The Frenster Lab is here! 🍾 I am so excited to start my #EmmyNoether funded group at @uni-freiburg.de this summer. Our group studies #CellCompetition dynamics during embryonic development using #gastruloids from multiple species. Thanks to the @dfg.de for creating this opportunity! FrensterLab.com

Join speakers @felixmendu.bsky.social, @elisafadda.bsky.social, @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, @nlsamara.bsky.social and @nmriley.bsky.social at the 95th Harden Conference on Linking Golgi trafficking and glycan function in June. Book before Monday for £100 off the registration fees! 🧪 bit.ly/4cSnxzc

Generate new ideas and collaborations regarding the relationships between #glycan biosynthesis and intracellular organisations, and glycan structures and cell biological functions, at our 95th Harden Conference: Linking #Golgi trafficking and glycan function bit.ly/4cSnxzc

Download our database of free database of postdoc fellowships. 276 funding opportunities. For entry, we provide eligibility/requirements, amount, deadline, link, description, etc. Download database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

For our annual alumni newsletter, Sean Munro reflected on his time at the LMB, including how opportunity and curiosity have shaped his group’s research into the Golgi apparatus and his tenure as Head of Division for @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social Watch the interview: youtu.be/xFGb7_RmO9c

💡💡💡 I can testify, CIMR is an awesome place to start your lab. We are currently advertising Fellowship sponsorship for new group leaders...feel free to check out the link below and get in touch if you have any questions! Please RT!! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Do not hesitate and apply to this new opportunity in our department !

Come and join us! Our department just opened a junior PI position for a group leader working on Cell Metabolism, in any of its flavors: could be Metabolism in evolution, aging, disease, biotech, biophysics... you decide:-) Please share!

#JobOffer We’re recruiting a tenure-track group leader working on cell metabolism (broadly defined, including lipid metabolism, organelle bioenergetics, etc.). Happy to chat informally about the department: great science, great people, and strong collaboration opportunities! Reposts appreciated 🙏

1/ 🎯 A therapeutic target that would curb the spread of #coronaviruses has been identified It is an enzyme that is activated in human cells in response to stress due to infection and causes changes in the cellular machinery that favour the production and spread of coronaviruses tuit.cat/5y9Rr

Interested in doing a PhD in tumor mechanobiology? At Université Paris-Saclay, the upcoming PhD selection process is open, and I’m looking to put forward a candidate to join my lab. If you’re excited about uncovering how mechanical signals regulate tumor progression, please get in touch!

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Only one month left to apply!! Remember: CRBM = Good & Happy Science

Less than a week to submit your abstract for #EESMechanobiology. Mechanobiology across the tree of life, from HeLa cells to weird animals and plants. The submission deadline is 3 March: s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl 🗓️ 9 – 12 June 2026

A wonderful collection of contemporary topics and perspectives on secretion and Golgi biology edited by Akihiko Nakano and Jaakko Saraste. The Golgi Network, Volume II @SN and link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Join us on Thursday, March 5, for a free webinar exploring what Diamond Open Access is, why it matters for fair and equitable scholarly publishing and how to transition to community-led, author- and reader-free publishing models. buff.ly/1D5rtkq

#membrane seminars are back this week wirh Manu @deriverylab.bsky.social and Andela Šarić! Join us on Thursday at 5 pm CET spread the word!

Home from a great #EMBO workshop in Barcelona. Intracellular mechanics & organelle Mechanobiology was such a fun topic! @christanny.bsky.social made sure I didn’t get lost. It was great to catch up with @katemiro.bsky.social 1st time in almost 10yrs!!. Thank you to the hosts.. (continued) 1/2

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

CALLING PHDs AND POSTDOCS! Apply for the 20th FEBS/EMBO summer school on Membranes lipids & proteins in organelle biogenesis! Spend a glorious week with leaders in the field on the beautiful island of Spetses in Greece this May. Registration: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl @embo.org @febspress.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday for the next @dgz.bsky.social workshop on #trafficking and EVs! Spread the word please!

Our new paper's out: FidlTrack—structure-aware single-particle tracking benchmarks/boost SPT fidelity With it we resolve with sub-organelle res. e.g. BACE1 amyloidogenic APP cleavage #Alzheimers, ER exit events, map nanobody binding in realtime in ER/organelles 🔬🧠#SingleMolecule rdcu.be/e3Ris

Only a few spots left for this amazing meeting! Just sign up and join us to discuss all #cellbio #imaging things!

If you are in Barcelona next Friday (20th) morning, pass by the PRBB to learn about #MembraneTension dynamics from Erdem Karatekin!

Exciting preprint from the @merz.bsky.social lab proposing how fidelity of membrane fusion is achieved #membranes #trafficking

Postdoc job alert at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris! Interested in fundamental membrane trafficking? We seek a postdoc to study collagen secretion as a model for core principles of how cells and their environment build each other. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

🌞 Do you fancy continuing your research career in Barcelona? 📚 Would you like to work in a research intensive public university? We are now looking for researchers willing to submit a MSCA-PF with us! ➡️ https://www.upf.edu/web/gestio-recerca/msca-pf-expressions-of-interest

18 days left to apply! come join our lab!

👇This is today (Jan 29th), don't miss these #MembraneTrafficking talks!

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...