Up to 9-channel (3x3 colors) imaging using engineering fluorescent proteins (mTurquoise, mNeonGreen, mScarlet) with distinct lifetimes 🌈😎 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

There's a Money Mark (Beastie Boys' sound engineer) song about this! youtu.be/wHn2tfOS5Pk?...

Belated Happy Zond 5 day! 57 years ago, the first earthlings (two tortoises!) circumnavigated the moon aboard the Zond 5 spacecraft: nasa.gov/history/50-y... The re-entry was rather rough, so humans would not have survived it. The tortoises stayed alive.

Now that's long-term funding

Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Cooking saturday night 💃 cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

Can't get really more niche that a 1-hour show about the soundtrack to Mike Carroll's parts in 1990s skateboarding videos but that's my niche www.nts.live/shows/skate-...

In case you still have a too many figs problem @superkash.bsky.social www.bonappetit.com/gallery/drie...

God bless armenian bakeries

🚨 Exciting news: I got over my obsession with synapses! 😂Thank you everyone for the fun work! 💪 🙏 Look at those pretty neurons 👇

Time to add some ExM to #FluorescenceFriday ! Sample description in alt-text.

With the caveat productivity is defined as the number of papers published, it's notable to see that the gender and English proficiency gaps are about the same overall. Then the gender gap decreases along the career, while the English proficiency gap widens

It's #FluorescenceFriday! Another movie from our preprint, showing exocytosis of VAMP2-pHluorin (live-cell TIRF, blue) correlated with 2-color STORM of spectrins (green) and clathrin-coated pits (magenta). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W

Awesomeness from the NeuroCyto lab (kudos @wiesner-t.bsky.social for great story)! They found exocytosis in "holes" within the axon's spectrin skeleton, separate from endocytosis sites. Our team mapped structural patterns and disruptions (via #SReD). Thanks for including us @christlet.bsky.social

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

Mäntylä, E., & Ihalainen, T. O. (2021). Brick Strex: a robust device built of LEGO bricks for mechanical manipulation of cells. Scientific Reports, #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lovely to see David Stephens highlighted in 100 years of cell biologists at J. Cell Sci., alongside Linda Amos, Peter Medawar, Juan Bonifacino, and others journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New NeuroCyto preprint about to drop! @wiesner-t.bsky.social 😎⏳

And now for something completely different @tianyang22.bsky.social & #YanCao uncover of how SPIN90 dimers activate Arp2/3 to nucleate bidirectional linear actin filaments. Great collaboration with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social & @carolynmoores1.bsky.social #Cryo-EM #Arp2/3 rdcu.be/eGoH4

Registration is open for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting. Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti, the meeting will focus on the interface between cell biology and imaging. For more info: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

"It's not a phase mom"

We present a simple method to easily increase the imageable depth of an expansion microscopy gel on a typical inverted microscope ten-fold, using some carefully placed FEP film and a water dipping objective lens:

Back on track 🚵‍♂️

Wu-Tang is forever @npanayotis.bsky.social

Finally heading home after a full week of Synergy grant auditions in Brussels. Amazing science, passionate applicants, dedicated panel colleagues and chairs, hard choices. The @erc.europa.eu is a big chance that needs more funding!

Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31) fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com *This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!* PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!

And then God said fuck it I'm just putting googly eyes on those

Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)

Thursday night. 4 days in, 1 to go

Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding. shorturl.at/63yFo

✨ Post-doc opportunity in axon biology, funded by #ATIP-Avenir! 👀 We are looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to join our team at @ibdm.bsky.social to explore translation dynamics in axon regrowth, using live imaging approaches. Apply at: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Thank you for sharing! 👋 🙏

Really enjoying reading this primer on single particle tracking #microscopy by @svanteeffelen.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s43... (pdf on Sven's website)

Excited to share that my paper on Tau–Microtubule interactions is now published in Nature Physics!🎉 Our work shows that tau goes beyond stabilizing microtubules—it also promotes the removal of defects in the microtubule lattice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The kind of track everyone remembers when and where they heard it first youtu.be/gHiqPG0526U?...

Excited to share our preprint, now available online on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... We uncovered the coupling of translation and secretion machineries at the #axonalER to promote local delivery of axonal transmembrane proteins (TMPs) to the plasma membrane.

I just published: Meet the bioRxiv Affiliates The best and most exciting science often gets preprinted — while many of the more questionable papers that do pop up in high-profile journals skip preprint posting altogether. medium.com/p/meet-the-b...

I will not be lectured on the way academia should work by people leaning on tech billionaire money, thank you

Tee-shirt from Noma. What is true for cooking is even truer for research: Try new things!

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research? Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎 Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open: pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

Interviews of the #SyG2025 are in full speed this week! If you are preparing a proposal for the #SyG2026 call, this video will help you get the overview 👇👇 Deadline 5 November - 17h (Brussels time) 🍀🍀🍀 Good luck!

Just discovered there's an event in the Drosophila phylogenetic tree called "Hawaïan Radiation" and now I want that as a band name

Ponzi Chain Reaction

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

A good introduction to the mystery of eels. Truly amazing creatures, made me think of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's funny drawings

I couldn't eat at Noma (obviously) but I got a nice tasting of their secret sauces in the greenhouse next to the restaurant

Last day in Copenhagen. Tonight, Brussels!

Theseus the Tank Engine

Choose wisely when shopping in Copenhagen