Dr. Anneliese 💖💜💙

Given the state of the world and this website, we’re moving our socials primarily to Instagram and Bluesky, where we just made an account! Find us at queersciencesd.bsky.social 🦋 We’ll have a small presence here for a little bit, but we’ll be winding it down.

Also, I’m still here intermittently, but I’m also trying out the other place! Same handle. 🦋

Looking for a fluorescent biosensor and don’t know where to start? Want a comprehensive overview of the field? Check out our new review in @ACSChemRev online now as an ASAP article! From co-first authors @AMMGest @AyseZSahan @yanghao_zhong doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…

Thanks to everyone who came to our table at The Nat’s birthday event this past Saturday! We had a great time chatting with the community, making hydrogels, and extracting DNA from strawberries!

Protein Kinase C (PKC) enzymes are critical signaling molecules, but their regulation at emerging signaling hubs remains unclear. In a study led by postdoc Qi Su @chrisqs5 , we developed a sensitive fluorescent biosensor of PKC, ExRai-CKAR2! nature.com/articles/s4158…

QSS will be at The Nat’s Big Birthday Block Party on Saturday, October 19th! Join us there — and if you want, come volunteer for a little while! Talk about your science and help run science activities! RSVP here to volunteer: forms.gle/FKkjpfgR1WhizG…

Thank you everyone for coming to our fall kickoff event! We had some great snacks and conversation! Stay tuned for news on our next event, and hope to see y’all there!

@manorlaboratory Had this issue in my grad lab with the same or similar freezer — a defrost always fixed it! Hopefully that’s all it is for you

🧪A team of researchers, led by @HelenFarrants & @ERSchreiter, developed a new way for engineered protein biosensors & bright, fluorescent Janelia Fluor dyes to work together, creating a new biosensor for measuring physiological signals in live animals.➡️janelia.org/news/new-biose…

In one week we’ll be having a social get together and kickoff to the academic year! Come join us on September 27th from 4-7 pm for snacks, drinks, and chats! RSVP here: tr.ee/uWeIbXs2i_

Please share! Here's our latest preprint on the university-wide mentorship program @bummp_ucsd, highlighting its profound impact on biology students from all backgrounds. In 4 years, this pioneering initiative has served over 1,350 mentees!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the brief "tweetorial" @JLazzariDean made when it went up on biorxiv for more info! x.com/JLazzariDean/s…

Happy #FluorescenceFriday everyone! Our "Renaissance Dye" CRhOMe (and my co-first author paper from my PhD) is now published and online at PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Really proud of this work and everyone from the @MillerChemBio lab who contributed to this project.

@vincentngrenier And of course thank you to @BerkeleyMIC for access to the lifetime scope that made this work possible. Couldn't do it without the excellent imaging core facility with its instrumentation and expertise!

We characterized two genetic targeting systems with modified VoltageFluor dyes (synthesized by @vincentngrenier) that bind to either SpyTag or HaloTag. VoltageSpy is a little more sensitive, while VF-HaloTag gives better staining, and we demonstrate it in cultured neurons.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Out now is the latest work from my PhD with @millerchembio showcasing two chemical-genetic targeting systems for VoltageFluor dyes, enabling cell-type specific monitoring of membrane potential – read out optically with FLIM. tinyurl.com/5n8zhjdh

We are hiring! If you are excited about building microscopes, voltage imaging, or techniques that can improve biological measurements I'd love to hear from you.  Postdoc ad linked below, and we will be hiring at all levels soon. recruiting2.ultipro.com/SAL1013SIBS/Jo…