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Zheng Shi

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Assistant Professor at Rutgers Chemistry and Chemical Biology, studies cell membranes and biomolecular condensates. https://sites.rutgers.edu/shi-lab/

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · May 29

We are looking for a postdoc to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. Please help spread the news 🙏
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Looking for a postdoc - Shi Lab

The Shi lab at Rutgers-New Brunswick is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. To see more information and apply, please go to t...

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to the “Real Chemist”👨‍🔬

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 4d

🚀The #BiomembraneDays2025 concluded

WE THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS & OUR SPONSORS🙏🙏🙏

@abberior.rocks
Critical Insights in Biophysics
Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation
@dfg.de
@jcellsci.bsky.social
@lipotype.bsky.social
@naniontech.bsky.social
@picoquant.bsky.social
Refeyn Ltd
@biologists.bsky.social

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 5d

That’s great, thanks Helge!

Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t believe Germany 🇩🇪 has an entire day off so that people can listen to the new Taylor Swift album 🎧🎶 😂

Any lab here open to hosting a visiting scientist next year?
For someone who is interested in advanced microscopy and cellular mechanics (and can still do experiments 🙋)?

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 6d

Look what I found in Berlin!

Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 8d

Aka, “cell membranes resist flow”😉

Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 8d

Wish @adamezracohen.bsky.social and @sorkinlab.bsky.social were here!
Here is the authors’ reaction:

Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 8d

Something magical happened at #BiomembraneDays2025 today! The speaker (Tanmoy Ghosh) showed two papers in his slide, and it just happened that the authors of the two papers were sitting right next to each other among hundreds of people listening 😁. #BiomembraneDays25

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 9d

Having a blast at #BiomembraneDays2025!

Here is a fun little note: scientists profile pictures should always go with clearly labelled names…

Well, unless it’s Albert Einstein.

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Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 10d

Afternoon session of #BiomembraneDays2025 starts with Zheng Shi and a genuine fluorescent sensor for membrane tension.

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 10d

We continue the #BiomembraneDays25 with Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social who presented nice work on mechanosensors and membrane tension.

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Helge!

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 10d

When you submit an abstract for #bps2026 you're not only sharing your work, you're:
🤝 connecting with your community
✍️ getting important feedback
📊 hearing the latest from your own and related fields
💻 learning about emerging technologies
🧑‍🏫 accessing career development workshops
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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 10d

Vielen Dank an die tollen Organisatoren😉

Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 10d

🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes!
Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions.

📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

@ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to the Biomembrane Days next week!

I’m supposed to learn basic German but I ran into @markusdeserno.bsky.social at the airport. Now I’m wasting time on social media 😂

events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

Biomembrane Days 2025

Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 11d

See you in Berlin Markus!

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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 12d

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 13d

yeah, that's probably why we study biophysics in a chemistry department 😅

Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 13d

I do find the analogy between Chemistry and New Jersey amusing - both are like a keg that had been tapped at both ends😂

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 13d

The last sentence summarizes my feeling to the question of "who exactly is a real chemist"...

"Do you want to spend more time feeling like real inside members of a pure and defined club, or do you want to discover things?"

Who Exactly is a "Real Chemist"? | Science www.science.org/content/blog...

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Yale Cell Biology @yalecellbiology.bsky.social · 19d

Did you know that all nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are not the same? @luskinglab.bsky.social propose a new hypothesis for how nuclear mechanics may impact the compositional plasticity of NPCs with implications for tissue-specific diseases caused by NPC dysfunction.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nuclear mechanics as a determinant of nuclear pore complex plasticity - Nature Cell Biology

In this Review, Lusk et al. discuss emerging insights into nuclear pore complex variability with regard to composition and dilation state, and propose nuclear mechanics as a key determinant of driving...

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Subham Biswas @subhambiswas.bsky.social · Sep 9

Excited to share that my paper on Tau–Microtubule interactions is now published in Nature Physics!🎉

Our work shows that tau goes beyond stabilizing microtubules—it also promotes the removal of defects in the microtubule lattice.

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Tau accelerates tubulin exchange in the microtubule lattice - Nature Physics

Beyond its known role in stabilizing microtubules, it is now shown that tau protein actively promotes lattice defect repair by enhancing tubulin turnover at topological defects.

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks to the Cornell Chronicle for highlighting our work! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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adamezracohen.bsky.social @adamezracohen.bsky.social · Sep 5

In small enclosed structures (like vesicles), the flickering of individual ion channels can have substantial effects on membrane voltage and internal ion concentrations. Mean-field conductance-based models break down. We studied what happens:
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Electrophysiology in small compartments

Voltage-gated ion channels are found in many membrane-enclosed structures, including synaptic vesicles, endosomes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, viruses and bacteria. In small compartments, assumptions ...

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · Sep 5

I saw the preprint title and thought “oh, I should send this to Adam” :)