Learn more about CRI's newest investigator @henrydebelly.bsky.social and his #relentlessdiscovery to define the molecular controls of membrane fluidity in order to influence immune and #cancer cell function. 👇
cri.utsw.edu/meet-dr-henr... 🧪
My lab @cri-utsw.bsky.social is looking for a highly motivated postdoct interested in mechanobiology!
We are building a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team working on how mechanical forces shape immune and cancer cell behavior.
Come do cool science with me!
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Got these evil-looking pipette aids for the lab and damn are they cool
Henry De Belly, Ph.D., stands in an empty office, with blanks walls and an empty desk, and arms outstretched.
🚨NEW PI ALERT🚨 @henrydebelly.bsky.social is in the house, and look at that *fresh* new office. Clean slate for his next #relentlessdiscovery in CRI's Tissue Regeneration Program (TRP). Onward! Read more about his new lab 👉 cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr...
🧪 @haozhulab.bsky.social
I’m excited to be moving forward to open my own lab at the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social and to build an environment grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and creativity!
Just as importantly, I want to thank all the colleagues, collaborators and friends (a strongly overlapping Venn Diagram) who made my postdoc such a collaborative, supportive, and genuinely fun experience. You are way too many to list here but know that I am deeply thankful to all of you.
I’m deeply thankful to all my previous mentors, especially Orion Weiner, Kevin Chalut and Ewa Paluch, for their guidance, trust and generosity. Thank you for helping me grow as a scientist and as a person.
Today marks the end of my postdoctoral training at @oweinerlab.bsky.social at UCSF and the beginning of a new chapter @cri-utsw.bsky.social
I’m excited to be moving forward to open my own lab at the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social and to build an environment grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and creativity!
Just as importantly, I want to thank all the colleagues, collaborators and friends (a strongly overlapping Venn Diagram) who made my postdoc such a collaborative, supportive, and genuinely fun experience. You are way too many to list here but know that I am deeply thankful to all of you.
I’m deeply thankful to all my previous mentors, and especially Orion Weiner, @kevinchalut.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch, for their guidance and trust and generosity. Thank you for helping me grow as a scientist and as a person.
Super excited to share that I will be starting my lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center this January!
We will explore how lysosomes drive cellular metabolism and signaling to better understand disease to develop new therapies for cancer and neurodegeneration. More info here: aakritijainlab.com
Privileged to have been involved in this great story led by Franklin from the Burkhardt's lab, showing the role of S1P in controlling naive T cell motility! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Looking for curious and creative scientists (technicians, postdocs…) to join the team. Come do some cool imaging with me, such as this migrating neutrophil with front 🔴 and back 🔵 polarity biosensors!
More infos about the lab here: cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr...
Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!
We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
@henrydebelly.bsky.social @oweinerlab.bsky.social elegantly showed how migrating cells exhibit a long-range mutual activation and partitioning of GTPases at both the front and back of the cell, functioning as an integrated mechano-chemical system. He’s also recruiting for his new lab!🧑🔬#MBIMPG2025
Ever wished to become an actin star? 😎
Then try getting suspended above a non-adhesive substrate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Woop woop!!! 🥳
Circular lab logo consisting of a ball of cells labeled with cyan nuclei and red cilia, surrounded by a white circle and the text Choksi Lab and UCSF. The 'o' in Choksi is a schematic of a multiciliated cell.
I'm thrilled to announce that my lab is opening this August in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology @ UCSF!
We will study airway stem cells and explore how they generate multiciliated cells (my favorite!) to keep pathogens and debris out of the lung. Check out choksilab.org for more!
CTB welcomes new Assistant Professor Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social to the department! The Choksi Lab will study how airway stem cells generate multiciliated cells - and how this process goes wrong in respiratory disease. His lab is opening this August. Visit choksilab.org to learn more!
#Science Bluesky, do your thing:
We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas.
Can you indicate some names to me?
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4
🚨📣 New preprint alert!
Excited to share my new postdoc work on direct force and mechanical properties measurements in live embryos!
A great team effort with A. Chamolly (theory), under the supervision of F. Corson and @jeromegros.bsky.social
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #mechanics
SO excited to share that a major part of the postdoctoral work in @robzonculab.bsky.social lab is now published: “Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
This is a huge loss. Michael's work has been extremely influential and inspirational. He was one of my favorite scientist of all time...
born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
As scientist I am going through difficult times (this is understatement of the year for me!!). Past one and half months have been horrible, however I am trying to pick myself up and super excited to share my postdoc work with the community! #cellmigration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge crowds in SF today for #standupforscience. inspiring stories, not only from scientists like @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, but also people who have lived through life-saving/changing experiences as a direct consequence of federally-funded scientific research 💪🏽
