Jennifer Kefauver

Postdoctoral Fellow of the ARISTOS at program at CIBERER. Mechanotransduction / Epigenetics / Rare disease

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

¡Feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia! Gracias @milycimadevilla y TPA Noticias por la entrevista sobre mi decisión de desarrollar mi carrera investigadora en la bella Asturias.

https://t.co/0AHkSxAqQi

[ARISTOS Postdoc @postdocAristos]

🧪Today, we kick off with our first introduction: Jennifer Kefauver!🇺🇸 Originally from the U.S., her research career has taken her to Virginia, California, Geneva, and Oviedo, where she has developed extensive expertise in fields such as structural biology and epigenetics.

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Cryo-EM architecture of a near-native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain https://t.co/SkkJsFMV47

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

Thank you to @LoewithLab for this crazy, serendipitous project and all my wonderful collaborators in cryoEM helical reconstruction @a_desfosses, in vitro lipid reconstitution @mkasperi @jespadas911 @RouxLab, and molecular dynamics simulations @JosyAlbaX @LabVanni

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

I'm excited to share our serendipitous findings, now published in Nature, that reveal in high-resolution detail how sterols, PIP2, and PS are organized within the plasma membrane by a stretch-sensitive lattice of BAR-domain proteins. https://t.co/89XL5tScSm

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

These protein-lipid interactions at the amphipathic helices of the BAR proteins alter the lipid dynamics to produce a membrane microdomain that is sensitive to plasma membrane stress.

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

Excited to share our preprint! Using cryoEM to visualize details of the lipid organization within a plasma membrane microdomain. Plus, how that organization changes upon stretch!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

CryoEM architecture of a native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain https://t.co/4n62hi9QnX #bioRxiv

[storiesofWiN @storiesofwin]

New profile up!! Dr. Kara Marshall (@KaraLMarshall) discusses interoception and how a lab can be more than the sum of its parts

Read the profile below 👇 and listen to the full interview on our podcast! 🎙

#WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM

https://t.co/5OMkCUjj0j

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

@kevinmawright Wow! 🤩🤩🤩 Congrats @MurthySE

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

[Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp]

Congratulations to my super postdoc @MurthySE for accepting a faculty position at Vollum Institute. What a great fit! I am thrilled for her and expect wonderful science. Go Swetha!

Trainees: this is an amazing opportunity to join a fantastic young lab studying mechanosensation.

[Scripps Research @scrippsresearch]

“I think the best part was the broad array of not just expertise, but also perspective and philosophy.” In our latest Q&A, Doctor-to-be Jennifer Kefauver reflects on her graduate school education at Scripps Research. #classof2019 #sciencechangingeducation
https://t.co/NE4ElInRjj

[Jennifer Kefauver @JKefauver]

Congrats to Javi and colleagues! Check out their paper about how vanadium oxide nanodevices retain a "memory" of a previous voltage pulse. https://t.co/c5kLsA1Ryr

[Joseph Kim @jykim35]

Me (Pointing to empty hole on frozen grid): See, that's where my hopes and dreams go.

Staff scientist (Who happens to be a dad to three kids): You mean hopes and beams?

I hate everything. #CryoEM

[Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp]

First independent publication of my trainee @ZhaozhuQ now running his own lab at Hopkins. "Glutamate-Releasing SWELL1 Channel in Astrocytes Modulates Synaptic Transmission and Promotes Brain Damage in Stroke" Incredible story! So proud!
https://t.co/dgGDsZOqRT

[The Ward Lab @WardLab1]

Dropped our latest #cryoem structures of #protonchannel #Otopetrin putative #taste_receptor @biorxivpreprint https://t.co/D1Vxi7m9Q9. Only 25 refs PubMed getting in on ground floor! Great collab with @emily_liman and @mark_sansom labs. @scrippsresearch #sciencechanginglife

[The Ward Lab @WardLab1]

Great movie from @ccalextsui in @mark_sansom lab

[Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp]

Interested to be a postdoc with a fantastic young PI doing exciting research in sensory coding and circuitry? Consider my first graduate student @macphersonlab who recently started her own lab: https://t.co/otQN2Vpwcj
She is at @Neurosci2018. please retweet!

[nature @Nature]

Scientists can infer a cuttlefish’s brain activity by tracking the ever-changing patterns on its skin. https://t.co/dL0P76Bnzb

[Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp]

Clinically relevant finding: PIEZO2 is responsible for mechanical allodynia (when touch is painful) in mice and men. Side-by-side papers from @Alex_Chesler lab and Swetha Murthy at al. from my lab: https://t.co/CCVdMAQ4xC & https://t.co/weXO58inKo