There's still time to get your abstract in, too! The final poster deadline is October 11. Submit here: ascb.org/cellbio2022/ab…

I will be sharing my work on developing F-actin binding protein switches tomorrow (Dec 5) at 1.45pm. Feel free to stop by Board No. B82 (P1774) to learn more about it! #CellBio2022

Our first preprint is out! Ahmed, a second-year graduate student in the lab, found a clever way to tame connexon nanopores, placing their assembly under synthetic post-translational control. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/3

Please check out the lab's paper in John Callahan and our first foray into synthetic cell communication & release! Ahmed TexasChE describes rapid, post-translational control over assembly of connexon nanopores in synthetic cell membranes. The first (but not last) with @StachowiakLab

Newly published paper by our lab "Stimuli-responsive self-assembled polymer nanoparticles for the oral delivery of antibodies" J Controlled Release Matt Miller. Fabiola Chapa Villarreal-Villarreal, Heidi Oldenkamp Michael Elder, Abhijeet Venkatraman Nicholas A. Peppas pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37524149/

Interested in new molecular tools and tech for synthetic biology and drug delivery? If so, please check out the exciting work from Belardi lab graduate students, Ahmed, Isabela Ramirez Velez, and Unyime Effiong, in @BIOT at #ACSFall2023 this week!

It’s a special honor to be joining the #PackardFellows community! I’m indebted to my students UT Austin TexasChE for pushing the lab to think big and imagine a future where synthetic tissue is a reality bit.ly/PackardFellows… 1/2

Our great TexasChE colleague Brian Belardi Brian Belardi is one of the 2023 Packard Fellows. We are all so happy! Congratulations Brian! packard.org/insights/news/…

Our paper on actin-binding protein switches is up on bioRxiv! Unyime Effiong spearheaded this impressive effort, and we are excited to share it! We developed a suite of switches called CASTs that bind to actin in response to an external stimulus biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/4

Join us for our Best of BIOT 2023 Academia Edition: Biomolecule Design & Diagnostics on Wednesday, December 13 from 12-1p EST | 9-10a PST for two of our top voted presentations from the 2023 meeting in San Francisco! Register for free here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I am delighted to be giving a talk at #cellbio23 detailing my work on the development of a suite of protein switch tools for controlling F-actin binding in living cells and tissue. Feel free to stop by room 254A tomorrow at 10:32am for some cool movies of these tools in action!

I am thrilled to share my work in Nature Communications on the engineering of protein switches that control F-actin binding interactions in cells in a user-defined fashion with Brian Belardi. (indulge the supplementary movies to see these tools in acti(o)n)⚒️ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Recently out at Nat Chem Bio! I used my Ras biosensors (Zhang et al Nat Biotech 2024) to profile the activity and environment of Ras at the single-cell level, which unveiled the signaling mechanisms underlying RasG12C inhibitor resistance. nature.com/articles/s4158… Institute for Protein Design

Delighted to share Unyime Effiong first paper from our lab out in Nature Communications! We engineered protein switches that bind to actin in response to stimuli (CASTs) in cells and tissues nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/3

Interested in delivering biologics orally? Then please check out Isabela Ramirez Velez work from our lab out in ACS Nano. We drew inspiration from enteric pathogens(!) to engineer a smart nanomaterial that transports drugs through the paracellular space of tissue pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

How do cells orchestrate themselves to achieve a directional movement as a group? Hi, I’m Sayuki HIRANO in Kazuhiro Aoki. In this thread, I’ll highlight key mechanisms of how cells communicate with each other to perform directional collective migration.

Congratulations to Unyime Effiong on being named TexasChE Paper of the Year. Chosen by committee review during the Student Celebration this past August, her work in @Brian_Belardi Lab looks at controlling protein-actin binding interactions. Congrats!

Congratulations Unyime Effiong! Well-deserved recognition for your impressive research accomplishments in the lab

Are you a Japanese student interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in the US? The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has an exciting new fully-funded Global Science Scholars program to pair students who have received their undergraduate or doctoral degrees in Japan with US bioengineering