Elizabeth Chen
@EChenLab
UTSW | Cell-Cell Fusion | Myoblast Fusion | Skeletal Muscle Development & Regeneration | Actin Cytoskeleton | Mechanobiology | Drosophila | Zebrafish | Mouse
What a great honor to serve! I look forward to working with friends and colleagues in ASCB to support our community and advocate for cell biology.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Chen of the @UTSWMedCenter who has been elected by ASCB members to serve as President of #ASCB in 2027. She will first serve as President-Elect on the ASCB Executive Committee beginning in 2026. ascb.org/society-news/e… #CellBiology
Our live imaging video of muscle cell fusion is hosted on HHMI's Beautiful Biology! Thanks BB for selecting our video and congratulations to @YueluUTSW! hhmi.org/beautifulbiolo…
Thanks to UT Southwestern CenterTimes Plus for featuring our work on how cells generate invasive protrusions to facilitate their fusion: utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories… @NatureCellBio
💫NEW: @EChenLab & co reveal spatiotemporal coordination between 2 nucleation-promoting factors, WAVE & N-WASP, and 2 actin-bundling proteins, dynamin & WIP, in generating invasive protrusions at the #myoblast fusogenic synapse. 👉🏼rdcu.be/d0cTg nature.com/articles/s4155…
Congratulations to all prize winners and a special shout-out to our own Yue Lu for his poster award! #cshlfusion
Congratulations to Elizabeth Chen of the @UTSWMedCenter who has been elected by ASCB members to serve as President of #ASCB in 2027. She will first serve as President-Elect on the ASCB Executive Committee beginning in 2026. ascb.org/society-news/e… #CellBiology
What an exciting and fun Cell & Membrane Fusion meeting that was! Huge thanks to @cshlmeetings for giving our community a beautiful new home. It was a great pleasure co-organizing it with @PauliGroup and Mark Rose. Look forward to coming back again @CSHL in two years! #cshlfusion
Cell & Membrane Fusion starts TONIGHT ☄️ use #cshlfusion this week for your posts! A special thank you to our organizers!
Curious about how cells generate mechanically stiff invasive protrusions from branched actin filaments? Check out our paper published today in @NatureCellBio! Congratulations to Yue Lu and all co-authors for a beautiful piece of work! nature.com/articles/s4155…
The Dept of Molecular Biology at UTSW is recruiting new faculty! This is an amazing opportunity to join a vibrant research community with exceptional resources. Please apply using this link by Dec 7. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/663016/ten…
Thank you Mayu and Rindy for your kind invitation! A day of exciting science at a fabulous location – I had a great time!
The abstract deadline for the CSHL meeting on Cell & Membrane Fusion has been extended to August 30! Please follow this link for either in-person or virtual registration: meetings.cshl.edu/meetingsregist… We would love to see you @CSHL this November!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Chen of the @UTSWMedCenter who has been elected by ASCB members to serve as President of #ASCB in 2027. She will first serve as President-Elect on the ASCB Executive Committee beginning in 2026. ascb.org/society-news/e… #CellBiology
Many thanks to @GeisbrechtE_Lab and @BiPengpeng for a nice Dispatch in @CurrentBiology featuring our recent paper on how steroid hormone signaling regulates myoblast fusion: cell.com/current-biolog…
Excited to share our paper "Inter-organ steroid hormone signaling promotes myoblast fusion via direct transcriptional regulation of a single key effector gene". Congratulations to Zhi-Rong Ruan and all co-authors for a beautiful and comprehensive study! authors.elsevier.com/a/1insd3QW8S6D…
Congratulations Drs. Walji and Gokhale! It's been a great pleasure working with you!
Amrita successfully passed her PhD thesis defense! Congratulations, Dr. Gokhale!!!
Congratulations Danqing! Great job!!
Congrats to Danqing Tong who successfully passed her qualifying exam today!!
Excited to announce the online FASEB Catalyst Conference on Myonuclear Accretion! The full program follows shortly, but speakers include Elisabeth Chen @EChenLab, Douglas Millay @doug_millay, Ori Avinoam @Avinoam_lab, and Abigail Mackey @AbigailMackey1. April 19th, 9am-1pm (ET).
Danqing having fun presenting her beautiful poster at @ASCBiology #CellBio2022 @Danqing14
Congratulations on a successful thesis defense, Dr. Walji!!!
