👀 Highly collaborative paper Kaverina Lab Maggie Fye "Genome-wide CRISPR screen identified a role for commander complex mediated ITGB1 recycling in basal insulin secretion" in Molecular Metabolism tinyurl.com/y7wdkyuh

Happy #FluorescenceFriday from us and these microtubules 🌈

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! These ✨gorgeous✨ islet beta cell Golgi were imaged by our fantastic research instructor Kung-Hsien!

Happy #FluorescenceFriday friends! Check out these fiery microtubules from postdoc extraordinaire Avishkar!

Another annual lab pumpkin carving in the books!! We had a great time yesterday!! 👻🎃💀🕷🕸

Enjoy some fall-flavored actin dynamics on this wonderful #FluorescenceFriday!

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This exciting movie of Golgi and cargo is courtesy of our awesome postdoc Alisa!

Just wide-field epifluorescence

High-throughput methods for analyzing single-cell secretion in beta cells did not exist, which prevented the application of CRISPR to study insulin secretion. Two groups from Vanderbilt Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and Vanderbilt Cell and Developmental Biology have now fixed this issue. Kaverina Lab medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…

All, we have an opening for a postdoctoral fellow to study microtubule regulation of insulin secretion

It's that time of year again- we all had a great time at the department CDB retreat last week! 🧪

Wow, I've found a great video tutorial about #BigTrace plugin for Fiji, very clear and smooth. It includes many new recently added features. Thanks, Johanna (don't know ur twitter handle)! The channel has many other useful videos, so like and subscribe youtube.com/watch?v=Viqf4t…

Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral fellow in cell biology: uncover the cell’s inner beauty, Kaverina Lab, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-develop… via VU BRET ASPIRE

Interesting discovery that fura Ca+ fluorescent dyes are actually myosin inhibitors comparable to blebbistatin

In a recent perspective article, Maggie Fye and Irina Kaverina Lab discuss insulin secretion hot spots, which are regions of clustered insulin secretion at the pancreatic β cell membrane. Check out their Frontiers - Cell Biology article! doi.org/10.3389/fcell.… Vanderbilt Cell and Developmental Biology

🏆 Congratulations to Margret Fye (Maggie Fye) in Kaverina Lab for being a 2023 recipient of the Dean's Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…

We're excited to announce our student Maggie Fye will be presenting "Regulation of functional heterogeneity of insulin secretion hot spots in pancreatic beta cells" at #cellbio2023 at the Dynamics of Proteins and Organelles in Human Diseases minisymposium (Sun Dec. 3rd, 3:30pm)!

We're excited to announce our postdoc Avishkar Sawant will be presenting "Cell-cycle regulated tug-of-war between microtubule motors positions major trafficking organelles" at #cellbio2023 Subcellular Dynamics and Interorganelle Crosstalk minisymposium (Sun Dec. 3rd, 5:20pm)!

Please come join us on Sunday for Avishkar's talk at #cellbio2023 ! If you're interested in microtubules, Golgi, and trafficking, this is the talk for you! 🧪

Please come join us on Sunday for Maggie's talk at #cellbio2023 ! If you're interested in microtubules, insulin, and beta cells, this is the talk for you! 🧪