Very excited to share our paper in which we reveal new insights into the mechanism of migrasome formation and the role of tetraspanin 4

We have European Research Council (ERC) funded Ph.D. and postdoc positions for our exciting project ReMembrane to study how membrane tension and curvature together with tetraspanin proteins modulate membrane fusion and migrasome formation! RT appreciated🙏

Fresh off the press. Great cooperation with the Ravoo lab where we could demonstrate a new optically triggered molecular switch to change membrane area within milliseconds. Check it out at Nat. Com.🥳: rdcu.be/dfdPs. Next step: Optical switch of membrane tension!🤩

Mitochondria in a cell. What is going on? Make a guess. Test the guess. Find joy in being wrong. Guess again......... #Science #CellBiology #FindJoyInBeingWrong

Take a break from scrolling and relax with this dazzling video of the neurotransmitter glutamate being released into synapses, made possible by an indicator developed by Abhi Aggarwal, Kaspar Podgorski, & team. Learn more in Nature Methods: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Very excited and honoured to receive the award for the best presentation of #EBSA2023 summer school from Prof. David Julius

My amazing PI💪

A crawling cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (yellow), Golgi apparatus (cyan), and actin filaments (red) are shown. #CellBiology

Did you know that the intracellular mechanical properties can serve to differentiate between cell types🤔? Our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… even suggests new control mechanisms that allow cells to tune their active internal mechanics. Cool new science to be discovered🤩

Super excited to finally share our discovery of a pentameric TRP channel, published today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… #HS_AFM #CryoEM A big thanks to all my coauthors! Scheuring Lab Jingying Zhang Yining Jiang @labnavid Crina Nimigean Yuan Lab

New paper alert!💥We show that membrane tension inhibits hemifusion. Fantastic work by the twitterless Petr Shendrik, and a really fun collaboration with Gonen Golani and Ulrich Schwarz! Also with Raviv Dharan pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Meet MagLOV: an engineered protein that responds STRONGLY to magnetic fields. This is a fluorescence timelapse of MagLOV in E. coli. We're waving a (small) magnet under the plate. Can you tell where the magnet is? Want some? It's on Addgene now! addgene.org/219957/

The #IUPAB2024 hands-on training program on multicellular mechanisms at Kyoto University was really great. Grateful for this wonderful opportunity!

Check our review on membrane remodeling induced by tetraspanin proteins!

We are thrilled to share a truly exciting discovery by cryo electron tomography: the “hemifusome”- a new cellular organelle complex containing a hemifusion diaphragm! Tavakoli et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Amirrasoul Tavakoli, shiqiong hu and @Becharakachar Tweetorial below (1/8)

I was just awarded the Carrier Medal by Notre Dame University. While the citation echos my earlier prize, I was told that this award was awarded for, rather than in spite of, my free speech during COVID. This gives me great pride and hope for the future of US academia. The