Aishwarya Agarwal
@Aishwarya788
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Postdoctoral researcher @Janin865 @TheCIMR @Cambridge_Uni, Ph.D. @samratlabmohali @IiserMohali Interested in Biomolecular Condensates👩💻❄ ✏over 🖊
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Joined March 2016
Happy to share our community note published in Nature Communications. In this 14-page article (34 authors from 9 countries), we discuss current practices in biomolecular phase separation and hope it will be useful to the biomolecular condensate community. https://t.co/UgwnvPpOk2
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Happy to share our latest review article, highlighting how phase separation—driven by protein–protein and protein–RNA interactions—underpins the organization of ribosome assembly within the nucleolus.
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Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) https://t.co/YXtiXQbrXv
@AlexBoRNA Chiu Fan Lee @PhysicsofLifeUK
ukcondensates.co.uk
Monthly network seminar series
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I'm thrilled to be on the Scientific Committee of "Prion 2025", an international conference to discuss prion & other protein misfolding diseases. Prion 2025 will be held from Nov 3-7 in Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Registration is now open. https://t.co/Q7OxQ6z0WR
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Very happy to see this out! A real group effort from numerous people in the Hyslop (@TheCIMR) and @KnowlesLabCamb. Also big thanks to @Michael_E_Ward_ lab @VendruscoloLab, DeriveryLab @MarciniakLab for their invaluable contributions! 🎉🎉🎉 https://t.co/VGziKZwLmz
nature.com
Nature Communications - Nixon-Abell et al. show that ANXA11 condensation on lysosomal membranes causes a coupled phase transition of the underlying lipids and mechanical stiffening of the overall...
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Take your chance and join our team in 2025 at @TheCIMR @Cambridge_Uni We have a targeted, fully funded #PhD project available in collaboration with the lab of @DellaDavid_Lab. Have a read here: https://t.co/Opbj84ZG7C
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Happy to share our latest (4th) paper in Nature Communications @NatureComms on energy migration via homoFRET to study biomolecular condensates in vitro & in situ (in cells). Congratulations to peerless @AshishJ87810510 @anuja_walimbe, et al. @IISERMohali. https://t.co/uMrOozZu5C
nature.com
Nature Communications - The properties of biomolecular condensates can be regulated by multiple factors, including intermolecular dynamics. Here, the authors use fluorescence anisotropy-based...
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In the latest paper in @JPhysChem Letters, we describe the behavior of water in condensates studied by Raman spectroscopy. Congratulations @AshishJ87810510 @AnamikaAvni (co-first & co-corresponding) @anuja_walimbe @Sandeep61011718 @Snehasis_99 @IISERMohali
https://t.co/WACcnRF3xk
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🚨🔔🚨 We have another postdoc opening in our group to study lipid trafficking in neurons. If you have a background in mechanistic cell biology and lipids (lipidomics= bonus!) and are interested in employing your skills in neurons- Apply! Link below - closes 22nd July. please RT!
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I'm super excited to share a Nature Cell Biology paper @NatureCellBio of my former PhD student, Aishwarya Agarwal @Aishwarya788, who is currently doing her postdoc with Janin Lautenschläger @Janin865 at the University of Cambridge @TheCIMR @Cambridge_Uni. https://t.co/NmVbmo5VCd
nature.com
Nature Cell Biology - Agarwal et al. show that vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 interacts with and regulates α-synuclein biomolecular condensation, affecting α-synuclein function,...
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Our first paper of the lab is out!! While both, VAMP2 and alpha-synuclein have been extensively studied, we reveal a novel, unexpected role for their interaction. #Parkinsons #Neuroscience @Cambridge_Uni
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Another chance to join us @BabrahamInst. If you're looking for a postdoc at the intersection of proteostasis & ageing, with proteomics & imaging across yeast & human iNeurons, get in touch! Oh, and a great opportunity to be a core part of @UK_proteostasis
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Happy to share our latest preprint on chaperone-mediated heterotypic phase separation of tau studied using fluorescence imaging & anisotropy, vibrational Raman, FCS & single-molecule FRET by @Sandeep61011718 @RoopsieK @AnushaSarbahi & @AshishJ87810510. https://t.co/FQsauM3CWc
biorxiv.org
Biomolecular condensates formed via the phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids are thought to regulate a myriad of cellular processes with exquisite spatiotemporal precision. However, such...
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Pre-print Alert ‼️ Here’s our work about how a modular protein domain can systematically alter designed biomolecular condensates. @LauraItzhaki @UnivCamPharm The work was led by Chris @ChrisabcdeAoM, Mateo & Julia @JuliaMaristany. Thanks to everyone involved…
Tandem-repeat proteins introduce tuneable properties to engineered biomolecular condensates https://t.co/l0k5uO4BcF
#bioRxiv
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VACANCY: The Sawarkar lab are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to their work on #RNAtherapeutics focusing on #neurodegeneration 💰 £29,605-£33,966 📆 Apply by 19th Mar Full details & how to apply ⏩ https://t.co/2lKh9zt638
#ScienceJobs #Hiring #Vacancy
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Please spread the word! @NATA_MRC_UK @PeterOliverLab1
VACANCY: The Sawarkar lab are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to their work on #RNAtherapeutics focusing on #neurodegeneration 💰 £29,605-£33,966 📆 Apply by 19th Mar Full details & how to apply ⏩ https://t.co/2lKh9zt638
#ScienceJobs #Hiring #Vacancy
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🚨 JOB CALL!!! 🚨 If you’re interested in neuronal cell biology, come and work with us to use custom imaging and omics tools to study organelle contact sites in neurons. Please RT friends‼️ Open calls for a @wellcometrust funded Post doc and RA position listed below…
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Heartiest Congratulations Janin 🥳😇
Delighted that we have another new PI. @Janin865 joined CIMR in 2018 and since then has secured a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. Janin is also a great advocate for CIMR through her public engagement work - looking forward to great things coming from her lab!
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Applications welcome to the 2024 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme!! This widening participation scheme offers paid summer internships for undergrads in their penultimate year of study. Please advertise - it’s an amazing opportunity!
🔬Are you interested in a career in research? Applications are now open for the 2024 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences programme - a paid 8-week summer internship @Cambridge_Uni and @CorpusCambridge. Find out more and apply: https://t.co/rJrk3GgxCF
#LifeSciences #PhD
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If you’re fascinated by neuroscience and Alzheimer’s disease, pay a visit to my poster at D66 #SfN2023 to know more about what really happens in early AD and how can we treat this devastating disease better and faster!😃
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