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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 1d

www.thefp.com/p/the-legacy...

The Legacy of October 7

Douglas Murray, Amit Segal, Eli Sharabi, Coleman Hughes, and others mark two years since Hamas’s attack on Israel.

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 13d

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on!

#TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾
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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks, Andre!

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, Sam!!

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks!

Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, King!

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Itay Budin @ibudin.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology

An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, Jonathan!

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 21d

This is another must read - great week for organelle bio tools this week!

Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you, Andre! And yes - let’s do it!

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks, Rachid!

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 21d

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 23d

This is going to be a very exciting meeting!! 🔬🧫🌈

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 23d

Registration is open for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting.
Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti, the meeting will focus on the interface between cell biology and imaging.
For more info: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 Imaging Cell Dynamics
Date: 11 – 14 May 2026 Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain
Register now Early-bird deadline: 16 January 2026
Image of a cell showing the nucleus and the cytoskeleton

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 23d

Registration is open for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting.
Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti, the meeting will focus on the interface between cell biology and imaging.
For more info: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · 27d

A pleasure to write this short review on lipid droplets for
@jcb.org together with Will Prinz and amazing artist Emma Reynolds!

We discuss 5 pervasive questions surrounding these remarkable little lipid organelles.

doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press

Henne and Prinz discuss the lipid droplet field and pervasive questions surrounding droplets and their roles in physiology and disease.

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Lance Johnson @johnsonlab.bsky.social · Sep 7

new preprint from @iostephens.bsky.social describes the potential benefits of increasing lipid turnover in microglia by eliminating PLIN2 from their surface

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 6

Knockout of Perilipin 2 in Microglia Alters Lipid Droplet Accumulation and Response to Alzheimer's Disease Stimuli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673815v1

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Sep 5

WooHOooOo!!!🎉 Go team lipid droplet

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · Aug 31

Tour de force from @nadlerlab.bsky.social . The value of solving a hard problem with beautiful chemistry: insights that upend conventional thinking re: lipid transport. You’ve got to read the thread, I’m not giving away the juice! It’s fantastic! Congrats 🎈🎊🍾🎉

André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Aug 31

Congratulations!!! Wonderful to see this out in final form. 👏

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science.

The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you, Maitreyi! I so appreciate the work you do as part of WICB.

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks for posting this thread, Shivani! It was wonderful to get to know you and the other course participants. 🙌

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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · Aug 7

I am honored to be named a 2025 ASCB Fellow! It is a privilege to be part of the ASCB community. ASCB was the first conference I attended as a grad student, and it has always been a welcoming, supportive home. Thank you for this kind recognition! ☺️
www.ascb.org/society-news...

Fourteen Visionary Scientists Named 2025 ASCB Fellows - ASCB

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is proud to announce the election of 14 outstanding scientists as 2025 ASCB Fellows—a prestigious honor recognizing their exceptional contributions to cell...

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Meet the 14 scientists named 2025 ASCB Fellows! Honored for excellence in research, mentorship, and service, they’ll be recognized at Cell Bio 2025 this December in Philadelphia.

Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

Fourteen Visionary Scientists Named 2025 ASCB Fellows - ASCB

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is proud to announce the election of 14 outstanding scientists as 2025 ASCB Fellows—a prestigious honor recognizing their exceptional contributions to cell...

www.ascb.org

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m extremely honored to be recognized with the WICB Junior Research Award. ASCB and WICB have been key to my career development since I attended my first annual meeting in 2005. Congrats to the other awardees!

American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Aug 4

Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

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