The Author File: Robert E. Campbell : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group. From the article: “Campbell’s love of invention-oriented science has guided his career. “However, as I approach my midcareer stage, I’m also finding that focusing on invention alone can be kind of scary,” he says. Hypothesis-driven research will always lead to an answer,…

Probes: paths to photostability : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group. From the article: “The elegance and convenience of having a cell make its own fluorophore outweighs all other considerations for all but a very small number of potential applications, says Campbell. “If I wanted to perform long-term tracking of a cell surface receptor, I…

Congratulations to Yidan and all the coauthors and collaborators. Ratiometric biosensors based on dimerization-dependent fluorescent protein exchange : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group.

Colour-changing proteins shed light on inner workings of live cells – University of Alberta.

Campus Alberta Neuroscience.

Congratulations to Andy for giving an outstanding presentation at the 2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium last month. Andy worked with graduate student Wei Zhang last summer on the development of a photoactivatable kinase.

Yi’s paper  on pHuji is now online at the Journal of Cell Biology! See Figure 1B (which is all Yi’s inspiration) to get the whole story in a glance.

Congratulations to Jiahui and all of our collaborators. We’re sure the REX-GECO will ultimately prove to be one of the most popular red fluorescent Ca2+ indicators! The introduction of calcium ion (Ca2+) indicators based on red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) has created new opportunities for multicolour visualization of intracellular Ca2+dynamics. However, one drawback of these indicators is that…

Graduate students Yi Shen and Matthew Wiens describe a Photochromic and Thermochromic Fluorescent Protein. The Accepted Manuscript was published today in RSC Advances.