Meng-meng Fu
@mengmengfu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Cytoskeleton and transport in glia. Prev: NIH, Stanford, UPenn, Caltech.
Study from Mayo Clinic on deep brain stimulation (DBS) for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Not currently FDA approved but promising!
At least once per year I see someone with debilitating MS-related tremor, usually cerebellar or rubral. This is a study I was hoping would be done... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Study from Mayo Clinic on deep brain stimulation (DBS) for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Not currently FDA approved but promising!
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We have an exciting PhD position available in the Williams lab related to cerebral small vessel disease and funded through our Racing Against Dementia project - if you are interested then do apply here: regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD opportunities | Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Centre of Regenerative Medicine
Information about available funded PhD Positions
regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We have an exciting PhD position available in the Williams lab related to cerebral small vessel disease and funded through our Racing Against Dementia project - if you are interested then do apply here: regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Director of Biology Teaching Labs
The Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator...
unc.peopleadmin.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Well deserved! 👏
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Well deserved! 👏
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Two tenure-track faculty positions open in our department:
1) Microbial Ecology and Evolution careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
2) Cellular Neuroscience careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
Join our collaborative, interdisciplinary community, which has proved to be a fantastic place to start a lab!
1) Microbial Ecology and Evolution careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
2) Cellular Neuroscience careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
Join our collaborative, interdisciplinary community, which has proved to be a fantastic place to start a lab!
Details - Assistant Professor, Microbial Ecology - RPI Jobs
careers.rpi.edu
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Two tenure-track faculty positions open in our department:
1) Microbial Ecology and Evolution careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
2) Cellular Neuroscience careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
Join our collaborative, interdisciplinary community, which has proved to be a fantastic place to start a lab!
1) Microbial Ecology and Evolution careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
2) Cellular Neuroscience careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...
Join our collaborative, interdisciplinary community, which has proved to be a fantastic place to start a lab!
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The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
🧪
This is the creepiest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen… IRL it’s very lifelike 😱
# BerkeleyLife
# BerkeleyLife
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is the creepiest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen… IRL it’s very lifelike 😱
# BerkeleyLife
# BerkeleyLife
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Excited to share our preprint on cytoskeletal organization in astrocytes!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Postdoc @mewynne759 looked at microtubules, IFs/GFAP & actin along long elaborate processes.
Wonderful to collaborate w postdoc @dharshinigopal & @NogalesLab on cryo-ET 🤓
1/x
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Postdoc @mewynne759 looked at microtubules, IFs/GFAP & actin along long elaborate processes.
Wonderful to collaborate w postdoc @dharshinigopal & @NogalesLab on cryo-ET 🤓
1/x
https://biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Excited to share our preprint on cytoskeletal organization in astrocytes!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Postdoc @mewynne759 looked at microtubules, IFs/GFAP & actin along long elaborate processes.
Wonderful to collaborate w postdoc @dharshinigopal & @NogalesLab on cryo-ET 🤓
1/x
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Postdoc @mewynne759 looked at microtubules, IFs/GFAP & actin along long elaborate processes.
Wonderful to collaborate w postdoc @dharshinigopal & @NogalesLab on cryo-ET 🤓
1/x
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Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
Powerful stuff!
We’re super grateful to see our work amplified by @sciencenews.bsky.social , which covered our study’s implications for ICU practice, surprise diagnoses, and what must change for genetic testing to help more adults.
📰 Read the feature:
www.science.org/content/arti...
📰 Read the feature:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Genetic testing of critically ill adults can yield surprises—and reveal disparities in treatment of Black patients
Adults in the ICU often don’t know about the genetic diagnoses related to their symptoms, DNA sequencing study shows
www.science.org
July 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Powerful stuff!
Saw a family of quails! How many do you see?
July 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Saw a family of quails! How many do you see?
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Deepika Dogra, Karin Tuschl, and I are thrilled to host the Neural Disorders RIG meeting of the @ZDMSociety on July 30, 10:00-11:30 am ET. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: zdmsociety.org/2025-zdms-ri....
July 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Deepika Dogra, Karin Tuschl, and I are thrilled to host the Neural Disorders RIG meeting of the @ZDMSociety on July 30, 10:00-11:30 am ET. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Register here: zdmsociety.org/2025-zdms-ri....
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This week, we welcome Lana Ho (right), PhD student from @mengmengfu.bsky.social's lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, to our lab to teach us some cool smFISH (in a heatwave) as part of a lab exchange in the @hfspo.bsky.social Early Career Award.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This week, we welcome Lana Ho (right), PhD student from @mengmengfu.bsky.social's lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, to our lab to teach us some cool smFISH (in a heatwave) as part of a lab exchange in the @hfspo.bsky.social Early Career Award.
Vaults are cool!
What do they do?
We don’t know!
What do they do?
We don’t know!
1/x New story - the structure of the Vault cap, at 2.3Å! Matching a beautiful preprint from @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, we show that the cap of the vault particle has C13 symmetry, in contrast to the 39-fold symmetry of the body. Study lead by talented postdoc @huanli00.bsky.social from my group! ⬇️
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Vaults are cool!
What do they do?
We don’t know!
What do they do?
We don’t know!
Really beautiful study from Mike & collaborators!
Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury.
Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback!
Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!
Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury.
Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback!
Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!
A 🧵 to walk those interested through this paper...
Online now at @cp-cell.bsky.social , the culmination of a 12-year effort. 🧵 to follow later this evening
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Really beautiful study from Mike & collaborators!
Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury.
Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback!
Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!
Basic cell biology question: how do axons know how long to grow? Important implications for PNS & CNS injury.
Unexpected link between retrograde signaling & transposon/lncRNA mediated feedback!
Wonderful demonstration of omics use & team science!
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As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...
Director of Research, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Director of Research, Biochemistry & Biophysics
jobs.weill.cornell.edu
May 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...
May 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
tinyurl.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out!
We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network.
We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network.
We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spatial proteomics of ER tubules reveals CLMN, an ER-actin tether at focal adhesions that promotes cell migration
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is structurally and functionally diverse, yet how its functions are organized within morphological subdomains is incomp…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out!
We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network.
We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network.
We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great This American Life episode:
www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript
So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education!
Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel:
“this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…
www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript
So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education!
Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel:
“this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…
857: Museum of Now - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org
April 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great This American Life episode:
www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript
So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education!
Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel:
“this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…
www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcript
So important now more than ever to have a solid biology education!
Judge Ana Reyes on the EO banning transgender military personnel:
“this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct…
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Face palm! This is just an excuse…
The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab.
One time I found a PIV card and returned it.
The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab.
One time I found a PIV card and returned it.
WARNING
I am hearing from multiple sources that DOGE folks are around NIH and. if they find an unattended computer with the PIV card inserted, they are tracking down the user and likely placing them on administrative leave.
I am hearing from multiple sources that DOGE folks are around NIH and. if they find an unattended computer with the PIV card inserted, they are tracking down the user and likely placing them on administrative leave.
Be Doo Be Doo Minion GIF
ALT: Be Doo Be Doo Minion GIF
media.tenor.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Face palm! This is just an excuse…
The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab.
One time I found a PIV card and returned it.
The computers go to sleep very quickly then need a password to login in even with PIV card. I often left mine in my office when I was in the lab.
One time I found a PIV card and returned it.
Jennifer Doudna: I would not be here if not for NIH training grants!
UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social
UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Jennifer Doudna: I would not be here if not for NIH training grants!
UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social
UC Berkeley @standupforscience.bsky.social