Cell Biology UTSW

The UTSW Department of Cell Biology is officially on Twitter! We are a diverse group of scientists using multi-disciplinary approaches to understand cell organization and function in health and disease states. Check here for updates on our science and activities! #CellBiology

Join us on April 14 for a fascinating talk by Dr. Meyer, “A Self-Reinforcing Structural and Signaling Polarity is Directing Cell Migration.” Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about innovative work shaping the field!

"Curiosity is just not something you have or don't have, it's something that you can cultivate and that you have to practice that cultivation." Hear medicine laureate Craig Mello speak about curiosity and how it can be cultivated. How do you cultivate your curiosity?

In the Phillips Lab, Margaret Phillips, Ph.D., Chair of Biochemistry, and her team are working to develop therapeutic defenses against the malaria parasite. Learn more: bit.ly/4rDu8kt #UTSWMeetTheMinds

Join us tomorrow for an exciting seminar by Susan Shao, Ph.D.! See additional details in flyer.

I am so excited to co-organize the scientific program for ASBMB 2027 together with Amy Palmer! Please join us in beautiful Boston April 3-6, 2027. Interested in organizing a mini-symposia or workshop for ASBMB? Please submit your proposals here!: asbmb.org/annual-meeting…

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating women who have changed the world. Here are all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Tell us about the women who inspire you the most – and why. #InternationalWomensDay

Reminder to join us tomorrow as we host Dr. Youle's seminar in NL6.125 at noon!

The Department of Cell Biology is thrilled to host Dr. Richard Youle on March 3rd, as our next guest speaker! He’ll be presenting: "Mitochondria, Innate Immunity and Parkinson's Disease". Full details on the flyer.

VAMP7-dependent late endosomal secretion of ER and mitochondrial proteins impacts the tumor microenvironment and macrophage engagement | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

From MBoC… RhoGEF Trio strengthens endothelial barriers by promoting tensile, linear junctions via F-actin organization and Rap1-dependent tension. A potential therapeutic target in vascular disease. molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…

In @elife: Large-scale identification of plasma membrane repair proteins revealed spatiotemporal cellular responses to plasma membrane damage doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

The @UTSWMedCenter’s Department of Microbiology & PROVIDES welcome Dr. @joeyzacks, Assistant Professor, @Penn and @ChildrensPhila! Join us Tuesday, Feb 17, 2026, for a seminar on “Reprogramming of the Early-Life Gut by Clostridioides difficile.” 🦠🧫@UTSWGradSchool @RTPatUTSW

🚨 Still time to apply! The SURF & the Amgen Scholars Program at @UTSWGradSchool offer mentored research and a curriculum designed to take your career to the next level. Deadline is coming up, so be sure to visit our site to learn more abt the programs. gsbs.utsouthwestern.edu/research-oppor…

"History exemplifies how in the past ingenuity has solved the great technical challenges of earlier times." Joel Mokyr, 2025 economic sciences laureate, acknowledged the existential threats we face currently and delivered a message of optimism in his Nobel Prize banquet speech. Humanity has faced challenges before, and we must do what we always do, invent our way out of it. Mokyr was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress.”

With so many great reviews on LDs already out, do we need another? Sarah @cohenlaboratory & I were approached by @NatRevMCB to organize a review on LD heterogeneity and inter-organelle contacts...topics often in reviews, but not a focus. Fun project! nature.com/articles/s4158…

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize speech, where he accepted the award on behalf of the American civil rights movement: bit.ly/3bJCQuc #MLKDay

JCS snapshot - The endoplasmic reticulum protein FAM134B acts as a regulator of mitochondrial morphology Sebabrata Maity presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Oishee Chakrabarti @Oishee_Chak and colleagues. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

Nvj3 regulates Dga1-mediated triacylglycerol synthesis and lipid droplet formation at ER contact sites | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Join us today in NL6.125 at noon to hear from Dr. Martin Kampmann!

How to write an excellent Review article #PhD #phdlife #postdoc #Science #academia