Molecular Motors - Microtubule Dynamics - Single Molecule Microscopy

Joined August 2019
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So let me see if I understand Biorender copyrights. You are required to acknowledge in the legend, every figure you publish or show in a talk that used Biorender? A parallel would be to acknowledge Microsoft Word in every paper you publish. Is this fixed? Ignore? Boycott?
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Yo, once again people: for preprints and submitted manuscripts, PLEASE embed the figures and their legends in the text. Life is hard enough already, can't we just do this one thing to make it easier?
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Hey cytoskeletal folks, the BMB department at Penn State has an open faculty search on. Come do excellent interdisciplinary science in beautiful Happy Valley with us!
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A protein condensate that carries specific mRNAs! The kinesin-3 KIF1C undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation for accumulation of specific transcripts at the cell periphery embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Cool alert! MAKING CHEESE IN A FLOW CELL. Single-molecule imaging of protease digesting a casein micelle. Transient protease binding events observed while casein signal goes down over time. Also evidence for long-lived processive proteolytic episodes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congrats and well deserved!
30 May 2024
I am delighted to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! I would like to thank everyone (lab members, students, colleagues, mentors, family, friends) who helped make this happen. I’m grateful to be able to keep doing science for years to come!
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Thanks for sharing our article about @CAndersonLab and his team's work!
Cellulose makes plant stems strong; it also makes them difficult to break down for biofuels. @penn_state researchers discovered some of the molecular processes that make breaking it down so hard. It can help us find ways to overcome these roadblocks: psu.edu/news/eberly-college-…
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Good read. The difference between 'grin and bear it' endurance and real resilience is feeling the feelings: Are we more resilient than we realise? - My Site sciencewithoutanguish.com/1/…

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And another place you see this is when the new grad student is just 'going to finish up some loose ends from the just graduated student's project to get an easy paper out'. Appealing for the PI to finish the line of research, but often a boring result.
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In my experience, scientists say "safe" thinking it means "easy", when in reality it ends up just meaning "boring". And usually boring projects are just as hard as interesting ones. So avoid "safe" projects, generally speaking.
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Agreed. One place you see this is a first year grad student starting on an 'easy project to get going', which morphs of course into a long project that in some cases becomes very interesting and many others, not so much.
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In my experience, scientists say "safe" thinking it means "easy", when in reality it ends up just meaning "boring". And usually boring projects are just as hard as interesting ones. So avoid "safe" projects, generally speaking.
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Here's some nice biophysics research toward sustainability @BiophysicalSoc
Why are cellulases so slow? Check out this news article about our work to reveal the molecular mechanisms that inhibit the deconstruction of plant biomass for bioenergy and biomaterial production: psu.edu/news/eberly-college-…. Thanks to @scissorsfiend for excellent science writing!
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Dear Professor You are invited to submit original research article as per your research expertise. Article can be submitted if: The articles are within the scope of the journal. The article is original. Plagiarism of the article is less than 15%, including references. WHAT???
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Simple request to the community: Before uploading your BiorXiv paper, just do the simple step of embedding the figures in the text rather than keeping them at the end like some out-of-date journals still require. Be kind.
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Good start here: Successful scientists take into account a combination of biological importance, timeliness, feasibility, available resources, scientific environment, competition, plausi- bility, and fit to a trainee’s skills, capabilities, and ambitions.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=…

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The Mickolajczyk Lab @RWJMSResearch is hiring! We are looking for both a postdoc and a research specialist to join us in using single-molecule techniques to study ATPase motor proteins in ribosome biogenesis. Please RT and share! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/22… jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/22…
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Hey BPS motility folks, come check out the Hancock Lab posters on this fine Super Bowl Sunday:
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WTF!! The default Word and Powerpoint fonts are now different???
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what do the kids say these days....? Oh yeah: WORD!
I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!
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