Excited to welcome @tejashyamk.bsky.social to the ERC starting grant team, as he starts his PhD! Teja joins us from @sc-lab.bsky.social, where he built a solid foundation in biochemistry & #cryoEM 🔬 He’ll be uncovering new insights into norovirus replication and assembly. Exciting science ahead!

Double gain this week. Had a wonderful time @embo.org CEM3DIP 2026 cryo-EM workshop at @IIT Delhi & RCB. Also reconnected with my mentor Gabe Lander @landerlab.bsky.social and did GO grid prep with him. Was fun to be a mentee again. Thanks Manidipa Banerjee, Prem Kaushal and the organizers.

Another one flew off today. We all said Good bye to @tejashyamk.bsky.social with both joy and heavy heart as he heads to @danielhurdiss.bsky.social lab at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to start his PhD. We wish him all the best and looking forward to his success and an exciting journey ahead.

Our lab will be represented by @achyutha-kp.bsky.social at #BPS2026 in San Francisco. Please attend the session he is presenting his work in on 24Feb at 10:45 AM in rooms 212-214. Thanks to @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for providing the opportunity and ANRF India for the travel support.

Achyutha Krishna@achyutha-kp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looking forward to presenting and co-chairing the "Actin and Microtubules: Structures, Dynamics and Regulation" session at #bps2026 in San Francisco. #BPS2026 attendees interested in #cytoskeleton , please do attend this exciting session. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social

Congratulations 🏆 Justus Francis @justusfrancis.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social, winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! 📸 Justus with JCB Executive Editor Tim Spencer at #CellBio2025

My lab at UMass Chan Med School uses a variety of approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. Incoming President for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)! Opinions are mine.

Thanks a lot @peiferlabunc.bsky.social for the positive feedback of @justusfrancis.bsky.social talk. Happy to see this.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Good visualizations take a talk to the next level. Justus Francis's talk: Beyond Branching: Structural Basis of Arp2/3 Complex Activation for Linear Actin Filament Nucleation by a SPIN90 Dimer- --provided great "movie" visualizations of how this protein can alter the shape of the Arp2/3 complex 1/n

For those attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 please attend the short talk by our ( @sc-lab.bsky.social ) grad student @justusfrancis.bsky.social in Room #115 TODAY at 10AM - 12PM. He is in the look out for potential postdoc labs and opportunities that can start from Fall 2026.

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 8mo ago

📢 Justus Francis @justusfrancis.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social, winner of the JCB 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award, is presenting ⏰ TODAY at 10AM - 12PM! Be sure to catch Justus's talk if you're attending #CellBio2025!

🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025! Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...

Congratulations to @justusfrancis.bsky.social for receiving the Alan Hall Travel Award from @jcb.org. This is a great support for him to present at the @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 meeting. #CSIR India #CSIR-CCMB

Happy to share our lab's recent #cryoEM studies that show how a SPIN90 dimer activates Arp2/3 complex to form either uni or bidirectional actin filaments. Congrats🎉👏 @justusfrancis.bsky.social @achyutha-kp.bsky.social @tejashyamk.bsky.social @sridharskulkarni.bsky.social @kiranvyshnav.bsky.social

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology@natsmb.nature.com · 11mo ago

New online: Activation of Arp2/3 complex by a SPIN90 dimer in linear actin-filament nucleation

We have now migrated from X (@SaikatLab) to the blue zone.