🚀 Collins Lab at UC Davis here launching our Twitter. Check out our lab website, to learn more on our research, people, and more! Link in our profile Note: we grew out our mustaches for this shot before social distancing

Congratulations, Briana Rocha-Gregg breaking grounds being our very 1st graduate! 👩🏻‍🎓 Dr. Rocha-Gregg's next stop with the Huttenlocher Lab at UW–Madison 🦡

📰 Got your optogenetic membrane proteins anchored? Dean and Dr. Collins have rolled out their preprint regarding Optimized iLID membrane anchors for local optogenetic protein recruitment. Here's the Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Welcome young bloods! @Sam_Hayes70 👨🏼‍🔬 and princessDianasaur 👩🏾‍🔬 are 2 cool PhD students who've been working hard to safely ramp up their new and exciting projects. Our team's committed to precautionary actions to care for our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wow wow, our family is really growing here as we welcome Dr. Kwabena A Badu-Nkansah as our first Post-Doc! 👨🏿‍🔬We are all so happy that you decided to join us and look forward to the exciting projects you're brewing up. North Carolina to Northern Cali.

Do or do not, there was no try for Shashank, so he did! 👨🏾‍🎓 Graduated with a BS in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, we welcome him back as a junior specialist (socially distant of course).

Especially with all wild, we're happy to welcome the newest Aggies to UC Davis. 😎 #new2UCDavis

Thrilled to announce another addition to @bioRxivpreprint: Using a novel optogenetic approach, George Bell showed that positive and negative signals downstream of G-proteins shape a rapid, dose-dependent Cdc42 response. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now two preprints using optogenetics to understand directed cell migration. Theriot and Collins labs' collaboration🤝Overwriting cell front-rear polarity by activating subcellular optogenetic receptors Amalia Hadjitheodorou, PhD et al. here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our latest collaboration led by Amalia Hadjitheodorou, PhD! Microfluidic and optogenetic experiments suggests a "selective listening" model for cellular decision-making in complex environments: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our new preprint from a project led by Stefan Lundgren and Briana Gregg: Signaling dynamics distinguish high and low priority neutrophil attractant receptors. Here is the link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very cool paper from @JasonPTown in the Weiner Lab on signal processing controlling cell steering!

A very clever strategy to do cell migration screens by Nathan Belliveau in the Theriot lab. We were very happy to be able to help!