Principles and importance of wireless signaling in the C. elegans nervous system. @LabSchafer biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do cells or organisms deal with cold stress? One strategy is to mobilize lipids through huge tunnel-like molecular bridges across cell membranes. nature.com/articles/s4146…

A question that I have been long wrestling with: how does C. elegans #die? #GPCR-mediates #gene #expression promote #organismic #death under severe #stress. Wonderful work from Dengke Ma 's Lab. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Tunnel Directs Lipids from Endoplasmic Reticulum to Plasma Membrane Exceptionally large and evolutionarily conserved protein mediates lipid trafficking to promote cold resilience Roswitha Harrer on the work of Dengke Ma and colleagues doi.org/10.1002/chemv.…

nature.com/articles/s4158…

We wrote an extensive review about #Extracellular #Matrix Dynamics as an Emerging yet Understudied #Hallmark of #Aging and #Longevity. We hope this will facilitate needed experiments for ECM to become a hallmark. #matreotype. Cyril Statzer @ParkisLaelaps aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/AD…

Congrats Simon for his 3rd 1st author paper from my lab! He found hypoxia causes heritable reduced lipids and fertility in C. elegans. Small RNAs were sufficient to induce phenotypes and labeled and tracked an endogenous dsRNA across generations. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Another amazing example of why studying the endless diversity in nature can have potential implications for human health! #newmodels #biomimetics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Fun to read Campbell Biology: the vast majority of bacterial species remain undiscovered. What about nematodes and animal species in general.

Our new bioRxiv paper describes our new device, CeLab and some of its applications: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to have been able to contribute a small part to this amazing story by the Dengke Ma lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… It was my first time working with C. elegans AND THEY ARE SO COOL

We have a new review from Dengke Ma & colleagues (UC San Francisco), who describe bridge-like lipid transfer proteins in worms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… This includes their own finding of a therapy that repairs the worm model of a rare human genetic disorder arising from loss of BLTP1/LPD-3

The Bai Lab officially opened at University of Florida UF Department of Biology. Our lab’s primary focus revolves around modeling human rare diseases in C. elegans. We are recruiting all levels of trainees. bailab.biology.ufl.edu/join-us/ for more lab information. Please retweet!

I’m starting my PhD tomorrow. This is a wild full-circle experience. 🥹📷🙏🏽

Interdomain horizontal gene transfer: @dengkema, Matt Daugherty and coworkers find that key rml-3 gene conferring nematode exoskeleton resilience against environmental toxins appears to stem from the bacterial kingdom embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Congrats Chinmay and Taruna - that was a fun collaboration!!

Excited to have Nobel Laureate Bill Kaelin KaelinLab Dana-Farber at UC San Francisco tomorrow. Will be a great talk & undoubtedly provocative!

Congrats to Wei and Henry from the Weiner lab for a fantastic collaboration! science.org/doi/full/10.11…

A new study links mild early-life stress to longevity benefits. Early-life heat exposure triggers an increase in TSP-1 proteins in nematodes, helping to maintain membrane barrier functions into adulthood. scim.ag/5FR @dengkema