Steven Smeal

@stevenwsmeal.bsky.social

Computational biologist surviving the chaos of grad school and parenting—fueled by coffee.

I'm proud that this work is published and thankful for the excellent computational biology program I am a part of @csbpitt.bsky.social and @cmupittcompbio.bsky.social!

@robineclee.bsky.social · last yr.

In @natcomms.nature.com, we used robot-controlled cytokine pulses and imaging single receptor complexes and TF dynamics reveal that repeat, dose-conserving stimulation prolongs NEMO/IKK activation and shifts NF-κB dynamics via chromatin remodeling, enabling accurate single-cell models rdcu.be/ezTxF

Excited to share that my main PhD thesis chapter is published at Nature Communications! The revision included a lot of weekends in the lab, coffee, and a baby convinced that sleep was optional. Despite the chaos, my kids are adorable and sleeping again, and my paper is published! rdcu.be/ezTxF

Time-varying stimuli that prolong IKK activation promote nuclear remodeling and mechanistic switching of NF-κB dynamics

Nature Communications - Cells rely on limited numbers of transmembrane receptors to process signals from dynamic microenvironments. Using microfluidics and endogenous reporters, the authors track...

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