Welcome new lab members!
Welcome Sri Vidya Tallavajhula, Yiling Wang, Megha Patel, and Navya Korala to join as our newest group members!
News
Reid Award
Congratulations to Shilong for winning the Reid Award, which recognizes Rutgers Chemistry students with the highest honors for exceptional performance in research! Shilong gave a beautiful presentation about his research … Read More
Curvature and Mechanosensing
Shilong found that the shape of cell membrane directly regulates the distribution of Piezo1, a widely expressed mechanosensitive ion channel, within a cell. Piezo1 may flatten upon activation and can … Read More
Huan and James presented at Princeton
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 and Zheng presented our recent study on the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1
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
Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA)
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
New funding to develop “Tools and Technologies to Explore Nervous System Biomolecular Condensates”
The Shi lab received NIH (NIDA, NIMH, NINDS) funding to support our exploration of neuronal protein condensates in live cells via micropipette-based quantifications!
Tension along an axon
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 Bineet!
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 at membrane conference
Zheng presented Shilong’s Piezo1 study at the Molecular Biophysics of Membranes conference. Lots of cool science and (old/new) friends!