Keith J. Mickolajczyk

My lab is hiring for two new postdoc positions! It's a very exciting time to join, especially if you love single-molecule approaches. Please RT! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/234803

Excited to share our first publication, now in press at Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

@Dulin_Lab Thank you!

@KJMbio Congrats Keith!

Our preprint on reconstituting DNA uptake during natural transformation is now posted! An exciting new role for reversible DNA bridging proteins. Congrats to all authors! Reversible DNA condensation drives natural transformation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Online Now: Human mitochondrial RNA polymerase structures reveal transcription start site and slippage mechanism dlvr.it/TM5rdq

Here's a new, very exciting paper from our #CDlab: cell.com/cell-reports/f… Here, Brian Analikwu, Alice Deshayes et al show that dense linear protein arrays (such as telomeres) stop loop-extruding SMC motors! Great collaboration with Marcand lab. see bsky.app/profile/ceesde…

Steven M. Block | 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science fi.edu/en/awards/laur… youtu.be/yeZJXeQo3JQ?si… via @YouTube

@ZS_biophys Looks like the clutch was adjusted. Depending on the model there is a cuff or setscrew you can adjust tension with

Dear Microscopy tweeps, the fine focusing knob on one of our microscopes is spontaneously rotating (see video below). Does anyone know how to fix this? 🙏🙏🙏

I am excited to share to news about a research paper in @ScienceAdvances that just came out based on work done in my lab, in collaboration with Sanghyuk Lee and Eric Lam at @RutgersU, to understand how sugar polymers are synthesized and assembled in plant cell walls. 1/N

All NIH summer internship programs across all institutes cancelled 😡 Cutting into our future workforce- Our future Nobel prize winners! @elonmusk How does this help American competitiveness?

My lab is hiring for two new postdoc positions! It's a very exciting time to join, especially if you love single-molecule approaches. Please RT! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/234803

rdcu.be/dY5rl The latest research article from Ti Lab. We employed cryo-EM structural analysis, single-particle fluorescence microscopy, and recombinant tubulin to reveal how tubulin acetyltransferases modify the K40 residue inside the microtubule lumen. (1/N)

I am excited to share our latest work on creating the first tunable Catch-Bond with #DNA! Our Fish-Hook architecture allowed precise control of adhesion nanomechanics, creating new possibilities for bioengineering and material science! 🧬🐟🪝🌟nature.com/articles/s4146… #biophysics

If the link isn't working for you please shoot me an email: keith.mickolajczyk@rutgers.edu

Our work on the regulation of the gamma-tubulin ring complex is now online @Dev_Cell! Huge congratulations to all co-authors involved! Open access link to the paper: cell.com/developmental-…

We are pleased to share our latest preprint on bioRxiv! Led by graduate student @VostalLauren, we use chemical proteomics to profile VCP-DUB interactions in living cells. We identify DUBs that bind the entry, exit, or both sites of VCP's central pore. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

TIL that proteins are depicted as "ribbon-like" structures, with alpha helices as spirals and beta-sheets as arrows, because of Jane Richardson. In 1981, Richardson hand-drew and -colored proteins for a research paper. Her style was later adopted by the protein science field.

@ValTutwiler @NIH @NSF @BMERutgers @RutgersResearch @RutgersNB Congrats!!

I am excited to share that the Tutwiler lab has recently received several grants! Thank you to the @NIH and @NSF for their support! @BMERutgers @RutgersResearch @RutgersNB #fibrin #blood #science

30 Essays to Make You Love Biology Day 4. "Life at low Reynolds number," by E.M. Purcell. This essay taught me about the weirdness of life at the microscale, where "inertia plays no role whatsoever." "We know that F = ma, but [microbes] could scarcely care less."

@RutterLab @espn @molecularpepsi @KevinGHicks @RutgersU @RWJMS Love the hat! We're excited for you to join us, Ahmad!

🚨📣Breaking: Sources tell @espn that @RutterLab postdocs Ahmad Cluntun (@molecularpepsi) and Kevin Hicks (@KevinGHicks) have agreed on deals to start their own independent labs. Cluntun is joining @RutgersU @RWJMS's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as an Assistant Professor. (@Beatsbylactate) Meanwhile, Hicks is joining the @UUtah's Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology (@uofunuip) also as an Assistant Professor. 🚨Both labs are hiring at all levels! Exciting times ahead for the Utes and the Scarlet Knights! 🔥🎈🥳🎉 #Utes #Rutgers #NewBeginnings @HHMINEWS @UofUBiochem @wojespn