Long-chain fatty acyl-coenzyme A activates the mitochondrial fission factors MiD49 and MiD51 by inducing their oligomerization biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to Laura McCormick for her career article in ASBMB out today!!! Thank you also to Michelle Itano and UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core for being our partners in the experience described! Exploring careers in microscopy asbmb.org/asbmb-today/ca…

We’re almost halfway to our petition goal of creating safer bike lanes for students, staff and faculty at UNC (and community members in Chapel Hill.) Please sign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/bike…

Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: ow.ly/7lrq50PNjHA

I am happy to share our latest study on the mechanism of the Anaphase promoting complex just out now in NatureStructMolBiol. This is a close collaboration with the Brown lab UNC-Chapel Hill, spearheaded by the amazing Tatyana Bodrug , who bridged the project across an ocean. nature.com/articles/s4159…

#GIVEAWAY in collaboration with Proteintech Group. The winner will receive this walnut wood purkinje neuron inspired by Cajal's work. To enter: 🔬follow Proteintech Group + NeuroWoodworks 🔬like this post and RT 🔬 tag your labmate

Our paper is (finally) officially published! Check out our work showing that acetylation-mimic TDP-43 impairs RNA regulation, alters protein localization and solubility, and induces behavioral deficits in aging mice. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… (1/2)

So happy for Laura McCormick presenting her PhD defence today! From Day 1 of meeting you, you were already a shining star, in all senses! 8 years on, you're no doubt putting the rest of us to shame even more! Excited for your next chapter 🥲

Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN) arises from mutations in gigaxonin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase adaptor. New work from Battaglia et al. (BattleOfTheGlia) shows intermediate filament accumulation in novel iPSC-derived astrocyte & brain organoid models of GAN. molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…

I am excited to share our newest preprint! Led by Sean Gay Sean Mitchell Gay, we take a dive into the synaptic function of sleep and consequence of sleep loss across development #Synapse-#BrainDevelopment: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

So proud of our new study from the fabulous Molly Kulikauskas (@MollyKulikausk1 ) and the rest of the team! Alk1 signaling, like life, is a balance......

Enrollment is now open for our Spring semester Microscopy course! Email asap to enroll! 🔬🎉👇

We are so excited to have SO many great talks and posters at #cellbio2023 this year! Our Cytoskeleton Club members & friends are utilizing a wide variety of techniques to study an even wider breadth of scientific topics! Check here for talk and poster info:

Excited to be at #cellbio2023 year! I’ll be presenting my poster today at 1:45PM B426 and my talk on Wednesday 10:42 AM Rm253B. Stop by if you are interested in neuronal morphogenesis, actin cytoskeleton or E3 ubiquitin ligases!

New paper up on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Awesome work from devikaA demonstrating what types of tethering you can reconstitute with GUVs and liposomes in vitro. She also shows that Atg11 can bind some membranes and recruit them to Atg32 coated GUVs.