Snezhka Oliferenko
- Reposted by Snezhka Oliferenko@gautamdey.bsky.social, @fritzlaylin.bsky.social, @alebenoit.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social discuss how the field of evolutionary cell biology works to understand how cells evolve & diversify, highlighting current challenges & the future outlook. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
- Super-fun, absolutely WONDERFUL paper from Gohta Goshima www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoHappy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
- Wild and amazeballs
- We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.
- Fission yeasts lookup
- here is our first contribution of yeast in microbiomes led by Jason Tsai group[ with contributions from Alberto and Nelly: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... more to come
- Yay - and also thank you to the three reviewers! /)/) ( . .) ( づ♡
- Thanks @jcellsci.bsky.social for this opportunity to contribute to your centenary collection with our take on the state of the field - 10 years after its modern reincarnation 🧪🌍 W/ @alebenoit.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @fritzlaylin.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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If you use PomBase, please help us to demonstrate our value, and make improvements by completing our user survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/7GXJL6X - Homeostasis! Membranes! Evolution! Yay
- Ahhh CUTE!!!
- Minimal CDK continues delivering 💥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoOur paper describing enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling technology is finally out! Enhanced HyPro can identify proteins associated with small RNA compartments and even some individual transcripts, such as pathological C9orf72 transcripts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoMammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction! Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoPlease visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? 🙏
- Cute!
- Ahh so beautiful
- Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- YES
- Why would anyone want to be a scientist? Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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- Yay YAY congrats to everyone - and am super happy for my neighbour (and friend!) Jody Rosenblatt! Jody doesn’t have Bluesky, let me bug her about that
- Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 Learn more here: www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoHow do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- OMG IN ALL CAPS
- It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered! “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Omg AMAZEBALLS
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoNow published! Big congrats to first author @gginell.bsky.social We are actively working improving/updating various aspects of FINCHES; don't hesitate to reach out if you run into issues, have questions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Excited to share new work from Garrett Ginell et al where we present an approach for predicting intermolecular interaction driven by disordered regions. We focus on how chemical complementarity can contribute to and even dictate intermolecular interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoNon-profit journals are on the critical list. The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model. Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..
- Thanks @mitodynamics.bsky.social for the fun interview and for saying it like it is: “…JCS and other community journals are being crushed by the mega profit-making journals, which just seem to proliferate and spit out new journals by the day…we must all make an effort to move away from this…”
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- Good efforts. Here, I broke my tibia jumping in triumph after crossing the finishing line at a dog agility competition.
- Ahh what fun
- Auspicious morning I just knew it
- Reposted by Snezhka OliferenkoFor those interested in yeast amino acid control, we've developed fluorescent reporters to simultaneously monitor amino acid synthesis and uptake activities (GAAC, TORC1, and SPS) in single cells: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
