Joined May 2018
Harry Higgs and I want to hear from you! Submit your abstract by May 18 for one of many short talks and present your poster at our #FASEB #cytoskeleton conference in MA. Save your space: hubs.ly/Q03k9zp60#CSDSRC
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Interested in actin, intermediate filaments and microtubules? Then this FASEB conference is for you – the only one in North America focused on the cytoskeleton with fantastic speakers. July 13-17 2025 in Southbridge MA. #cytoskeleton #FASEB #CytoskeletalStructureDynamicsFunction
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Just when you think you have it all, Venecia Valdez and team from @RuiZhangWUSTL and @LabPetry prove us wrong: HURP facilitates spindle assembly by stabilizing microtubules and working synergistically with TPX2 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Farewell dinner with@LabPetry: Our two senior thesis students Haley Tran and Mike Ruttlen received straight A's - congrats! We wish Haley and Mike well in their next career stage and are awaiting Mike's #NFLDraft next year!!! <= 🏈 &🧪 !!!
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Congrats to @sophiembtravis and team from @RuiZhangWUSTL and @LabPetry on the augmin structure! Also congrats to @PfefferCryoLab and @lchangpurduebio for their structural work!
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Quad-lab (!) review which connects capillarity/physics with condensates/biology by @BernieGouveia and Yoonji Kim, mentored by @brangwynnelab, Howard Stone's Lab, @shaevitz and @LabPetry. Capillary forces generated by biomolecular condensates pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3607…
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It is not often that you get to write a News & Views perspective on three, yes three, amazing papers. And guess what, +TIPS condense on MT tips! by @BernieGouveia and @LabPetry --> rdcu.be/c3C9A
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Fantastic work by Michael Rale and colleages from @LabPetry featured with pic on the elife homepage: The conserved centrosomin motif, γTuNA, forms a dimer that directly activates microtubule nucleation by the γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80053
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Collin McManus @LabPetry wins one of the three 2022 Teaching Awards by the Dean of the Graduate School of @Princeton. Well done Collin! molbio.princeton.edu/news/mo…
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As per our lab tradition, here is the 'paint-your-PhD-cake' for our newly minted Dr. Michael Rale! Congratulations! The protofilaments are on fire 🎇
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