VezA/vezatin facilitates proper assembly of the dynactin complex in vivo biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New lab logo! We screenprinted onto tote bags & hoodies this week 🤓

It’s a stylized oligodendrocyte inside a bear (Berkeley mascot). Eye is a spiral that resembles a myelin sheath cross section. Using a custom brush stroke, I traced an AI-generated bear head & drew the oligo.

Delighted to share our review. Congrats to Gui-Jing Xiong! Thank JCB editor Andrea Marat for handling this review so well, and the reviewers who provided constructive comments. Very happy to publish with JCellBiol.

Check out this stunning animation by Janet Iwasa (in collaboration with Samara Reck-Peterson), showcasing our model of how various components come together to form active dynein complexes capable of transporting cellular cargo.

It is finally here! In this work we found that astrocytes control SST+ synapse formation and function by secreting NCAN C-terminal into the extracelular matrix in the developing cerebral cortex.
Neuron: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Going to create a lab logo… please share yours for inspiration!

Registration closes Sunday!

Check out this 1-day online American Society for Cell Biology event organized by Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD & me on liquid condensates in brain cells 🤓

Keynote speaker: Pietro de Camilli.

Abstracts for talk consideration are accepted until this Wed. We will pick ~20 short talks!

ascb.org/meetings-event…

Innovation: 1

#nCyto -ing start of February tomorrow👇

Congrats to Jeff and especially to Jingwen Hu! Experiments from our lab were done by Joan Reger, a PhD student co-mentored by me and Jeff.

Fantastic working with Jingwen who is now a postdoc in Peter Calabresi Lab. Looking forward to hearing about her future discoveries!

Sorry to be a grinch, but I’m having a terrible holiday season.

Best reviews of my career (only minor revisions) and paper was rejected 😭

My $3K summer Euroglia conference reimbursement was rejected, which adds up to about $20K of reimbursements still in the red 😞

Massive 10+ year effort in lab spearheaded by Leonardo Parra-Rivas and Kayal (secret account 🤔). Unreal cover by Emma VIDAL that says it all.

Lost in the StayGold monomeric variants? Here's a thread to try to sort things out 🧵
In 2022, the Katayama/Miyawaki labs published StayGold, a bright and stable fluorescent protein (FP) from jellyfish C. Uchidae: nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Biotechnology

Happy holidays from our lab!

#nCyto is back for the last time this year. Join us this coming Thursday to hear Ana's and Olympia's science.

Satish Bodakuntla
Meng-meng Fu
Shahrnaz Kemal
Аnа Dorrego Rivas

New work by Xhoela reveals how mitochondria change during oligodendrocyte generation. In addition to showing precisely how these organelles are partitioned in the cell, Xhoela also discovered that animal arousal impacts mitochondrial motility in OPCs.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…