We are thrilled to introduce FABCON, a “Fluorogen-Activated Bimolecular complementation at CONtact sites” tool kit for interrogating lipid droplet-organelle interaction and beyond in living cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Online Now: Hexokinase 1 forms rings that regulate mitochondrial fission during energy stress dlvr.it/T9K69n

I wrote about the latest work from Tong Iris Wang's lab in JCellBiol! It reveals the role of actomyosin-driven “beading” along axons in resisting flow-induced mechanical stress. Their full article here: doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20… and my spotlight here (OA): doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20…

We got the July cover of Nature Neuroscience! What a dream, a career highlight for sure. Especially because I got to create it with the coolest friends who took my half-baked idea and made it art. Original paper here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

We proudly announce our latest pre-print CryoSamba, a self-supervised deep denoising algorithm for cryoET: it substantially improves contrast and SNR of the tomograms by amplifying coherent signals while reducing high-frequency noise.

This is stunning work from NedergaardLab. Hard to keep up with the incredible output from Maiken Nedergaard. I am personally excited to continue to research #hypoxia. Important topic! Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Elegant😍😍😍If you have ribosome sitting on top of mitochondria, the mito inner and outer membrane distance will get closer!

The news today are about a woman leader, so I am highlighting one of ours for Today’s Selfie with Awesome St. Jude St. Jude Research People, Jennifer Parris, Director of Research Operations for our Developmental Neurobiology. She runs her dept. smoothly and is always happy to help.

Happy to share our new paper in Nature Chemical Biology! Photoproximity labeling of endogenous receptors in the live mouse brain in minutes nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to Gabriel Talaia and Amanda Bentley-DeSousa! I am happy to share our new study that identifies an amino acid regulated lysosomal pool of TBK1 that phosphorylates Rab7 and supports mTORC1 activation. doi.org/10.1038/s44318…

A new manuscript alert! Siyi's thesis work in the Gillespie lab is now posted! We met at Neurobiology Course in 2021 and continued our collaboration!! Ultrastructure of immature synaptic inputs in the lateral superior olive of the rodent brainstem biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

One of our 5,097 EM images was selected for the cover art of The EMBO Journal!! The article is also highlighted! Great work, everyone! watanabe lab 🔬 lab, Phill Robinson lab, Joel Mackay lab, Taekjip Ha lab.

Exciting news – we’re hiring! Join our vibrant community, explore new frontiers in biochemistry, and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders. For more information and application link see medschool.umich.edu/sites/default/… University of Michigan, @UMichMedicine, #UMichBiolChem

Thank you watanabe lab 🔬 and Sfn Society for Neuroscience (SfN) !!