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Cartoon showing key challenges in evolutionary cell biology. This schematic illustrates four central challenges in the field: (1) integrating cell biology with evolutionary theory and experimental evolution, (2) bridging the genotypeβphenotype gap, (3) identifying and developing new model systems, and (4) incorporating ecological context into evolutionary cell biology. Each quadrant highlights a conceptual hurdle that must be addressed to advance the discipline.
@gautamdey.bsky.social, @fritzlaylin.bsky.social, @alebenoit.bsky.social and @eelcotromer.bsky.social discuss how the field of evolutionary cell biology works to understand how cells evolve & diversify, highlighting current challenges & the future outlook.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Super-fun, absolutely WONDERFUL paper from Gohta Goshima
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! π§ͺ
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Fission yeasts lookup
Yay - and also thank you to the three reviewers!
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Homeostasis! Membranes! Evolution! Yay
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our paper describing enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling technology is finally out! Enhanced HyPro can identify proteins associated with small RNA compartments and even some individual transcripts, such as pathological C9orf72 transcripts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Schematic of MAPK signalling in fission yeast, budding yeast and Metazoa. No MAPK scaffold was known for ERK-like MAPK in fission yeast, as opposed to budding yeast Ste5 and metazoan KSR1/2.
Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5β¦ and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!
Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Please visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? π
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Screenshot of the SOG home page.
We are pleased to share the Schizosaccharomyces orthogroup web resource (fsnibs10.github.io/SOG/) with the pombe community.
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