Zheng Shi

@zs-biophys.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Rutgers Chemistry and Chemical Biology, studies cell membranes and biomolecular condensates. https://sites.rutgers.edu/shi-lab/

📣 Hear! Hear! 🦋 Behold this Bluetorial on a cool paper written with my PhD student Nathaniel Wesnak 🧪 If you want to dive into the rabbit hole of lipid flop-flop and its description as a stochastic process—here’s your TEASER TRAILER on some flippin’ awesome work: doi.org/10.1063/5.03... 1/26

Stochastic process description of lipid flip-flop

Since lipid bilayers are self-assembled macroscopic aggregates, their constituent lipid molecules can spontaneously transition between the two leaflets. This so

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Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪

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In the spirit of Halloween, let me share with you a 'scary' piece of statistics. Many of you may have seen this image, which demonstrates the extreme scarcity of fresh water on Earth. That small droplet over Atlanta is our ENTIRE storage of fresh water. But, most of those are hard to get...

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Apparently, these are the main (research) topics we are known for within my university :) Fun fact: if you google "Rutgers tension", we are among the top hits - only behind the 2023 Rutgers University strike...

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Can’t believe Germany 🇩🇪 has an entire day off so that people can listen to the new Taylor Swift album 🎧🎶 😂 Any lab here open to hosting a visiting scientist next year? For someone who is interested in advanced microscopy and cellular mechanics (and can still do experiments 🙋)?