Chenshu Liu
@chenshuliu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Lehigh University, by way of UC Berkeley (Postdoc) and Columbia (PhD). Into meiosis, nuclear envelope, and the fascinating cell biology of reproduction! He/him, #Meiosis4Eva, www.theliulab.org
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Chenshu Liu
@chenshuliu.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Chemically induced proximity reveals a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint at the oocyte nuclear envelope
Sexual reproduction relies on robust quality control during meiosis. Assembly of the synaptonemal complex between homologous chromosomes (synapsis) regulates meiotic recombination and is crucial for a...
doi.org
🚀 Excited to share that my postdoc work with @adernburg.bsky.social on a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint in C. elegans has just been published in Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's a summary thread, or a “Skydive” (coined by @harmitmalik.bsky.social), of the key findings in this work 🧵⬇️1/10
Just a gentle reminder: tomorrow (9/3) is the deadline to apply for a talk or early poster at #CellBio2025. Excited for the #Meiosis4Eva Minisymposium on 12/7 — come share your science if you’re working on the cell biology of reproduction!
I know there is A LOT going on but just a heads up: TOMORROW, 9/3, is the last day to apply for a talk (or early poster) at #CellBio2025 in December!
There will be a #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction
minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪
There will be a #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction
minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪
September 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just a gentle reminder: tomorrow (9/3) is the deadline to apply for a talk or early poster at #CellBio2025. Excited for the #Meiosis4Eva Minisymposium on 12/7 — come share your science if you’re working on the cell biology of reproduction!
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Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
Bhalla Lab - Research Specialist (Junior Specialist)
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
April 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
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Sign up & spread the word to trainees about the 🪱C. elegans🪱 mentor match program!
They're also setting up peer-mentoring groups at ALL stages (even faculty!). Peer mentors have helped me keep my sanity & resolve in the tough times, and cheered me on in the good times. 🙌 Sign up to find your own!
They're also setting up peer-mentoring groups at ALL stages (even faculty!). Peer mentors have helped me keep my sanity & resolve in the tough times, and cheered me on in the good times. 🙌 Sign up to find your own!
Worm people: We need YOU to help recruit more mentees for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program! 🪱✨
📢 Help us sign up more mentees by sharing this this slide with your lab in your next lab meeting!
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March 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Sign up & spread the word to trainees about the 🪱C. elegans🪱 mentor match program!
They're also setting up peer-mentoring groups at ALL stages (even faculty!). Peer mentors have helped me keep my sanity & resolve in the tough times, and cheered me on in the good times. 🙌 Sign up to find your own!
They're also setting up peer-mentoring groups at ALL stages (even faculty!). Peer mentors have helped me keep my sanity & resolve in the tough times, and cheered me on in the good times. 🙌 Sign up to find your own!
Congrats David and team! 🎉
In a preprint published today, we are excited to report the secondary structure of the 1212 nt fission-yeast S. pombe telomerase RNA, TER1, and its roles in the physicofunctional organization of this massive, flexible enzymatic RNP complex.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Congrats David and team! 🎉
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This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social
🚨PA colleagues:
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."
"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC
Get out your Other Support and share that info!
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social
Congrats Soni, Pallavi and team!
Check out our super cool paper on aneuploidy in cells lacking Bub3. Congratulations to fantastic student Pallavi Gadgil and alum Olivia Ballew. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Aneuploidy of specific chromosomes is beneficial to cells lacking spindle checkpoint protein Bub3
Author summary Accurate chromosome segregation is crucial for the proper development of all living organisms. Errors in chromosome segregation can lead to aneuploidy, characterized by an abnormal numb...
journals.plos.org
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Congrats Soni, Pallavi and team!
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My lab strives to reduce infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects. We want y’all to have healthy kids.
I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin.
It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark.
Call your representatives
I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin.
It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark.
Call your representatives
February 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
My lab strives to reduce infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects. We want y’all to have healthy kids.
I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin.
It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark.
Call your representatives
I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin.
It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark.
Call your representatives
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Join the Starr-Luxton lab & friends at #ASCB2024! Bringing exciting new research on nuclear envelope dynamics and cytoskeletal crosstalk.
2 Talks + 3 Posters, Dec 15-16 in San Diego
Topics: KASH proteins, motor proteins, nuclear movement & cellular biophysics!
2 Talks + 3 Posters, Dec 15-16 in San Diego
Topics: KASH proteins, motor proteins, nuclear movement & cellular biophysics!
December 14, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Join the Starr-Luxton lab & friends at #ASCB2024! Bringing exciting new research on nuclear envelope dynamics and cytoskeletal crosstalk.
2 Talks + 3 Posters, Dec 15-16 in San Diego
Topics: KASH proteins, motor proteins, nuclear movement & cellular biophysics!
2 Talks + 3 Posters, Dec 15-16 in San Diego
Topics: KASH proteins, motor proteins, nuclear movement & cellular biophysics!
Re-upping this announcement with a newer version of our flyer! Looking for a supportive & interdisciplinary training environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
December 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Re-upping this announcement with a newer version of our flyer! Looking for a supportive & interdisciplinary training environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
🚨The deadline to apply for Lehigh University’s Biological Sciences PhD program is just a few weeks away! Are you (or do you know) an amazing undergrad, post-bac, or master’s student passionate about science & ready to thrive in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
December 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
🚨The deadline to apply for Lehigh University’s Biological Sciences PhD program is just a few weeks away! Are you (or do you know) an amazing undergrad, post-bac, or master’s student passionate about science & ready to thrive in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
Heading to sunny San Diego for #CellBio2024 this week? ☀️🌅 Join us for the "#Meiosis4Eva: Frontiers in Meiosis and Germ Cell Biology" Subgroup! 🗓️ Wed Dec 18th 9:00 - 10:30am, Room 33B. 👉 bit.ly/49okQkZ #Meiosis4Eva #meiosis4ever
December 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Heading to sunny San Diego for #CellBio2024 this week? ☀️🌅 Join us for the "#Meiosis4Eva: Frontiers in Meiosis and Germ Cell Biology" Subgroup! 🗓️ Wed Dec 18th 9:00 - 10:30am, Room 33B. 👉 bit.ly/49okQkZ #Meiosis4Eva #meiosis4ever
🚀 Excited to share that my postdoc work with @adernburg.bsky.social on a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint in C. elegans has just been published in Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's a summary thread, or a “Skydive” (coined by @harmitmalik.bsky.social), of the key findings in this work 🧵⬇️1/10
Chemically induced proximity reveals a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint at the oocyte nuclear envelope
Sexual reproduction relies on robust quality control during meiosis. Assembly of the synaptonemal complex between homologous chromosomes (synapsis) regulates meiotic recombination and is crucial for a...
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 AM
🚀 Excited to share that my postdoc work with @adernburg.bsky.social on a Piezo-dependent meiotic checkpoint in C. elegans has just been published in Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's a summary thread, or a “Skydive” (coined by @harmitmalik.bsky.social), of the key findings in this work 🧵⬇️1/10
Reposted by Chenshu Liu
Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 21, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Chenshu Liu
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Had a blast at the Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-symposium at the NIH yesterday! First meeting attended as a new lab! Thank you @takashiakeralab.bsky.social @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social for putting together such a wonderful meeting! What a treat to be part of it! #Meiosis4Eva
November 16, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Had a blast at the Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-symposium at the NIH yesterday! First meeting attended as a new lab! Thank you @takashiakeralab.bsky.social @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social for putting together such a wonderful meeting! What a treat to be part of it! #Meiosis4Eva
Reposted by Chenshu Liu
2024 Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-Symposium!! 🐭🪱🪰🧬🦠Co-organized with @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social at NIH. Amazing talks from trainees and new PIs🎉 #meiosis4eva
November 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
2024 Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-Symposium!! 🐭🪱🪰🧬🦠Co-organized with @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social at NIH. Amazing talks from trainees and new PIs🎉 #meiosis4eva
Hello world! I am a #NewPI starting my lab at Lehigh University after completing my postdoc training with @adernburg.bsky.social at UC Berkeley. My lab explores how quality control is achieved during meiosis, by combining cell biology, genetics, and more. Excited to (re)connect here! #Meiosis4Eva
November 16, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Hello world! I am a #NewPI starting my lab at Lehigh University after completing my postdoc training with @adernburg.bsky.social at UC Berkeley. My lab explores how quality control is achieved during meiosis, by combining cell biology, genetics, and more. Excited to (re)connect here! #Meiosis4Eva