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Mary Williard Elting

@mwelting.bsky.social
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Cellular biophysicist at NC State. My lab combines approaches from physics, biology, and engineering to ask how biological molecules self-assemble into cellular-scale machinery that transduces force and performs mechanical functions.

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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We've got a new preprint posted, you can read all about it (and see a picture of our recently adopted lab mascot) here: eltinglab.github.io/news/taylorB... The bottom line of this work is that we reveal new ways that S. pombe spindle biochemistry is regulated by force from the nuclear envelope.
Spindles lacking Ase1 adapt more resiliently to compressive force from the nuclear envelope than normal spindles.Taylor proudly holds a troll doll named Thelonius she has adopted as a lab mascot, along with a copy of her preprint!Final model figure of our manuscript indicates that compression force from the nuclear envelope regulates spindle biochemistry.
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Wonderfully clear thread about some of the things ‘indirect costs’ support
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Of all the takes on this story, this is clearly the right one
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 21/07/2022
Excited to share our new study with the Müller and @SchullerJm labs, online @nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-… This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of...
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Brings to mind this quote from Stephen J Gould: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy #microscopymonday! Here is a collaborative project I started in ~2018, looking at different cells stained for actin and DNA and all set to the same scale. More info (and poster printouts!) here: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
A collage of different cells stained green for actin polymer and pink for DNA (a single circle in most of the cell types). A large mouse skin cell on the top right hovers over the smaller amoebae and yeast cells below. A column of corn epithelial cells runs along the left, with one cell in the center dividing. A small listeria bacterium (pink) rockets in from the top using an actin comet tail. A branchy amoeba sits at the lower right corner. About 7 other cell types are smattered around.
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Sam Lord @samjlord.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Q: What's wrong with these plots? A: Pooling cell-level measurements across multiple runs conceals experimental reproducibility. Read more in JCB (with @fritzlaylin.bsky.social @katrinavelle.bsky.social & Dyche Mullins): rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Every time I see this movie it looks like embroidery to me. And now that might be a thing I have to figure out how to make. But maybe someone has already done this? Other scientists who stitch on here?
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I swear I didn’t put J up to this. But y’all. What if I’m raising a chemist?! 🙈 #physicistMom
Child with a book open to the periodic table copies the chart onto a piece of a paper
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Probably my favorite movie I’ve seen this year, thanks Needhi for verbalizing what I found so moving about it
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I did my first protein prep (myosin VI!) using tap water. Yeah, I was ‘that physicist.’
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🧪 Punchline of our most recent preprint about how a giant single cell changes shape super fast, check the thread for more info!
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wow this is good. Will be sharing widely.
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Very excited to share a thread about our new preprint! It's a highly collaborative project, w key contributions from @josephlannan.bsky.social (in my lab) @bhamlalab.bsky.social (+ GS Luke Xu), Dinner Lab (+ PD Cal Floyd), Jerry Honts, Marshall lab (+ GS Connie Yan), and Suri Vaikuntanathan 1/13
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Fishnet mesh of centrin-Sfi1 drives ultrafast calcium-activated contraction of the giant cell Spirostomum ambiguum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Fishnet mesh of centrin-Sfi1 drives ultrafast calcium-activated contraction of the giant cell Spirostomum ambiguum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.07.622534v1
Spirostomum is a unicellular ciliate capable of contracting to a quarter of its body length in less
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Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Alrighty, events of the last week or so have pushed me over the edge to finally figure out how this thing works.
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