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Elizabeth Chen @EChenLab

UTSW | Cell-Cell Fusion | Myoblast Fusion | Skeletal Muscle Development & Regeneration | Actin Cytoskeleton | Mechanobiology | Drosophila | Zebrafish | Mouse

Joined May 2018
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Elizabeth Chen retweeted
American Society for Cell Biology@ASCBiology
16 Dec 2025
Support the future of scientific discovery this Giving Season! Your gift helps power meetings, publications, and outreach that lift up the next generation of cell biologists. Give here: ascb.org/donate/
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Elizabeth Chen retweeted
Dr. Arnaldo Díaz@ADiaz_PhD
7 Dec 2025
‼️@UTSWGradSchool will be at @ASCBiology #CellBio2025! ✅ Stop by the @UTSWMedCenter booth (Booth #1042) to meet our team, explore opportunities from summer programs to postdoc positions, and share your interests and goals. @CellUtsw @UTSWPostdocs @UTSWmstp @RTPatUTSW 🧫🔬🧪🧬
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Elizabeth Chen retweeted
HHMI
@hhmi_science
28 Nov 2025
A perfect model for coming together this season: mouse skeletal muscles undergoing fusion, obviously. In this mesmerizing confocal microscopy video, nuclei are labeled in green & cell bodies are labeled in red. Credit: Yue Lu, Elizabeth Chen Lab, @UTSWMedCenter
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"Actin Duet for Fusion" – our second video of muscle cell fusion is hosted on HHMI's Beautiful Biology! Thanks BB and congratulations to @YueluUTSW! hhmi.org/beautifulbiology/me…
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What a great honor to serve! I look forward to working with friends and colleagues in ASCB to support our community and advocate for cell biology.
American Society for Cell Biology@ASCBiology
5 May 2025
Congratulations to Elizabeth Chen of the @UTSWMedCenter who has been elected by ASCB members to serve as President of #ASCB in 2027. She will first serve as President-Elect on the ASCB Executive Committee beginning in 2026. ascb.org/society-news/elizab… #CellBiology
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Our live imaging video of muscle cell fusion is hosted on HHMI's Beautiful Biology! Thanks BB for selecting our video and congratulations to @YueluUTSW! hhmi.org/beautifulbiology/me…
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Thanks to UT Southwestern CenterTimes Plus for featuring our work on how cells generate invasive protrusions to facilitate their fusion: utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/st… @NatureCellBio

Researchers unlock key step in cell fusion process: Center Times Plus, UT Southwestern

Researchers unlock key step in cell fusion process, ultimately aiding the development of new therapies for various diseases.

utsouthwestern.edu
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Elizabeth Chen retweeted
Nature Cell Biology@NatureCellBio
14 Nov 2024
💫NEW: @EChenLab & co reveal spatiotemporal coordination between 2 nucleation-promoting factors, WAVE & N-WASP, and 2 actin-bundling proteins, dynamin & WIP, in generating invasive protrusions at the #myoblast fusogenic synapse. 👉🏼rdcu.be/d0cTg nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Congratulations to all prize winners and a special shout-out to our own Yue Lu for his poster award! #cshlfusion
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What an exciting and fun Cell & Membrane Fusion meeting that was! Huge thanks to @cshlmeetings for giving our community a beautiful new home. It was a great pleasure co-organizing it with @PauliGroup and Mark Rose. Look forward to coming back again @CSHL in two years! #cshlfusion
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CSHL Meetings@cshlmeetings
6 Nov 2024
Cell & Membrane Fusion starts TONIGHT ☄️ use #cshlfusion this week for your posts! A special thank you to our organizers!
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Curious about how cells generate mechanically stiff invasive protrusions from branched actin filaments? Check out our paper published today in @NatureCellBio! Congratulations to Yue Lu and all co-authors for a beautiful piece of work! nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Elizabeth Chen retweeted
Joshua Mendell@Mendell_lab
4 Oct 2024
The Dept of Molecular Biology at UTSW is recruiting new faculty! This is an amazing opportunity to join a vibrant research community with exceptional resources. Please apply using this link by Dec 7. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/…

Tenure - track Faculty at the level of Assistant Professor - Department of Molecular Biology -...

Seeking applicants for tenure track faculty positions at the level of Assistant Professor.

jobs.sciencecareers.org
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Thank you Mayu and Rindy for your kind invitation! A day of exciting science at a fabulous location – I had a great time!
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The abstract deadline for the CSHL meeting on Cell & Membrane Fusion has been extended to August 30! Please follow this link for either in-person or virtual registration: meetings.cshl.edu/meetingsre… We would love to see you @CSHL this November!

Cell & Membrane Fusion

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

meetings.cshl.edu
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Many thanks to @GeisbrechtE_Lab and @BiPengpeng for a nice Dispatch in @CurrentBiology featuring our recent paper on how steroid hormone signaling regulates myoblast fusion: cell.com/current-biology/ful…

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Excited to share our paper "Inter-organ steroid hormone signaling promotes myoblast fusion via direct transcriptional regulation of a single key effector gene". Congratulations to Zhi-Rong Ruan and all co-authors for a beautiful and comprehensive study! authors.elsevier.com/a/1insd…
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Congratulations Drs. Walji and Gokhale! It's been a great pleasure working with you!
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Amrita successfully passed her PhD thesis defense! Congratulations, Dr. Gokhale!!!
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Congratulations Danqing! Great job!!
UTSW_CMB@CmbUtsw
20 Mar 2023
Congrats to Danqing Tong who successfully passed her qualifying exam today!!
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