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Meng-meng Fu

@mengmengfu.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Cytoskeleton and transport in glia. Prev: NIH, Stanford, UPenn, Caltech.

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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Spotted on Berkeley campus in front of Weill Hall… Just a turkey walking to school 🦃 #BerkeleyLife
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Belated post… last year, our lab painted a glia mural! It took about 1 day and we used a projector for tracing. Can you guess which cell is which?
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Ivana Gasic @ivanagasic.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New preprint from the lab 🎉: γ-tubulin is a novel target of the tubulin autoregulation pathway! Previously thought to exclusively target α- and β-tubulin mRNAs, we show that the TTC5–SCAPER–CNOT11 axis also degrades γ-tubulin mRNA, expanding the scope of this fundamental regulatory mechanism.
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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Vaults. They are cell biology's greatest puzzle! This preprint from Martin Beck's lab shows them docked on ER membranes with a ribosome inside. What on earth is going on there?? #CellBiology #WTFology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The vault associates with membranes in situ
The eukaryotic vault particle is a giant ribonucleoprotein complex that assembles into an iconic barrel-like cage. Its cellular function has remained elusive despite extensive characterization. Using ...
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 08/12/2025
One of my Oxford visit highlights? I got to see these priceless slides that Ruffini sent to Sherrington of various sensory end organs. And yes, Ruffini had to excise these receptors from his own skin 😳🔬🧠
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Excited to share our new pre-print collab w. @rdaslab.bsky.social Study led by Ved Topkar brilliant MD/PhD student who used biochemistry and bioinformatics to probe the relationship between Mbp mRNA structure & transport/local translation in oligodendrocytes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/8
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Study from Mayo Clinic on deep brain stimulation (DBS) for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Not currently FDA approved but promising!
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Anna Williams @annawilliamslab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We have an exciting PhD position available in the Williams lab related to cerebral small vessel disease and funded through our Racing Against Dementia project - if you are interested then do apply here: regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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PhD opportunities | Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Centre of Regenerative Medicine
Information about available funded PhD Positions
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
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Director of Biology Teaching Labs
The Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator...
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Well deserved! 👏
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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Two tenure-track faculty positions open in our department: 1) Microbial Ecology and Evolution careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49... 2) Cellular Neuroscience careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49... Join our collaborative, interdisciplinary community, which has proved to be a fantastic place to start a lab!
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Details - Assistant Professor, Microbial Ecology - RPI Jobs
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/10/2025
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is the creepiest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen… IRL it’s very lifelike 😱 # BerkeleyLife
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Reposting link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatially patterned cytoskeletal organization shapes astrocyte branch complexity
Astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, extend elaborate branches that enable diverse functions, from synapse maintenance to blood-brain-barrier integrity. The cytoskeletal basis of this arc...
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Excited to share our preprint on cytoskeletal organization in astrocytes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Postdoc @mewynne759 looked at microtubules, IFs/GFAP & actin along long elaborate processes. Wonderful to collaborate w postdoc @dharshinigopal & @NogalesLab on cryo-ET 🤓 1/x
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Powerful stuff!
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Saw a family of quails! How many do you see?
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Harini Iyer @iyerharini.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Deepika Dogra, Karin Tuschl, and I are thrilled to host the Neural Disorders RIG meeting of the @ZDMSociety on July 30, 10:00-11:30 am ET. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: zdmsociety.org/2025-zdms-ri....
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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This week, we welcome Lana Ho (right), PhD student from @mengmengfu.bsky.social's lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, to our lab to teach us some cool smFISH (in a heatwave) as part of a lab exchange in the @hfspo.bsky.social Early Career Award.
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Vaults are cool! What do they do? We don’t know!
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Really beautiful study from Mike & collaborators! Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury. Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback! Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!
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Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...
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Director of Research, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Director of Research, Biochemistry & Biophysics
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Saw some cool mushrooms on campus today! Near Euclid and Hearst. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathru...
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out! We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network. We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Spatial proteomics of ER tubules reveals CLMN, an ER-actin tether at focal adhesions that promotes cell migration
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is structurally and functionally diverse, yet how its functions are organized within morphological subdomains is incomp…
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Great This American Life episode: www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education! Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel: “this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…
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857: Museum of Now - This American Life
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In these trying times, grateful for little kindnesses 🥰 Spotted on my walk home! #BerkeleyLife
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Face palm! This is just an excuse… The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab. One time I found a PIV card and returned it.
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Jennifer Doudna: I would not be here if not for NIH training grants! UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Phil Gross, PhD @philgrossphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Excited to finally have this published! Out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we show that following demyelination in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis, treatment of senescent microglia with senolytics leads to improved remyelination. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
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Senescent-like microglia limit remyelination through the senescence associated secretory phenotype - Nature Communications
The impact of senescent cells on remyelination is unknown. Here, the authors show that treatment with senolytics following demyelination enhances remyelination in young, but not aged mice, and these e...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I just wrote a book about how the type of work @markhisted.org is doing is key to breaking through the bottlenecks holding back new treatments for brain and mental disorders (from Alzheimers to depression). Seeing his work in danger makes me ill, and angry. We must @standupforscience.bsky.social.
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
One of my students was accepted to this program earlier this month and asked me what’s going on? 😞 Dr. Milgram cares a lot about all trainees at the NIH. This must be a gut punch.
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Two new opportunities in Edinburgh: Research technician in our lab elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Senior research technician to support the Zebrafish Imaging and Screening Facility elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Jennifer Groh @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Roughly 9% of NIH employees fired yesterday - rumors are IC directors may be next. Please call your senators and representatives!
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So sad to see this is the result of top NIH officials following federal court orders. For non-govt folks, retiring means he can keep his pension 😞 For those more politically savvy than me, is it time to start impeachment or is that a dead end in a Republican controlled Senate, House, Supreme Court?
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So important for our scientist colleagues in states that voted for Trump to reach out to their Senators, reps, and state reps (to join the federal lawsuit). A cut to indirects will affect the hardest working & least appreciated folks in science: our custodians, animal techs, grants admins, etc. 😞
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Has anyone received NIH funding (actual money in campus accounts) after this restraining order from Friday was issued? I’m particularly anxious about a diversity fellowship that we sent JIT info for 2+ weeks ago. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/TRO-NY...
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Tough times call for nerd humor! Just taught action potentials this week…
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️
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