Zheng SHI (师征)
@ZS_biophys
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Interested in cell membranes, biomolecular condensates, mechanics, neuroscience. He/him. Views are my own.
New Jersey
Joined March 2018
We are looking for a postdoc to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. Please help spread the news 🙏 https://t.co/tybgrQAWDt
sites.rutgers.edu
The Shi lab at Rutgers-New Brunswick is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. To see more information and apply, please go...
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That’s crazy, how about its 5 sister journals?! (NSC, SCN, SNC, CSN, CNS)😂
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Apparently, these are the main (research) topics we are known for within my university :) Fun fact: if you google "Rutgers tension", we are among the top hits - only behind the 2023 Rutgers University strike...
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That was an amazing lecture, thanks for stopping by @ibudin !
Professor Itay Budin from UCSD will speak as part of the Fall 2025 Colloquium Series on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. in the CCB Auditorium, room 1303.
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Check out a really cool paper from Jia Fei’s lab (we helped with a small amount)!
Phase-separated NDF−FACT condensates facilitate transcription elongation on chromatin:
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Many thanks to the amazing organizers!
🎉Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 🔗 https://t.co/hfuRVamPCc
@EwersLab T.Weikl @MpiciPotsdam
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New #lipidtime paper out today about a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets https://t.co/tXlbBAK9ur
nature.com
Nature Chemical Biology - An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as...
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The 2nd law of thermodynamics, derived by 19th century physicists studying gas-filled flasks, has just been confirmed to hold in the extreme environment of multi-solar mass black hole mergers in a galaxy over 1 billion light-years away Physics is an incredible science!
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totally fair if you have 'd' in italic...
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How often do you buy a book, then the author makes a series of free videos to help you read/understand the book?! Check out @LongFormMath's Youtube videos ( https://t.co/WIQw0IRDhb), On a related note, guess how many times the red and black lines cross with each other😉
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PICALM Alzheimer’s risk allele causes aberrant lipid droplets in microglia:
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Nature - A PICALM allele associated with increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease has a microglial-specific role in lipid droplet accumulation.
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Gave my departmental ‘tenure talk’ today, and here is the ‘highlight’ 🤗
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Huan and I wrote a review on the rheology and interfacial properties of biomolecular condensates: https://t.co/l6XFF2WKdt Hope it will be useful when you navigate through the large amount of relevant literature! Some of our key points are illustrated in the graphs below.
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Now published! https://t.co/ni8UFqwmkX
pubs.acs.org
Biomolecular condensates are protein-dense regions in cells that often arise from liquid–liquid phase separation. Interfacial tension is a key determinant of biomolecular condensate behavior,...
Our recent collaboration with Ben Schuster's lab to characterize "protein surfactants"!
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Glad to contribute to this new study from Ben Schuster's lab! Check out how phosphorylation changes the membrane interaction of SARS-CoV-2 N protein condensates: https://t.co/SSZUBWo9FH
nature.com
Nature Communications - The SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid (N) protein serves multiple roles in the viral lifecycle. Phosphorylation toggles N between these roles by altering N’s conformation, its...
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Check out this awesome story about the work of an awesome (former) @Princeton undergrad in our lab @hollycheng_ (now GS @MIT w/ @zhangf) who worked closely w @ZS_biophys Howard Stone, James Roggeveen & Huan Wang
bioengineering.princeton.edu
Holly Cheng and her colleagues were the first to successfully use micropipette aspiration to measure parts from a living cell while they were still biologically active
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TL;DR: It only takes an undergrad to master micropipette aspiration in living samples — though a really brilliant one.
Holly Cheng's 2024 senior thesis is now yielding significant insights into how internal structures of a nucleolus relate to its functions, and how these functions are disrupted in disease. Read more: https://t.co/fvXhITvtCT
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Academic scientists complain often about the hardship of their chosen career, but in reality research in academia is among the best jobs in the universe. I am at the end of my career, and here are my reasons why I would do it again any day:
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Excited to announce our minisymp. “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” #CellBio2025 @HernanGGarcia @MolinesArthur! Have an interesting story on how physical cell properties are controlled, coordinated across scales, or contribute to development and disease? (1/3)
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