November 13, 2023
COVER! ThT and mitochondrial membrane potential
Emily's paper is now published in Biophysical Reports and feature on the front cover!!
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpr.2023.100134
October 31, 2023
Talent wanted!
Looking for aspiring students to join the lab to work on excitng PhD projects!
Please get in touch with Munehiro if you have any queries.
Molecular mechanism of bacterial electrical signalling
Bringing light to bacterial electrophysiology – bacterial optogenetics
Electrogenetics – engineering living electronic transducer protein
October 16, 2023
New Preprint! BeAST and Yeast!
Excited to share this new preprint!
Bioelectrical antimicrobial susceptibility testing (BeAST) with the budding yeast S. cerevisiae
Congratulations to Tailise and the team! This was a great collaboration with Tasic lab @Unicamp, Brazil (more collaboration to be followed, hopefully!)
In this work, we investigated how membrane potential of yeast changes after stimulated with an externally applied electric field. We found that non-inhibited cells show a hyperpolarisation upon electric stimulation. Interestingly, the magnitude of hyperpolarisation correlates with the level of growth inhibition. Thus, we propose this could be used as a Bio-electrical AST.
August 04, 2023
Phase separated nuclear bodies
A collobration paper with Oka-san has been published in Cell Reports.
Phase-separated nuclear bodies of nucleoporin fusions promote condensation of MLL1/CRM1 and rearrangement of 3D genome structure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124723008951
March 16, 2023
Great news! Study featured by Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) and New Scientist!
Tailise's Ziapin2 movie has been choosen as "Biomedical Picture of the Day" on 2023/3/13.
Thanks for selecting our movie and congratulations Tailise and the team!
https://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2023/3/13
The study has also been featured by New Scientist!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CourMR9tkp3/
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1626613914870898693
February 06, 2023
Photoswitch for bacterial electrophysiology!
Really excited to share this new paper! Great collaboration with Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Politecnico di Milano! Congratulations to Tailise, Gaia, Iago and the whole team!
We used a photoswitch to trigger a response in bacterial membrane potential using light.
Please check our publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205007