Lab news
Jim and Cathy’s Nature Communications paper is highlighted in a Current Biology Dispatch by R. Dyche Mullins, “Cytoplasmic rivers carry molecular cargo.”
FocalPlane (The Company of Biologists) features our work in “Compartmentalized cytoplasmic tradewinds,” including a video on the lab’s approach to imaging.
“A series of spontaneously blinking dyes for super-resolution microscopy,” our collaboration with the Lavis Lab at HHMI Janelia, is published in Nature Methods. Watch our short video.
Jim and Cathy’s paper “Compartmentalized cytoplasmic tradewinds direct soluble proteins” is published in Nature Communications. The study was covered by more than 20 news outlets in four languages, including EurekAlert!, Phys.org and Medical Xpress, and was discussed in a radio interview on KXL FM.
Former summer intern Zenya Bain (UCLA) wins a Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations, Zenya!
Cathy presents the lab’s work at “Forces at Play: Emerging Themes in Mechanobiology,” Institut Jacques Monod, Paris.
Jim directs the lab component of the Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) course at the MBL, Woods Hole, MA, as he has every year since 1995. RUNN trains neurosurgical residents from the US and abroad.
Cathy presents the lab’s work in a keynote lecture at BioImaging North America (BINA) in Montreal.
Cathy presents the lab’s work at “Mechanobiology in Time and Space” (Mechanobiology Institute & Max Planck Society), Singapore.
Cathy presents the lab’s work and co-chairs the Cellular Biophysics session at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
Cathy presents the lab’s work at the CZI Biohub, San Francisco.
Jim directs the lab component of the Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) course at the MBL, Woods Hole, MA.
Cathy presents the lab’s work at the ASCB/EMBO meeting in San Diego.
Undergraduates Zenya Bain (UCLA) and Renata Hemstreet (Oregon State) join the lab through Jim’s NSF-sponsored summer internship program in quantitative biophysics.
We launch A-maze-ing Cell Races, a free educational game built with our interns: players learn how cell types differ in directionality and persistence, then race cells through mazes to test their predictions.
Our collaboration with the Lavis Lab on coumarin as a switching auxiliary for photochromic and spontaneously blinking fluorophores is posted as a preprint.
Cathy’s collaboration with the Lavis Lab on a series of spontaneously blinking dyes is posted as a preprint (now published in Nature Methods).
Jim and Cathy are awarded an NSF grant, “Uncovering the underlying biophysical mechanisms of directed cell migration.”
ASCB/EMBO Annual Meeting, Boston, MA: the lab presents poster P2509.
Cathy and Jim give a seminar, “Mapping the molecular landscape,” at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Thanks to our host, Shigeki Watanabe.
Jim is once again Lab Director for the Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) course at the MBL, Woods Hole, MA, a role he has held since 1995.
Jim and Cathy’s review of single-molecule techniques to study condensates is published in The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology.
The lab is awarded a grant from the Kuni Foundation to use super-resolution imaging and machine learning to “fingerprint” cancer cells.
Jim and Cathy present “Mapping the molecular landscape: connecting molecular heterogeneity to cellular outputs” at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Cathy’s JCB Spotlight, “Pumping up the volume,” on a new machine-learning approach to annotating FIB-SEM images, is published.
Cathy spends a week at HHMI Janelia Research Campus working with Brian English to learn the ins and outs of FCS.