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Nick Ader
@nickader.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Biology at UNC Greensboro | Interested in cellular compartmentalization and cool microscopy | 🔬 | he/him/his

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Hi y'all! 👋

I'm a new Assistant Professor at UNC Greensboro! My lab is interested in how cells maintain and establish compartments. We use fission yeast mitosis and meiosis as models for our investigations.

Check out nickaderlab.com to learn more!
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The grad student organizers of Colorado's long-running RNA Club have been putting together this event to demystify the PhD application process for the past few years. Pass along to folks applying to grad school this cycle 🍁
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📢 Join us next week for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series
Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.
FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - FocalPlane
FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking - News
focalplane.biologists.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Membranes are the bags that hold cells together. But, sometimes you need to patch a hole in that bag.

Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social), Patrick Lusk and I, provide perspective on how proteins contribute to supporting organelle compartmentalization

www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
Sense, plug and seal: Proteins as both rapid responders and constitutive barriers supporting organelle compartmentalization | Molecular Biology of the Cell
While organellar compartmentalization is primarily established by the delimiting phospholipid bilayer membranes, the contribution of proteins has been less appreciated. Recently, studies across many r...
www.molbiolcell.org
July 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trying to reach broader audiences about the importance of federal funding for science!
June 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My department is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor to each Evolution and other general biology or upper level. Interested candidates can email my chair my Chair, Dr. Malcolm Schug (MDSCHUG@uncg.edu), their CV and letter of interest.

@uncg.edu is a fantastic place! Highly recommend.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pond microbes on the scope for @uncg.edu Science Everywhere!
April 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
DNA origami and membrane bubbles in the Ader lab for @uncg.edu Science Everywhere!
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Can't wait to get started dissecting tetrads with our new Singer dissection microscope!
February 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Welcome to the Ader lab's first graduate student, Will Eichhorn, who starts his Master's this week!

nickaderlab.com/members/will...
January 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨UNCG Department of Biology is hiring another Assistant Professor, this time Position in 🌸🐝Pollinator Science🐝🌸 🚨

Come join a great department!

Deadline for full consideration, Jan 31, 2025!

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/30890
Pollinator Science Biologist Assistant Professor
The Department of Biology (https://biology.uncg.edu/about/the-department/) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in the area ...
spartantalent.uncg.edu
December 20, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Does giving everyone an extra point on a curved final actually affect their grade? Nope.

Will I do it again, absolutely!

Much needed burst of joy for both of us! 🐈‍⬛
December 9, 2024 at 10:35 PM
📢🚨🔬 Heads up! The Ader Lab at @uncg.bsky.social is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 📢🚨🔬

Apply at forms.gle/VcsspZYxstStKrGt7 by Jan 1, 2025 for full consideration!

Check out what we're about: nickaderlab.com

Please share and repost!
December 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Had a great time presenting and chatting at this month's Nuclear Pore, Nuclear Envelope and Nucleocytoplasmic Trafficking Virtual Workshop!

My talk is here if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cfQ...
Nuclear Pore, Nuclear Envelope and Nucleocytoplasmic Trafficking Virtual Workshop
YouTube video by Dr. Nick Ader
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:25 PM
UNCG news highlight the critical work of our research specialists. Special shoutout to Lee Griffin, our department's awesome microscopy specialist!
Lab Specialists Smooth Out the Learning Curve at UNCG - UNC Greensboro
UNCG would not be able to offer students prestigious academic success without the hard work of the lab specialists. They feel right at home updating and repairing microscopes or behind the controls of...
www.uncg.edu
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
🎉👩🏻‍🔬Bit congrats to Ader Lab undergraduate Sara Issa for winning a UNCG Undergraduate and Research and Creativity Award!!! 🎉👩🏻‍🔬 ursco.uncg.edu/funding/urca/
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Had a great time out with the lab hiking at Pilot Mt this past Saturday! Julep excelled as one of our emotional support lab animals 🐶
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Ok, ResearchRabbit 🐰 might just be my new favorite writing tool! So helpful for making connections across the literature! www.researchrabbit.ai
ResearchRabbit
The most powerful discovery app ever built for researchers 🔥
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November 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
So many new followers in the last 24 h!

Hi y'all! 👋

I'm a new Assistant Professor at UNC Greensboro! My lab is interested in how cells maintain and establish compartments. We use fission yeast mitosis and meiosis as models for our investigations.

Check out nickaderlab.com to learn more!
November 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
A little late, but the Ader Lab had a great time at the department Halloween party!
November 11, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Reminder than my awesome department, UNC Greensboro Biology, is hiring for F25! Please share!

Apply by Friday, November 1st, for full consideration.
October 28, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Ready for some of that sweet back-thinned sCMOS 95% quantum efficiency for our imaging 🤩
October 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM
The UNCG Biology Department's Nikon AXR now has a 100X/1.45 NA objective! Woohoo! Next up, getting the delivery of our backlit sCMOS!
October 6, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Great Friday seminar by Dr. Richard Allen Wright! Really fascinating to see where the sequencing technology is for virology and where it’s going!
October 4, 2024 at 7:41 PM
The lab received our first shipment of yeast from Japan's National BioResource Project @nbrp.bsky.social Such an amazing community resource! Charlotte and I are pumped!
October 2, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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When I do #SciComm training, I say “you’re not dumbing anything down because you’re not talking to dumb people. You’re talking to people who are smart at something different from what you’re smart at.”

I find that perspective helps
October 1, 2024 at 12:59 PM