Eleanna
@eleannak.bsky.social
Assistant professor, Rutgers university
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Eleanna
@eleannak.bsky.social
· May 5
Increased burden of rare risk variants across gene expression networks predisposes to sporadic Parkinson’s disease
Eubanks et al. found that gene expression networks that are specific for brain regions
that develop high degrees of alpha-synuclein pathology carry an increased frequency
of rare risk variants in pati...
www.cell.com
Our lab's first paper has been published! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
@zs-biophys.bsky.social we also got one!
January 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
@zs-biophys.bsky.social we also got one!
Midnight confocal session 🔬
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Midnight confocal session 🔬
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Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it
Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@zs-biophys.bsky.social I had the privilege of meeting this avatar today 😂
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
@zs-biophys.bsky.social I had the privilege of meeting this avatar today 😂
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Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Of course the lab flooded on the last day of experiments before the holidays 😂 🐠
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Of course the lab flooded on the last day of experiments before the holidays 😂 🐠
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Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
Organelles harbour pH gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.694065v1
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
The lab's posters at the CellBio conference 😁
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The lab's posters at the CellBio conference 😁
EMBO reception at the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts 🎭
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
EMBO reception at the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts 🎭
Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Maia Wang, for winning the first prize in the brain art competition at the Rutgers brain health institute annual symposium for her watercolour of an axon! Great job to all our lab members who submitted 5 fantastic pieces 🖼️
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Maia Wang, for winning the first prize in the brain art competition at the Rutgers brain health institute annual symposium for her watercolour of an axon! Great job to all our lab members who submitted 5 fantastic pieces 🖼️
Our PhD student’s, Jose’s, first poster presentation of his first author preprint on alpha-synuclein condensates!
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our PhD student’s, Jose’s, first poster presentation of his first author preprint on alpha-synuclein condensates!
The latest preprint from our lab!
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
Alpha-synuclein (αSyn) inclusions, termed Lewy bodies, are the characteristic neuropathological feature of Parkinson's disease. Growing evidence points towards a role of aberrant liquid-liquid phase s...
www.biorxiv.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The latest preprint from our lab!
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lipid droplets promote the aberrant liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein leading to impaired energy homeostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome
Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome
Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome
Grammars inferred using NARDINI+ (GIN) is a resource that uncovers molecular grammars
of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) across the human proteome, revealing how
distinct grammars underlie pro...
www.cell.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome
Molecular grammars of predicted intrinsically disordered regions that span the human proteome
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Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available
go.nature.com/479Sni6
go.nature.com/479Sni6
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
go.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available
go.nature.com/479Sni6
go.nature.com/479Sni6
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Pleased to present the unboxing of our lab’s labubus! The green macaron named Lewy (after Lewy bodies) has officially decided to join our lab for its PhD thesis and is already learning how to write Python code 🔬 www.instagram.com/share/BAGYdC...
September 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Pleased to present the unboxing of our lab’s labubus! The green macaron named Lewy (after Lewy bodies) has officially decided to join our lab for its PhD thesis and is already learning how to write Python code 🔬 www.instagram.com/share/BAGYdC...
We celebrated the lab’s second anniversary! Proud of our accomplishments so far, including our paper in Cell Reports, several student awards, invited talks and good scores on NIH grants 🥳 Exciting new research is in progress and we will be ready to share it soon 🔬
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We celebrated the lab’s second anniversary! Proud of our accomplishments so far, including our paper in Cell Reports, several student awards, invited talks and good scores on NIH grants 🥳 Exciting new research is in progress and we will be ready to share it soon 🔬
