Would you believe us if we told you these are fission yeast cells (missing two genes)?! Check out our newest publication in collaboration with Tuo Wang's group! @awillet.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Shashank Shekhar lab
@sshekhr.bsky.social
Prof. Shashank Shekhar @EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, USA Biophysicist interested in Actin dynamics and ciliary flows. Departments of Physics, Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Lab website : www.shekharlab.org
Meet Euplotes gigatrox, a super-giant cannibal captured with a scanning electron microscope for our #PictureOfTheWeek. Image credit: Ben Larson and Samuel Lord
📣 The Institut Jacques Monod ( @cnrs.fr | @upcite.bsky.social ) is proud to announce the election of Dr. Nicolas Minc ( @minclab.bsky.social ) as a new member of the EMBO community! Congratulations! #EMBOMembers2026 More informations 🔗 buff.ly/2HSXoSd @embo.org @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social
EMBO@embo.org · last mo.Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026
New paper out in #PRX-Life! We take a step back from molecular detail and ask: how do you quantify cell #polarization at the #mesoscale? Using live-cell imaging + analysis, we define phases of cell polarization and a framework to compare wildtype + perturbed cells. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
Quantitative Characterization of Budding Yeast Polarization at the Mesoscale
A quantitative description of budding yeast polarization derived from live cell imaging enables systematic comparison of polarization phenotypes, revealing varying degrees of variation in physical cha...
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📢 Excited to share that I’ve received the NSF CAREER Award! The $1.26M award will support our ambitious research and education program on actin dynamics! Recruiting project assistants, postdocs and PhD students. More info on our website : www.shekharlab.org @emorycollege.bsky.social
My Dispatch published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... In 1950, Bruno Straub described depolymerization as the great unsolved problems of actin biology. A new cryo-EM study from Dominguez lab at @pennmuscle.bsky.social now reveals it all! @emoryuniversity.bsky.social
Exciting news from the lab! 🎉 Ekram's presentation at the #APSMarchMeeting was selected for the DBIO Best Talk Award. A well-deserved recognition - and it comes with a stipend & lifetime bragging rights😉. Congratulations, Ekram! 👏 @emorycollege.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social
Thanks to all the students, postdocs, and collaborators over the past 15 years that really did the work that this AAAS Fellowship celebrates. Happy to share it with all of you! news.syr.edu/2026/03/26/3...
3 Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
Duncan Brown, Kevin Crowston and Lisa Manning are the first trio from Syracuse to earn the prestigious science honor in a single year.
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📢Excited to share that my NIH R35 MIRA grant has been renewed: $2.4M over 5 years to support our work on actin dynamics.🎉🎉 We’re growing & recruiting postdocs + research/project assistants. Please reach out & share. www.shekharlab.org #PostdocJobs #CellBiology #Actin
Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪
Cancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...
Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…
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70 yo insomniac here, this is a great start but we must also drop the glam pub reward effects during critical evaluation of researchers for promotion and research support. It's easier to get off the glam train once you've arrived. Alternative transportation is necessary.
Our Cell Scientist to Watch is Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social. We spoke to Helene about her career, her research and her advice on mentorship. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #autophagy #kidneycancer #mentorship #conferences #procrastination #advocacy #beer
Presenting our exciting discovery of pointed end elongation at the Indian Organelle Biology meeting!
Golgi organization is altered on loss of adhesion. Axl inhibition leads to AMPK activation that controls golgi organization through Arf1 activation. Shared talk w/ student Vaishnavi Raut who presents link between autophagy & golgi organization. Nagaraj Balasubramanian, IISER Pune #OBMT26
The luminal domain (LD) region of Seipin/Fld1 is dispensable for lipid droplet biogenesis & function. Fld1-∆LD has gain of function activity but the LD is imp for TAG levels in the cell. Amit Khatri, Vineet Choudhary lab, AIIMS-New Delhi #OBMT26
So excited to have been awarded the ASCB COMPASS Outreach Grant for our proposal of “Beyond the Data” 🔬 The Aiken Lab will host a community-wide Graduate Science-Art Showcase & Reception in downtown Fort Collins, coming soon!🎉 @aikenlab.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
Fun to see this on the cover of Cytoskeleton! Microtubule and actin filaments captured by @sareenfiaz in the Aiken Lab 🔬 #Cytoskeleton #CellBiology #Microscopy #LabLife
Cytoskeleton Journal@cytoskeljournal.bsky.social · 5mo agoHappy #microscopymonday. Today we have the front cover of our February issue of #CYTOSKELETON. You can check out issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...
Stentor is a unicellular species, but it has been known to aggregate into short-lived groups to feed more efficiently. www.newscientist.com/article/2356...
Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells
Single-celled organisms called Stentor can feed more efficiently by pairing up, illustrating a possible stage in the evolution of complex life forms
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This is an awesome discovery: A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons. My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning www.newscientist.com/article/2519...
Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems
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Single-celled organisms can learn! Happy to share some my insights with @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Check out this piece by Chris for @newscientist.com
Chris Simms@chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is an awesome discovery: A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons. My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning www.newscientist.com/article/2519...
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪
If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian will deliver Emory's 2026 Commencement address on May 11. He also will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the 181th ceremony, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to business and society. More ➡️ https://bit.ly/4suA0NT
Huge news for Dr. Shekhar, and for us. Congratulations 🎉
Shashank Shekhar lab@sshekhr.bsky.social · 6mo agoIncredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social
Incredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social
Excited to share that I’ve been invited to speak at the New & Notable Symposium at the Biophysical Society (BPS) 2026 Annual Meeting! @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
