Julia Torvi
@jtorvs
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Joined November 2018
🚨absolutely beautiful work from my Twitterless friend Jennifer and @DavidGDrubin…the perfect combo of quantitative cell biology and agent based modeling!!🚨bonus! She’s on the job market and you’d be lucky to have her on your team ;)
A Role for Cross-linking Proteins in Actin Filament Network Organization and Force Generation
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I’m super excited to share that I’m joining the Stem Cell & Gene Editing team at the Allen Institute for Cell Science this August! I am grateful to the mitosis community, all my mentors, and friends at Berkeley for such a wonderful PhD experience!!
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And most importantly major appreciation and thanks for all Jonathan, @DavidGDrubin, and Georjana’s help and support 😊😊😊
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I’m glad I could share this final chapter of my PhD research with you all! We have followed up on the eLife kinetochore reconstitution data, probing the mechanism of chromosome congression via Kip3 and found that Stu2 is also involved! https://t.co/o1mxo4sqfF
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#Issue44 profiles the research and service of @berkeleyMCB Professor @rebeccaheald! Heald was recently inducted into the @theNASciences and @aaas, and discusses with @ssamvardhini how this has impacted her mentorship and teaching efforts @UCBerkeley. 👇👇 https://t.co/cNTjeEGE4E
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Even though I still have a couple more months left here to find a job, Friday was the big commencement day making me Dr. Torvi?! I can’t thank my friends and family enough. I love you all and I wouldn’t be here without all your support ❤️
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Oh hi! Please consider donating to the @BerkeleySciRev during our crowdfunding campaign. It's truly a privilege to get to be part of such a wonderful science communication magazine. We need all the help we can get to continue our efforts!
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Meet Julia @jtorvs! Julia is a late-stage grad student in the Biophysics program studying how cells divide. In her free timeshe loves cooking (and eating), and alsorunning (so she can cook and eat more) (1/4)
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The Berkeley Science Review is excited to share #Issue43 with readers! As the magazine makes its way around campus, follow us here for the next two weeks for daily updates about the fascinating articles written and illustrated by our wonderful team of #scicommers and #designers!
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#MotorsInQuarantine will host @jtorvs from @DavidGDrubin lab today to talk about kinesin-8 in microtubule capturing and @ABittleston from @DeriveryLab to discussed kinesin-3 in polarised trafficking. https://t.co/Eod3KjoniY
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This is always a great event! Sign-up folks!!!
Come join us in the Bay for a day of all things Cytoskeleton! Use the QR code to register or email us if you have any questions! Please RT to spread the word
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This was one of my favorite projects to work on in a long time. For me it really showed the power of reconstruction and how nicely it can complement the EPIC cell biology Matt and his lab excel at!
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab. Really awesome detective work from Joe Carrier, @jtorvs, and @erinejenson (and all authors) determining how the TOG protein, Stu2, gets into the nucleus and the super surprising finding... (1/3)
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Kar3, and honestly kinesin-14s in general, are just so weird and mysterious to me. BUT my old bay mate, Zane, (who is also out on the job market in San Diego!!) has just dropped a SUPER COOL pre-print looking at Kar3 across the cell cycle! @DavidGDrubin
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a closed mitosis in which the mitotic spindle and cytoplasmic microtubules (MTs) used to segregate chromosomes remain separated by the nuclear envelope...
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Labor Day weekend with family exploring both the Sierras and the coast was pretty perfect. Two pics are digital and two are film..I wonder which is which………. ….. ….
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As my first GRC, this was an amazing experience, and for different reasons than I expected. I met so many wonderful smart kind people…it’s sad to leave everyone! As a side note, I’m not great at focusing or sitting still so colorful notes help me focus. This weeks were fun 🙃
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Plant and microbial cytoskeleton GRC is going 👍🏼 Southern NH is treating us well (especially Mosley, the goodest of good boys)
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Oh, hello! Thanks @eLife for the shoutout. Indeed, we did find that Kip3, a kinesin-8, is involved in lateral bound kinetochore motility. Without it, kinetochores don’t make as many end on attachments perhaps giving us a glimpse into chromosome congression mechanisms!
Scientists have developed an in vitro approach to study interactions between kinetochores and microtubules in yeast cell extracts, characterising a new role for kinesin-8. https://t.co/gwIGaNHZRx
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We have 9 spots left, so please sign up before Monday! We are open to all Berkeley grad students, but particularly encourage incoming first years to sign up for this FREE bootcamp. #WomenInSTEM #Microscopy #AcademicTwitter
I am thrilled to be organizing the Women in Imaging + Industry Applications bootcamp August 3-11! Geared to incoming grad students, we will cover basic optics, hands-on demos, nano-rotations, and company tours + build community among women microscopists in the Bay! 👩🏾🔬👩🏻🔬👩🏼🔬🔬🧫
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