A reminder that the registration deadline for the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is May 10, just a few days from now. Hope to see you there, and please pass along to anyone you think would be interested. www.grc.org/signaling-by...

Protein language models like ESM3 make it possible predict and design protein structures, but 1/3 of our proteome is unstructured. In collab. w/ Grant Rotskoff @grant.rotskoff.cc, Jason Liu created a PLM tuned specifically to generate biologically realistic IDRs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

12 days to submit abstracts and register for the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC, held June 7 - 12, 2026 in scenic New Hampshire! We have a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling. www.grc.org/signaling-by...

Apply now for the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC June 7 - 12, 2026! The meeting has a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling. Please share! www.grc.org/signaling-by...

First preprint of the @pollyfordyce.bsky.social and @dunnlab.bsky.social collaboration! We used high-throughput microfluidics for sequence-strength mapping at the single-molecule level. Our new tech allowed us to discover a fundamental nonequilibrium property of multivalent systems. 1/13

Big congrats to @matt-dejong.bsky.social on his preprint! Matt's assay increases single-molecule biophysics throughput ~100x relative to typical approaches. This delightful collaboration with @pollyfordyce.bsky.social lab helps bring biophysics into the 'omics era. tinyurl.com/yvs54jds

Mark your calendars, the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC is June 7 - 12, 2026. We have a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling. Please spread the word! www.grc.org/signaling-by...

I'm helping organize the 2026 Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC and would love your speaker suggestions! We're especially looking for assistant professors or new community members who would enrich the meeting. Send your suggestions via PRIVATE message or email. Thanks!

Please consider applying to this fabulous Company of Biologists Meeting! New Technologies for Studying and Reprogramming Development 16 – 19 November 2025, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK COB meetings are amazing: small, focused, and with exceptional speakers (food and drink are also exceptional)!

1st catch-up post: Christina (now faculty, UCSD) used single-molecule imaging and theory to understand the mechanism of motility used by Apicomplexans, single-celled parasites that includes malaria. Read for: unusual cytoskeletal dynamics, active-matter theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent actin flows explain distinct modes of gliding motility - Nature Physics

Unicellular parasites, such as Toxoplasma gondii, can use different forms of gliding motions when infecting a host. These motility modes arise from the self-organizing properties of filamentous actin ...

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Hello world! We're happy to be moving our account to a new platform. Over the next few days I'll be posting a backlog of news from our group.