Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Interested in molecular animation? Give ProteinBlender a try! It's free and open source. animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlend... The latest tools include a DNA builder (shown in the tutorial video below). We'd love to hear what you think! We have short tutorials that cover all the features! 19542
Reposted by Janet IwasaVeesler lab @veeslerlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026We summarize our findings in an animation made in partnership with @jiwasa.bsky.social detailing the process of coronavirus entry into cells 14/19 13013
Reposted by Janet IwasaRCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Researchers found that treatment of intact HIV capsids with lenacapavir causes capsids to rupture, with ruptures occurring first in areas of the capsid with the highest level of curvature. #ASBMB2026 #ASBMB26 Watch in 3D at PDB-101: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm... 0176
Reposted by Janet IwasaProf. Hao Wu @wulabharvard.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I am excited to share with you an amazing video on the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway generated by talented Ann Liu from the Janet Iwasa lab @jiwasa.bsky.social @ann-hl.bsky.social. It shows the real structures of the pathway from #NLRP3, #ASC, #caspase-1, #GSDMD, #IL-1b, to #NINJ1. Enjoy! 0227
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Interested in molecular animation and in SF for #BPS2026? Stick around for the evening Structural Biology workshop (Rm 204/205/206) and my talk at 8:45pm (New Tools for Visualizing Dynamic Molecular Models) to learn about ProteinBlender! animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlend... 0140
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This was a really fun and interesting Molecule of the Month to do! Check out the article to see even more elaborate RNA-only structures. 0167
Reposted by Janet IwasaDavid Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124... 413253
Reposted by Janet IwasaBeata Science Art @beatascienceart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers! 22515
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Thanks, @kutv2news and @utahdhhs for the shout-out in your online story about learning your family's health history! kutv.com/features/hea... Check it out - our activities are FREE, easy and printable: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basi...kutv.comCheck Your Health- Fun & Easy Ways to Talk to Your Family About Health HistoryDid you know that talking about your family health history could be one of the most important traditions you make with your family? Health problems that tend to 001
Reposted by Janet IwasaWALIIAnhydro @waliianhydro.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Meet the speakers of the very first inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water, happening Tuesday, Nov 18! 💧 To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp... To Learn More about Dr. Amy Gladfelter: www.cellbio.duke.edu/amy-gladfelter @gladfelterlab.bsky.social 022
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I'm so honored to receive the 2025 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social and I look forward to this year's annual ASCB meeting in Philly! 4715
Reposted by Janet IwasaCold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2025“In bone marrow alone ~500 million cells are born every min” says Bruce Stillman. Each must duplicate 2+ meters of DNA to avoid errors that can cause cancer & autism. See more from Stillman, @crick.ac.uk’s John Diffley & @uuhsresearch.bsky.social's @jiwasa.bsky.social www.cshl.edu/licensed-to-...cshl.eduLicensed to live | Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryThe DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ... 075
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025The Animation Lab will be giving an animation workshop and table demos, and the GSLC will have a table all day with demos! Come join us! 040
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Almost fifty U of U researchers are giving over 80 demos, lab tours, workshops and talks for the public this Saturday, July 12th! Science-curious? We have something for everyone! 10am-4pm @utah.edu. Schedule and directions here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 064
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Zoom In. Geek Out. Take a Backstage Pass to the Secret Life of Cells! Take a tour of the HSC Cell Imaging Core at 12, 1 or 2pm during Summer Science Day this Sat July 12th! Find the full Summer Science Day schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 012
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025So grateful to be posting happy work-related news. First- I'm now tenured! Thank you @uofubiochem.bsky.social, @utah.edu, and Animation Lab collaborators! Also, 2 of GSLC's (@learngenetics.bsky.social) terminated science education grants were reinstated! AND Summer Science Day is next week!media.tenor.coma dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom .ALT: a dog is dancing in a room with the words happy dance written on the bottom . 7592
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 05/07/2025One week until Summer Science Day! Everyone is welcome to visit @UofUHealth for lab tours, public-friendly talks, demos, and workshops! Saturday July 12th from 10am-4pm. Check out our action-packed schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 012
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Artists belong in science! Come to Summer Science Day & learn about: + How to draw dinosaurs! + Animating science w stop-motion animation! + Making a science comic! + Using 3D animation to bring science to life! Sat 7/12, 10am-4pm. Free all-ages open house at the U. gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 032
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 68144
Reposted by Janet IwasaCold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Working with collaborators at the Crick Institute and the University of Utah, CSHL's President and CEO Bruce Stillman explores how pre-replicative complexes (pre-RCs)—even earlier than ORCs—assemble to initiate DNA replication in all plants, animals, and fungi. 064
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025You're trying to fill the summer days. What do we have that might be interesting for you and your kids? How about electron microscopes? Glowing fish?! Pig lungs??!! Come to Summer Science Day at the U on Saturday, July 12. Free and open to the public! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 042
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025U of U Summer Science Day is less than two weeks away! Come to the U on Saturday July 12th between 10am-4pm for lab tours, science demos, talks, and fun for all ages! Free and open to the public. Schedule will be coming out in the next day or two! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien... 021
Reposted by Janet IwasaRCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Paper Published: A new chapter for Molecule of the Month Read how @jiwasa.bsky.social has taken over as the series creator of stories about critically important biological macromolecules pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy... 063
Reposted by Janet IwasaYi-Wei Chang @yiweichang.bsky.social · 15/05/2025...and big thanks to @jiwasa.bsky.social for making this amazing video to illustrate the strand-sliding mechanism! 1329
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025📣New FREE module drop! In Genetic Tech Investigations, students explore what technologies like sequencing, mass spec, and others reveal about the process from genes to proteins. ➡️ teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/gent... #ScienceTeachers #NGSS #Genetics #STEM 012
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Meet Dr. Laura Dassama, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. This illustration by Rachel Torrez showcases how the Dassama Group uses tools of chemistry and physics to provide molecular insights into complex biological processes. 186
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Had a great time chatting with Flora Lichtman and Tim Lee @nhmu.bsky.social a couple of weekends ago here in SLC, and excited that our Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social piece will be airing today! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sci...sciencefriday.comHow ‘Science Interpreters’ Make Hidden Science VisibleA cell animator and a museum designer tell us how they translate scientific findings into visual experiences. 0113
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 08/04/2025IT ALL STARTS NOW!!! #UGivingDay is underway! donate.utah.edu/giving-day-2... Go here tinyurl.com/482kzszf RIGHT NOW. Be among the first donors to the GSLC in our first-ever Giving Day campaign! Follow #MeettheGSLC to see to some of our most popular activities. 001
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Please consider supporting the Genetic Science Learning Center (gslc.utah.edu) and Learn.Genetics (learn.genetics.utah.edu)! We're raising funds during #UGivingDay to help maintain this free (and fun!) resource that's used by science learners around the world. 020
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025We're excited to feature Dr. Shahzad Khan @zadkhan.bsky.social , an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill, for #SeeingDiversity! This illustration (by @ann-hl.bsky.social ) highlights his studies on the molecular mechanisms of primary cilia loss in neurodegenerative diseases. 181
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 05/02/20256th-8th grade teachers: Join our pilot study to get the first look at a new integrated science/engineering module. Try out “Bioengineering” in your classroom and let us know how we can make it better! Sign up by 2/20 here: utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #STEM #TeachersofBluesky #k12 011
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025For #SeeingDiversity, we are featuring Dr. Liz Ransey, an Assistant Professor at CMU Biological Sciences. Liz’s lab studies gap junctions and explores how their compositional diversity shapes cellular communication in health and disease (illustration by Tiffany Lai). tinyurl.com/eranseycmu 193
Reposted by Janet IwasaPlanet-Vie @planetvie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🏅 Après 300 numéros de la molécule du mois, David S. Goodsell passe le flambeau à @jiwasa.bsky.social, spécialiste de la création d'images et d'animations pour la biologie. Découvrez son premier article, traduit sur Planet-Vie ! planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...planet-vie.ens.frLa molécule du mois : les polycétide synthases à chaîne d’assemblageLes polycétide synthases sont de grands complexes formés de plusieurs enzymes qui synthétisent diverses petites molécules de manière séquentielle. 052
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I'm happy and humbled to take on a new role with @rcsbpdb.bsky.social. I'll be continuing David Goodsell's work on the Molecule of the Month, starting with my first article on Assembly Line Polyketide Synthases! Check it out (animation included!) pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/301pdb101.rcsb.orgPDB101: Molecule of the Month: Assembly Line Polyketide SynthasesLarge multienzyme complexes that synthesize diverse small molecules in a stepwise manner. 516539
Reposted by Janet IwasaMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025At the heart of biology is the mantra: structure dictates function.Biological structures are also beautiful in their intricacy. David Goodsell brought this into public view. As he leaves "Molecule of the Month". here's a huge thank you for helping me see more clearly🧪1/2 cdn.rcsb.org/rcsb-pdb/gen... 511437
Reposted by Janet IwasaRCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025After a remarkable 300 columns, David Goodsell has retired from the Molecule of the Month. We are very grateful for his service. @jiwasa.bsky.social will continue the series, beginning with January's article on Assembly Line Polyketide Synthases Details: cdn.rcsb.org/rcsb-pd...cdn.rcsb.orgEDUCATION CORNER: Molecule of the Month: Celebrating 25 Years of Storytelling and Announcing New BeginningsAfter a remarkable 300 columns, David Goodsell has retired from the Molecule of the Month series. Janet Iwasa will be continuing the series for PDB-101. 213643
Reposted by Janet IwasaU of Utah Dept of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social · 13/12/2024HIV drug based on research by the Sundquist lab is @science.org's 2024 Breakthrough of the Year! healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new... www.science.org/content/arti...healthcare.utah.eduHIV Drug Based in Research by the Sundquist Lab is Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the YearThe drug lenacapavir, developed by Gilead Sciences, provides protection for half a year instead of one day and has performed extremely well in clinical trials. 0113
Reposted by Janet IwasaAngela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Please come to "Breaking Barriers and Bouncing Back: Mastering Communication and Resilience in Science". We'll talk about scientific writing, visuals, collaborations, peer review, publishing, & dealing with rejection! Fun times 😉Room 24B, Dec 14 1:45 PM, 1.5 hours plan.core-apps.com/ascbembo2024...plan.core-apps.com Cell Bio 2024 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting 189
Reposted by Janet IwasaSSLC Learn.Genetics @learngenetics.bsky.social · 27/11/2024#ScienceTeachers! Have you played Mouse Party? An oldie but goodie that looks inside the brains of mice on drugs. It's part of a #SciEd #NGSS module on the Science of Addiction- check out this and other activities here: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addi... learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addi... 372
Reposted by Janet IwasaU of Utah Dept of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The work of the Safavi lab safavi.biochem.utah.edu is featured in this weekend's @nytimes.com Magazine! Read about what we can learn from venoms: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/m... 021
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024For #SeeingDiversity, meet Onyeka Obidi, a graduate student in the Brasch Lab at the University of Utah. This illustration by Rachel Torrez showcases the protein interactions and organization within the synaptic cleft studied by the Brasch lab. 160
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Check out the 2nd SnapShot of the ribosome biogenesis series featuring the 60S ribosomal subunit! This was a great collaboration w Ed Hurt & Roland Beckmann. Read the SnapShot & watch the animation w narration here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 121
Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Check out the Animation Lab's latest paper by Margot Riggi and Rachel Torrez that describes how animation tools can be used to model dynamic molecular mechanisms! authors.elsevier.com/a/1iNW63SNvc... 140