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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Biology is still before the three-body-problem in physics: that most are unaware three interacting components can defeat pairwise intuition

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Jerry C @xianglejerry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here's my PhD work on the assembly of different focal adhesions-associated #actin filament populations by specific actin polymerases, formin vs. VASP! Check out how we exploited the #mitochondria to address the decade-old problem about formin-tropomyosin! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In this sense, our findings resonate with recent work from the Devreotes lab, which identified PI(3,4)P₂ as a key negative regulator of cortical excitability in the context of cell migration and oncogenic transformation. doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A key finding is that variability in the oscillation period originates from oscillations of PI(3,4)P₂, a low abundance phosphoinositide that plays key roles in membrane signaling, endocytosis, and cell migration.

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Excited to share our latest work linking Cdc42 waves to mitotic cell size sensing and spindle length. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thanks so much Gerry! What can be better than being in the company of the most dedicated fellow scientists working on topics close to our heart but bring diverse perspectives-- I really enjoyed this ASBMB session!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Amazing microscopy from Bewersdorf/Rothman groups shows golgins in a striking four-layered structure at the Golgi rim. Biochemical reconstitution shows long filaments. Does a Golgi stack form due to golgin filament properties rather than dedicated stacking proteins? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Zach Marin @zacsimile.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Incredible 4Pi and pan-expansion imaging of the Golgi 👇

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

advocating for funding support from your institution would be great. we have a number of supporters but the broader the base the greater the stability

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

provocative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology at Cornell should apply by Apr 14. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...

Flyer for Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium at Cornell University, with QR code at bottom to obtain more information

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Tang was super famous among chemists in China when we were undergrads. I had no idea what he did, or that he was in the same field as Hoffmann. Synergy in science is beautiful

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Value of chemistry undergraduate education in life sciences and medicine is very underappreciated.

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

An alarming trend for UK undergrad science courses. Not only in itself, but because it reduces the pool of second-level science teachers with the confidence and skills to teach it.

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Lorena Benedetti @lorenabenedetti.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Check out the stunning movie by @xianglejerry.bsky.social from @wumin-lab.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 ASCB Video Contest! Traveling waves of FBP17-EGFP at the cortex of immune mast cells #ASCB2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Another one, OH Petersen published strong papers against IP3 oscillator in favor of CICR (Wakui 1989 Nature, 1990 Cell ). Then read the discussion? Interesting contrast on record (fancy publications) vs. off record (also published ...) www.nature.com/articles/339... www.cell.com/fulltext/009...

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

for example, Xenopus oocytes sea urchin egg is often cited as examples where calcium continue to oscillate independently of external calcium, it is also controversial whether fertilization needs external calcium. This exchange between Jaffe and Whitaker explains: 2/n

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

while researching on the history of calcium oscillation, I really enjoyed reading this book from a 1995 Ciba Foundation Symposium (organized by M. J. Berridge). Each chapter is followed by a heated discussion, almost in the format of twitter, but in the 90s. 1/n

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Jerry C @xianglejerry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I will be representing @wumin-lab.bsky.social group to present our recent work at ASCB, on Monday Dec 16th, 11:15 AM! Board Number B19, P1714. Come have a chat! I'd probably also be dropping teasers on where our follow-up study is heading 😎

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Jerry C @xianglejerry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Look at these distinct clusters exhibited by N-WASP and Arp2/3 ! Is branched #actin polymerization the sole driving force for nucleating cortical actin waves? Cross-talks within the actin network can be messy, so how can we study such complexities? #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

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Min Wu @wumin-lab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Please visit our formal postgrad Jerry Chua's poster if you will be at ASCB. #CellBio2024 When Jerry started to work on actin, my view was, what can you possibly learn about actin that is new 🤭. I am glad that he ignored me and followed his heart ~ @xianglejerry.bsky.social

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