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Official BlueSky Account of Luke Wiseman's Lab at Scripps Research. For our research interests please visit our website @ http://wiseman.scripps.edu. Posts by Luke.
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Postdoc position available in my lab in Jena (Germany.
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If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
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If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
Postdoc (m/f/x)
Our Research Group led by Janine Kirstein, Professorin at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, is looking for a highly motivated and talented Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) to join a research project ...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Postdoc position available in my lab in Jena (Germany.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
Scripps is conducting a tenure track assistant professor search. This is a broad search across multiple departments for outstanding individuals that could integrate into the multi-disciplinary environment at Scripps Research. All interested should apply! Please share. apply.interfolio.com/174756
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October 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Scripps is conducting a tenure track assistant professor search. This is a broad search across multiple departments for outstanding individuals that could integrate into the multi-disciplinary environment at Scripps Research. All interested should apply! Please share. apply.interfolio.com/174756
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🚨 #teamtomo!🚨
Did you know there's a dedicated cryoEM/ET Mini-Symposium at the upcoming ASCB/EMBO meeting in Philly (Dec 6–10)??
Did you know there's a dedicated cryoEM/ET Mini-Symposium at the upcoming ASCB/EMBO meeting in Philly (Dec 6–10)??
August 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🚨 #teamtomo!🚨
Did you know there's a dedicated cryoEM/ET Mini-Symposium at the upcoming ASCB/EMBO meeting in Philly (Dec 6–10)??
Did you know there's a dedicated cryoEM/ET Mini-Symposium at the upcoming ASCB/EMBO meeting in Philly (Dec 6–10)??
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Thrilled to share a new preprint! 📝 🎉 Lewis lab PhD student Casadora wondered: Do mtDNA synthesis and lipid droplet biogenesis co-occur at the same membrane contact sites? Or can we discern distinct ER-mito contact classes? Evidence suggests the latter, relevant in overnutrition!
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Thrilled to share a new preprint! 📝 🎉 Lewis lab PhD student Casadora wondered: Do mtDNA synthesis and lipid droplet biogenesis co-occur at the same membrane contact sites? Or can we discern distinct ER-mito contact classes? Evidence suggests the latter, relevant in overnutrition!
New work from the lab (w/ @preronabora.bsky.social @mashiatzaman.bsky.social @mitomorph.bsky.social @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social) identifying a compound that activates OMA1-DELE1-HRI signaling to induce mitochondrial remodeling in MFN2-deficient cells. Check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Drug Repurposing Screen Identifies an HRI Activating Compound that Promotes Adaptive Mitochondrial Remodeling in MFN2-deficient Cells
Pathogenic variants in the mitochondrial outer membrane GTPase MFN2 cause the peripheral neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 2A (CMT2A). These mutations disrupt MFN2-dependent regulation of diverse as...
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June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New work from the lab (w/ @preronabora.bsky.social @mashiatzaman.bsky.social @mitomorph.bsky.social @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social) identifying a compound that activates OMA1-DELE1-HRI signaling to induce mitochondrial remodeling in MFN2-deficient cells. Check it out 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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TMED9 mediates export of misfolded #prion proteins from the ER. @pskcellbio.bsky.social &co show that TMED9 also helps capture #misfolded GPI-anchored proteins that are released by calnexin in the ER and moved into the Golgi for degradation via the RESET pathway @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44kURu5
April 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
TMED9 mediates export of misfolded #prion proteins from the ER. @pskcellbio.bsky.social &co show that TMED9 also helps capture #misfolded GPI-anchored proteins that are released by calnexin in the ER and moved into the Golgi for degradation via the RESET pathway @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44kURu5
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I know print journals aren't exactly on everyone's radar these days, but we’re still geeking out that our latest study—led by the brilliant @attychang.bsky.social—landed the cover of the April issue of JCB! 🤩
@zidlab.bsky.social @tomo.science @hamid13r.bsky.social
@zidlab.bsky.social @tomo.science @hamid13r.bsky.social
Our April issue is here! rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...
The cover shows a segmented model of cytoplasmic #ribosomes associated with mitochondrial membrane in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell. From Ya-Ting Chang, @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social and colleagues (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....)
The cover shows a segmented model of cytoplasmic #ribosomes associated with mitochondrial membrane in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell. From Ya-Ting Chang, @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social and colleagues (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....)
April 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I know print journals aren't exactly on everyone's radar these days, but we’re still geeking out that our latest study—led by the brilliant @attychang.bsky.social—landed the cover of the April issue of JCB! 🤩
@zidlab.bsky.social @tomo.science @hamid13r.bsky.social
@zidlab.bsky.social @tomo.science @hamid13r.bsky.social
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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...
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🚨 The April 13 deadline to submit abstracts for short talk consideration is coming up fast!
Trainees and early-career researchers—don’t miss your chance to present your work and be eligible for talk and poster prizes at @faseborg.bsky.social
#FASEB2025 #ERSRC
Trainees and early-career researchers—don’t miss your chance to present your work and be eligible for talk and poster prizes at @faseborg.bsky.social
#FASEB2025 #ERSRC
🌟 Registration is now OPEN for the #FASEB Endoplasmic Reticulum Conference 2025 #ERSRC! 🎉 Join us June 8-12, 2025, in Melbourne 🏖️, FL, for cutting-edge science and networking.
Check out the program and register here 👇
events.faseb.org/event/endoplasmic-reticulum-function-disease
Check out the program and register here 👇
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April 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
🚨 The April 13 deadline to submit abstracts for short talk consideration is coming up fast!
Trainees and early-career researchers—don’t miss your chance to present your work and be eligible for talk and poster prizes at @faseborg.bsky.social
#FASEB2025 #ERSRC
Trainees and early-career researchers—don’t miss your chance to present your work and be eligible for talk and poster prizes at @faseborg.bsky.social
#FASEB2025 #ERSRC
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New work from Zaman et al., in the Shutt Lab @mitomorph.bsky.social, describes a novel variant in MFN2 linked to mtDNA-mediated inflammation and muscle myopathy
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April 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New work from Zaman et al., in the Shutt Lab @mitomorph.bsky.social, describes a novel variant in MFN2 linked to mtDNA-mediated inflammation and muscle myopathy
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Fantastic article from Linda Hendershot—an incredible scientist and one of the most supportive and inspiring researchers I've had the pleasure of meeting.
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A BiP-centric view of endoplasmic reticulum functions and of my career
After completing my post-doctoral training at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and a brief period on the faculty there, I joined the Department o…
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March 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fantastic article from Linda Hendershot—an incredible scientist and one of the most supportive and inspiring researchers I've had the pleasure of meeting.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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OpEd by @scripps.edu Pres. Pete Shultz: "the consequences would extend beyond Scripps Research, threatening the broader San Diego life sciences ecosystem, which contributes over $27 billion to the regional economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs."
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Opinion: Science funding cuts are based on flawed logic. Here’s the truth.
Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health issued supplemental guidance indicating it would immediately impose a 15% cap on indirect costs for research grants, an unprecedented and abrup…
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February 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
OpEd by @scripps.edu Pres. Pete Shultz: "the consequences would extend beyond Scripps Research, threatening the broader San Diego life sciences ecosystem, which contributes over $27 billion to the regional economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs."
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...
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Past few weeks of Unfolded Protein Response papers! #ERStress @biomednews.bsky.social
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February 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Past few weeks of Unfolded Protein Response papers! #ERStress @biomednews.bsky.social
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Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks
ATF6 enables pathogen infection in ticks by inducing stomatin and altering cholesterol dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.632023v1
January 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks
Excited to be involved in this cool project led by @yananchenlab.bsky.social and her team showing protection afforded by the ATF6 activator AA147 in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Check it out! 👇
I'm excited to share that our preprint is out on bioRxiv!
In this study, we explore the therapeutic potential of a pharmacologic ATF6 activator in a multiple sclerosis mouse model and its underlying mechanisms. #MultipleSclerosis #Neuroscience
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In this study, we explore the therapeutic potential of a pharmacologic ATF6 activator in a multiple sclerosis mouse model and its underlying mechanisms. #MultipleSclerosis #Neuroscience
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January 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Excited to be involved in this cool project led by @yananchenlab.bsky.social and her team showing protection afforded by the ATF6 activator AA147 in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Check it out! 👇
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1/ 🚨We’re thrilled to share our latest study:
"Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure" 🌟
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do biomolecular condensates achieve their cellular roles? It comes down to their internal structure. 🧵⬇️
"Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure" 🌟
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How do biomolecular condensates achieve their cellular roles? It comes down to their internal structure. 🧵⬇️
Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure
Biomolecular condensates play key roles in the spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes. Yet, the relationship between atomic features and condensate function remains poorly understood. We stud...
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December 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
1/ 🚨We’re thrilled to share our latest study:
"Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure" 🌟
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do biomolecular condensates achieve their cellular roles? It comes down to their internal structure. 🧵⬇️
"Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure" 🌟
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do biomolecular condensates achieve their cellular roles? It comes down to their internal structure. 🧵⬇️
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A huge week for Prakhyat, our joint @scripps.edu student with the @wisemanlab.bsky.social! He was awarded an AHA earlier in the week and today he passed his PhD candidacy exam! Because Prakh is so chill, we celebrated with chocolate-coffee liquid nitrogen ice cream. 😎
December 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
A huge week for Prakhyat, our joint @scripps.edu student with the @wisemanlab.bsky.social! He was awarded an AHA earlier in the week and today he passed his PhD candidacy exam! Because Prakh is so chill, we celebrated with chocolate-coffee liquid nitrogen ice cream. 😎
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Congrats to our amazing @scripps.edu grad student Prakhyat Mathur (joint with @wisemanlab.bsky.social) for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the AHA @americanheart.bsky.social. Prakh will be investigating how mitochondrial stress activates the integrated stress response. Well-earned Prakh!
December 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Congrats to our amazing @scripps.edu grad student Prakhyat Mathur (joint with @wisemanlab.bsky.social) for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the AHA @americanheart.bsky.social. Prakh will be investigating how mitochondrial stress activates the integrated stress response. Well-earned Prakh!
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🌟 Registration is now OPEN for the #FASEB Endoplasmic Reticulum Conference 2025 #ERSRC! 🎉 Join us June 8-12, 2025, in Melbourne 🏖️, FL, for cutting-edge science and networking.
Check out the program and register here 👇
events.faseb.org/event/endoplasmic-reticulum-function-disease
Check out the program and register here 👇
events.faseb.org/event/endoplasmic-reticulum-function-disease
Endoplasmic Reticulum
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December 11, 2024 at 12:23 AM
🌟 Registration is now OPEN for the #FASEB Endoplasmic Reticulum Conference 2025 #ERSRC! 🎉 Join us June 8-12, 2025, in Melbourne 🏖️, FL, for cutting-edge science and networking.
Check out the program and register here 👇
events.faseb.org/event/endoplasmic-reticulum-function-disease
Check out the program and register here 👇
events.faseb.org/event/endoplasmic-reticulum-function-disease