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@AntoniKourtidis @vvachhar @DejongMatt Thanks!

This result suggests the presence of novel forms of mechanosensing at intercellular adhesion complexes, and more broadly that mechanically regulated protein-protein interactions may be more widely distributed than previously anticipated. (2/2)

New paper! @clhueschen presents a mathematical model of flocking on arbitrary 2D surfaces. In addition to your favorite creature, the model can be applied to a broad range of problems in active matter physics, e.g. cytoskeletal flows in living cells.

RT @Leeya_Engel: We micropatterned lymphocytes on EM grids to facilitate cryo-FIB & cryo-ET, revealing networks of filaments on the Jurkat…

@fordycelab Congratulations Polly!!! Great though not unexpected news.

New preprint: @bri_zhong shows that pN forces can potentially activate latrophilin 3, an adhesion GPCR that regulates synaptic plasticity. A first step for the lab in understanding this fascinating class of signaling proteins. Congrats Brian!

@MJ_Humphries @BaumBuzz Thanks! That is wild, and I'd missed it.

RT @AnneStraube: #MotorsInQuarantine will feature @amywang01 from @Dunn_Lab and @MarkDodding. Join us tomorrow to discuss how actin links t…

New paper! With the @HTSohLab, we show how single-molecule imaging can be used to to suppress background signal in sandwich-type immunoassays. Congrats and thanks to @AmaniHariri20, @SharonNewman0, and @steventan17 for a great project and collaboration.

Just out: MBoC special issue on mechanobiology! Many thanks to @MattWelchLab and co-editors Dennis Discher, Valerie Weaver, @TheYapLab, and @murrell_lab for involving me in this project.

New paper! @bri_zhong describes a new strategy for visualizing mechanical forces across proteins in cells. We hope this will be a useful tool for everyone interested in mechanobiology and are excited to build upon this work in the future.

RT @Henry_de_belly: Excited to share that @cavankatenaugh (@OWeinerLab ), Jennifer Hill (@DavidGDrubin ) and I are organizing the 2022 e…

Thanks to some good funding news, the lab is looking for postdocs for projects with @LabSkiniotis and Bill Weis (Stanford Struct. Bio.). We'll be exploring ideas I'm quite excited about at the interface of biophysics, cell, and structural biology. Please email for more details!

@peiferlabunc @amywang01 Thanks Mark! @ElginKorkmazhan and @vvachhar will be delighted to hear this.

@jbwallingford Thanks very much! As it happens, was just reading your lab's recent paper on ARVCF just yesterday.

The mathematical tools Cayla and @ElginKorkmazhan developed should be applicable to any situation where noisy single-molecule data are being fit to an underlying statistical distribution. Congrats, Cayla and Elgin! (2/2)