Alex Ritter, PhD
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Alex Ritter, PhD
@RitterLab
Cell biologist/immunologist/glassblower studying how killer T cells destroy cancer. See linked Instagram for glass art and cell content! 🔬🦠










📣Deadline extension for #VIZBI 2023📣 This is your opportunity to join a meeting full of science, creativity and art. It is a great match if you want to showcase your work or if you want to be amazed by the talks and expositions🖼️🧬 Register today👇 vizbi.org/2023


👽 Life is weird! Thanks @sci_steph and @DrugDiscovNews for sharing my serendipitous story in science. drugdiscoverynews.com/glass-t-cells-…

DNA is stored in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Presence of DNA in the cytoplasm is a tell-tale sign of Viral infection cGAS 🔵 is a signalling enzyme that gets activated by DNA in the cytoplasm. It reacts with ATP + GTP to form a messenger molecule: cGAMP #animation #b3d


The Seldin Lab @EmoryMedicine, Dept of Cell Biology is seeking creative postdocs to pursue exciting studies on stem cell dynamics during epithelial development and cancer. Please explore our website seldinlab.com and contact us to join our growing team!


Our first preprint is out! Led by Rohith Rajasekaran (@born2raisecell): “A programmable reaction-diffusion system for spatiotemporal cell signaling circuit design” A visually stunning toolkit to build cellular radios that probe or control cell biology. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…











