Barral Lab

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🔬 Barral Lab @ ETH Zürich 🧬 Exploring the fundamental principles of cellular organization and aging. From decision-making to aging and eukaryotic genome protection, we uncover how cells maintain integrity and make life-defining decisions. 🚀

How do cells make decisions - without a brain? 🧠 Dr. Tom Peskett from our lab uncovered how networks of biomolecular condensates (P-bodies and Whi3) let yeast ‘decide’ when to divide, mate, or rest. It’s a fascinating look at how cells compute their fates. Read the new paper in Molecular Cell!

A network of P-body and Whi3 condensates adjusts cell fate decisions to cellular context

Cells use information about their environments and internal states to decide whether to proliferate, differentiate, or enter non-proliferative states …

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👋I’m Jordan McCarthy, a PhD researcher in the Barral Lab at ETH Zürich, studying how cells age using microfluidic chips and bioreactors—basically running a cellular retirement home. Outside the lab, I’m an amazing cook, a decent stock trader, and a terrible singer. Follow us and say hi!

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