Jackson Lab @ Vanderbilt
@lpjacksonlab.bsky.social
The Jackson lab studies structural cell biology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA. Check us out at https://www.jackson-lab.com/
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Biological Chemistry's position is still taking applications. UM is a great place to be a PI, I'd love to see a new membrane biology or lipids expert join our community.
This is open for new and established investigators.
This is open for new and established investigators.
Collaborative. Creative. Impactful. Come join us in Ann Arbor! For more information and application link see jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675674/f...
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Biological Chemistry's position is still taking applications. UM is a great place to be a PI, I'd love to see a new membrane biology or lipids expert join our community.
This is open for new and established investigators.
This is open for new and established investigators.
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"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."
My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion
With the deadline looming for colleges to sign Trump's "compact," Vanderbilt must resist, says one university professor.
www.tennessean.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."
My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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Congrats to Sandy Schmid , a scientific hero, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's E.B Wilson Medal. She shaped our understanding of molecular mechanisms & regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is a leader in the cell biology community & a remarkable mentor🧪
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www.ascb.org/society-news...
August 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Congrats to Sandy Schmid , a scientific hero, winner of @ascbiology.bsky.social's E.B Wilson Medal. She shaped our understanding of molecular mechanisms & regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is a leader in the cell biology community & a remarkable mentor🧪
www.ascb.org/society-news...
www.ascb.org/society-news...
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Very excited to announce that my first, first author paper, is now on BioRxiv! In this paper we unambiguously show #COPII coated vesicles in unperturbed human cells for the very first time!!
Make my day and check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬
Make my day and check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬
July 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Very excited to announce that my first, first author paper, is now on BioRxiv! In this paper we unambiguously show #COPII coated vesicles in unperturbed human cells for the very first time!!
Make my day and check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬
Make my day and check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬
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Mark your calendar and spread the word ...
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social
#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social
#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Mark your calendar and spread the word ...
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social
#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social
#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Has anyone heard if the NIGMS R35 may be discontinued? The updated notice (March 31) for established investigators now has expiration date in mid-May.
@marymunson4.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social
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@marymunson4.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social
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PAR-22-180: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-22-180. NIGMS
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April 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Has anyone heard if the NIGMS R35 may be discontinued? The updated notice (March 31) for established investigators now has expiration date in mid-May.
@marymunson4.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
@marymunson4.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵
Thank you to Vanderbilt for featuring our NIH-funded work! Very proud of this story and amazing team behind it.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thank you to Vanderbilt for featuring our NIH-funded work! Very proud of this story and amazing team behind it.
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Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, WPLN health reporter @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social says hundreds of protesters filled the Tennessee State Capitol steps in downtown Nashville on Friday.
Hundreds gather to protest cuts to medical research funding, crackdowns on DEI
Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, hundreds of protesters filled the Capitol steps in downtown Nashville. Among several other initiatives, the Trump Administrat...
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March 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Amid a federal government crackdown on academic and research institutions, WPLN health reporter @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social says hundreds of protesters filled the Tennessee State Capitol steps in downtown Nashville on Friday.
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Stand Up For Science TN (Nashville) was a success! Thanks to everyone who came out and @campbell4tn.bsky.social and @aftynbehn.bsky.social for coming out and adding their voices to the fight!
@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025
@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Stand Up For Science TN (Nashville) was a success! Thanks to everyone who came out and @campbell4tn.bsky.social and @aftynbehn.bsky.social for coming out and adding their voices to the fight!
@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025
@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025
Great turnout in Nashville today! Proud to be a scientist this and every day.
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great turnout in Nashville today! Proud to be a scientist this and every day.
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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Getting ready in Nashville. (Featuring poster work with my favourite two little scientists) #standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Getting ready in Nashville. (Featuring poster work with my favourite two little scientists) #standupforscience2025
Thank you to the French! Amazing.
Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S.
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience
March 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thank you to the French! Amazing.
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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.
My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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INBOX: March 7th — NASHVILLE + nationwide #StandUpForScience rallies as Trump & Musk dismantle the federal government while enriching themselves even further with taxpayer money.
More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...
More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...
March 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
INBOX: March 7th — NASHVILLE + nationwide #StandUpForScience rallies as Trump & Musk dismantle the federal government while enriching themselves even further with taxpayer money.
More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...
More info: standupforscience2025.org/our-policy-g...
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If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute
How to contribute a Story
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March 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
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"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
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Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers
Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.
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March 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
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Save the date in Nashville!
February 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Save the date in Nashville!
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Black chemists you should know about: These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry.
cen.acs.org/people/profi...
#BlackinChem #BlackHistoryMonth #chemsky🧪
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#BlackinChem #BlackHistoryMonth #chemsky🧪
Black chemists you should know about
These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry
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February 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Black chemists you should know about: These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry.
cen.acs.org/people/profi...
#BlackinChem #BlackHistoryMonth #chemsky🧪
cen.acs.org/people/profi...
#BlackinChem #BlackHistoryMonth #chemsky🧪
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For authors, talking to the media “can be an opportunity to provide the unvarnished truth in response to tough questions,” write @holdenthorp.bsky.social and Meagan Phelan in this week’s #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3EOWJR2
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For authors, talking to the media “can be an opportunity to provide the unvarnished truth in response to tough questions,” write @holdenthorp.bsky.social and Meagan Phelan in this week’s #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3EOWJR2