GW Gant Luxton
I’m Gant. My lab studies how the structure of cells affects disease progression. Allen Distinguished Investigator in Molecular and Celular Biology at @UCDavis.
https://luxton.faculty.ucdavis.edu
- The call for session proposals for Cell Bio 2026 is open. ASCB gives priority to organizers who haven't run a session in the last two years, and they encourage trainees to submit with an experienced co-chair. Deadline: Feb 22. @ascbiology.bsky.social www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/...
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- Reposted by GW Gant LuxtonWormTagDB: A Systematic Survey of Endogenously Tagged Proteins in C. elegans and Roadmap Towards the Tagged Proteome biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Grateful to be featured in Nature Methods discussing how @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social and I run the joint Starr-Luxton Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social together. Thanks to Vivien Marx for the thoughtful interview - she really captured what makes this model work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by GW Gant LuxtonThis year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. scim.ag/3Wt5rdi
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- 🧬 NEW Starr-Luxton Lab PREPRINT: Our 🌠grad student @XiangyiDing figured out why muscular dystrophy mutations cause such widespread cellular chaos. The answer wasn't what we expected - and it changes how we think about the disease. Thread🧵 (1/6). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is caused by mutations in nuclear proteins (lamins/emerin). But patients show problems way beyond the nucleus: misplaced organelles, disrupted cell structure, etc. Current models couldn't fully explain this. (2/6)
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- 🧬Want the full story of our paper without the science jargon? Our @ucdavis.bsky.social department broke down our "cells are crowded AND constrained" findings in plain English! Perfect explanation of why worm cells are nothing like cultured cells 🪱🌠
- 🧬BREAKING!🪱Plot twist: Cells aren't meditation pools, they're overcrowded concerts with VIP ropes everywhere! Our study reveals worm cells are insanely crowded AND compartmentalized. Ribosomes = packing peanuts, ANC-1 = the bouncer! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- 🚨Our fabulous graduate student Selin's paper on how the KASH protein UNC-83 regulates the activity of kinesin-1 to control developmental stage-specific nuclear migration is out! Another great collaboration between the Starr-Luxton and MOM labs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by GW Gant Luxton2025 Worm Show youtu.be/HXgUZzLJ-b0?...
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- Congratulations to Dr. Gümüşderelioğlum from the Starr-Luxton Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social! 🎓 Fresh off her recent PhD defense, she gave an excellent talk this morning at the Cell Biology session of #Worm2025 on UNC-83 molecular switches in nuclear migration. So proud! 👏 #NewPhD #CellBiology
- Incredible plenary presentation by Starr-Luxton Lab student @xiangyiding.bsky.social at the International Worm Meeting! Who knew C. elegans cytoplasm has the viscosity of strawberry jam? 🍓 So proud! #Worm2025 #frontierscience @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
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- Amazing to see our student @xiangyiding.bsky.social featured in Nature Methods discussing how the Marine Biological Laboratory Physiology course transformed her approach to research! So proud of her experience and growth. #Frontierscience 🪱💎
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- 🧵 1/8: Excited to share our new paper on how heterochromatin (tightly packed DNA) helps cell nuclei migrate through tight spaces in #Celegans! Published in @genetics_asa #CellBiology #NuclearMigration pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40335054/ Congrats @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social and 1st author Ellen!
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- 🧬 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! Starr-Luxton Lab grad student Selin discovered how cells control nucleus movement using KASH protein UNC-83 isoforms as molecular switches. Critical for organ development and preventing genetic disorders! 🧪🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
