Katie Jacobs

INSPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Barr Lab @Rutgers_IRACDA. I like learning how cells do what they do. she/her 🏳️‍🌈🔬
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[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@MelanieLJohn Woohoo!! Excited for all the teaching and learning and science you will do with your students and trainees!!

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@aralbright93 @mbeisen

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@tatianapopo Trying to sort out isoform expression of a gene I’m working on so I should think about this - thanks for sharing!!

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@EricHastie Undergrad cell bio, goal is to convey that membrane components (phospholipids, integral mem prots) can move around each other.

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

Anyone have a favorite animation of the plasma membrane fluid mosaic model, for teaching purposes? @EricHastie @Barr_lab @Rutgers_IRACDA

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[Rutgers IRACDA Inspire @Rutgers_IRACDA]

Rutgers IRACDA-INSIPRE postdoc fellows receive dedicated mentorship and teaching experience at Minority-Serving partner schools

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[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@MBoCjournal @lab_soto 🤩

[Rutgers IRACDA Inspire @Rutgers_IRACDA]

We are so excited for our upcoming Scientific Teaching Seminar with @erichjarvis from @RockefellerUniv on April 25th at 11:30 AM!

Interested in attending?
RSVP here: https://t.co/iAT2cg4WOC

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[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@Barr_lab @plantdefense @JennKong07 I walked by mid-keynote to see every seat filled and rapt audience, thinking “that’s my amazing PI @Barr_lab !!”

[Jayme Dyer, PhD @YouTooBio]

I couldn't donate blood today bc of low hemoglobin. As a consolation prize, they gave me this helpful handout about hemoglobin.

I was very surprised that the @RedCross claims normal hemoglobin levels are lower for healthy African Americans... 🧵

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

the paper: https://t.co/PYFRioygT3

our dispatch: https://t.co/wVDHSs7F8D

Amazing to co-author with mentor from undergrad days @GladfelterLab and grad school advisor Danny Lew!

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

How do fungal cells degrade the cell wall precisely during mating? Fusion focus formation via the intrinsically disordered region of the Fus1 formin, from Ingrid Billault-Chaumartin @SophieMartinLab et al

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@ooomollypop Thanks @ooomollypop ! I’m lucky to have you as inspiration and a role model, excited for what’s to come for you and your students at U Portland!

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Hey everyone! If you have ever asked "what can I do to help trans rights," I have something for you.

Biden's title IX change protecting trans people in schools is open comment.

It is getting FLOODED by TERF comments.

GO MAKE A COMMENT IN SUPPORT!

https://t.co/Y4pKrCngAZ

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

@YouTooBio A recent paper used the sides of onion skin - one is hydrophilic and one is hydrophobic - to look at fungal cell-cell interactions on different surfaces... and I am very tempted.
https://t.co/MiJqYpOczA

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

Project-that-didn’t-fit-anywhere became a small paper! A 🧵. The pheromones made by S. cerevisiae have different modes of secretion, chemical properties, and regulation by proteases, so we wondered if they provide different spatial information for mating.
https://t.co/mLxzpzQrh4

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

As for why yeast cells bother to make one prenylated and one unprenylated pheromone in the first place, we still don’t know! One cool hypothesis is that they have advantages in different environments, aqueous vs. waxy fruit peel or air-water interface.

[Katie Jacobs @katiecjacobs]

Experiments looking at polarity site encounters when only one mating type could detect pheromone supported the same conclusion.