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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Thank you Kyoto University for the honor of hosting me for the inaugural Kyoto University Lectureship Award. This was a fantastic experience & I am so grateful for the opportunity to visit Kyoto, share my lab's work, & learn more about this exceptional university!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Fantastic weekend at the Breakthrough Prize gala, finally celebrating our Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences with @hymanlab.bsky.social. What an incredible event!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Have a look at why everyone @princeton.edu and especially at the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute is so excited about our new building in ES/SEAS complex!!! paw.princeton.edu/article/new-...

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A Hub for What’s Next

New paths for research take shape at the Environmental Studies and School of Engineering and Applied Science complex

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Check out our newest paper from the great @jbotello.bsky.social . Such an awesome discovery that the ribosome population undergoes molecular aging!!!!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Congratulations to our grad student Lifei Jiang!!!!! Well deserved

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Attention all terrific PhD students and postdocs - @gladfelterlab.bsky.social & I are looking forward to MBL Physiology Course virtual open house tomorrow 2pm Eastern - drop by and learn more about this amazing course and why you should apply! January 6th, 2pmET (princeton.zoom.us/j/97673682905)

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🎉 Congratulations to HHMI Investigators Clifford Brangwynne and Akiko Iwasaki, the two winners of the 30th annual Keio Medical Science Prize. This international prize, awarded by Keio University in Tokyo, honors scientists who have made major contributions to the fields of medical or life sciences.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Awesome work Anita, congrats on an amazing paper!

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It has been a dream come true to lead a rotation in the @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course - thanks to the amazing Directors @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and @brangwynnelab.bsky.social, course staff, TAs, and students!

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Combining sequencing and imaging, @brangwynnelab.bsky.social maps the spatiotemporal dynamics of rRNA processing, demonstrating how rRNA serves as both a scaffold and a substrate for the nucleolus—a multiphase, liquid-like structure. 🧪 🧬

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Mapping and engineering RNA-driven architecture of the multiphase nucleolus - Nature

Spatially segregated rRNA processing dictates nucleolar morphology and drives outward progression of pre-ribosomal RNA through nucleolar phases.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Congrats to Jing @jesszhiyuezhao.bsky.social‬ & @dnamystrom.bsky.social‬ on cool manuscript!!! Reveals how cell nucleus is a heterogeneous material, w chromatin organization controlling formation & phase behavior of nuclear condensates. #CellBiology #Chromatin #PhaseSeparation rdcu.be/evWxR

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Chromatin heterogeneity modulates nuclear condensate dynamics and phase behavior

Nature Communications - Chromatin heterogeneity in the cell nucleus modulates the size, mobility, and formation of biomolecular condensates; decreasing chromatin heterogeneity correlates with...

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

An amazing group of students this year in Brangwynne rotation @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course!!!!

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Pombo-GarciaLab @pombo-garcialab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

How to spy on condensates: technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com Our views on the topic, by Hyman,Rosen,Brangwynne, Sabari, Kappel,Xu & myself, presented here @hymanlab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social @bsabari.bsky.social @kallikappel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How to spy on condensates - Nature Methods

Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 25/06/2025

How to spy on condensates: technology feature in @natmethods.nature.com on self-organization and collective properties of condensates with quotes from Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de, @brangwynnelab.bsky.social, and many more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How to spy on condensates - Nature Methods

Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The one and only Manu @prakashlab.bsky.social inspiring @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology students at this morning's lecture.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A great morning with the @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology students after my talk today.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Awesome paper alert! Learn about spectrum of chromatin condensate morphologies due to elastocapillary effects (no, liquids do not need to be spherical!), from amazing duo @dnamystrom.bsky.social & Hongbo Zhao, w/ important contributions from co-authors Jorine Eeftens, Mikko Haataja, Andrej Kosmrlj.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Princeton's new Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute is hiring! New building opening this Fall, & Princeton is an awesome place to live & do amazing research at intersection of engineering & life sciences. **Please spread the word*** bioengineering.princeton.edu/join/open.

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Start of 2025 @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course! This is the second year of Amy @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and I co-Directing this absolutely amazing and life-changing course: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Such a wonderful symposium at UMichigan! And a fantastic opportunity to connect with our beloved benefactors (and Michiganders) Gil Omenn and Martha Darling, together with my Princeton/Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute colleague (& Deputy Director) @toettch.bsky.social

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Zheng Shi @zs-biophys.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Very glad to contribute to this cool study of of nucleoli, led by former Princeton undergrad Holly Cheng! P.S., we all looked much younger when we were working on this project (see picture below) 😁

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Congrats to this year's Brangwynne lab new PhD Kevin Xu (co-advised with Avalos) and graduating undergrads Aya Abu-Alfa and Emmett Grover. Kevin is now CEO of a startup, Aya is off to MD/PhD program, and Emmett to medical school. Congratulations - we are so proud of you!!!!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Nucleoli as biomolecular bubble tea! Congrats to former Princeton ugrad Holly Cheng (now GS @MIT) ->Holly's senior thesis work, a close collab w Roggeveen Wang & @zs-biophys.bsky.social‬ &Stone. Come for the cool movies & stay for the viscoelasticity! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407423122

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U-M Life Sciences Institute @umlifesciences.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The 2025 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium is this Thursday (5/29)! @brangwynnelab.bsky.social will start us off with the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Lecture at 9:00 AM, followed by talks from @jamesknunez.bsky.social at 9:55 and @leonardomorsut.bsky.social at 10:25. myumi.ch/lsi-symposiu...

Photos of Clifford Brangwynne, James Nuñez and Leoardo Morsut with the titles of the talks they will give at the 2025 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: "Tools for probing the assembly and function of ribosomes," "Editing the epigenomes of human cells with CRISPR," and "Synthetic signaling applications to control patterning and morphogenesis in developmental systems"

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So grateful for our amazing inaugural advisory council for the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, who came to Princeton last week to learn about and help guide all that is happening in ODBI, the future of Bioengineering at Princeton. Thank you all!!! bioengineering.princeton.edu

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lovely dinner tonight with Nathan Vardi, author of the page-turner "For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug". Nathan will speak to Princeton students in our Biotech class tomorrow, can't wait!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Cool work from some amazing Princeton colleagues!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Princeton's Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute is looking for a Cell Engineering facility Director. A tremendous opportunity to join our growing community, in brand-new building & brand new Institute! Please spread the word!!! bioengineering.princeton.edu. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“… without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world." - written half a century ago, by Vannevar Bush, more relevant today than ever. see this piece by Princeton's Tilghman: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....

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It's All about the Talent | Molecular Biology of the Cell

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Attention all you fantastic and energetic student and postdocs!!!!!

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brangwynnelab.bsky.social @brangwynnelab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Excited to see this (cover) article on condensates come out in Scientific American. Nice quotes from me and many folks in the field. www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...

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Mysterious Blobs in Cells Are Changing the Way We Understand Life

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell

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