Zheng Shi
Assistant Professor at Rutgers Chemistry and Chemical Biology, studies cell membranes and biomolecular condensates.
sites.rutgers.edu/shi-lab/
- Reposted by Zheng ShiWhat's the relation between voltage and calcium in dendrites? Xiang Wu studied this in CA2 hippocampal pyramidal cells in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- People in the lab made me this ☺️
- Reposted by Zheng ShiHappy 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! 🧪
- Reposted by Zheng ShiWhat is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Zheng ShiIf you're at #cellbio2025, @atmolines.bsky.social Hernan Garcia and I invite you to attend our Minisymposium “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” for incredible talks on epigenetic mechanical memory, viscoelasticity, cortical flows, morphogenesis, tissue wetting, size scaling, et al!
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- In the spirit of Halloween, let me share with you a 'scary' piece of statistics. Many of you may have seen this image, which demonstrates the extreme scarcity of fresh water on Earth. That small droplet over Atlanta is our ENTIRE storage of fresh water. But, most of those are hard to get...
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- Cluster nanoarchitecture and structural diversity of PIEZO1 at rest and during activation in intact cells | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Apparently, these are the main (research) topics we are known for within my university :) Fun fact: if you google "Rutgers tension", we are among the top hits - only behind the 2023 Rutgers University strike...
- I never truly appreciated the name Invitrogen until I came across a company called 'Invivogen'.
- Mechanical Regulation And Activity of Nuclear Condensates: Biophysical Journal www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...
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- Can’t believe Germany 🇩🇪 has an entire day off so that people can listen to the new Taylor Swift album 🎧🎶 😂 Any lab here open to hosting a visiting scientist next year? For someone who is interested in advanced microscopy and cellular mechanics (and can still do experiments 🙋)?
- Look what I found in Berlin!
- Something magical happened at #BiomembraneDays2025 today! The speaker (Tanmoy Ghosh) showed two papers in his slide, and it just happened that the authors of the two papers were sitting right next to each other among hundreds of people listening 😁. #BiomembraneDays25
- Having a blast at #BiomembraneDays2025! Here is a fun little note: scientists profile pictures should always go with clearly labelled names… Well, unless it’s Albert Einstein.
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- Vielen Dank an die tollen Organisatoren😉
- 🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/ @ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social
- Looking forward to the Biomembrane Days next week! I’m supposed to learn basic German but I ran into @markusdeserno.bsky.social at the airport. Now I’m wasting time on social media 😂 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/
- Reposted by Zheng ShiI am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10
- The last sentence summarizes my feeling to the question of "who exactly is a real chemist"... "Do you want to spend more time feeling like real inside members of a pure and defined club, or do you want to discover things?" Who Exactly is a "Real Chemist"? | Science www.science.org/content/blog...
- Reposted by Zheng ShiDid you know that all nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are not the same? @luskinglab.bsky.social propose a new hypothesis for how nuclear mechanics may impact the compositional plasticity of NPCs with implications for tissue-specific diseases caused by NPC dysfunction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Zheng ShiIn small enclosed structures (like vesicles), the flickering of individual ion channels can have substantial effects on membrane voltage and internal ion concentrations. Mean-field conductance-based models break down. We studied what happens: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- How often do you buy a book, then the author makes a series of free videos to help you read/understand the book?! Check out @longformmath.bsky.social 's Youtube videos (youtu.be/2QcJB-Yl7h8?...), On a related note, guess how many times the red and black lines cross with each other😉
- Gave my departmental ‘tenure talk’ today, and here is the ‘highlight’ 🤗
- Huan and I wrote a review on the rheology and interfacial properties of biomolecular condensates: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Hope it will be useful when you navigate through the large amount of relevant literature! Some of our key points are illustrated in the graphs below.
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- Now published! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glad to contribute to this new study from Ben Schuster's lab! Check out how phosphorylation changes the membrane interaction of SARS-CoV-2 N protein condensates:
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- A mechano-resistance mechanism in skin adapts to terrestrial locomotion: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reminds me of this recent article www.science.org/content/arti...
- Interfacial effects determine nonequilibrium phase behaviors in chemically driven fluids www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Many thanks to Ishan and Vishva for writing this nice "News and Views" article on our collaboration with Jie Xu's group (@jie-xu.bsky.social )!
