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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A pleasure to write this short review on lipid droplets for @jcb.org together with Will Prinz and amazing artist Emma Reynolds! We discuss 5 pervasive questions surrounding these remarkable little lipid organelles. doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

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Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press

Henne and Prinz discuss the lipid droplet field and pervasive questions surrounding droplets and their roles in physiology and disease.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 18/08/2025

Thompson, Stevenson et al @bristoluni.bsky.social show that two cis-Golgi golgins, GMAP210 & Golgin-160, have distinct roles in maintaining #Golgi organization & that both are required to support the efficient secretion, assembly, and modification of ECM proteins rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

(Yet another) shout-out to @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social and colleagues for their ongoing technical service to the cell biology community – in this case, the yeast cell biology community. Special kudos for making all the key plasmids available on @addgene.bsky.social. Stellar work all around!

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Side-by-side systematic characterization of novel FPs in budding yeast

Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have become indispensable for biological research. Since the discovery of the first FP, Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (avGFP), new fluorescent proteins are con...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/08/2025

🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD #StandUpForScience

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We are proud to be a founding contributor to lipidinteractome.org, a repository developed by @tafesselab.bsky.social & Schultz lab to increase accessibility to proteomics data from multi-functionalized lipid analogs! Check out the website & preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.23101 #lipidtime

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The Lipid Interactome Repository – Lipid Interactome Repository

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 27/06/2025

Juhi Narula and Sarah Wignall (@sadiewignall.bsky.social) identify a new role for the conserved kinase PLK-1 in suppressing centrosome maturation in oocytes, which surprisingly is opposite to its role in mitosis. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellCycle #Genetics #Cytoskeleton #Development

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Proud to be a signatory on this letter in support of the courageous staff at the NIH who penned the Bethesda Declaration to decry the ongoing politicization and damage to the US biomedical research infrastructure which has been the envy of the world.

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Jason Casler @jasoncasler.bsky.social, Clare Harper and Laura Lackner @lllackner.bsky.social find that mitochondria–plasma membrane contact sites regulate the ER–mitochondria encounter structure. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #JCSMitoSI #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation. While the outcomes of basic science may seem unclear or esoteric at first, such work frequently forms the bedrock of future technologies, treatments, and therapies." 👏👏👏

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Jonathan Friedman @labfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Join us March 26th at 12pm ET - @asbmb.bsky.social LRD seminar series. We have two great mitochondria-focused lipid talks planned from @jasoncasler.bsky.social from @lllackner.bsky.social's lab and Kailash Venkatraman from @ibudin.bsky.social's lab. Register here! www.asbmb.org/meetings-eve...

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Lipid Research Division Seminar Series

March 26, 2025 | 12 p.m. Eastern

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Jason Casler @jasoncasler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It's going to take a massive amount of public pressure to end the dismantling of the American scientific enterprise. Time for action. To anyone in the Chicagoland area who is able and wants to vocalize their support for science, please join us on March 7th. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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Stand Up for Science 2025 - Chicago, IL

Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

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Jason Casler @jasoncasler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I will use my first post here to contribute to the growing scientific community and plug our lab's newest paper www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10..... We demonstrate that, surprisingly, a massive reduction in the rates of mitochondrial fission and fusion has no adverse effects on mtDNA integrity

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Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)

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