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Laura Lackner

@lllackner.bsky.social

Cell Biologist/Associate Professor at Northwestern University, runner, and lover of the outdoors. She/her.

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The Daily Northwestern@thedailynu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

At least 10 federal agents’ cars have been spotted in Evanston, according to an ICIRR alert at 11:35 a.m. The cars were seen near the intersections of Green Bay Road and McCormick Boulevard and Green Bay Road and Simpson Avenue and are still active.

Live: Federal agent presence reported in Evanston near Green Bay and Simpson

Throughout early fall, Evanston has experienced an influx in activity from federal immigration agencies, with several community members taken by agents in September and October.  The city first inform...

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Suzanne Hoppins@shoppins.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Genuinely thrilled to share our new story with the world - an amazing collaboration with @profsharona.bsky.social and Bill Zagotta using their innovative FRET technique to study mitofusin conformational changes. Huge credit to Sophie Hurwitz for tackling this project. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Structural insights into GTP-coupled conformational changes in Mfn1 revealed by time-resolved transition metal ion FRET.

Outer mitochondrial membrane fusion is mediated by the mitofusin paralogs Mfn1 and Mfn2. Nucleotide-driven self-assembly and conformational changes are required for regulated membrane fusion activity,...

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@LaBonneLaB@labonnelab.bsky.social · last yr.

Senate Appropriations has a modest *INCREASE* in NIH funding but it will need to be recconciled with the house cut. If you have not been calling your representative of late now would be a good time to start again www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last yr.

"I have a message for America's scientists: I want to tell you how much I appreciate your work, how much I value and treasure your work, how much support you have within the Congress...we are aware of the deep damage that is being done to your profession and we are determined to make it stop" 🧪

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last yr.

Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities. So today, I have a message for America's scientists: youtu.be/MeoZDPy5cIY?...

Gc Rox@gcrox.bsky.social · last yr.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Amit Joshi@joshilaboratory.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to present first publication from the Joshi lab, now in @jcb.org Here, we show that phosphatidic acid regulates Pex30 distribution at ER subdomains for lipid droplet biogenesis by binding to dysferlin domain. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Phosphatidic acid drives spatiotemporal distribution of Pex30 at ER-LD contact sites | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press

In this study, we show that Pex30 dysferlin domain binds PA through its two hydrophobic regions adjacent to beta sheets. We propose that, PA, a precursor f

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Michael Baym@baym.lol · last yr.

It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too. Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on

Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS@catgaohow.bsky.social · last yr.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · last yr.

Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect. We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.

Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS@catgaohow.bsky.social · last yr.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

washingtonpost.com

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.

Sen Van Hollen met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa, who told him that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because the Trump admin is paying them to do so. They also provided no evidence that Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13 or committed any crimes.

Senator Dick Durbin@durbin.senate.gov · last yr.

Donald Trump wants to illegally send American citizens to this notoriously inhumane prison in El Salvador. “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places.” The constitutional crisis is here.

Eric C. Greene@dnacurtain.bsky.social · last yr.

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

“If the goal were to identify and address problems at these agencies in a good-faith manner, that would be one thing. But what is going on is akin to performing open-heart surgery on a patient who is not particularly sick using a blunt axe.” 2/2

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

Rep. Jan Schakowsky@schakowsky.house.gov · last yr.

Make no mistake about it: Trump's reported decision to freeze funding at Northwestern University will put life-saving cures and critical research at risk. This freeze won't protect the Jewish students Trump claims to defend, it will instead undermine their academic endeavors.