Join us this Thursday (Jan 29) at 5pm CET for the first #MembraneTrafficking seminars of 2026, featuring two outstanding scientists, Giovanni D'Angelo (EPFL) and Sean Munro (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social), and the shared topic of protein trafficking, retention & sorting at the #Golgi 🥞

Two PhD positions just opened in the Gallego lab at our department @melisupf.bsky.social @upf.edu @prbb.org! #MembraneTrafficking in cryo-tolerant systems, with wet lab and computational projects available. Come do cool (and cold 😉) science with Oriol in Barcelona!

Happy to highlight our collaborative work from our @ijmonod.bsky.social team with @destriano.bsky.social, B. Goyeau and M. Chabanon. Cytoplasmic crowding acts as a porous medium that hinders macromolecular diffusivity. Plus: a clever way to measure cell volume. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share a new story that transformed how we think about membrane domains in the ER! rdcu.be/eR7Cn ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferencing proteins for rapid ER export Wondering what’s so new and exciting? Skytorial below! 1/9

I’ll soon share a call for a postdoc at Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on fundamental mechanisms of membrane traffic and protein/collagen secretion in health and disease. Please get in touch if interested.

🔬🔦 Imaging spotlight on FocalPlane @janakroll.bsky.social and colleagues highlight their research visualising synaptic vesicle fusion using cryo-ET combined with plunge freezing and optogenetics. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/21/i...

0/10 🥳 our #exocyst paper out in @cp-cell.bsky.social, led by Marta, Sebas & @sasmeek.bsky.social in collab with @jonasries.bsky.social, @cmanzo.bsky.social & Castaño-Díez labs #Quantitative_Cell_Biology Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Now online! Continuum architecture dynamics of vesicle tethering in exocytosis

Happy that we could contribute to this exciting paper from the @spanglab.bsky.social!

Exciting preprint from @franbottanelli.bsky.social and @annespang.bsky.social! ARF-1 regulates FERARI-mediated endosomal kiss-and-run recycling by controlling selective cargo loading into vesicles. ARF-1 Coordinates Cargo Sorting at FERARI Endosomal Recycling Hubs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Exciting preprint from @felixmendu.bsky.social and Yuichi Wakana! A TGN carrier whose budding is driven by ER–Golgi lipid transfer, PKD activity, and a caveolin-based oligomeric coat! A PKD-caveolin axis drives secretory carrier biogenesis at the TGN www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations Laura, Verena, and everyone else involved!!

⏰ Última setmana per inscriure’s a #científiques 2026! Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps. Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres. 📆Termini: 22/12 🔗https://tuit.cat/TSJhl

Talin didn’t evolve for integrins... integrins evolved for talin 🤯 pN force coupling via talin is ancient, conserved from amoebae to humans; signaling came later. Read this amazing paper here 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❄️🔬⏱️ I am excited to share that our study „Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons” has been published in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇 Short summary of our key findings (1/8)

My excellent collaborator, Giulia Zanetti, is advertising for a post-doc to work on our shared MRC grant. Please consider applying to this great lab with a supportive mentor to do some exciting structural biology. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#membrane seminars are back this THURSDAY for a super session with @dr-downes.bsky.social from the @giuliazanetti.bsky.social lab and Xin Zhou from the Ikonen lab! @felixmendu.bsky.social @ishier.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab!!🎉 We show that Asgard archaea ESCRT-III proteins can trigger membrane fission and reveal its molecular mechanism, offering clues to how these cells may have built internal compartments. But do these organisms even have these compartments? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last week to submit an abstract to the "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" EMBO workshop #EMBOmechanobio 👇

Nice paper from @leventallab.bsky.social suggess lipid-driven domains organise cargo and trafficking machinery at ERES to sort and export transmembrane proteins. ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export. rdcu.be/eR8jj

It was fun, and a great honour, to receive this award in Barcelona last night. I'm speaking tonight about quantum matters for the City Biennal. www.biennalciutaticiencia.barcelona/en/activitie...

ICYMI: New Online! Mechanistic insights into cargo sorting and export from the Golgi apparatus

Check out our @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 Minisymposium on ER Homeostasis. With THIS speaker lineup, this event will be as dynamic, transformative and productive as the ER itself! So don’t 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 yourselves over and join us to 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 in world of the ER. (All PUNS intended.)

Join us at @icfo.eu in Barcelona next February for the 1st @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology". I am convinced it will be very interesting! We have extended the abstract submission deadline to December 8, so no excuses :) #EMBOmechanobio

Announcing a new @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at @icfo.eu (Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏 #EMBOmechanobio meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...

Registration is now open to attend Journal of Cell Science's meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics, organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti. Find out more: biologists.com/meetings/jcs... #JCSimaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #Cells #CellScience

#MembraneTraffickers! Our next online seminar is this Thursday, Nov 6 at 5 PM CEST! We’ll hear from @agatawitkowska.bsky.social on mechanical control of neurotransmission and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social on lipid storage mechanisms in health and disease. Spread the word and join the discussion!

I have two open positions @ALMU @crg.eu: 1. Imaging Scientist (permanent position. Deadline 11th Nov.) recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... 2. Entry-Level Imaging Scientist (12 months fixed-term position. Deadline 18th Nov.) recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Reposts appreciated.

Another great opportunity to join us! 👏 #PostDocPosition #AcademicJobs

Interested in intracellular organization and membrane trafficking? 🥞 Join us at @melisupf.bsky.social in Barcelona! We’re looking for postdocs to apply for a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (PhD between Jan’24–Dec ’25). If you’d like to work with us, get in touch! www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

Reminder: our postdoc and PhD positions are still open. We work across different areas (wet and dry lab), but I am especially after people with a computational biology, bioinformatics, pytorch whisperer kind of background. Protein design and OpenFold/AF also counts.

Calling all #Membrane enthusiasts! Our #MembraneTrafficking online seminar series is back for the 2025-26 season: 8 fantastic speakers from Nov'25 to Feb'26. The first talks are already next Thursday (Nov 6, 5pm CET) with @agatawitkowska.bsky.social and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social !

🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in researching mechanisms of 3D tissue morphogenesis and have experience studying cell dynamics and performing quantitative image analysis, consider joining us @mbisg.bsky.social! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/jobs/seeking...

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab! Reach out directly: [email protected] Learn more: bonetponcelab.com Let’s chat!

We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

Happy October 1st! A good time to share another #CellBio #preprint reading list put together by a team of preLighters: @sristi.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Barbora Knotkova. Check out their picks ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/prelists/sep...

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

intracellular mechanics ! in Barcelona in February (when its freezing anywherelse) !

Check out this new Roadmap, a fantastic team effort by a consortium of ER researchers. Glad we could provide the space for this synthesis, which came out of discussions at a fruitful meeting, see below:

It was a great pleasure to work on this paper. What started as a small meeting in January this year resulted in this beautiful piece of work.

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for the first @embo.org meeting on Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology! Registrations are open, submit your abstract by November 14: we have plenty of slots for short talks! #EMBOMechanobio

🧵 I've been meaning to write a #Skytorial on our recently posted prepring in which we show evidence that the Golgi 🥞 is a mechanoresponsive organelle. Extracellular mechanical forces also tune Golgi export capacity! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is already This Thursday (25th September)! Join us at the @focalplane.bsky.social features #MembraneTrafficking for lots of amazing microscopy and interesting membrane biology! @franbottanelli.bsky.social @ishier.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Check out our latest review on Basement Membranes! Including scaled representation of protein & glycan components 😊 @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

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/...

Membrane Biology: Nothing can replace polyunsaturated lipids Genetic studies reveal that polyunsaturated lipids do more than simply increase the fluidity of the cell membrane. buff.ly/qcLJNUN