morstein.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Caltech | Chemical Biologist morsteinlab.caltech.edu
👤 Joined on 19 November 2024
Followers
Following
Total Posts
@morstein.bsky.socialWow, we’re famous! (As a real-life inhabitant of the 4th floor of Weill Hall, I can neither confirm nor deny that freezer alarms are promptly dealt with)
Show PostCheck out our latest paper on efficacy photoswitches that can locally light up opioid receptors, thus avoiding unwanted central and peripheral side effects (respiratory depression, constipation). www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Show PostVery excited to be traveling back to the USA for the first time since the end of my postdoc with Ben Cravatt in 2017. It is going to be a big one with 2 conferences, 4 department visits and 6 talks over the next two weeks. Looking forward to a great (and probably also exhausting) trip. (1/5)
Show PostI am thrilled about the Nobel Prize for Optogenetics! And I’m happy that the Nobel committee correctly portrayed the role Chemistry played in the development of this field: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026...
Show PostThis story in @natcellbio.nature.com by the amazing @mathilda95.bsky.social is the final flourish in a series of papers over the last year during which we reported a solution to the lipid imaging problem in biology. Stay tuned for the next chapters!
Show Post