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Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
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My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!
Reposted by Ambika Nadkarni
Wow! Remarkably complete story on the logic of phenotypic plasticity in a predatory protist - congrats @cellraiser.bsky.social et al!
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Wow! Remarkably complete story on the logic of phenotypic plasticity in a predatory protist - congrats @cellraiser.bsky.social et al!
by injecting fluorescent markers into the cytoplasm, Ulises Diaz was able to show that these blisters were actually huge membrane-bound vesicles docked near the cell surface.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!
Loved listening to this thoughtful conversation!
Since @stephanieaw.bsky.social left the lab to start her group at Vanderbilt, we've been talking regularly on the ups and downs of academic science. We started recording...
The Tortured Proteins Department
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(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
The Tortured Proteins Department
open.spotify.com/show/10PHVou...
(science with a small dose of running and Taylor Swift)
The Tortured Proteins Department
Podcast · Stephanie Wankowicz · A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Loved listening to this thoughtful conversation!
#newpost, exploring an exciting meta-science movement called #nightscience! Thanks @marymirvis.bsky.social for the resource!
Update: The messy middle meets ‘Night Science’
Exploring an exciting meta-science movement...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#newpost, exploring an exciting meta-science movement called #nightscience! Thanks @marymirvis.bsky.social for the resource!
Can we learn something from analyzing the messy, development phase of ideas... before they are refined? Can chronicling first person accounts of our #ideation process yield best practices for #discovery and #innovation? Check out my post! #newpost
thebreakthroughlogs.substack.com/p/the-messy-...
thebreakthroughlogs.substack.com/p/the-messy-...
The messy middle
Uncovering best practices for creative ideation
thebreakthroughlogs.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Can we learn something from analyzing the messy, development phase of ideas... before they are refined? Can chronicling first person accounts of our #ideation process yield best practices for #discovery and #innovation? Check out my post! #newpost
thebreakthroughlogs.substack.com/p/the-messy-...
thebreakthroughlogs.substack.com/p/the-messy-...
Our research on wound resistance in Stentor is live on bioRxiv! Tldr; we squeezed the cells through microfluidic constrictions and the formidable lead author Rajorshi Paul characterized what makes the cells get wounded!
Characterization of cellular wound resistance in the giant ciliate Stentor coeruleus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.23.661154v1
June 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our research on wound resistance in Stentor is live on bioRxiv! Tldr; we squeezed the cells through microfluidic constrictions and the formidable lead author Rajorshi Paul characterized what makes the cells get wounded!
Reposted by Ambika Nadkarni
Fun Q&A with Curr Bio in which I discuss mammoths, Don Quijote, and why you should not fall in love with a hypothesis authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2MF3QW8S...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Fun Q&A with Curr Bio in which I discuss mammoths, Don Quijote, and why you should not fall in love with a hypothesis authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2MF3QW8S...
Reposted by Ambika Nadkarni
New(ish) preprint! 📰What whole-cell patterns emerge from the arrangement, morphologies, and interactions of organelles in the 3D space of the cell? What would we see if we could gather ALL the whole-cell reconstruction data that's out there in one place? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/11
🧵 1/11
A scoping study of the whole-cell imaging literature: a foundational corpus, potential for mesoscale data synthesis, and implications for standardization of an emerging field
The level of cellular organization bridging the mesoscale and whole-cell scale is coming into focus as a new frontier in cell biology. Great progress has been made in unraveling the complex physical a...
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April 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New(ish) preprint! 📰What whole-cell patterns emerge from the arrangement, morphologies, and interactions of organelles in the 3D space of the cell? What would we see if we could gather ALL the whole-cell reconstruction data that's out there in one place? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/11
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Reposted by Ambika Nadkarni
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Reposted by Ambika Nadkarni
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 21, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...