Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
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Joined November 2019
A research team with Professor Krishna Shrinivas developed a machine learning framework to design flexible proteins that don’t fold into a fixed shape. The approach could enable new therapies and synthetic biology breakthroughs. https://t.co/OUiEeBFeMM
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A team co-led by Northwestern cell biologist (@NU_CDB) Wilton Snead, PhD (@wilton_snead), discovered a new mechanism driving paraspeckle formation — challenging models of nuclear condensates and offering insight for future #cancer therapies, per @PNASNews.
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A team with Professor Krishna Shrinivas discovered how a landmark found in the nucleus of cells in many organ systems forms through a different mechanism than the well-established view, a revelation...
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Happy to share our recent paper on the role of AK7 on centriole number and the consequence of misregulation that leads to PCD.
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Happy to share our work in @JCellBiol! 🎉 We reveal that #Vimentin is highly dynamic, not a rigid bundle. Filaments move independently & are loosely held. This discovery opens the door to exploring crosstalk with other cytoskeletal components! https://t.co/pCq0BP1G8I
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Exciting new findings from our lab! ⏳🐟 In our latest @NatureComms paper, we show that DeltaD—not just DeltaC—drives Notch signaling in zebrafish, reshaping our understanding of segmentation clock dynamics! 🔬✨ Paper:
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📣Join us this Tuesday @ 9AM the Baldwin Auditorium for a Trainee Seminar, presented by @ChandelAngad , Predoctoral Fellow in the @OzbudakLab 🧬📚
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Mark your calendars! 📝 We're hosting Dr. Aryeh Warmflash for a seminar on "Studying self-organization in mammalian development with pluripotent stem cells," next Weds, Jan 15 @ 12noon at the Baldwin Auditorium
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Dear imaging community! @CAM_NUChicago @NUFeinbergMed is hiring an assistant core scientist in electron microscopy. Chicago is great & our team and leader are fantastic! Please DM us if you are interested! @GlobalBioImage @BioimagingNA @LatamBioimaging
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📣Join us this Tuesday @ 9AM the Baldwin Auditorium for the first @NU_CDB Trainee Seminar of 2025, presented by @EmanuelleGrody, Predoctoral Fellow in the @yogeshgoyallab
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New tenure-track faculty position is open in Cell & Developmental Biology. #sciencecareers #cellbio #devbio #quantbio #sciencetwitter #facultyjobs Click here to learn more: https://t.co/JF05YB3A3e
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If you're at #ASCB2024 don't miss the round table discussion led by 🔬Core Directors @MichelleItano and @ArvanitisDina on 'pulling back the curtain on a career in core facilities' @NUFeinbergMed @NU_CDB @UNC_CBP @BioimagingNA @GlobalBioImage They're both amazing! Don't miss it!
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So excited to see this out in bioRxiv for the community. It was a tour-de-force, interdisciplinary, extremely fun and surprising!!!! A must read!!!!
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Looking forward to this talk where @NorthwesternU @NUFeinbergMed @NU_CDB Core Directors Dina Arvanitis (CAM) and Xinkun Wang (Sequencing) will tell us about the fantastic work they are doing for our local and international community!
Join us for the final 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 of 2024! Philip Hockberger, Constadina Arvanitis, and Xinkun Wang will explore collaborations between core facilities & industry, showing how these partnerships drive innovation & growth.
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📣Thrilled to announce the winner of the Graphic Design Contest: Dr. Wen Lu, Research Assistant Professor. Her work titled "The Multi-Universe of CDB Research" will be featured in future digital and print media representing our department.🤩💫🧬
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🌟 New Paper Alert! 🚨 How does a developing embryo know where to place somite boundaries? 🦴🐟 Our latest study https://t.co/3o3DLKI4do in @Dev_Cell reveals a missing piece of the puzzle involving ERK oscillations and the segmentation clock ( https://t.co/RHVJiRP4at) (1/)
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Dr. Stuart Stock was the first user running an experiment at Beamline 1-ID of the Advanced Photon Source (APS - @advancedphoton ) after APS's upgrade.
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We are excited to be hosting Dr. Smita Krishnaswamy, Professor at @yale in genetics and computer science, this November 13th for a special seminar on “Inferring and Characterizing Cellular and Neural Dynamics with Geometric and Topological Deep Learning”.
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I am very excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at Northwestern (@NU_CDB) in 2025!
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The paper by Sun Kin in the lab in collaboration with Steve Rogers (UNC) https://t.co/Kjm8oPwQHO has been accepted for publication in MBoC. Congratulations, Sun!
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Microtubule (MT) regulation is essential for oocyte development. In Drosophila , MT stability, polarity, abundance, and orientation undergo dynamic changes across developmental stages. In our effort...
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📢Voting in the #JCSImagingSI cover competition is open. We'll be highlighting all the shortlisted images this week! Vote number 9 for ‘Intricate Interactions: The Dance of Microtubules and Actin’ from Wen Lu (@volodya_gelfand lab). https://t.co/5cXyLINBJw
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