Zheng SHI (师征)
@ZS_biophys
Interested in cell membranes, biomolecular condensates, mechanics, neuroscience. He/him. Views are my own.
We are looking for a postdoc to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. Please help spread the news 🙏 sites.rutgers.edu/shi-lab/lookin…
We recorded a talk about our recent work on condensates, take a look before it's taken down! youtu.be/SP-FDbmBZV8?si…
Please join us this Wed/Thu for Dr. Zheng Shi's (Rutgers) talk entitled "Mechanics of condensates in the cytoplasm" in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org
Breaking Bad: NINJ1’s Guide to Membrane Rupture nature.com/articles/d4158…
Many thanks to Ishan and Vishva for writing this nice "News and Views" article on our collaboration with Jie Xu's group (@gadawgs )! Breaking point: mechanical stress helps NINJ1 protein to rupture membranes nature.com/articles/d4158…
I can’t get this line out of my head since reading it at the end of the abstract for this paper: “Sleep, like aging, may be an inescapable consequence of aerobic metabolism.” nature.com/articles/s4158…
Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: go.nature.com/4eVTIwC
21 years ago: The first video evidence that astrocytes communicate via vesicular release. Yongling Zhu and I left some VAMP-pHluorin transduced astrocytes illuminated on the epifluorescence scope for a few minutes. When I later looked into the eyepieces, an incredible sight.…
Our recent collaboration with Ben Schuster's lab to characterize "protein surfactants"!
Amphiphilic protein surfactants reduce the interfacial tension of biomolecular condensates biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_biophys
A percolation phase transition controls complement protein coating of surfaces: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Very glad and honored to contribute to this cool study. Check out the latest story on my favorite protein "NINJ1": nature.com/articles/s4158…
Excited to share our latest story in Nature. We developed a high-throughput stretch system to look for genes regulating membrane rupture under tension, and found an amazing small protein called NINJ1 that weakens the membrane for rupture! H/T to Zozo, my 10-y.o. for her artwork😃
In 1921 George Pólya proved that a person almost surely would return to his starting point in a 2-D random walk, but for 3 dimensions or higher, the probability of returning to the origin decreases as the number of dimensions increases! In 3-D , the probability decreases to…
I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…
📢Registration is open for the Biomembrane Days 2025! 🔗biomembrane-days-2025.mpikg.mpg.de A top-notch lineup of speakers, 120 posters, 200 scientists 📜Submit an abstract by July 14 🏆3 Poster prizes ⚠️Limited spots - previous events were fully booked! #BiomembraneDays2025 #CellMembranes
Increased burden of rare risk variants across gene expression networks predisposes to sporadic Parkinson’s disease: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Dear Microscopy tweeps, the fine focusing knob on one of our microscopes is spontaneously rotating (see video below). Does anyone know how to fix this? 🙏🙏🙏