Saikat's_Lab@CSIR-CCMB
@sc-lab.bsky.social
Laboratory of structural biology of macromolecular assemblies and cytoskeletal proteins at CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, India. Previously at Stony Brook University(2018-2021).
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Congratulations 🏆 Justus Francis @justusfrancis.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social, winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award!
📸 Justus with JCB Executive Editor Tim Spencer at #CellBio2025
📸 Justus with JCB Executive Editor Tim Spencer at #CellBio2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Congratulations 🏆 Justus Francis @justusfrancis.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social, winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award!
📸 Justus with JCB Executive Editor Tim Spencer at #CellBio2025
📸 Justus with JCB Executive Editor Tim Spencer at #CellBio2025
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My lab at UMass Chan Med School uses a variety of approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. Incoming President for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)! Opinions are mine.
November 25, 2024 at 1:36 AM
My lab at UMass Chan Med School uses a variety of approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic. Striving to make academic science a more diverse, equitable, welcoming and inclusive place. Incoming President for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)! Opinions are mine.
Thanks a lot @peiferlabunc.bsky.social for the positive feedback of @justusfrancis.bsky.social talk. Happy to see this.
Good visualizations take a talk to the next level. Justus Francis's talk: Beyond Branching: Structural Basis of Arp2/3 Complex Activation for Linear Actin Filament Nucleation by a SPIN90 Dimer- --provided great "movie" visualizations of how this protein can alter the shape of the Arp2/3 complex 1/n
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thanks a lot @peiferlabunc.bsky.social for the positive feedback of @justusfrancis.bsky.social talk. Happy to see this.
For those attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 please attend the short talk by our ( @sc-lab.bsky.social ) grad student @justusfrancis.bsky.social in Room #115 TODAY at 10AM - 12PM. He is in the look out for potential postdoc labs and opportunities that can start from Fall 2026.
📢 Justus Francis @justusfrancis.bsky.social @sc-lab.bsky.social, winner of the JCB 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award, is presenting ⏰ TODAY at 10AM - 12PM! Be sure to catch Justus's talk if you're attending #CellBio2025!
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For those attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 please attend the short talk by our ( @sc-lab.bsky.social ) grad student @justusfrancis.bsky.social in Room #115 TODAY at 10AM - 12PM. He is in the look out for potential postdoc labs and opportunities that can start from Fall 2026.
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🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025!
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025!
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
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🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025!
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Justus Francis (@justusfrancis.bsky.social), winner of the @jcb.org 2025 Alan Hall Travel Award! Justus is a graduate student in @sc-lab.bsky.social. Be sure to catch Justus’s talk during #CellBio2025!
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
Read about this year's winners 👉 rupress.org/jcb/pages/al...
Congratulations to @justusfrancis.bsky.social for receiving the Alan Hall Travel Award from @jcb.org. This is a great support for him to present at the @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 meeting. #CSIR India #CSIR-CCMB
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Congratulations to @justusfrancis.bsky.social for receiving the Alan Hall Travel Award from @jcb.org. This is a great support for him to present at the @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 meeting. #CSIR India #CSIR-CCMB
Happy to share our lab's recent #cryoEM studies that show how a SPIN90 dimer activates Arp2/3 complex to form either uni or bidirectional actin filaments. Congrats🎉👏 @justusfrancis.bsky.social @achyutha-kp.bsky.social @tejashyamk.bsky.social @sridharskulkarni.bsky.social @kiranvyshnav.bsky.social
New online: Activation of Arp2/3 complex by a SPIN90 dimer in linear actin-filament nucleation
Activation of Arp2/3 complex by a SPIN90 dimer in linear actin-filament nucleation
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 15 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01673-8Francis et al. used cryo-electron microscopy to show how a SPIN90 dimer activates the metazoan Arp2/3 complex to nucleate linear actin filaments for unidirectional and bidirectional growth, forming potential scaffolds for rapid assembly of dynamic actin networks.
go.nature.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Happy to share our lab's recent #cryoEM studies that show how a SPIN90 dimer activates Arp2/3 complex to form either uni or bidirectional actin filaments. Congrats🎉👏 @justusfrancis.bsky.social @achyutha-kp.bsky.social @tejashyamk.bsky.social @sridharskulkarni.bsky.social @kiranvyshnav.bsky.social
We have now migrated from X (@SaikatLab) to the blue zone.
January 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We have now migrated from X (@SaikatLab) to the blue zone.