Arohan Subramanya
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Arohan Subramanya
@arohans.bsky.social
Physician-Scientist at the University of Pittsburgh.
K+ 🥑🍌 | 🧂&💧 | WNKs 😉 | Crowding 🔆 | Condensate Physiology 🫧
https://www.subramanyalab.org/
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Our latest, now in print @jclinical-invest.bsky.social (w/ cover! 🎉) Led by @caryboyd.bsky.social , we identified a functional role for #WNK bodies in K+ homeostasis, highlighting a #condensate 🫧 that can influence kidney physiology & nephron sexual dimorphism, w/ implications for human health 1/
Surprisingly Complex Assemblies from Low-Complexity Domains | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Surprisingly Complex Assemblies from Low-Complexity Domains | NEJM
Drs. Görlich and McKnight have won the 2025 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for showing that low-complexity domains of proteins lack structure on their own and yet can form assembled .....
www.nejm.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
KS-WNK1 augments the effects of dietary potassium intake on renal sodium chloride reabsorption: buff.ly/bmp1w6L

Gerardo Gamba & David H. Ellison provide a Commentary on Cary R. Boyd-Shiwarski et al. (buff.ly/Cw7u7c1)
August 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
So exciting to see WNK bodies making the cover of JCI! @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social @arohans.bsky.social @news.upmc.com
A nod and a wink to kidney-specific WNK1

This issue’s cover features work by Cary R. Boyd-Shiwarski et al. on kidney-specific WNK1 as a scaffolding protein that organizes WNK bodies — structures essential for maintaining blood potassium levels: buff.ly/Cw7u7c1
August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
A nod and a wink to kidney-specific WNK1

This issue’s cover features work by Cary R. Boyd-Shiwarski et al. on kidney-specific WNK1 as a scaffolding protein that organizes WNK bodies — structures essential for maintaining blood potassium levels: buff.ly/Cw7u7c1
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our latest, now in print @jclinical-invest.bsky.social (w/ cover! 🎉) Led by @caryboyd.bsky.social , we identified a functional role for #WNK bodies in K+ homeostasis, highlighting a #condensate 🫧 that can influence kidney physiology & nephron sexual dimorphism, w/ implications for human health 1/
August 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
Hello to all of our friends and colleagues on Bluesky! The epithelial transport group (ETG) is new to the platform, so follow and share to help us grow our network. Don't forget to join us next Thursday morning in Baltimore for the ETG pre meeting, beginning at 8:00 AM!
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Reposted by Arohan Subramanya
"Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works"

Exciting times ahead!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...
Mysterious Blobs in Cells Are Changing the Way We Understand Life
Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell
www.scientificamerican.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM