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Anita Donlic @anitadonlic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that the Ðonlić Lab has officially opened this month in the BMB department @wusm-bmb.bsky.social at @washumedicine.bsky.social! The lab will study how condensates shape RNA interactions, therapeutic activity, and disease progression. And - we're hiring! 👇

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Đonlić Lab

Decoding cellular biochemistry from microscopy: chemical tools, RNA biophysics, and machine learning in condensates.

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Zhao Wang from Baylor College of Medicine "An AI-Driven Cryo-ET Pipeline for Quality Assessment, Segmentation, and Quantitative Subcellular Analysis of Platelets" Hosted by @ruizhangmt.bsky.social

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Charles Asbury from the University of Washington "Kinetochores grip microtubules with direction-sensitive strength: a mechanism for avoiding mistakes during chromosome segregation" Hosted by John Cooper

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Ali Shilatifard from Northwestern University "The Long and Short of it: 30 years of Transcreiptional Elongation Control and Epigenetics as a Fundamental Driver of Development and Complex Human Diseases" Hosted by Gabor Egervari

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some of the recent promotions in the BMB department. Congratulations to everyone Professor: Michael Greenberg Instructors - Eric Tomko (Galburt lab) - Mito Suzuki (Kirichok Lab) - Junji Suzuki (Kirichok Lab) - Xingyu Liu (Garcia Lab)

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Kristine Wylie who is a professor of Pediatrics & Infectious Disease at WashU "Uneasy Companions: Dynamic Interplay of the Virome and Host During Pregnancy" Hosted by Lizzy Draganova

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tonight is the night! This semester's Biophysical Evenings seminar given by Yifan Dai in WashU's Biomedical Engineering department. "The electrochemistry of biomolecular condensates" In the Connor Auditorium from 4-5 PM

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Ben Schuler from the University of Zurich "Probing the Rapid Interaction Dynamics of Charged Disordered Proteins" Hosted by Andrea Soranno & Michael Greenberg

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A pore-forming antiphage defence is activated by oligomeric phage proteins that undergo supramolecular assembly @nature.com @hhmi-science.bsky.social @wusm-bmb.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Jun Liu from Yale University "PSeeing molecular machines in action at high resolution" Hosted by Rui Zhang

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Conor Caffrey from the University of California-San Diego "Phenotypic- and target-based approaches to neglected tropical disease drug discovery at UC San Diego" Hosted by Jim Janetka

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Susruta Majumdar from the WashU Department of Anesthesiology "Structure based design of GPCR Modulators" Hosted by Jim Janetka

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This semesters Biophysical Evening seminar will be given by Matthew Lew, Professor in Electrical & Systems Engineering at WashU "Single-Molecule Orientation-Localization Microscopy: New Challenges and Biophysical Insights" Thurs, March 20th 4-5 PM, Connor Auditorium

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Janice Pata from the University of Albany "Initiation of DNA synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria: the roles of DnaG, DnaE, and PolC" Hosted by the CEO Committee

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Martin McMahon from Huntsman Cancer Institute "Mechanisms of Progression and Maintenance in Preclinical Models of BRAF-driven Lung Tumorigenesis and NRAS-driven Melanoma" Hosted by Hema Adhikari

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Catherine Royer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Sequence determinatnts of protein conformational landscapes" Hosted by Women's Group

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Shankar Mukherji from Washington University in St. Louis, Physics department "Building the cell from unreliable parts" Hosted by Janice Robertson

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Trevor GrandPre from Washington University in St. Louis, Physics department "Biophysical principles of biomolecular condensate formation in algal pyrenoids" Hosted by BMB Community Engagement & Outreach (CEO) Committee

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Kicking off our Fall 2025 seminar guests. Our next departmental seminar will be given by Cholsoon Jang from the University of California-Irvine "Inter-organ metabolic communications in aging and cardiovascular disease" Hosted by Gabor Egervari

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Come join us today for our departmental poster session in 264 McDonnell Sciences Learn about some of the great work being done in the BMB department

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Jing Fan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison "Interconnected regulations drive temporally structured metabolic remodeling during immune cell response" Hosted by BMB Women's Group

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Jerelle Joseph from Princeton University "From molecules to networks to emergent behaviors: Probing biomolecular condensates across spatiotemporal scales" Hosted by Jeramia Ory

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Tomorrow our department's Research Round-up is being given by Carolina Bras Costa, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Garcia Lab "Initial insights into the disruption of epigenetic mechanisms of germline histone H3.3 mutations in a novel neurodevelopmental disorder"

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Laura Sanchez from the University of California-Santa Cruz "Mass spectrometry applications for studying ovarian cancer" Hosted by Ben Garcia

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Daisuke Kihara from Purdue University "AI-based structure modeling and validation tools for cryo-EM" Hosted by Alireza Ghanbarpour

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Today our department's Research Round-up is being given by Youmain Yan, Graduate Student in the Niemi Lab "Investigating the ability of presequences to influence mitochondrial protein import"

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Gabe Lander from Scripps Research Institute "CryoEM brings new mechanistic insights into double-stranded DNA break repair" Hosted by Alireza Ghanbarpour

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Rachel Klevit from the University of Washington "Not all disorder is created equal: Functional Disorder in Small Heat Shock Proteins" Hosted by Alex Holehouse

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Brad Nolen from the University of Oregon "Control of actin filament networks by Arp2/3 complex and its regulators" Hosted by John Cooper

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Lucas Sullivan from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center "Identifying metabolic constraints of cancer cell proliferation" Hosted by Student-Postdoc Liaison Committee

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by CArne Gennerich from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Mechanisms of Force Adaptation in Dynein-Based Transport" Hosted by Tim Lohman

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today our department's Research Round-up is being given by Assistant Professor, Dr. Byoung-Kyu Cho "An advanced spatial multi-omics approach integrating MALDI-MSI and LCM-MS"

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Congratulations to our department chair Ben Garcia on his selection as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow! He is being honored for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and its application in epigenetic research Congrats @garcialabms.bsky.social

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Crystal Starbird from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "The various roles of lipids in TAM receptor activation" Hosted by DEI Committee

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Patricia Clark from the University of Notre Dame "Protein folding success depends on the direction and speed of polypeptide chain appearance" Hosted by Kathleen Hall

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Fengbin (Jerry) Wang from the University of Alabama-Birmingham "Cryo-EM of microbial nanowires" Hosted by Rui Zhang

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by John Denu from the University of Wisconsin-Madison "How Metabolism Informs the Epigenome" Hosted by Gabor Egervari

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today our department's Research Round-up is being given by Staff Scientist, Dr. Olivia Murray from the Cooper lab "Reconstitution of actin assembly at membranes with purified proteins"

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Lauren Porter from National Library of Medicine, NIH "Fold-switching proteins reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction" Hosted by Janice Robertson

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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Garcia Lab had a great time at the US HUPO Conference this week. US HUPO is such a strong, interactive and supportive community, which is exactly what we all needed right now.

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Ben Garcia @garcialabms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Was very proud of the US HUPO leadership who held an impromptu "Town Hall" during the US HUPO Conference this week to discuss the recent uncertainties and challenges in science. There were lots of anxieties, difficult questions, but sincere conversations. Most conversations were not centered 1/2

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Our next departmental seminar will be given by Mark Philips from the Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine "Compartmentalized Signaling of KRAS Splice Variants" Hosted by Hema Adhikari

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WUSM BMB @wusm-bmb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Two of our postdocs, Jasmine and Keri-Lyn, were awarded W.M. Kick Postdoctoral Fellowships! They will be giving talks over their research: intrinsically disordered region of cardiac troponin T & mitochondrial phosphatase PPTC7 Thursday February 20th, 4-5PM, Connor Auditorium

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