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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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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jul 12

Wow! Good eye! You’re the only one who spotted the 5th chick 🤓

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dang where’s the 5th chick? I could only spot 4 in the picture though there were 6 chicks total.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Important work Teddy!

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Powerful stuff!

Teddy Drivas 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) @tdrivas.bsky.social · Jul 11

We’re super grateful to see our work amplified by @sciencenews.bsky.social , which covered our study’s implications for ICU practice, surprise diagnoses, and what must change for genetic testing to help more adults.

📰 Read the feature:
www.science.org/content/arti...

Genetic testing of critically ill adults can yield surprises—and reveal disparities in treatment of Black patients

Adults in the ICU often don’t know about the genetic diagnoses related to their symptoms, DNA sequencing study shows

www.science.org

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Saw a family of quails! How many do you see?

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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · Jul 8

Deepika Dogra, Karin Tuschl, and I are thrilled to host the Neural Disorders RIG meeting of the @ZDMSociety on July 30, 10:00-11:30 am ET. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: zdmsociety.org/2025-zdms-ri....

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · Jul 1

This week, we welcome Lana Ho (right), PhD student from @mengmengfu.bsky.social's lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, to our lab to teach us some cool smFISH (in a heatwave) as part of a lab exchange in the @hfspo.bsky.social Early Career Award.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Vaults are cool!
What do they do?
We don’t know!

Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · Jun 12

1/x New story - the structure of the Vault cap, at 2.3Å! Matching a beautiful preprint from @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, we show that the cap of the vault particle has C13 symmetry, in contrast to the 39-fold symmetry of the body. Study lead by talented postdoc @huanli00.bsky.social from my group! ⬇️

At left, a reconstruction of the vault cap with C39 symmetry imposed; at right, the reconstruction after identifying the correct symmetry, with the three non-equivalent protomers highlighted.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · May 30

I’m sorry to hear that 😞 I think it’s a simple and reasonable thing to ask for now.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · May 18

Really beautiful study from Mike & collaborators!

Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury.

Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback!

Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!

Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · May 16

A 🧵 to walk those interested through this paper...

Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · May 16

Online now at @cp-cell.bsky.social , the culmination of a 12-year effort. 🧵 to follow later this evening

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social · May 13

As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...

Director of Research, Biochemistry & Biophysics

jobs.weill.cornell.edu

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · May 5

Saw some cool mushrooms on campus today! Near Euclid and Hearst.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathru...

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · Apr 29

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”

⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

tinyurl.com

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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · Apr 7

Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out!

We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network.

We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spatial proteomics of ER tubules reveals CLMN, an ER-actin tether at focal adhesions that promotes cell migration

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is structurally and functionally diverse, yet how its functions are organized within morphological subdomains is incomp…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Apr 6

… We have androgen insensitivity, XY genetically, but may have female external sex characteristics and internally have testes. There's a 5-alpha reductase deficiency that causes changes in testosterone metabolism.”

Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Apr 6

… There are anywhere near about 30 different intersex examples. So someone who does not have just an XX or XY chromosome is not just male or female, they're intersex.

And there are over 30 potential different intersex examples. We've got genetic differences. We have people with XXX chromosomes…

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Apr 6

Great This American Life episode:
www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript

So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education!

Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel:
“this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…

857: Museum of Now - This American Life

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Apr 4

In these trying times, grateful for little kindnesses 🥰

Spotted on my walk home!

#BerkeleyLife

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Mar 27

Face palm! This is just an excuse…

The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab.

One time I found a PIV card and returned it.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 26

WARNING

I am hearing from multiple sources that DOGE folks are around NIH and. if they find an unattended computer with the PIV card inserted, they are tracking down the user and likely placing them on administrative leave.

Be Doo Be Doo Minion GIF

ALT: Be Doo Be Doo Minion GIF

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Mar 7

Jennifer Doudna: I would not be here if not for NIH training grants!

UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Phil Gross, PhD @philgrossphd.bsky.social · Mar 7

Excited to finally have this published! Out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we show that following demyelination in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis, treatment of senescent microglia with senolytics leads to improved remyelination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Senescent-like microglia limit remyelination through the senescence associated secretory phenotype - Nature Communications

The impact of senescent cells on remyelination is unknown. Here, the authors show that treatment with senolytics following demyelination enhances remyelination in young, but not aged mice, and these e...

www.nature.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Mar 6

I just wrote a book about how the type of work @markhisted.org is doing is key to breaking through the bottlenecks holding back new treatments for brain and mental disorders (from Alzheimers to depression). Seeing his work in danger makes me ill, and angry.

We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 6

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · Feb 27

One of my students was accepted to this program earlier this month and asked me what’s going on? 😞

Dr. Milgram cares a lot about all trainees at the NIH. This must be a gut punch.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 26

BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.

It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 24

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.

Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

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