FitzpatrickLab's profile picture. Assistant Professor @ZuckermanBrain @ColumbiaBiochem. Lab uses cryo-EM & biophysics to study the cellular, molecular, and structural basis of neurodegeneration.

Fitzpatrick Laboratory

@FitzpatrickLab

Assistant Professor @ZuckermanBrain @ColumbiaBiochem. Lab uses cryo-EM & biophysics to study the cellular, molecular, and structural basis of neurodegeneration.

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New preprint from @DuXDaniel @FitzpatrickLab shows #femtosecond light pulses can lens electron beams, promising higher contrast in #cryoET and better aberration correction in #cryoEM biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Experiments made possible by support from @cziscience #ImagingTheFuture

FitzpatrickLab's tweet image. New preprint from @DuXDaniel @FitzpatrickLab shows #femtosecond light pulses can lens electron beams, promising higher contrast in #cryoET and better aberration correction in #cryoEM

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Experiments made possible by support from @cziscience #ImagingTheFuture

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Structural basis of regulated N-glycosylation at the secretory translocon: nature.com/articles/s4158…


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If you only read one of our research group's papers this year - make it: "How small molecules stablize oligomers of a phase-separating disordered protein" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


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ROS transfer at peroxisome-mitochondria contact regulates mitochondrial redox | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…


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Genome‐wide association studies of TDP‐43 proteinopathy and hippocampal sclerosis reveal shared genetic associations with APOE and TMEM106B - Godrich - 2025 - Alzheimer's & Dementia - Wiley Online Library alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…


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Excited to share @Nature: How does naloxone (Narcan) stop an opioid overdose? We determined the first GDP-bound μ-opioid receptor–G protein (wt) structures and found naloxone traps a novel "latent” state, preventing GDP release and G protein activation. 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…


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Neurons transmit signals through synaptic vesicle release, but the nanoscale dynamics of this process have been unclear. In a new Science study, researchers report using time-resolved cryo–electron tomography to visualize synaptic vesicle dynamics in situ and propose a unified…

ScienceMagazine's tweet image. Neurons transmit signals through synaptic vesicle release, but the nanoscale dynamics of this process have been unclear.

In a new Science study, researchers report using time-resolved cryo–electron tomography to visualize synaptic vesicle dynamics in situ and propose a unified…

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Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top #antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️ A team effort by @mehsehret @cmholab & Anurag Shukla @AkhilVaidya1 #cryoEM

mimi1inh's tweet image. Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top #antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️

A team effort by @mehsehret @cmholab & Anurag Shukla @AkhilVaidya1 #cryoEM

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New work from @stephentang23 et al. that describes a fascinating set of reverse transcriptases involved in antiviral immunity. They synthesize tandem-repeat cDNAs that resemble telomeres, revealing an unexpected bacterial evolutionary origin of telomerase. Check out the thread!

Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. doi.org/10.1101/2025.1…

stephentang23's tweet image. Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.

doi.org/10.1101/2025.1…


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Fascinating study from the Mao & Jiang lab: four amino acid residues unique to naked mole-rat cGAS, but absent in humans, are critical for efficient DNA repair, delaying aging and expanding life span. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…


As ever, beautiful #cryoEM work from the lab of Hong Zhou with field-defining insights using #cryoET: “Kiss-shrink-run” unifies mechanisms for synaptic vesicle exocytosis and hyperfast recycling | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…


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One of my favorite technologies, developed in recent years, is two-photon holographic optogenetics. It is a way to both stimulate and record activity from thousands of individual neurons in real-time; akin to playing the brain like a piano. Here is how it works: In classical…


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How does hunger spur us to consume? @Columbia scientists have found a brain area that drives mice to consume sweets, fats, salt & food. This finding may inform novel treatments for both overeating and undereating. See @CellCellPress #neuroscience zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/brain-dial-con…

ZuckermanBrain's tweet image. How does hunger spur us to consume? @Columbia scientists have found a brain area that drives mice to consume sweets, fats, salt & food. This finding may inform novel treatments for both overeating and undereating. See @CellCellPress #neuroscience
zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/brain-dial-con…

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CSF total tau as a proxy of synaptic degeneration: nature.com/articles/s4146…


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Apoptotic vesicle release from a cell as it gives up the ghost under oxidative stress, as seen by MOSAIC lattice light sheet mode.


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Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, @csche11h, @sokrypton, @befcorreia and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. nature.com/articles/s4158…


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We’re excited to announce our new paper on Time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy! This technique rapidly freezes living cells during imaging, adding temporal info to cryo-fixed samples for deeper analysis. Huge thanks to our amazing collaborators. nature.com/articles/s4137…


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SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…


New "Mindscapes" exhibit @ZuckermanBrain featuring #cryoEM structures of #TMEM106B #amyloid fibrils (doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…) & the ligand-bound human sweet receptor (doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…) from the Fitzpatrick (fitzpatrick-lab.org) & Zuker (zukerlab.com) labs.

FitzpatrickLab's tweet image. New "Mindscapes" exhibit @ZuckermanBrain featuring #cryoEM structures of #TMEM106B #amyloid fibrils (doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…) & the ligand-bound human sweet receptor (doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…) from the Fitzpatrick (fitzpatrick-lab.org) & Zuker (zukerlab.com) labs.

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CryoEM structure of the human uromodulin filaments (PDB code: 9NU3) #scivis #molecularart @dzine_ai @proteinimaging behance.net/gallery/226765…

fenguita's tweet image. CryoEM structure of the human uromodulin filaments (PDB code: 9NU3) #scivis #molecularart @dzine_ai @proteinimaging 
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New online! Integrated structural biology of the native malarial translation machinery and its inhibition by an antimalarial drug bit.ly/4mluP07

NatureSMB's tweet image. New online! Integrated structural biology of the native malarial translation machinery and its inhibition by an antimalarial drug bit.ly/4mluP07

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