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Shekhar lab

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Shekhar lab

@sshekhr

Biophysicist who loves Actin & Stentor. Prof. Shashank Shekhar @EmoryUniversity🇺🇸 Prev:@BrandeisU🇺🇸, @MblScience🇺🇸, @CNRS🇫🇷,@UTwente🇳🇱, Loyola 🇮🇳

Atlanta, GA

Joined April 2015

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Shekhar lab
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Apr 2, 2025
📢Excited to share our new paper in @NaturePhysics : Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s4156…?
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Shekhar lab
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May 22, 2024
Score!!🎉 Paper just accepted in NATURE PHYSICS! @NaturePhysics Using Stentor, we show that hydrodynamics could have been a key factor in evolution of multicellularity!If you are a postdoc candidate with background in biological fluid dynamics & like doing experiments -email!
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Nov 11, 2023
📢New publication in Journal of Cell Biology! Our review on "Mechanisms of actin disassembly and turnover" just out in @JCellBiol! Written jointly with one and only @BruceLaneGoode! @EmoryUniversity @emorycollege @BrandeisU bit.ly/3QWk0EE
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jan 19, 2023
📢Excited to share lab's first preprint and our first Stentor paper! "Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor” biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We asked "Can a simple unicellular organism mimic multicellularity?" 1/n
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Shekhar lab
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Aug 12, 2021
Thrilled to announce award of our 5 year $1.94M @NIH @NIGMS R35 MIRA grant! Will fund our work on multicomponent mechanochemical molecular mechanisms underlying cellular actin dynamics. Huge thanks @Emory_Physics @BassellLab @EmoryUniversity 2 postdoc positions open! pls RT!
Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
May 15, 2023
Score! Lab's first solo paper just accepted in @NatureComms. My rockstar grad student @Heidis_Cells and Ignas who made it happen! @EmoryBCDB @EmoryUniversity
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jul 28, 2022
📢(1/n) Please RT! I am hiring a postdoc to work on exciting biophysics and biochemical projects in cytoskeletal mechanobiology in my lab at @EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, USA !! See lab website: shekharlab.org
Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jun 4, 2023
Celebrating Heidi's (& lab's!) first paper being accepted in @NatureComms! @Heidis_Cells @EmoryUniversity
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Nov 21, 2022
📢Lab’s first paper out in Science Advances. We just discovered processive pointed end polymerization of actin filaments!!! Yes, you heard it right – FIRST EVER report of processive polymerization at the pointed end! @ScienceAdvances 1/n
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Pointed-end processive elongation of actin filaments by Vibrio effectors VopF and VopL
Vibrio VopF/L toxins challenge the classic actin treadmilling paradigm by promoting unconventional minus-end actin elongation.
Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Aug 18, 2020
(1/5) Excited to start my lab as an Assistant Professor of Physics at @EmoryUniversity. I am also hiring postdocs and a technician. If you are Interested in the cytoskeleton, pls get in touch! We welcome Physicists, Biologists and Biochemists. Please RT. shekharlab.org.
Shekhar lab @ Emory University | Actin Dynamics
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jul 16, 2023
📢Lab's first paper just out in Nature Communications! Please RT. Actin duels : twinfilin-formin-capping protein multicomponent ecosystem regulates actin assembly at filament barbed ends. By @Heidis_Cells and Ignas Gaska. @EmoryUniversity nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/n
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jan 6, 2022
📢(1/n) Please RT! I am hiring a postdoc to work on exciting biophysics and biochemical projects in cytoskeletal mechanobiology in my lab at @EmoryUniversity!! See lab website: shekharlab.org
Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jun 2, 2023
The lab that aliquots together, makes discoveries together!
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Shekhar lab
@sshekhr
Jan 22, 2023
New PI
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