Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park 🏞️

After an incredible trip to New Zealand and Japan, it is time for a new adventure: moving to Geneva for my postdoc. Excited for what is ahead!

How do cells clean up misfolded proteins when they divide? This study finds that the cleanup crew includes the ER chaperone BiP and the proteasome, and kicks in right as cells finish dividing. Surprisingly, one major cell cycle regulator isn’t involved. elifesciences.org/articles/96675…

New paper alert! We used thermo-sensitive poly-NIPAAm microspheres to measure heating induced by an optical tweezers laser — a simple new method for checking temperature in your setup. (Sorry, membrane friends, but these purple spheres are not vesicles :)) doi.org/10.1002/cmtd.2…