A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology. We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Very excited that our discovery of Sms1 as the #MAPK #scaffold of fission yeast mating has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! @biology-unige.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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📣 New preprint from our lab! How does the cell place septins to actin or microtubules (MTs) with septins being ~10-100 times less than actin/tubulin? We found a phosphorylation switch controlled by GSK3 that makes that call 🧫🔬🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723191v1 1/7

If you are around Geneva the 4th June, don't miss the Post-Doc day! A one day symposium full of science and fun!😋🤪 Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/HhExfxLStV

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

Life’s diversity is shaped not only by genes, but also by mechanical forces. Congrats to our colleagues on this interdisciplinary breakthrough 👏 🔗 https://ow.ly/j3rO50YUsF5

We’re hiring a scientist to work on microscopy at Calico! If you’re excited about developing and applying cutting edge microscopy to a variety of biological questions, we’d love to hear from you. Find more information and apply here: www.calicolabs.com/careers/?gh_...

One week left to apply to join us in sunny Montpellier as a group leader!

Excited to share our paper on the NLRP3 inflammasome condensate at the Microtubule Organizing Center (MTOC) by "precise!" cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), in collaboration with Jue (phyllis) Wang in the labs of Grant Jensen (BYU) and Pete Dahlberg (Stanford)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our flagship conference celebrating everything centrosomes and cilia returns this year and it promises to be another exceptional scientific event in the beautiful city of Lausanne, 1–4 September. 👉 Abstract submission+registration deadline 1 June Don’t miss the opportunity to share your research 🤩

The Landoni Lab opens this summer at UNIL! @fbm-unil.bsky.social 🔬 Quantitative #imaging + systems biology to decipher how #metabolic architecture & #mtDNA dynamically shape tissue development, #aging and #mitodisease. Beyond excited to fire up the lasers, open positions soon! 🧪 #mitochondria #newPI

The beauty of Nature 😍

Day 1 of the EMBO U-ExM Workshop at EMBL Heidelberg #EMBOExM Great to see this workshop finally kicking off, engaged discussions, talks, and our first gelation and expansion already underway. Many thanks to our sponsors for their support! Looking forward to the next days !!

Today we had our Science Club series with @kilianzuchan.bsky.social ! Super interesting research to understand and optimize the functions of hydrogenases :) #postdoclife #Unige

Very cool probe to label doublet MTs and therefore centrioles across different species and set ups (from live imaging, STED and expansion)!😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a human MALAT1 overexpression plasmid. Does any of you kind people have it?

🔬IGMM (CNRS/ Univ Montpellier) is hiring Group Leaders in Innovative Biology. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social 📅 1 May–15 June 2026 📩 [email protected] 📎Full information 👇 #LifeScience #MolecularBiology #Research #PI #CNRS

Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6

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

Sketch of a Hornbill Graphite on paper 5x7 #art #birds #nature #sciart

The next of our Special Guest Presenters on CCAP’s online training course later this month is Dr Hiral Shah. Dr Shah's talk is entitled "Exploring cytoskeletal diversity across eukaryotes using expansion microscopy" See the link below for course details 👇 www.ccap.ac.uk/index.php/algaculture2026/

Happy to share our latest work spearheaded by super talented PhD student Muyang Ren now out as a bioRxiv preprint. 'Motile ciliophagy promotes ciliary recycling under stress' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really cool study using CLEM to determine the intermediates steps of intracellular ciliogenesis😉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #cilia #CLEM

We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Unveiling the molecular architecture of T cells and immune synapses with cryo-expansion microscopy. wow. really cool imaging here. especially if you like immune cells www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism. #ProtistOnSky #diplonemid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is a glimpse of the cytoskeletal structures we found doing U-ExM in more than 200 species, now in Cell🤩: shorturl.at/6oHvi Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs. I believe last one is a 🕷️ #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

📢 We are #hiring! ▫️Group Leader in Chemical Biology ▫️Group Leader in Structural Biology ▫️Head, Advanced #Genomics Technologies Core Facility ▫️Lab Technician ▫️ People Administration Officer ...& many more!  ➡️ https://bit.ly/irbjobs #IRBJobs #ScienceJobs #JobOffer #OncoSky #AcademicSky

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026 We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch! #teamtomo

🪰 Join us at the Swiss Drosophila Meeting on June 29 at the University of Geneva! 🌟 Connect with peers and explore exciting research. Don’t miss out! 👉 swiss-drosophila-meeting.unige.ch #Drosophila #ScienceEvent @biology-unige.bsky.social

It's #fluorescentfriday! Have a look at our latest issue of #CYTOSKELETON here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592...

When you still haven't solved the orientation bias of your protein sample #CryoEM

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!

If you are protist enthusiast early in your career and you want hands-on training in collecting and handling protists for all your research goals, please apply to join us in Roscoff for a week-long course this summer! opbc.sciencesconf.org

The best stories are the personal ones. So before we get to the new preprint, stay awhile and listen #MobileLabs #TREC

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb... #WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪

🔬 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Spain is officially launched as the Spanish node (@eurobioimaging-es.bsky.social) of Europe’s leading #bioimaging infrastructure. Proud to be part of it through our Advanced Digital Microscopy Facility! ▶️

Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... co-first with: @andschwarz.bsky.social with: @lea-dietrich.bsky.social, @sgiando.bsky.social, @erin-schuman.bsky.social and many more 🧵 0/6 #MolBio 🧪

This monday we had our monthly Sciences Club. Here Cesar Bernat is showing his work on CHMP1A in mammalian cells in the @rouxlab.bsky.social ! #postdoclife

🚨 New preprint! Together with @carobarisch.bsky.social lab, we investigated how intracellular compartmentalization shapes lipid acquisition in mycobacteria Interestingly, deleting one FACL enzyme (FACL6) revealed striking compartment-dependent phenotypes 🔬 Check it out: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to share our preprint on our new multi-omic atlas of human hindbrain development. Led by postdoc Piyush Joshi, in collaboration with @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and Pfister labs, our atlas represents the first comprehensive view of human hindbrain development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. 👀 Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have a theory about how far spacex will get with either of these efforts www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! I’m Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social 👋 I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells. Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!

Ever wanted to hold a cilium in your hand? 🧬✨ Here is a look at how I’m using CiliaBuilder in @UCSFChimeraX to generate accurate 3D prints of centrioles and cilia. Perfect for teaching or lab displays! Watch the process: youtu.be/IKnnp3ovptQ #CryoEM #CellBio #ChimeraX