Wallace Marshall
@WallaceUcsf
professor at UCSF, engineer turned cell biologist, wants to know how cells solve geometry problems
Thanks to @Cavinameltdown & @rebeccaheald @berkeleyMCB for a very nice News & Views on our paper on cytoplasmic density & spindle architecture! 💚 rdcu.be/ewpa1
experiencing an alien Umwelt: i built a bat monitor (based on a design online) that heterodynes with a local oscillator to shift the ultrasonic pings into an audible range. It works!! I tried it last night and when a bat flew past I could hear a series of dolphin-like clicks!!
How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat @IBECBarcelona biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
We promote Auxenochlorella as the green yeast for studying chloroplasts and photosynthesis! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Our paper on single-cell learning is now published in @CurrentBiology! @WallaceUcsf sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
How can a single cell learn without a brain or nervous system? We explore this in my new preprint with @WallaceUcsf! We discovered that central features of learning in single cells can be accounted for by a model based on receptor inactivation bit.ly/3CDukfS 🧵 1/n
does anyone know an example of sequential molecular scaffolds - for example in phage assembly there are scaffold proteins that aren't part of the final structures. but are there examples where the scaffolds get built on other scaffolds, that also aren't in the final structure?
July 31, virtual and in person in NYC: Cell Biology at Scale. See what's next for the data generators that will power the next phase of bio discoveries! czbiohub.org/events/cell-bi…
They say people and their dogs start to look alike, but that isn’t the real problem. The real problem is when you and your dog start to think alike
Final day of the UCSF Cellular Electronics Minicourse - interfacing cell with circuits. Students built pulse generators using the 555 timer chip and were able to trigger a contractile response in Stentor cells. I am so impressed by the students - Great work everyone!!
Cellular Electronics minicourse week 3 - today: oscillators and the venerable 555. Building a pulse generator that we’ll use on Friday hopefully to communicate with a cell!
Z80 computer coming to life - running worlds stupidest program written with resistors.
UCSF Cellular Electronics Minicourse enters the analog realm - are cell signaling pathways digital or analog or what?? How can we use electronics to measure and control what cells are doing? Next week: how to convert molecular signals into electrical signals and vice versa!
I will be delivering a Plenary Lecture at the joint 77th JSCB & JSDB Annual Conference. See y'all in Nagoya🏯 this summer! 日本細胞生物学会•日本発生学会の合同大会で基調講演します。日本での発表を楽しみにしています。 pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jscbj…
Starting week 2 of the UCSF Cellular Electronics Minicourse - building logic gates with transistors, in order to better understand how logic can be implemented with proteins and DNA.
Could animals have originally evolved by cell aggregation? we believe they could!. And here we have two publications that provide food-for-thought on this issue. Two different relatives of animals aggregating and deploying key multicellular genes. Nice collaboration with…
Thank Max for a wonderful talk. Social DNAing will hoste Dr. Basto from Institut Curie to discuss how cells keep up with chromsome number increase? Sign up at cancer.columbia.edu/research/progr…
Beautiful images of 5-HT2A receptor distribution by Blake in the lab #psychedelics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37808655/
Another career option for math majors
first math pope?