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Joe Chambers

@joechambers.bsky.social
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Researcher at the CIMR, University of Cambridge @MarciniakLab interested in cell biology, especially proteostasis and the ER.

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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fantastic opportunity! Don't miss out!
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🚨📰Now online in its full form www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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FidlTrack: high-fidelity structure-aware single particle tracking resolves intracellular molecular motion in organelles sensing APP processing - Nature Communications
Tracking fast molecules in crowded organelles is error-prone, obscuring dynamic processes like Alzheimer’s secretase activity or secretory sorting. Here, authors present FidlTrack, a structure-aware m...
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Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews: ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠 a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability
The ER's continuous tubular network is maintained by ER-shaping proteins whose mutation or dysregulation contributes to neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we show that ER morphology sets the speed of ...
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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Pre-print Alert! Naked mole-rats hold secrets to healthy ageing that may be revealed if we can dissect their cellular mechanisms. Led by Fangze Tong (an amazing MPhil student), we report live-cell findings about NMR autophagy. @phar.cam.ac.uk @psalmotoxin.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Go Lily! Huge congrats - massively deserved!
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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016
Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59
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Jonny Nixon-Abell @abelljonny.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I may be a little biased here but I think this is SUCH a cool story….a new HCN1-focussed mechanism in Dravet syndrome (infant epilepsy). Helps to explain why current treatments haven’t worked and offers a novel genuinely druggable target.Awesome 🤩🤩🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Increased HCN1 activity in human excitatory neurons drives excessive network bursting in Dravet syndrome
Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe childhood epilepsy caused by mutations of the sodium channel NaV1.1. These mutations are thought to compromise the ability of inhibitory interneurons to regulate netwo...
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Such elegant work, as ever!
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Katie Downes @dr-downes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Very excited to announce that my first, first author paper, is now on BioRxiv! In this paper we unambiguously show #COPII coated vesicles in unperturbed human cells for the very first time!! Make my day and check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬
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Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New preprint alert! Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids to investigate mechanisms of epithelial dysfunction in familial ILD. Kudos first author @eimearrutherford.bsky.social and thanks @thecimr.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Endogenous gene editing of alveolar organoids reveals that expression of pathogenic variant SFTPC-I73T disrupts endosomal function, epithelial polarity and wound healing
Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal lung disease of progressive lung parenchymal scarring caused by the aberrant response of an alveolar epithelium repeatedly exposed to injury. Under...
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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thrilled to collaborate with @zhixingchen2.bsky.social Lab @pku1898.bsky.social ! We tested new PK Mem dyes—gentle, photostable tools to label the plasma membrane in live neurons, making it easier to track growth cone motility & axonal transport. #liveimaging #neuroscience tiny.cc/3qhp001
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great opportunity!
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Fantastic stuff by Sam and team! 3D tracking of individual proteins inside intracellular compartments. An amazing innovation towards understanding cellular environments.
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Mann Lab @mannlab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our paper is out in Nature today! We use Deep Visual Proteomics (DVP) to dissect α1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in human liver at single-cell resolution. Let us take a tour through proteotoxic stress in intact human tissue — one hepatocyte at a time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deep Visual Proteomics maps proteotoxicity in a genetic liver disease - Nature
High-resolution spatial proteomics were used to map molecular events during hepatocyte stress in pseudotime across all fibrosis stages, recapitulating known disease progression markers and revealing e...
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#newPI and time is running. It has already been a month since I officially joined the University of Warwick as Assistant Professor. I am excited to announce and build the Fluorescence and Membrane Dynamics (FMD) Lab: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Well done Jessy @jessyzhu-jiayi.bsky.social who gave her #biologists100 flash talk today about her new GCN2 activators @biologists.bsky.social @thecimr.bsky.social
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fantastic Skytorial!
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Congratulations @lily-wu.bsky.social for winning a poster prize at the @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 conference! What a superstar! @thecimr.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social @matthoare20.bsky.social
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great to see this published! Congrats on a really beautiful paper!
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Alison Forrester @aforrester.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I'm thrilled that our paper is now online: www.nature.com/articles/s41... describing an elegant pH-triggered CIE. Thanks to everyone who made it an exciting and successful project @ewanmacdonald.bsky.social @cessvala.bsky.social @christianwunder.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday #microscopymonday
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Alison Forrester @aforrester.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The 16th ER & Redox club meeting ends. THANK YOU to co-organiser @fenech-lab.bsky.social & to everyone for outstanding presentations, discussions, posters and fun over the last 4 days in Namur. Huge thanks to @unamur.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @febspress.bsky.social for support and funding!
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Delighted to share our latest paper on alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, in @naturegenet.bsky.social. A fun collaboration between groups of @matthoare20.bsky.social, @profmarciniak.bsky.social, and Peter Campbell. @thecimr.bsky.social ky.social, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, Early Cancer Institute
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Selection for somatic escape variants in SERPINA1 in the liver of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency - Nature Genetics
The expansion of clones with distinct SERPINA1 somatic mutants in the livers of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) patients is consistent with convergent evolution. These variants interfere with th...
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Miguel Mestre @miguelcmestre.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We present: Direct-view oblique plane microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Direct-view oblique plane microscopy
The ability to rapidly image mesoscopic samples is critically important for many areas of biological research. Owing to its high throughput and gentle, volumetric imaging nature, light-sheet fluoresce...
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Amazing Conference Alert!! Registration is now open for EUROSERPIN2025. Come and join us in beautiful Brescia, Italy, this May to get excited about the wonderful world of serpin proteins! Visit euroserpin.eu to sign up. Early-bird rates offered until February 28th.
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EUROSERPIN research conference 2025 Palermo May 28-30 on serpin biological and pathological mechanisms
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Jenny Dickens @jennydickens41.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Great to see this collaborative effort out! Check out our new alveolar organoid model, ripe for studying disease mechanisms including those involving surfactant proteins: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Front cover image to follow soon! @eimearrutherford.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social
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A novel human fetal lung-derived alveolar organoid model reveals mechanisms of surfactant protein C maturation relevant to interstitial lung disease | The EMBO Journal
imageimageDisorders of surfactant protein biology cause dysfunction of alveolar type 2 cells and can lead to interstitial lung disease. This study describes the development of genetically manipulable, mature human fetal-derived alveolar type 2 ...
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Sophie Trefely @trefelylab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We have a postdoc opportunity at the interface of metabolism and epigenetics! 🔥🧬 The project will investigate novel metabolic factors driving diabetic cardiomyopathy🫀, and test targeted dietary interventions 🍽️ For more detail and to apply: babrahaminstitute.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...
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hireful.
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Janet Kumita @jrkumita.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
‼️Deadline 16th January 2025‼️Applications are open for the 2025 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme. Paid 8-week summer internships aimed to enhance diversity among life scientists of the future!! @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk
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Experience Postgrad Life Sciences | Enhancing diversity among life scientists of the future
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Taking back the ER - rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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ER–plasma membrane contact sites deliver ER lipids and proteins for rapid cell surface expansion | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
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Jonny Nixon-Abell @abelljonny.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hullooooo Cell Biology friends. If you're heading to #CellBio2024 in (hopefully!) sunny San Diego this year, then come and check out our session on 'ER structure and function across cell types' Room28C- Dec18th 09:00am! See you there! **Please RT** 🥳
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Golgins support extracellular matrix secretion by collectively maintaining the Golgi structure-function relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Golgins support extracellular matrix secretion by collectively maintaining the Golgi structure-function relationship https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624265v1
The secretion of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins is vital to the maintenance of tissue health. O
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Joe Chambers @joechambers.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A bit of microscopy to get me off the mark! Single particle tracking of fluorescent, 20nm spherical protein assemblies (GEMs) as they dance through the ER-lumen of a COS7 cell. One of the tools we used to assess ER-biophysics in α1-antitrypsin deficiency science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2094
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