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
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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!
Lab at MARM2022
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 Holly, Jack, and Boxuan!
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
Targeting drugs to the nucleus
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
Reid Award and Zhou Family Fellowship
Congratulations to Huan for winning the Reid Award, which recognizes Rutgers Chemistry students with the highest honors for exceptional performance in research! Huan was also selected to receive the Zhou … Read More
The Shi lab will be presenting at the 2022 BPS annual meeting
The Shi lab will be well-represented at the 2022 BPS meeting! Huan will talk about how to quantify the material properties of protein condensates at the platform for Liquid-Liquid Phase … Read More
Looking for Postdoc!
We are looking for a motivated postdoc to study one of the following research topics: 1) to study the material properties biomolecular condensates that are relevant to neurodegeneration; 2) to … Read More
Zheng gave a talk at Yale
Zheng had a fun day (virtually) visiting the cell biology department of Yale. Learned lots of cool science and spoke about our recent findings on cell membranes and protein condensates! … Read More