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Justin Taraska

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Structural cell biology, biophysics, fluorescence, electron microscopy, art, nature. All opinions are my own.

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Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine - Nature Methods Improved red and green indicators for norepinephrine and their characterization are reported. These indicators allow detection of norepinephrine release in awake behaving mice in dual-color fiber phot...

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

26.02.2026 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Microscopy image of keratin (cyan) and desmosomes (magenta)

Microscopy image of keratin (cyan) and desmosomes (magenta)

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Breaking Fundamental Biological Law: Research by Takashi Akera Investigates Selfish DNA - Vilcek Foundation Winner of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, Akeraโ€™s novel research findings have huge implications for infertility and chromosomal disorders.

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03.02.2026 05:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 55 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Figure showing the comparison between spinning disk (SD) confocal, SIM and ExM when imaging Drosophila cemtrioles.

Figure showing the comparison between spinning disk (SD) confocal, SIM and ExM when imaging Drosophila cemtrioles.

Emma Burns, Anastasia Amoiroglou, Gregory Rogers, Nasser Rusan and colleagues develop an expansion microscopy protocol for Drosophila cultured cells and tissues, which they use to dissect centriole biology.
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22.01.2026 12:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prime numbers 2-4999, animated with ggplot2+gganimate.

#Rstats code: gist.github.com/stephenturne...

20.01.2026 10:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 67 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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15.01.2026 13:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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15.01.2026 14:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 48 ๐Ÿ” 74 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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DC, Winter 2025

25.12.2025 22:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My lab in the NIH Intramural Program (Bethesda, MD) will be recruiting postdoctoral fellows over the next year with flexible start dates. We work on nanoscale cellular imaging of the plasma membrane and related organelles. Please reach out if youโ€™re interested. www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdp-053...

22.12.2025 14:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 59 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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A conformational switch in clathrin light chain regulates lattice structure and endocytosis at the plasma membrane of mammalian cells - PubMed Conformational changes in endocytic proteins are regulators of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Three clathrin heavy chains associated with clathrin light chains (CLC) assemble into triskelia that link into a geometric lattice that curves to drive endocytosis. Structural changes in CLC have been shown โ€ฆ

We have a number of fluorescent protein pairs here that are great for FLIM www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

22.12.2025 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Addgene: Justin Taraska Lab Materials

Yes! Many of our plasmids are here www.addgene.org/Justin_Taras... and both NPY-GFP (exocytic vesicles) and clathrin light chain-GFP (endocytic sites) make excellent sub-diffraction biological targets.

22.12.2025 14:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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28.07.2025 18:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 115 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Hoya bloom

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Woods Hole, MA

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Salt Lake from the air

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Metro

10.05.2025 14:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Japanese Garden, Powellโ€™s Bookstore downtown, Forest Park, SE Division or SE Hawthorne St, Coava coffee, OHSU gondola.

07.04.2025 20:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I am excited to share our first Pt replica EM images. It took us a little while, but now we have establish the unroofing, drying and Pt coating workflow ๐ŸŽ‰ Great work by our postdoc Luis Wong Dilworth! The image below shows the cytosolic membrane leaflet of a fibroblast ๐Ÿ‘‡

13.02.2025 14:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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12.02.2025 15:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Super cool. Septin/actin rings maybe.

12.02.2025 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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06.02.2025 14:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This is a scientific figure from the paper mentioned in the post. It shows fluorescence and electron microscopy images and associated schematics for using the ferritag to image clathrin coated pit proteins.

This is a scientific figure from the paper mentioned in the post. It shows fluorescence and electron microscopy images and associated schematics for using the ferritag to image clathrin coated pit proteins.

I'd like to draw your attention to this truly excellent paper from the Taraska lab on cryoET of plasma membrane associated proteins. Everyone who is thinking about probes in the cryoET space should also see what they could do with ferritag (fig 6) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.01.2025 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 404 ๐Ÿ” 58 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

19.01.2025 20:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 45 ๐Ÿ” 34 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Not necessarily unhappy. Muscle cells have extensive flat clathrin lattices. Some cells stimulated with EGF also have them. Highly metastatic cells can accumulate them. They are used as adhesion and receptor organization sites.

14.01.2025 21:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is the third image at the bottom surface of the cell? Those are likely large flat clathrin lattices that can accumulate in some cell types at the bottom of the cell.

14.01.2025 20:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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02.01.2025 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

CD44 and Ezrin restrict EGF receptor mobility to generate a novel spatial arrangement of cytoskeletal signaling modules driving bleb-based migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.31.630838v1

01.01.2025 20:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s incredibly exciting when a completely different approach supports an unexpected finding from your group. Recently, we published that LDLR is captured with EGFR and FGFR1 at clathrin sites after EGF stimulation. I love science.

www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

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13.12.2024 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0