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David Drubin
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Professor at UC Berkeley. Cell Biologist. Studies the actin cytoskeleton, microtubules and membrane trafficking.
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Check out the animation: movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
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The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

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December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I enthusiastically recommend 'The Last Class,' which pays tribute to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Professor Robert Reich and highlights our duty to educate future generations. It is showing in various cities. www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch
Directed by ‪@elliotkirschner.bsky.social‬
July 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This City Was Just Named the Healthiest Place to Live in the U.S. for 2025
Berkeley, California, was named the healthiest city in the U.S. by Niche.com.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Congrats to Thomas D. Pollard (Drubin Lab) who received the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! 👏🧪 @drubin.bsky.social
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Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science - Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science
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May 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti.
To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 Imaging Cell Dynamics Date: 11 – 14 May 2026 Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain Register your interest
May 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.

Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?

Find out more and apply:
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April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4
April 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
US Applicant Week
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April 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Cell biologists, join FASEB for a new level of collaboration on dynamic cytoskeletal systems research! Noted researchers @drubin.bsky.social and @ivatolic.bsky.social are the keynote speakers at this inaugural conference. Will you be there? View the full agenda and save your space: buff.ly/Bz0Dyxh
April 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Congrats to my fantastic coauthors on this work with a surprising conclusion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Force-insensitive myosin-I enhances endocytosis robustness through actin network-scale collective ratcheting
Force production by Type-I myosins influences endocytic progression in many cell types. Since different myosin-I isoforms exhibit distinct force-dependent kinetic properties, it is important to invest...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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While the U.S. lays off health researchers, this Toronto hospital network plans to ramp up recruitment | CBC News
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off t...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Barack Obama on what universities should do: “We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium...because academic freedom might be a little more important." +

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"If you are a university, you may have to say, figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you're just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, 'That's why we got this big endowment. We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium'...because academic freedom might be a little more important."
April 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!
This returned funding is a rare win for Long COVID advocates and researchers amid a climate of fear and uncertainty. Earlier in the week, the Trump administration ordered the closure of the federal government's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice as part of a wider restructuring of health agencies, and last month, it terminated a federal advisory_committee on Long_COVID. Long COVID advocates stepped up to contact their representatives and advocate for RECOVER funding and other federal Long COVID initiatives to remain in place. While the research program's broader future remains uncertain, these restored grants are a significant milestone, said RECOVER patient representative Megan Fitzgerald. "This is so significant because it allows critical studies to better understand how Long COVID affects the body, identify treatment targets, and develop new therapies," she wrote in an email to The Sick Times. "I'm especially relieved as a parent that this reinstates really important funding for studies in kids. And I think we can all breathe a little easier knowing that all the hard work of patients and researchers over the last few years won't go to waste."
March 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Stanford, Cal and UCLA investigated in Trump's anti-DEI campaign
The Trump administration says it has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCL...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state’s own NIH
The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader.
www.politico.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU - Research Professional News
Commission also planning a dedicated meeting to coordinate similar efforts among member states
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March 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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New info on NIGMS training page

Trans-Departmental Basic Biomedical Sciences:
The goal of this program area is to broaden the scope, institutional and geographic distribution of NIGMS basic biomedical research training programs.

Info at the bottom of this...

www.nigms.nih.gov/training/ins...
NIGMS Predoctoral Training Grant Program Areas and Contacts | National Institute of General Medical Sciences
www.nigms.nih.gov
March 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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UCSF Loses Top Heart Surgeon Over Trump’s Hostility Toward Canada | KQED
A leading heart surgeon from Canada who was set to start at UCSF this month changed his mind, citing “the evolving political climate” in the U.S.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Very useful information from UC about your rights re: search and seizure of your electronic devices at the US border. TL;DR: the “border search exception” to the 4th Amendment gives the CBP broad discretion, but there are some limits. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...
Returning to the U.S.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Using funding to 'force concessions' threatens institutions, Princeton president says
Columbia University agreed to comply with a series of demands from the Trump administration about how it will handle protests, antisemitism and academic departments. The university faced a deadline to...
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March 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
March 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
ABSTRACT. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is a Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus. Throughout her career, Jennifer ...
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March 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Come start your lab in beautiful Strasbourg 🇫🇷 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Call For Two Group Leader Positions - Strasbourg-Ville, Bas-Rhin (FR) job with IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) | 12837602
The Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) is seeking two outstanding group leaders to establish independent research teams.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM