iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Akanksha Thawani, PhD @akankshathawani.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org

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The Thawani Lab at Columbia University

The Thawani Lab at Columbia University describing their research on mobile genome, cryo-electron microscopy and genome engineering

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The Elowitz Lab at Caltech @elowitzlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Synthetic biology could enable new types of programmable therapeutics. Our new preprint introduces synthetic protein circuits that selectively trigger cell death in Ras-mutant cancer cells, with interesting advantages compared to existing approaches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This dot is a region that intersect multiple cell junctions in an epithelia. These dots act as tiny anchors of cell contacts and they’re critical for epithelial coherence during homeostasis AND development. I’m @katecavanaugh.bsky.social and I’ll be your guide on this 🧵 about tricellular vertices.

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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

As scientist I am going through difficult times (this is understatement of the year for me!!). Past one and half months have been horrible, however I am trying to pick myself up and super excited to share my postdoc work with the community! #cellmigration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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CD44 and Ezrin restrict EGF receptor mobility to generate a novel spatial arrangement of cytoskeletal signaling modules driving bleb-based migration

Cells under high confinement form highly polarized hydrostatic pressure-driven, stable leader blebs that enable efficient migration in low adhesion, environments. Here we investigated the basis of the...

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Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Nice and clear summary of our work on animal species-specific developmental time in The Scientist www.the-scientist.com/just-curious...

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How Do Embryos Know How Fast to Develop?

In mammals, intracellular clocks begin to tick within days of fertilization.

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Kristina Stapornwongkul @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Amidst these troubling times, I have some positive personal news to share: I will be joining @imbavienna.bsky.social as a new group leader this fall! 🎉 I am excited for fun projects, surprising discoveries, and great discussions within the fantastic science community @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

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Jacob Parres-Gold @jacobparresau.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My first project in the @elowitzlab.bsky.social is finally out in @cellpress.bsky.social! We explore how competitive, "many-to-many" dimerization allows complex, multi-input, and cell-type-specific biochemical computations🧵↓ doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

While our bodies seem static, our cells are constantly changing shape or on the move during tissue homeostasis or wound repair & even more dramatically during embryonic development, during events like gastrulation. Defining how cellular machines mediate these events is a key task for our field 1/n

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