we made it on the cover too XD

Happy to see that our story on optogenetic control of the lac operon is out! Now, instead of adding IPTG to produce chemicals or proteins, you can just turn the lights off. Thanks to all of my coauthors for their hard work! Check out the paper here: rdcu.be/b6Tqs

Come Together...with cells! Our 'healing-on-a-chip' tool shows bioelectric 'cell herding' can speed up healing of model skin tissue (>2X faster)! Tom Zajdel spearheaded this with Gawoon Shim on drums. Preview shows mouse skin cell layers healing. Full ver: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Herding cells isn't all sheepdogs/roses. Some tissues hate taking orders. Our new work w/ GS Gawoon Shim + Prof. Devenport shows: (1) more communal cells resist bioelectric herding; (2) disrupting cell-cell adhesion improves herding + healing lab skin wounds! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ever wanted to make groups of stubborn cells move at your bidding? Find out how a little bit of calcium chelation can go a long way on this week's biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wow--just awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for bioelectric control of tissue growth! Award includes support for a yearly science storytelling training workshop to help teach researchers how to better communicate their work to the public. Thank you U.S. National Science Foundation, taxpayers, and Mary Shelley!

Pump it up: bioelectric stimulation controls tissue hydrostatic pressure and water transport via electro-inflation ift.tt/TZ4a3nA #biorxiv_bioE

The preprint of our latest project of inflating lumenized spheres with Isaac Breinyn, Alejandro Martínez Calvo , and Daniel J. Cohen (CohenLab at Princeton) is out! Happy thanksgiving :D

Electro-inflation, or how to control tissue hydrostatic pressure and water/ion transport via bioelectricity, is so cool!🎈 Wonderful and really fun collaboration with an amazing team, Gawoon Shim, Isaac Breinyn, and Daniel J. Cohen (CohenLab at Princeton).

Science is full of amazing human stories and we want to help teach you to find and tell them! Cohort III of Lab Tales is open for applications, and this time we can support room/board for *5 non-Princeton students*! Apply here: tinyurl.com/LabTales

Internship alert! We are looking for a Master’s student to join our lab in EMBL Barcelona this autumn to work on inter-species comparison of developmental time using stem cell zoo. You'll learn stem cells, quantitative imaging & genetic modification. With financial support. 1/

A new paper from the Daniel J. Cohen (CohenLab at Princeton) Lab! My dear Elena spent so much time making these half-collegen, half-Ecad surfaces for MDCK cells and the results are quite stunning. Can you tell from the video which side is which? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our two new papers! We delevoped a method to follow individual translating ribosomes for hours in living cells, and discovered that ribosomes are great friends and help each other in problematic situations

Step aside muscle, our new work shows that kidney and intestine tissue can also change shape and function when electrically stimulated (movie)! We call this ‘electroinflation’! Long overdue hurrah for Gawoon Shim* /IsaacBreinyn*, Alejandro Martínez Calvo, Sameeksha. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very grateful to have the MSCA fellowship for my postdoc journey. I'll be using traction force microscopy (TFM) and other methods to directly measure forces generated at the embryo-uterine interface during implantation!

One of the most rewarding things I get to do is run a week-long science storytelling workshop each summer with my friend Annetta Black of Odd Salon and (thanks U.S. National Science Foundation and Princeton Council on Science & Technology!). It's time for Lab Tales #4! Funding for 5 non-Princeton trainees. Apply: forms.gle/Eagrqatp1UUyJn…

We used light to herd cell growth with jared toettcher lab! Optogenetics is pretty cool. Super fun collab. and exquisite data from Kevin Suh* and Richard Thornton*. Video: blue light pattern--> sheet of living tissue rearranges into creepy eye. See jared toettcher for🧵. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our work on how cells deposit, sense, and interact with their footprints is now published in PNAS - how cells can develop oscillations, spiral out, or yet more complex dynamics! Work by Emiliano Perez Ipina (on the market!), data from @BLadoux group: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…