Happy 70th to the best mentor/colleague/friend I could have asked for on my career journey. I’m a proud member of the Rees/Clemons lab and lucky to have your constant support and inspiration! Congrats Doug and I’m hoping the next 17 are as fun as the last.

We updated our database and now list 385 postdoc fellowship opportunities (w/ description, deadline, amount, eligibility, etc). Getting one means a lot more freedom to do the work you want to do.

With lots of new data from the pre-print! I think we finally have a (partial) answer to how alpha-helical proteins get inserted into the mitochondrial outer membrane in human cells. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A new study from Elise Jeffery & Sean Morrison in Cell Stem Cell found leptin receptor+ bone marrow skeletal stem cells (SSCs) are responsible for bone cell production in normal bones & repair certain bone injuries, while periosteal SSCs repair fractures. cri.utsw.edu/researchers-fi…

Congratulations to @ChenLabRU science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Structure of a TOC-TIC supercomplex spanning two chloroplast envelope membranes cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Excited to share our latest paper: Metabolon Formation Regulates Branched-Chain Amino Acid Oxidation and Homeostasis, published Nature Metabolism by our first PhD student McKenzie Patrick nature.com/articles/s4225… Jian Xu Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern @UTSWNews

Check out our preprint describing the EABR technology, which enables combining features of mRNA- and protein nanoparticle-based vaccines through genetic encoding of self-assembling enveloped virus-like particles (eVLPs)! doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… Collab with The Bjorkman Lab! 🧵(1/n)

So excited to be coming back to UTSW, see some old friends, and meet new trainees!!

caltech.edu/about/news/lit… congrats to Anna Karen Orta Nadia Riera (she/her) and the rest of the Clemons Lab @Caltech who made this story possible. This is a long time coming.

1/Do you like isotope tracing? New paper from Feng Cai and Divya Bezwada Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern, online Cell Metabolism, shows how to derive maximum 13C labeling information from tiny specimens. Big thanks to MattMerritt for help on this project. 🧵 below. -RJD. cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Super excited to finally share our discovery of a pentameric TRP channel, published today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… #HS_AFM #CryoEM A big thanks to all my coauthors! Scheuring Lab Jingying Zhang Yining Jiang @labnavid Crina Nimigean Yuan Lab

Check out this interesting model for assymetric gating in heteromeric ligand gates ion channels. Congratulation to Xiaofen Liu for this exciting work! rdcu.be/dokrF

Ana María is one of the best and nicest people I have ever met in science. Period. But most importantly: I am 100% sure everybody that knows her will tell you the very same thing. Inspiring, tireless and unique. Congratulations!! 👏👏👏

My account was hacked earlier. Just got it back. Sorry for any recent misleading/offensive posts.

We are excited to welcome Josephine Thinwa, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at @UTSWNews, to speak at our next PROVIDES seminar on Feb 1st, 4-5 pm CST. Seminar: “Turning on autophagy to fight viruses” For more details, see the flyer below ⬇️

Interested in studying cellular and development biology by advancing cryo-electron tomography? We have openings for postdocs to resolve in situ protein structures at the atomic scale: bbe.caltech.edu/jobs/postdocto…

Excited to present our latest research nature where we unveil the mystery of UFMylation, a crucial process for protein homeostasis at the ER nature.com/articles/s4158…

⭐️ Big news! HHMI is investing $300+ million in 26 new #HHMIInvestigators from 19 US institutions. These top scientists will drive groundbreaking research in diverse fields, from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology & beyond. Welcome to HHMI! hhmi.news/4df2eVs