Maitreyi Das

The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

💡We’re recruiting two junior postdoctoral researchers to join our growing interdisciplinary and international team working on climate resilience and sustainable crop protection! Please apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Walker Vickers @whvickers.bsky.social and Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com @bostoncollege.bsky.social discover that memory of growth promotes early Ras #GTPase activation to establish dominance of inherited cell ends in S. #pombe. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Udo was a very talented graduate student in my lab. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Amy Maddox at UNC Chapel Hill. Her family is dealing with unimaginable tragedy and loss and she needs our support. Please donate if you are able. Thank you. 🙏🏽 gofund.me/6a8dd8b3e

Come work with me! TT Professor opening at Purdue University; Quantitative Neuroscience! I’d love to recruit someone working on high throughput image data. It's a great place to be, Purdue is a top-30 US university (12th among public universities): careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistan...

Happy to share our latest work showing that fungal cell fusion not only requires local cell wall digestion but also inhibition of cell wall repair! PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell-wall repair doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Led by @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

Here is a link to our recent publications--see if these topics interest you 6/n tarheels.live/peiferlab/re...

You can learn more about our lab at our website. If you are interested, email a CV and a cover letter and we can connect to tell you more about this opportunity peifer@unc.edu 5/n tarheels.live/peiferlab/

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

NIGMS MIRA is officially here! This was one of the longest waits ever, but I'll take it. Also, we have openings for a couple of postdoc positions in cell biology/biochemistry. Details to follow soon.

Last call! ⏰ September 14 is the FINAL deadline to submit a talk or poster abstract for #CellBio2026, #ASCB Share your science with the cell biology community. 🔬 www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/...

Deadline is approaching @ascbiology.bsky.social

My son (14) is into music. But our tastes are different. I doubt he knows a single Dolly Parton song. And yet her passing bothered him. She is the person who sent him a book every single month for the first 6 years of his life. He still cherishes that. She is so widely loved. RIP Dolly.

Neurons in a developing zebrafish embryo videoed through a microscope. If you look closely at the bottom, you can see neuronal growth cones racing along pre-existing axon tracks. #CellBiology

Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join

New research from @daslabpombe.com shows that cell-cycle phase-dependent differential gene expression promotes the transition from monopolar to bipolar growth in #yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Find out more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/ZCVyAs7

Arp2/3-dependent #endocytosis ensures #Cdc42 oscillations by removing Pak1-mediated negative feedback. from Marcus Harrell, Ziyi Liu, @daslabpombe.com and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Day 10. Good bye Rome. Heading home after the most meaningful experience of life. This is a gift I will hold and cherish forever. I made some really good friends along the way. The places we visited were magical, the food exquisite but it really was the compania that made this trip such a success.

Day 9. Started the day with Mass in the basilica of st. Peter and then had the whole day free to ourselves. Enjoyed a bus tour of the city. Its toooooo hot to walk.

Day 8. We got to listen to the president of the Gregorian University, Fr. Mark Lewis, audience with the pope, saw the tomb of st. Peter in the vatican and visited the church of Gesu.

Day 7. Good bye Barcelona, hello Rome.

Day 6. In Barcelona. Visited the Basilica Santa Maria del Mar and La Sagrada Famalia. The later was the most moving experience I have had in this trip so far.

Day 5 at Manresa. Visited the cave where st. Ignatius wrote his spiritual exercises, and visited a basilica where he prayed. Also got to enjoy black rice for lunch. So so good.

At Montserrat, Spain.

Our newest review on septins as makers & breakers of membrane contacts in J Neurochem Fun writing with new PhD grad (and FASEB Septin Conference A/V Assistant Extrordinaire) TJ Holt Thanks @mcmurraylab.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social for input. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ah great! Its exam week and Canvas is down. This should be fun.

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

NSF GRFP results are out! Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.) #NSF #GRFP

In their Review, Prasanna Katti, Antentor Hinton, Jr and colleagues discuss how imaging techniques have advanced our understanding of mitochondrial biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress. rdcu.be/fbd4a

I’m excited to be on the leadership ballot for an @ascbiology.bsky.social Council position. The past and present Council members are amazing scientists, mentors, and community members, so thank you to whoever suggested that I might be a good fit! It’s honestly an honor even to be nominated. ❤️

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

More than 2,000 people gathered on Capitol Hill to worship, sing and march to bring attention to the plight of immigrants in the United States. The event brought together United Methodist bishops, clergy and laity alongside faith leaders from several traditions. www.umnews.org/en/news/unit...

Postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Are you interested in the actin cytoskeleton? I am looking for a postdoc to examine the cellular, developmental or physiological role of Arp2/3 iso-complex driven actin polymerisation. Multiple aspects available. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc2026