Alaina Willet
@awillet.bsky.social
Research Associate Professor in Dr. Kathy Gould’s lab. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78
July 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78
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Would you believe us if we told you these are fission yeast cells (missing two genes)?! Check out our newest publication in collaboration with Tuo Wang's group! @awillet.bsky.social
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July 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Would you believe us if we told you these are fission yeast cells (missing two genes)?! Check out our newest publication in collaboration with Tuo Wang's group! @awillet.bsky.social
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🎉 Congrats to our faculty members on their recent appointments and promotions! These individuals significantly enrich our pursuit of pathbreaking research and contribute to the growth and success of our school. Join us in congratulating them! 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
Celebrating recent appointments and promotions in the School of Medicine Basic Sciences
Congratulations to our School of Medicine Basic Sciences members who were promoted or received new appointments between January and March 2025. These individuals significantly enrich our pursuit of…
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April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🎉 Congrats to our faculty members on their recent appointments and promotions! These individuals significantly enrich our pursuit of pathbreaking research and contribute to the growth and success of our school. Join us in congratulating them! 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
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Just add sorbitol!
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Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
In red are the proposed improvements to the classical yeast transformation protocol.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just add sorbitol!
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February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🚀 #AlphaFold Database update
AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures.
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AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🚀 #AlphaFold Database update
AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
@pdbeurope.bsky.social
AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
@pdbeurope.bsky.social
Kathy and I will be representing the @gouldlab.bsky.social at #CellBio2024. I will also be giving a talk in the Cytokinesis part 2 subgroup Sunday night. I can’t wait to share some unpublished data about the role of PI(4,5)P2 in cytokinesis!
December 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Kathy and I will be representing the @gouldlab.bsky.social at #CellBio2024. I will also be giving a talk in the Cytokinesis part 2 subgroup Sunday night. I can’t wait to share some unpublished data about the role of PI(4,5)P2 in cytokinesis!
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November 24, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Our newest publication out now was headed by our talented undergraduate student Sarah Hanna and mentor @awillet.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
New mutations in the core Schizosaccharomyces pombe spindle pole body scaffold Ppc89 reveal separable functions in regulating cell division
Abstract. Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies (SPBs) are important for mitotic spindle formation and also serve as signaling platforms. In the fission yeas
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November 22, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Our newest publication out now was headed by our talented undergraduate student Sarah Hanna and mentor @awillet.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...