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Jan Lammerding - Lab
@lammerdinglab.bsky.social
We study lamins and nuclear mechanobiology. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. Cornell University. https://lammerding.wicmb.cornell.edu/
It’s been a pleasure working with @apdaria.bsky.social, Julie Heffler, and the Prosser Lab on this study, supported by the Leducq Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This research is one step to get us closer to an effective treatment for cardiac #laminopathies and #LMNA-DCM.
It is finally out! Updated with exciting in-vivo microtubule disruption results to protect Lmna deficient nuclei from damage. My final postdoc project with Prosser Lab and a great collaboration with @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, Shenoy Lab, and Jain lab.
Research | Amiad Pavlov, Heffler et al. demonstrate that stress transmitted to the cardiomyocyte nucleus by the microtubule cage drives LMNA-associated cardiomyopathy and may represent a promising therapeutic target.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How do LMNA mutations cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and other #laminopathies? In our latest preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), led by the amazing Noam Zuela-Sopilniak and Julien Morival, we show that cardiomyocyte-specific lamin A/C depletion causes severe DCM, consistent with other studies.
September 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Odell, J et al. (@lammerdinglab.bsky.social lab) A-type lamins anchor emerin at the inner nuclear membrane via two independent binding sites. bioRxiv posted 2 September 2025 doi:10.1101/2025.09.01.673543. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A-type lamins anchor emerin at the inner nuclear membrane via two independent binding sites
Lamins form a dense meshwork at the inner surface of the inner nuclear membrane (INM), where they interact with other nuclear envelope proteins such as emerin. Emerin is an integral membrane protein t...
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September 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
August 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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FOMO no more: NOMO and Calmin extend #mechanobiology to the ER. Julie Heffler and Jan Lammerding @LammerdingLab.bsky.social discuss recent studies from the @schliekerlab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....) & @hennelab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...), in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
August 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Interested in #mechanobiology of the cell nucleus? The submission deadline for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus is August 31, 2025. Submit your abstract to be considered for a platform presentation.
#MBNSRC

events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
August 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Last chance to register and submit an abstract to be considered for a platform presentation. If you are interested in nuclear #mechano Ta
Looking forward to meeting "old" & new friends at the FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.

Submit your abstract by Aug, 31!
Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
August 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Heffler and @LammerdingLab.bsky.social discuss recent studies from the @schliekerlab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....) and @hennelab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...) that identify two proteins serving as crucial mechanical elements in the endoplasmic reticulum. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
August 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Please submit your abstracts by August 31st to be considered for a platform presentation! We look forward to an exciting and stimulating meeting! Please share!
A Nuclear Mechanobiology meeting is a dream come true!!! Please join us!
Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
August 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is MLC-2a - illuminating sarcomeric thick filaments! 💪🧫

Our high-quality stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to discovery.

📦 Dist. by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social.
August 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What allows lamins A and C to confer much stronger mechanical stability to the nuclei than lamin B? We show that even though all lamins can protect the nucleus from small cell intrinsic forces, only lamin A/C protect the nucleus from large deformations: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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July 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The nuclear periphery confers repression on H3K9me2-marked genes and transposons to shape cell fate - Nature Cell Biology
Marin et al. report the role of lamin proteins and the lamin B receptor (LBR) in chromatin positioning at the nuclear periphery. Knockout of all lamins and LBR in mouse embryonic stem cells leads to h...
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Join us for the first Mechanobiology of the Nucleus conference supported by @faseborg.bsky.social. Co-organized with @lammerdinglab.bsky.social, @katemiro.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht, the amazing program is here:
events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Opportunities for talks! Abstracts by Aug. 31st.
July 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you know anyone with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (#EDMD) or want to support research on this disease, a patient family we have been working with for many years has started a new foundation, cureEDMD, to raise awareness for this devastating disease: www.cureedmd.org
Please share widely!
cureEDMD
cureEDMD is a patient and family-led, scientist-supported foundation to advance research into a treatment or cure for Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD)
www.cureedmd.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Excited for our next special issue and looking forward to working with Abby Buchwalter (@abbybuch.bsky.social) and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social)! Working on the cell biology of the nucleus? Send your papers our way!
#notforprofit
Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
July 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
July 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The entire nation should protesting this utterly unwarranted, unprecedented, & probably illegal on-going attack on a university. It's right out of the authoritarian playbook. It's an assault on possibility free speech, free thought, & dissent.
Fascism is coming small step by small step, not at once.
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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"We need the whole country to appreciate that by investing in university research and educating the next generation of explorers and innovators, the country has reaped, and will continue to reap, tremendous rewards in new cures, treatments, and inventions, and in new industries, companies, and jobs"
May 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
How do altered levels of lamins and other nuclear envelope proteins contribute to cancer metastasis, and what role does #mechanobiology play here? Learn more in our recent review by fantastic Sarah Henretta, now out in NPJ - Biological Physics and Mechanics, open access: doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Nuclear envelope proteins, mechanotransduction, and their contribution to breast cancer progression - npj Biological Physics and Mechanics
npj Biological Physics and Mechanics - Nuclear envelope proteins, mechanotransduction, and their contribution to breast cancer progression
doi.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇
April 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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If biotech wants to continue to recruit highly talented, energetic, and creative PhDs they need to help us to advocate for stable funding for young scientists in academia to prevent a brain drain and loss of scientific innovation.
We discuss this on this week's Night Science Podcast with David Baker
March 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Celebrating 140 Years of Women in Engineering at Cornell @cornellengineering.bsky.social and their amazing achievements.
Hosted by @mchvdm.bsky.social and Lara Estroff, trailblazers in their own right.
March 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM