

Arshad Desai
131 posts




I can finally start speaking my mind 😂

Excited to share our paper just out @CellCellPress! We found budding epithelial morphogenesis is driven by a combination of strong cell-matrix and weak cell-cell adhesions. This is a 50-day free access link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1dF84L7PXe~do



Congratulations to Ted Salmon and Kerry Bloom @UNC_Biology for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! Overdue indeed for Ted, but I am extremely happy that it happened!!



After a day of sleuthing via Salmon Lab alumni for the reference for this image, I suspect others might like it, too. JCB vol 86 355-365, 1980, Salmon and Segall (labels not original).







Our paper on viral protease activation of NLRP1, and the evolutionary dynamics around it, is now published in @eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/60609. Congratulations @BriBerryTea, Chris, Andy, Rimjhim and @psmitchej! Previous thread on paper is here: twitter.com/Daugherty_Lab/…


Thank you Atsushi Miyawaki for a wonderful tribute to Roger Tsien and explaining the history of how GFP became a non-invasive tool to understand signaling, including in the brain of live animals. Watch seminar here 👇 @UCSDBMS