Nate Himmel
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Nate Himmel
@natehimmel.bsky.social
Sensory biology, genetics, behavior, and evolution (especially in the Twilight Zone) | Incoming Assistant Professor, NJIT Biological Sciences (Fall '26) | Current postdoc, University of Lausanne, Benton Group

https://himmellab.org
Reminds me of this truck I once passed in Florida...
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Nate Himmel
Together with @soreklab.bsky.social, our labs discovered that the human cGAS-STING pathway evolved from ancient bacterial proteins in CBASS anti-phage defense

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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STING cyclic dinucleotide sensing originated in bacteria - Nature
Structures of prokaryotic homologues of STING permit the reconstruction of the evolutionary trajectory of its incorporation into metazoan innate immunity, and reveal a role for the conserved cGAS–STIN...
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Congrats, Tonni!
September 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM