Min Wu
@wumin-lab.bsky.social
Cell cortex dynamics, paradoxical circuits, and towards edge of chaos. Lab @YaleCellBio
Biology is still before the three-body-problem in physics: that most are unaware three interacting components can defeat pairwise intuition
The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci
Here's my PhD work on the assembly of different focal adhesions-associated #actin filament populations by specific actin polymerases, formin vs. VASP! Check out how we exploited the #mitochondria to address the decade-old problem about formin-tropomyosin! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to share our latest work linking Cdc42 waves to mitotic cell size sensing and spindle length. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Amazing microscopy from Bewersdorf/Rothman groups shows golgins in a striking four-layered structure at the Golgi rim. Biochemical reconstitution shows long filaments. Does a Golgi stack form due to golgin filament properties rather than dedicated stacking proteins? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
advocating for funding support from your institution would be great. we have a number of supporters but the broader the base the greater the stability
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology at Cornell should apply by Apr 14. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...
A beloved professor and legend 🙏 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Benjamin Widom, influential physical chemist, dies at 97 | Cornell Chronicle
Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.
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I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday
An alarming trend for UK undergrad science courses. Not only in itself, but because it reduces the pool of second-level science teachers with the confidence and skills to teach it.
Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 2y agoNEW: The number of chemistry courses at UK unis has declined 26% and biosciences by 14% over the past 5 years, raising concerns about the viability of the government's industrial strategy Read more from @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social + @pmdfoster.bsky.social @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/42gW2tR
Check out the stunning movie by @xianglejerry.bsky.social from @wumin-lab.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 ASCB Video Contest! Traveling waves of FBP17-EGFP at the cortex of immune mast cells #ASCB2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social
while researching on the history of calcium oscillation, I really enjoyed reading this book from a 1995 Ciba Foundation Symposium (organized by M. J. Berridge). Each chapter is followed by a heated discussion, almost in the format of twitter, but in the 90s. 1/n
I will be representing @wumin-lab.bsky.social group to present our recent work at ASCB, on Monday Dec 16th, 11:15 AM! Board Number B19, P1714. Come have a chat! I'd probably also be dropping teasers on where our follow-up study is heading 😎
Look at these distinct clusters exhibited by N-WASP and Arp2/3 ! Is branched #actin polymerization the sole driving force for nucleating cortical actin waves? Cross-talks within the actin network can be messy, so how can we study such complexities? #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social
Please visit our formal postgrad Jerry Chua's poster if you will be at ASCB. #CellBio2024 When Jerry started to work on actin, my view was, what can you possibly learn about actin that is new 🤭. I am glad that he ignored me and followed his heart ~ @xianglejerry.bsky.social
Jerry C@xianglejerry.bsky.social · 2y agoLook at these distinct clusters exhibited by N-WASP and Arp2/3 ! Is branched #actin polymerization the sole driving force for nucleating cortical actin waves? Cross-talks within the actin network can be messy, so how can we study such complexities? #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social
