Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 27/01/2026We'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. 0104
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Wonderfully clear thread about some of the things ‘indirect costs’ support 030
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Of all the takes on this story, this is clearly the right one 030
Reposted by Mary Williard EltingBen Engel @cellarchlab.com · 21/07/2022Excited 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... 818957
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Brings 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." 270
Reposted by Mary Williard EltingKatrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Happy #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... 69214
Reposted by Mary Williard EltingSam Lord @samjlord.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Q: 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/... 913143
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Every 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? 131
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I swear I didn’t put J up to this. But y’all. What if I’m raising a chemist?! 🙈 #physicistMom 030
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Probably my favorite movie I’ve seen this year, thanks Needhi for verbalizing what I found so moving about it 151
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I did my first protein prep (myosin VI!) using tap water. Yeah, I was ‘that physicist.’ 040
Reposted by Mary Williard EltingKirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN 7813077
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! 1195
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Very 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 12411
Reposted by Mary Williard EltingbioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Fishnet mesh of centrin-Sfi1 drives ultrafast calcium-activated contraction of the giant cell Spirostomum ambiguum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… biorxiv.orgFishnet 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 032
Mary Williard Elting @mwelting.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Alrighty, events of the last week or so have pushed me over the edge to finally figure out how this thing works. 380