Cell Biologist at UCSF. Interested in molecular self-assembly, evolutionary cell biology, scientific publishing reform, and yes, Russian poetry.
San Francisco, California
Joined July 2014
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Incredibly grateful to Schmidt Sciences! This would not have happened without the people in my lab, past and present, who drive our most creative work. This award will give us the freedom to explore new problems across disciplines. Excited to see where it takes us next!
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What would it feel like to go with the flow inside a cell?
A lovely new Current Biology Dispatch by Dyche Mullins on work led by Cathy & Jim Galbraith "expands our cellular imagination" to the cell's own sluices, pumps & dams.
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Membrane-associated polymerases deliver most of the actin subunits to a lamellipodial network biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_cellbio
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Lovely analysis by @MullinsLab of a somehow underrated effect: Membrane tethering reduces molecular diffusion from 3D to 2D, which can accelerate local actin polymerization. Super important when contemplating 3D in vitro metrics in cellular context!
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New study out on bioRxiv! We have studied how resources are shared between actin networks competing for a limited pool of components.
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Balancing limited resources in actin networks competition biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_cellbio
The high point of any graduate program retreat has to be the Booth-Buchwalter cocktail party. Young faculty like this give me hope for the future. @dsboothacosta @abbybuch
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Two-chambered heart of a live zebrafish embryo. Credit to @_Priya_R. #ZebrafishZunday
Hmm. Food for thought
Interesting...the virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor is bacterial, not archaeal.
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This may be evidence that a bacteria engulfed an ASGARD archaea, rendering it immune from viruses, not the other way around as is typically assumed. Cool!
Congratulations to CMP Assistant Professor Jeannette Tenthorey (@JTenthorey) for receiving the NIH Director's New Innovator (DP2) Award! @UCSF @UCSFMedicine @UCSFcmp
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Visualizing moth wing scale development with @KyleDeMarr from @MullinsLab on @amsikking's AIRR snoutscope today! Using a 1.3 oil-immersion lens to image >100 um deep past the moth's cuticle. Absolutely gorgeous biology and microscopy.
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Thrilled to announce the Lawrence Lab will open its doors within UCLA Biological Chemistry @BC_UCLA in January 2025! I couldn’t be more excited!
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rosalie Lawrence @ScienceyRosalie will join our department as our newest faculty member in January 2025! Her innovative research will greatly enhance our academic community. We look forward to welcoming you to @dgsomucla @UCLA Rosalie!
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Archaeal Cell Biology working group 2024
@RealMullinsLab @MullinsLab @A_CharlesOrszag
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Superstar inaugural Manor Lab postdoc Cara's new paper is up! Here we show ER-actin accumulates at ER-organelle contacts to regulate their fission and mobility. This applies to mitos, lysos, and endosomes, and is mediated by INF2, an ER-anchored formin. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
“I am here to chew bubble gum and talk about methanogens… and I’m all out of bubble gum”
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On my way to @MBLScience!
Happy to talk about methane-producing microbes during my participation in the 2024 BID workshop!
I'll be there all week!
I don't know which specific post or storm this is responding to, but as a statement of general principle, I couldn't agree more.
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#FluorescenceFriday #cellbiology #bioart A neutrophilic HL-60 cell exhibits both sheet- and rosette-like dynamic pseudopods as it migrates in 3D through a collagen mesh. Here, the cell center is marked in yellow, and each pseudopod is marked with an orange ball of size proportional to its volume. As seen by lattice light sheet microscopy.
Cool! Choano calcium signaling
Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals. Our latest on using calcium imaging, to identify a novel behavior, which is synchronized in colonies. #choanoflagellates biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @ColgrenJeffrey @MSarsCentre @UiB @biorxivpreprint
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High-speed capture of blood flow in a larval zebrafish. Credit to @iceflon. #ZebrafishZunday