Rita Strack

New York

Scientific editor at Nature Methods. Ph.D. Love methods for seeing the invisible. 🔬 All tweets and comments represent my independent views. (she/her)

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Articles

Acoustic sectioning for volumetric imaging - Nature Methods

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Rita Strack

Ultrasound imaging has long been a staple in biomedicine, but recent advances in super-resolution ultrasound and genetically encoded echogenic probes have renewed interest in using this modality for basic research in animals and other models where tissue opacity is prohibitive to exploration by optical microscopy. David Maresca of the Delft University of Technology and colleagues were inspired by innovations in light-sheet and multi-photon microscopy to improve volumetric ultrasound imaging.
Structural biology at the plasma membrane - Nature Methods

Mar 12, 2025 | nature.com | Rita Strack

Justin Taraska, Kem Sochacki and Jenny Hinshaw have long been interested in biological processes like endocytosis that occur at the plasma membrane. Their collaborative team at the US National Institutes of Health wanted to develop a strategy that would overcome existing limitations and improve the study of plasma membrane proteins with cryoET.
Subcellular spatial proteomics - Nature Methods

Dec 6, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

Advances in multiplexed super-resolution microscopy will usher in the next era of spatial proteomics.
Making an impact with fluorescent probes - Nature Methods

Oct 9, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

For Nature Methods’ 20th anniversary, our current and past editors reminisce about their favorite papers, initiatives and projects at the journal. Even before I became an editor, Nature Methods was always my favorite journal. I published my first first-author paper in the journal in 2008. I was engineering fluorescent proteins as a graduate student, and I had made one in particular, DsRed-Express2, that we thought could be broadly impactful.
Neurotransmitters at a glance - Nature Methods

Jul 12, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

Machine learning approaches can distinguish six different classes of presynapses from electron micrographs across the Drosophila brain.
Profiling single molecules in solution - Nature Methods

Jun 12, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

A label-free optical technique enables monitoring of the dynamic properties of individual biomolecules as they move freely in solution.
Probing single-molecule loading rates - Nature Methods

May 14, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

The generation, sensing and use of mechanical force is crucial for countless aspects of cell physiology, and researchers have explored many aspects of mechanobiology, down to the single-molecule scale. “Researchers have been able to measure the magnitude of such single-molecule forces for 30 years,” notes Taekjip Ha of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a long-time part of the community studying molecular forces.
Protein–ligand structure prediction - Nature Methods

Apr 12, 2024 | nature.com | Rita Strack

Zhuoran Qiao and Thomas Miller III of Iambic Therapeutics, Animashree Anandkumar of Nvidia Corporation and the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues sought to address this challenge and develop an approach that can predict protein–ligand complex structures using only protein sequences and molecular graphs of ligands as primary inputs.
FocalPlane playlist: Rita Strack

Feb 7, 2024 | focalplane.biologists.com | Rita Strack

I was really excited to be invited to create a blog post with my very own “microscopy mix tape” on the FocalPlane blog. I am a huge fan of the work The Company of Biologists does, and I am a consummate consumer of all things FocalPlane as well. Just by way of quick introduction, I am a microscopy geek who happens to also have been the editor handling microscopy, imaging, and probes at Nature Methods for the past ~nine years.
Imaging across scales - Nature Methods

Dec 6, 2023 | nature.com | Rita Strack

New twists on established methods and multimodal imaging are poised to bridge gaps between cellular and organismal imaging. However, as imaging technologies improve, the overlap between what can be observed by microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic modalities grows.