senior scientist @HHMIJanelia. single particle tracking & #microscopy. @harvardccb PhD on enzymatic dynamics. https://nitter.cf/t.co/mvQvicc064
Arlington, VA
Joined November 2008
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Multi-organelle signatures map cell-state diversity and metabolic adaptation in tissues | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Thank you to the folks @NikonSmallWorld and this year's panel of judges for selecting my videos for the 2026 Nikon Small World in Motion competition! Have a look at all the winning videos at the link below.
Presenting... 🥁 ... The 2026 Nikon Small World in Motion winners! Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you again to everyone who entered! The full gallery is available to view now:
nikonsmallworld.com/gallerie…!
Heloisa and I just got the next-gen Covid shot at Costco. mNEXSPIKE is a lower-dose (10 vs 50 mcg mRNA), more targeted option than Spikevax. It may also produce a stronger immune response, so get this one! @Heloisarts #covid #moderna @Costco
with @Heloisarts from our balcony, lots of clouds but we got a little lucky – at Arlington, VA
What would it feel like to go with the flow inside a cell?
A lovely new Current Biology Dispatch by Dyche Mullins on work led by Cathy & Jim Galbraith "expands our cellular imagination" to the cell's own sluices, pumps & dams.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.0…
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
So grateful to @MullinsLab for the kind write-up — and truly lucky to have chased this from so many technical angles with @GalbraithLab & @Ulrike_Boehm.
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We were asked by @focalplane_jcs for the behind the paper story on our recent work uncovering Compartmentalized Cytoplasmic Tradewinds. Read about it here. (along with a new YouTube video). A great collaboration with @sciencethecat and @Ulrike_Boehm
focalplane.biologists.com/20…
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Our June issue is live! 🎉
nature.com/nmeth/volumes/23/…
On the cover, an absolutely gorgeous image of neurites and mitochondria in a brain organoid, captured using the MOSAIC microscope.
Paper here: nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Congrats to Rita, Ji-Xin, Wei and Meng for the special issue of Nature Methods on vibrational imaging (nature.com/nmeth/volumes/22/…). Happy to share my account for the 25 years of Nonlinear Raman imaging. Thanks to all former group members and collaborators for their contributions.
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Congrats to all 49 authors on the publication of our paper on the multimodal MOSAIC microscope, to be found here: nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
A summary with movies I posted nearly a year ago can be found below.
1/ Better late than never, here’s a long thread of threads summarizing our MOSAIC preprint.
If you’re curious about the process by which a new microscope is conceived and brought into the world, this is the thread for you. If you’ve come for eye candy, there’s plenty of that too below.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Heres the paper for those who don't want to wait: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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It all started with: (#2 in the series)
New in @naturemethods: spontaneously blinking dyes for live cell super-res. No harsh cocktails or light. Watch Cathy and @sciencethecat apply the dyes.
nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
2nd Nature family paper in two weeks🤯
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Blinking dyes from the Lavis lab @HHMIJanelia @GalbraithLab @jonathangrimm @ohsunews #SOFI #PALM #OpenScience
via @EurekAlert: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
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Video explainer by @GalbraithLab with @sciencethecat @Ulrike_Boehm @HHMIJanelia @AICjanelia @MBLScience @OHSUNews @OHSUKnight
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What if cells have undiscovered methods for managing their internal logistics? Our recent work (@GalbraithLab, @sciencethecat & myself) challenges existing views on intracellular transportation 🔗 lnkd.in/dhMDgY5Q
So excited to share this work that employs #FCS, TIRF, FRAP, SPT, SIM & #iPALM. Huge thanks to Cathy and Jim (@GalbraithLab), and @Ulrike_Boehm (the iPALM wizard) #OpenScience @HHMIJanelia #CellBiology #Cytoskeleton #SuperResolution #Microscopy @hhmi_science
Scientists at @OHSUNews have uncovered an unknown system of internal “trade winds” that help cells move essential proteins to the front of the cell, reshaping how researchers understand cell migration, cancer spread and wound healing.
#OHSUResearch: news.ohsu.edu/2026/03/30/ohs…
