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Susan Shao

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Dissecting molecular mechanisms that regulate protein and cellular homeostasis. shao.hms.harvard.edu

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Alan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Millions of beating cilia keep airways clean. At the base of each is the transition zone (TZ), a gate that controls which proteins enter and leave. In our paper out today in Science, we used cryo-FIB-ET to image the TZ inside human airway cells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In situ structure of the human ciliary transition zone links linker defects to primary ciliary dyskinesia
The ciliary transition zone (TZ) regulates ciliary proteome composition, yet its molecular architecture, protein content, and contribution to motile ciliopathies remain poorly defined. We applied in situ cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging ...
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Abstract deadline extended to April 20 for the FASEB #UbiqSRC, colocated with the #ProtFoldSRC, June 1-4 in Louisville! Register for one of the ~20 talk slots throughout the main meeting and pre-meeting career forum! events.faseb.org/event/Ubiqui...
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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The longest-running UB/UBL conference, join @labjoazeiro.bsky.social and @sshaolab.bsky.social, for #UbiqSRC. Featuring keynotes by @idikic.bsky.social of @goetheuni.bsky.social with Jeff Kelly from @scripps.edu.bsky.social. Submit your abstract and register to join us in Louisville: buff.ly/uAY0w0M
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Check out this exciting joint Career Forum organized by and for scientists-in-training that will take place before the co-located FASEB Meetings on Ubiquitin and Protein Folding in the Cell, June 1-4, in Louisville, KY! Register for either meeting to opt in. Abstract deadline April 6.
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Ubiquitin Mechanisms, Functions, and Therapeutics.
Join experts in UB/UBL signaling and protein degradation to explore breakthroughs in biology, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic development.
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Martin Ott lab @mitolab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our study on the molecular function of translational activators for mitochondrial protein synthesis is published: rdcu.be/eSWxT A great collaboration with @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social and @sshaolab.bsky.social with structural work from our @pelleeas.bsky.social Funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social
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Translational activators align mRNAs at the small mitoribosomal subunit for translation initiation
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Mitochondrial translational activators (TAs) facilitate transcript-specific translation. Using selective ribosome profiling and cryo-electron microscopy,...
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Alan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
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HMS - Postdoctoral Fellow in BCMP, Brown Lab
We invite applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position in the Brown lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brown lab uses structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches to d...
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Keenan Lab @keenanlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This was a fun new collaboration using selective ribosome profiling to understand how the subunit composition of the ER translocon is tailored by the nascent chain. Congratulations to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global analysis of translocon remodeling during protein synthesis at the ER - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
The authors use selective ribosome profiling to define how and when factors for N-glycosylation and membrane insertion engage and disengage from the core Sec61 translocation channel during biogenesis ...
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Beautiful reconstitution of amino acid stress-dependent ISR activation by my @harvardcellbio.bsky.social colleagues presenting a unifying mechanism for GCN2 activation, which requires ribosome collisions and is enhanced by cognate uncharged tRNA in the A site! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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GCN1 couples GCN2 to ribosomal state to initiate amino acid response pathway signaling
During nutrient deprivation, activation of the protein kinase GCN2 regulates cell survival and metabolic homeostasis. In addition to amino acid stress, GCN2 is activated by a variety of cellular stres...
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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...
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“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”
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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New work @harvard by Miguel Gonzalez-Lozano @harperlabhms.bsky.social & @ernstschmid.bsky.social in Johannes Walter lab charts structural interactome of endosomes. #XL-MS #Alphafold Funded by @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org & NIH. Science continues-despite attacks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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EndoMAP.v1 charts the structural landscape of human early endosome complexes - Nature
A study presents EndoMAP.v1, a resource that combines information on protein interactions and crosslink-supported structural predictions to map the interaction landscape of early endosomes.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 24/05/2025
I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard: Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead “It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war" www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
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Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research
The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Exactly - @embo.org RNA Meets Protein Decay was a much-needed scientific hurrah! Thanks to all the participants for the exceptional quality of presentations and active engagement! And to @pauligroup.bsky.social, Manuela, and the @impvienna.bsky.social for being amazing hosts!!
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Cup? Platter? Stained glass? Our imaginations were inspired (even during uncertain times!) by these beautiful molecular complexes: the Erlin and prohibitin complexes implicated in quality control at the ER and mitochondria, respectively. Check them out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
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Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze
America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
How do cells achieve an optimal mitochondrial distribution? Excited to share a piece of this puzzle: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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ARMC1 partitions between distinct complexes and assembles MIRO with MTFR to control mitochondrial distribution
ARMC1 partitions between distinct outer mitochondrial membrane complexes and the cytosol to control mitochondrial distribution.
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
~1 week left to register for the EMBO workshop on RNA meets protein decay! #EMBOrnaDecay Come join us for a fun time and invigorating scientific discussions in Vienna! meetings.embo.org/event/25-rna...
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RNA meets protein decay
Establishing the composition of RNAs and proteins that defines the identities and functions of cells relies not only on the regulated biosynthesis of these molecules, but also equally importantly, on…
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Dan Nomura @dannomura.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Amazing meeting last week in Germany: 130th International Titisee Conferences on Stress Signalling in Development and Disease organized by Brenda Schulman & @micharapelab.bsky.social !
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Samantha Sedor @samanthasedor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My thesis work on codanin-1/CDAN1 and the histone chaperone ASF1 is officially out! Take a look here:
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
@samanthasedor.bsky.social's pet project taking us into completely new directions is out in print form! rdcu.be/edKuA
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Mechanism of ASF1 engagement by CDAN1
Nature Communications - CDAN1 is an essential protein with unclear function that binds the histone chaperone ASF1. Here, the authors reveal that CDAN1 sequesters multiple copies of ASF1 by engaging...
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Check out these insights into (and the importance of) delivering ubiquitin-independent proteasomal substrates for degradation in the nucleus!
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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Congratulations to our own Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas for recieving the Wiley Prize for his work on the Notch Signaling pathway! We deserved recognition for a pioneer in developmental biology. newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...
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The 23rd Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded for Research in Notch Signaling
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Jennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Join me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott for our two week CSHL course on microscopy & image analysis starting March 24, 2025! Applications are due 1/31/25. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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Alan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A reminder that the Brown lab has an opening for a postdoc fellow: brown.hms.harvard.edu/jobs/242. This might suit someone from the #cilia community interested in learning structural biology. Deadline extended to the 10th Jan.
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Postdoctoral fellow | Brown Lab
The Brown lab at Harvard Medical School is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join our team.
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Introducing Dr. Samantha Sedor! #PhDone
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
So many things happen on proteasomes! It was fun to dig into how a the active thioreductase TXNL1 engages the regulatory particle! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Structure of the TXNL1-bound proteasome
Proteasomes degrade diverse proteins in different cellular contexts through incompletely defined regulatory mechanisms. Here, we report the cryo-EM structure of thioredoxin-like protein 1 (TXNL1) boun...
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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Happy to be making our first post on bluesky - a photo from our recent departmental retreat. Looking forward to sharing new discoveries and news from our trainees and faculty, as we continue to build a cell biology community here - check us out at cellbio.hms.harvard.edu
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
A small molecule degrader of the translation termination factor eRF1 = a metal-dependent molecular glue on ribosomes Learn more here! rdcu.be/du2ZX
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Susan Shao @sshaolab.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Check out the protein compartmentalization and sorting minisymposium at #cellbio2023 today starting at 3:30 pm in Room 254A!
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