Levental Lab
@leventallab.bsky.social
laboratory on structure and functions of living membranes lab at University of Virginia ; also posts occasional nonsense - views our own, not UVA www.levental-lab.com
London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Why use many lipids when few will do? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why cells use many lipids when few will do
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - A synthetic minimal cell can survive with just two lipids, revealing that extensive lipid diversity is not essential for life. This Comment discusses our...
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1/5 🚨 🔬 PhD opportunities in my lab at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social What is the role of plasma membrane organisation in tissue formation? Let’s find out! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... I’m recruiting for several interdisciplinary PhD projects. #PhD #Biophysics #Microscopy ⬇️ Details below 🧵⬇️
The role of plasma membrane organisation in tissue development at University of Warwick on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The role of plasma membrane organisation in tissue development at University of Warwick, listed on FindAPhD.com
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University of Virginia Medical Center ER has been on divert for a week for non-trauma. 2 Other major hospitals in the region have also been moving to divert. which puts people up to a 1 hour commute or wait times greater than 6 hours. Get your flu shot.
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d agoDear everyone, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, The emergency room
Them: what do you do outside the lab? Me: I build things, bike, hang with my little home Them: build ..furniture, bird houses, models? Me: bigger things. Them: like a shed, chicken coop? Me: yeah like a chicken coop or shed... for horses... instead of eggs we get manure. Its bigger than our house
I’m not a finance wizard, so I might misunderstand what “pops” means.
Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · last wk.Tesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flight
Made it! I am delighted to share that I got tenured as Full Professor for Cellular Physiology of Nutrition @unipotsdam.bsky.social A dream comes true! I want to thank all my lab members, all the mentors along the way, my collaborators and my family & friends for their emotional support. 🎉
When you say "the function of this protein is... ONE THING" I'm sorry, you're just wrong. Instead "We know the protein does this ONE THING, so there is still much to be discovered because every protein interacts with other things in its environment and has many different potential interactions"
☕ @nadlerlab.bsky.social @mathilda95.bsky.social & co evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma membrane. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...
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So excited especially for Peter Hegemann to get the Nobel Prize for his contributions to Optogenetics! ongratulations also to Karl Deisseroth and Georg Nagel to a well-deserved prize. Did I mention basic science at Unis especially is underfunded and made these discoveries back in the day possible?
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 3w agoBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Rumiana Dimova to Receive 2027 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics buff.ly/5kXgST5
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PI(3,5)P2 controls the signaling activity of class I PI3K
3-Phosphoinositides are essential cellular lipids regulating health and disease. Among them, phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate [PI(3,5)P2] remains the least understood. Using a newly developed rat...
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UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...
nature.com
Check out below, a great opportunity for a funded trip to what looks like a very interesting Workshop in UK next summer
The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · last mo.Applications are now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution, organised by Snezhana Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social & Cunqi Ye. Find out more and apply www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
Some random thoughts: Good science doesn't always need disruptors. Often, it needs load-bearing walls. You can't pivot away from a failed multi-year experiment or "iterate" your way out of a mentee's PhD. Science needs stable foundations, not churn. Don't break the people building on top of it.
Ask both what your country can do for your and what you can do for your country. If you can lead a lab, you can lead a community. Vote blue in November to rescue democracy and consider running for local offices. The best way to change the system is to be the system. - Veteran and scientist.
New paper out: Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells We showed how biophysical state of the membranes correlates with the activity of immune cells such as migration and killing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasma membrane order maps functional diversity in immune cells - Nature Chemical Biology
Cells undergo membrane remodeling in response to the environment to perform specific functions. Now, a cytometry-based method with immune cell biomarker analysis captures variations in plasma membrane...
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"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey
Dysfunction of #caveolae in muscle disease: a cell biological perspective. From Harriet P. Lo, Robert G. Parton and colleagues (The University of Queensland) rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Organelles #Development #Membrane #lipid #Disease #SkeletalMuscle
So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.
Many arguments for jettisoning PhD thesis requirements because it serves no utilitarian value and is a waste of time have also been used to argue against liberal arts. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s the value of a liberal arts education. Everything isn’t about utility.
Sorcery!!
MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences@mpi-nat.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery electron counts⚛️! Researchers have determined the structure of the protein rubredoxin at an unprecedented 0.43 Ångström resolution. The method could now allow routine quantum crystallography of biological macromolecules. 👇More about this major advancement: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5314392/rn_2...
What's the worst chemical structure you can generate using gen AI? Can you do better than this? I would like to know how far you can push them. ChatGPT had no hesitation to provide me with this #chemchat
We're launching a search for two open-rank positions with preference for Assistant/Associate Professors in the Department of Cell Biology at University of Virginia. If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now: apply.interfolio.com/191024
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