Huan did a joint presentation with James (from Howard Stone’s lab) at Princeton Phase Group Seminar. Nice talk and lots of interesting discussions! Thanks Anita from the Brangwynne lab for … Read More
Shilong presented his recent study on how membrane curvature affects the cellular distribution of Piezo1 at the Penn Muscle Institute Annual Symposium (see below)…and the poster was popular 🙂 Last … Read More
The Shi lab is grateful to receive the MIRA from NIH (NIGMS). This award will support our long term goal to understand the material properties and membrane interactions of biomolecular … Read More
The Shi lab received NIH (NIDA, NIMH, NINDS) funding to support our exploration of neuronal protein condensates in live cells via micropipette-based quantifications!
Our study on the membrane of neuronal axons is now published on Science Advances! We found that membrane tension propagates at a surprisingly fast speed (20 microns/s!) along the axons of … Read More
Welcome to Bineet, joining us as a post-doctoral associate! Bineet is an expert in lipids and peptides and will explore the material properties of protein condensates and cells. Before joining … Read More
Zheng presented Shilong’s Piezo1 study at the Molecular Biophysics of Membranes conference. Lots of cool science and (old/new) friends!
Steven presented his undergraduate honors thesis study on how cellular cytoskeleton affects the diffusion of various membrane proteins. Shilong presented his understanding of the relation between membrane curvature and Piezo1 … Read More
Welcome to Holly Cheng, Jack Nothnagel, and Boxuan Li, our newest group members! Holly is a sophomore in molecular biology from the Brangwynne lab at Princeton; Jack is a freshman … Read More
Shilong worked together with a team led by Rohin from Janson Zhang’s lab to test the idea of using C60-cycolodextrin as drug delivery systems. Unexpectedly, one of the systems was … Read More