Our director, Dr. Stacey Wagner, helping to get our new Knight Campus lab space ready for our students next week!

Yo this is a fucking CRIME what Robinhood is doing DO NOT SELL!!! HOLD THE LINE... WTF 🤬

The fight against cancer is personal for my family, like it is for millions. But I’m confident that with the strength of dedicated scientists and researchers, tireless health care workers, and brave families like yours, we’ll win this fight once and for all. #WorldCancerDay

You cannot call it a chocolate croissant if there’s only ONE MEASLY PIECE OF CHOCOLATE IN THE WHOLE CROISSANT

University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago

Me: Hey, remember that weird protein from three weeks ago? My immune system: Yeah, I shut that business down real quick. Me: Look, the ribosomes are making it again. My immune system:

Letting a virus rip through a partially vaccinated population is exactly the experiment I’d do to evolve a virus able to evade immunity

Excited to read this new paper on the nitty gritty mechanisms of host colonization from the Guillemin Lab team University of Oregon headed up by the amazing Cathy Robinson Congrats! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

my rotation PIs as soon as the quarter ends

While structural biologists are either excited or having existential crisis everywhere thanks to #AlphaFold, I'm here in the corner staring at my protein of interest, that looks like a badly drawn large intestine picture in a biology textbook. I guess, I still have stuff to do.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨: Ever wondered how tubulovesicular carriers are formed in cells, how viruses hijack them, and what that might have to do with Arfs and AP adaptor complexes? Check out our new #teamtomo preprint out now on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my first publication from grad school!! We report the #cryoEM structure of the active FLCN complex (AFC) providing insights into a key step in a TFEB/TFE3 substrate-specific #mTORC1 pathway at the center of cancer and neurodegeneration. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Fun times in Asilomar at the UC Berkeley CDP retreat! ♥️ My lab

See how #ATG9 sits at the dock of the bay on #ATG13:ATG101 HORMA dimer interface to initiate #autophagy. First time chrystallographic structure of ATG9 HDIR motif & ATG13:ATG101 HORMA dimer ⤵️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

And another one! Dan Tudorica discovers a TBK1-RAB7A phosphoswitch that relieves Rubicon inhibition and drives recruitment of the Rubicon-homology autophagy enhancer Pacer under mitophagy inducing conditions. Read more here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out my new paper, published in a great collaboration with scientists in the mito911 group!

Control of mitophagy initiation and progression by the TBK1 adaptors NAP1 and SINTBAD biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

📢New bioRxiv by Zeke Cook Hurley Lab & colleagues Hummer Lab mito911 Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s reveals structural insights on PI3KC3 complexes 1 & 2 activation mechanism in #autophagy & #endosomal maturation using Cryo-EM analysis ⬇️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

.Dan Tudorica, Hurley Lab et al. Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s find that RAB7A phosphorylation in PINK1/Parkin #mitophagy displaces the #autophagy inhibitor Rubicon, whilst recruiting the structurally related positive regulator Pacer. hubs.la/Q02wPH680 Bishal Basak Erika Holzbaur-Howland