Assistant Prof @UNC, @UNC_BCBP, #cryoEM, membrane trafficking, views my own

Joined September 2016
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We are struggling to identify these class averages in a #cryoEM dataset. Does anyone recognize this protein complex from E. coli? Looks to be C2. Doesn't look like the usual culprits (ArnA, GroEL, Catalase, etc.). Sadly preferred orientation so can't get a useful map
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I was lucky to see this work over the past year. Awesome work by @AbidKhanEpigen , @DrBrianStrahl, and colleagues only SETD2 and it's novel interaction with nuclear lamin. Very intriguing and many cool questions left to answer!
🚨 Thrilled to share my latest work from the @DrBrianStrahl labβ€”out now in @NatureCellBio! We reveal the first non-catalytic role of the histone methyltransferase SETD2, showing it moonlights in mitosis to preserve nuclear and genome integrity.
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Reprocessing some old #cryoEM data from my time in @aleschziner lab. Gonna use this to prove to my students that I used to be awesome in the lab! 2.7 Γ… from 550 micros, hand-selected in Leginon and collected in super-res (gasp!) on a Talos with a K2. Ancient by today's standards
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Also, data preservation for the win! Still have these frames 7 years later even though we never published this data
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Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdocs to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to juan.bonifacino@nih.gov. Please repost!
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A great opportunity to join a legendary lab.
Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdocs to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to juan.bonifacino@nih.gov. Please repost!
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Congrats to Dillon Sloan, UNC SOM Biochemistry and Biophysics grad student in the Rick Baker lab, for earning an NIH Fellowship (F31) from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
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I’ll be there!
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An update on those crystals! #TGIF
That feeling when your post-bac, only a few months on the job, sends you crystal hits 🦾. Going back to my roots with #crystallography, sorry #cryoEM
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Our work led by @berkeleyMCB graduate student @trincookis is now published in @NatureSMB . Shout out to coauthors Alexandria Lydecker, Paul Sauer, and @vignesh_k757 for their contributions and thank you to the suggestions from the reviewers that led to the final manuscript!
Check out our latest work on PRC2 and its inhibition by active transcription histone posttranslational modifications led by @trincookis and work from twitterless undergraduate Alexandria Lydecker, @paulvictorsauer, and @vignesh_k757 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Excited to share our new preprint and 1800 tomograms with the community! πŸŽ‰ This is our first step towards building a visual proteomics dataset for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. I hope the community will be able to make good use of this data!πŸ”¬#CryoET biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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That feeling when your post-bac, only a few months on the job, sends you crystal hits 🦾. Going back to my roots with #crystallography, sorry #cryoEM
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RT @drstarbird: A great job sharing our ongoing projects in the @StarbirdLab. Proud of our team!
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