Proteomic composition of eukaryotic and bacterial RNA decay condensates suggests convergent evolution: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to share our latest preprint about asymmetric division in E. coli! Work led by the amazing Yashna Thappeta & Silvia Cañas-Duarte. Fun collaboration with the Cegelski lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our c-di-GMP sensor story is finally out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/dHsEh. Including new data demonstrating cdGreen2 as a convenient tool to study DGC and PDE activity in vitro. Great collaboration with @simon_vanvliet and Maier Lab!

Biomolecular Condensates: From Bacterial Compartments to Incubator Spaces of Emergent Chemical Systems in Matter-to-Life Transitions by W. Seth Childers and co-workers Childers Lab #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sy…

Just online Nature Communications cationic peptide nanotubes can bind weak hydride transfer agents to facilitate efficient reduction of esters in water! Grateful to Swarnajayanti Grant, SERB , CSIR & IISER Kolkata rdcu.be/dJbwI #systemschem #enzymemimics

Pick of the Week, out #OpenAccess in ChemSystemsChem by Childers Lab: Biomolecular Condensates: From Bacterial Compartments to Incubator Spaces of Emergent Chemical Systems in Matter-to-Life Transitions ow.ly/kP6W50S9Vjo SystemsChem Talents: ow.ly/opyk50S9Vs3

Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! We found that increasing DNA binding by type IV pili in an Acinetobacter pathogen can boost its natural transformation rates by ~100-fold, demonstrating that DNA binding is rate-limiting for natural transformation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Published in #OpenBiology: Bacterial division ring stabilizing ZapA versus destabilizing SlmA modulate FtsZ switching between biomolecular condensates and polymers ow.ly/vxIG50SfkpL | #Biochemistry #Biophysics #SyntheticBiology

Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin We characterize the membrane-binding motif of bactofilin and investigate the interplay between membrane binding, polymerization and client-protein recruitment. A great collaboration with the Schäfer lab (MD

So excited to announce our new method for multiplexed RNA imaging in bacterial cells: bacterial-MERFISH! A huge congratulations to the team of Ari Sarfatis, Yuanyou Wang, and Nana Twumasi-Ankrah! Check out the following thread or our bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) 1/12

Check out our latest paper in Nature Chemical Biology, where we developed our CAGE split intein platform to study signaling events using proteomic profiling. This enables insights into the differential molecular connections of fusion oncogenes. Congrats to Gihoon Lee! nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔬🦠 Read our latest review tinyurl.com/2y9ebsgl in PLOS Pathogens on bacterial condensates, their role in stress sensing and response, and potential for influencing host-pathogen interactions. Fun project with the Childers Lab. Congrats to Moeka Sasazawa and Dylan Tomares

1. Excited to share our new study, just published in Cell. First off, link to paper: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Controlled Protein-Membrane Interactions Modulate Self-Organization of Min Protein Patterns (Katja Zieske and co-workers) Katja Zieske Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Many thanks to American Physiological Society #TPhysMag for featuring us in this month's "Under the Microscope"... Was fun to do this interview! Univ of Pitt Center for Kidney Research physiology.org/publications/n…

Carnegie Mellon biologists have discovered the mechanism behind telomere elongation, which has implications for treating cancer. cmu.edu/mcs/news-event… Want to learn more? Register for an upcoming talk by lead researcher Professor Huaying Zhang. cmu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congratulations to the recipients of our department's inaugural best paper awards! This round of awards recognizes outstanding papers published in Summer 2024. Read about their work at the links below: zurl.co/0sufX

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with Walter Isaacson & Christiane Amanpour on Amanpour and Company, airing on PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on CNN International earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

New Preprint Out from the Molinari Lab! We’re thrilled to share our latest work on engineered living materials in collaboration with Prof. Lorenzo Pasotti and Paolo Magni🇮🇹 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #SyntheticBiology #EngineeredLivingMaterials #ELMs #Biomanufacturing

Just presented for the first time today by April proteinsociety who received their young investigator award! #ProudPI #FriedLabNews. Is Anfinsen’s Thermodynamic Hypothesis of protein folding true? We think PGK challenges it in a truly striking way. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…