Eric (“VJ”) Rubenstein

I wrote about the harmful impacts of NIH funding cuts on the health and economy of Indiana. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Just in time for Halloween, we've posted a new preprint on zombie deubiquitinases! As it turns out, standard #DUB catalytic mutants aren't truly dead - they've just become zombies that are still capable of removing noncanonical, ester-linked #ubiquitin signals...

Come work with us!

Come work with us!

Assessment and verification of commercially available pressure cookers for laboratory sterilization | PLOS One share.google/Qbbd2K2rIwpS...

The deadline is approaching! NIH is proposing changes to how peer review is used in funding decisions and how outcomes are reported and they want to hear from you. Comments are due by October 13! Comment here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Passing through the Bighorns after visiting Sheridan College - on the way to Northwest College. Community colleges provide affordable access to higher ed for millions and enroll twice the number of students than all the private colleges and universities combined.

Found this on the lab whiteboard this morning. I endorse this message!

Messages like this are the best part of my job Congrats to Katrina, an undergrad researcher in my lab, for landing the microbiology scientist job! Katrina did great work in my lab & persisted through challenging projects. Looking forward to the great work she will continue to do in her new role!

Too easy: Ferroptosis (literal death metal)

Big day for Rubenstein Labs

A Pirate Ribosome's first love is the C ... (GU). (🧑‍🎨: Science Fried Art)

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

The Neal lab is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to lead exciting structural and biophysical studies of membrane protein quality control! Competitive HHMI-scale salary + cutting-edge science + a genuinely wonderful and supportive lab culture. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested!

Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

On #LongCovid and profiling my colleague @julialmv.bsky.social @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/m...

Saddened to learn of the death of Ada Yonath. Her work on ribosome structure and function and antibiotic mechanisms was an immense contribution to biology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yon...

Fall 2026 Rubenstein Lab at Ball State! I can't wait to see what this group of talented HS, undergrad, and master's students discover this semester! These scientists have misfolded proteins shaking in their boots!

We are recruiting two experimentalists with interests 1) in stem cells, organoids and/or immune cells, and/or 2) in protein and/or cell engineering, to work on mechanobiology projects and develop the next generation of force sensors and force transducers. forms.gle/zKLGsPzpJoLf...

Describing molecular biology to my non-scientist wife, and when I got to the proteasome, she interrupted and said, "I think you mean the Waribosome?" 🤯 😍

Can’t Get Along? Try Rejecting Free Will A new approach to building trust and bridging our divides. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/plea...

Tunnel traffic: Import stress induces bidirectional mitochondria transfer between cells. Konstanze Winklhofer and Johannes Herrmann @rptu.bsky.social discuss new study from Glover, Wilkinson, Collinson @ianofbristol.bsky.social et al. (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....) in Spotlight: doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.

Bittersweet to say farewell to MS student James Avaala. He contributed to many projects & trained many students. I'll never forget his hard work over break (despite my insistence to take time off) to complete expts for an article revision. Next: PhD @ FSU! Last pic: ceremonial dumping of tubes!

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.

Here is the comment I posted commenting on the OMB Rules about federal funding. My is jut an example: It's key to personalize it and this tool from @faseborg.bsky.social helps one do so. Do it NOW--the future of American science is at stake www.faseb.org/science-poli...

Dfm1 promotes Ste24-dependent translocon quality control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735875v1

White House draft regulations could reshape federally funded research, including peer review and international collaborations. Learn what's proposed and why it matters. Comments due July 13. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-house-draft-regulations-could-reshape-american-science/

Bittersweet to say farewell to Katrina, who performed undergrad research in my lab for 4 yrs! I'm so proud of the way Katrina has persevered through challenging times, in & out of the lab. I can't wait to see the great things she does in the future! Last pic is the Ceremonial Dumping of the Tubes!

Young, Brazilian football fan being bullied for his hair gets words on encouragement from Erling Haaland on his birthday: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Me relentlessly harassing my colleagues for feedback at every step of grant writing

Okay fine but I'd like to see how the Belgians would do against us in one of OUR sports. Like beer pong. Or lawn mower racing. Or hot dog eating.

Congrats to MS student Kaikeyi & team on our latest #micropublication! We validated & extended results obtained by undergrads in our cell bio CURE @ BSU showing the E4 Ufd2 helps cells resist proteotoxic stress. Grateful to work with this team of TAs (James, Chance, Joseph) & colleague (Jason)!

Ubiquitin-elongating enzyme Ufd2 confers resistance to hygromycin B in Saccharomyces cerevisiae #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Scerevisiae #PhenotypeData #UndergraduateResearchExper https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002152

After some good funding news, we are hiring! Looking for a postdoc to join our team and lead our explorations into transposon repression by the nuclear lamina. Check out the full ad on our lab website at buchwalter-lab.github.io/postdoc-ad.pdf + contact me to learn more!

Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus has been building over the last few months. In the coming weeks, we’ll be highlighting all the articles in this issue. First up, we have an interview with our Guest Editor @abbybuch.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #CellBio #nucleus

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our #SGD booth at last night's #Yeast26 poster session! Especially our best bud who's clearly ready for some serious budding yeast research 🐕✨ Who needs AirBud when you've got a YeastBud? 🧬💙 🧪 #SGD #YeastResearch

We are getting crystals! But are currently are very limited in microscopes. Any suggestions for the cheapest thing we could get that would still allow us to see and harvest? Thanks in advance!

Congratulations to #KarenArndt #UniversityOfPittsburgh presenting the #Yeast26 Lee Hartwell lecture and sharing the journey from #RTF1 to the #PafComplex (#Paf1C) (leaving me scrambling to learn about #AnchorAway). @genetics-gsa.bsky.social