Solidifying Condensates!
Two of our recent findings on condensates were posted on bioRxiv! In the first one, Huan made a surprising discovery that the excitation of fluorescently tagged proteins leads to condensate-mediated … Read More
News
Scholarly Excellence
Zheng recently received The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, which honors the “truly outstanding contributions to research “during our first 6 years at Rutgers!
Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
Congratulations to Shilong, who just successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Chemistry and Chemical Biology!
NSF CAREER
Our group officially received the prestigious CAREER award from NSF! This grant will support our exploration of mechanosensitive membrane proteins on the cell surface. Many thanks to all the hard … Read More
A review of condensates
As part of her thesis, Huan systematically reviewed the rheology and interfacial properties of biomolecular condensates. In addition to summarizing quantitative measurements in the literature, we also tried point out … Read More
An executioner of cell death
In collaboration with Jie Xu’s lab, Yiling studied how a protein called “NINJ1” regulates the rupture of cell plasma membranes. We found that having more NINJ1 drastically reduces the lysis … Read More
“Drinking up” the nucleolus
In collaboration with Cliff Brangwynne and Howard Stone’s groups, Holly, James, and Huan studied the mechanics of the nucleolus – the very core of a eukaryotic cell and a multi-layered … Read More
Looking for a postdoc
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 to the application page … Read More
Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
Congratulations to Huan, who just successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in Chemistry and Chemical Biology!
Mechanics of condensates and cells
Several papers from the lab were published in the past few months. In collaboration with the labs of Dragomir Milovanovic, Zhiping Pang, Jean Baum, and Conor McClenaghan, Huan and Mengying … Read More