Good News Everyone - in a few weeks, I'll start as an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology @HofstraU! Just made it to Long Island with the yeast that are going to start this great research program. Beyond grateful to the mentors and opportunities that got me to this point.

🚨NEW SEARCH: Tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Computational Biology 💻🧬 We continue to expand! Be part of a Cluster Hire in Big Data and Computational Research -- Four positions across the Natural Sciences @HofstraUHCLAS https://t.co/R0tTmjWrzs

📢Consider applying to join our amazing department! They have been so unbelievably supportive in my first year here 🎊

Please help spread the word and share with your students!

Apply here: https://t.co/J0zYeX9ULB This is a great position for a recent grad hoping to gain more research experience before applying to grad school.  Past technicians have been very successful in their applications to PhD, MD, and PharmD programs following this postbac.

Attention soon-to-be and recent graduates: The Brennwald and Baker labs are UNC Chapel Hill are hiring a joint research technician! This is a unique opportunity to gain skills in molecular biology, genetics, and structural biology while working in two very supportive labs 🎉🔬

One of our cool advanced lab courses @HofstraBiology!

Curious about the latest in STEM careers and research? Join us for scientific lightning talks from future scientists and career panels featuring STEM scientists from @CDCgov, @LillyPad, @jacksonlab, @genentech, @CSHL, @Regeneron and @ArmyPHCC.

Bonus tweet: the gel worked and the digest looked great! 🏆

We ran our first official DNA gel in the beautiful shared space of the Miller Lab and @dafang07 Lab. Many many thanks to @taraenders for helping my student and I with the 20 things I forgot I needed to run a gel. Time to order more things! Glow-up lab reno pics coming soon!

We're looking for young scientists interested in using evidence-based approaches to pedagogy to join our team as Teaching Postdoctoral Scholars! Please share! https://t.co/UoiVDd86Ec

Happy Reading! And thank you to @JCellBiol for the excellent review process. The reviewers of our manuscript were kind, enthusiastic, and made our paper stronger. 🎉🧬🔬

This was such a fun project to work on, and a fantastic team of scientists to do it with (including my first undergraduate mentee to be an author on a paper with me!). Genetic screens are my jam, and I relish any opportunity to show all of the great discoveries they can lead to.

What's more! Again, with the skills of @therickybaker, we were able to identify possible structural similarities between our new activation mechanism and how Ral GTPases activate the exocyst in animal cells.

What does this mean? The exocyst is not a simple machine (duh!) that simply switches between "on/off" or "open/closed". Rather that there are multiple ways to activate it - and each results in discrete, insulated outcomes.

This second activation mechanism which is mediated by an interaction between the tomosyn homolog Sro7 and the exocyst subunit Exo84 is distinct from Cdc42/Rho activation of the exocyst.

Super excited to share that our newest paper is out @JCellBiol ! https://t.co/HHZ2PfBK3b - In this multidisciplinary effort with the Brennwald lab and @therickybaker we identify a new allosteric activation mechanism for the exocyst! A short 🧵 on some of the highlights:

Graduated 2018, @HofstraBiology Assistant Professor #UNC_Micro_Imm_Alum 🧬🔬📓

Congratulations to the 25 Biology students who presented their final research posters today at Undergraduate Research Day! Biology students presented a total of 16 posters, more than any other department @HofstraU. Congratulations to you all!

Happy Halloween! 🎃🧬 plenty of “stranger things” going on in our fantastic department!

Great work, Luciana and team!