Snezhka Oliferenko
@alebenoit.bsky.social
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@gautamdey.bsky.social, @fritzlaylin.bsky.social, @alebenoit.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social discuss how the field of evolutionary cell biology works to understand how cells evolve & diversify, highlighting current challenges & the future outlook.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
@gautamdey.bsky.social, @fritzlaylin.bsky.social, @alebenoit.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social discuss how the field of evolutionary cell biology works to understand how cells evolve & diversify, highlighting current challenges & the future outlook.
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Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
Wild and amazeballs
We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A thread.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A thread.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis overcomes phosphate starvation by extensively remodelling its lipidome with phosphorus-free lipids - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis manipulates lipid metabolism to overcome host restriction, by remodelling its lipidome and utilising host lipids as an alternative phosphate sour...
www.nature.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Wild and amazeballs
Fission yeasts lookup
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Fission yeasts lookup
Yay - and also thank you to the three reviewers!
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Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍
W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
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W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social
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Evolutionary cell biology comes of age
Summary: This Perspective discusses how the discipline of evolutionary cell biology, by integrating evolutionary theory, comparative physiology and modern molecular approaches, works to understand how...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yay - and also thank you to the three reviewers!
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Got to like every time spandrel shows up
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Got to like every time spandrel shows up
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If you use PomBase, please help us to demonstrate our value, and make improvements by completing our user survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/7GXJL6X
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If you use PomBase, please help us to demonstrate our value, and make improvements by completing our user survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/7GXJL6X
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAY
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAY
Homeostasis! Membranes! Evolution! Yay
Adaptation of eukaryotic membrane homeostasis to species-specific cellular lipid landscapes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686945v1
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Homeostasis! Membranes! Evolution! Yay
Ahhh CUTE!!!
We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Ahhh CUTE!!!
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Our paper describing enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling technology is finally out! Enhanced HyPro can identify proteins associated with small RNA compartments and even some individual transcripts, such as pathological C9orf72 transcripts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling discovers protein interactomes of single RNA molecules - Nature Communications
Systematic discovery of proteins interacting with low-abundance RNAs is challenging. Here, the authors develop an enhanced HyPro technology to identify proteins associated with compact RNA compartment...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Our paper describing enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling technology is finally out! Enhanced HyPro can identify proteins associated with small RNA compartments and even some individual transcripts, such as pathological C9orf72 transcripts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Snezhka Oliferenko
Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Very pretty - congrats!
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Very pretty - congrats!
Ahh congrats!
September 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ahh congrats!
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Please visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? 🙏
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Please visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? 🙏
Cute!
De novo Golgi biogenesis requires coordinated transactivation of a Golgi regulon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676727v1
September 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Cute!
Ahh so beautiful
Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Ahh so beautiful