Are you ready for a symposium dedicated to microtubule dynamics, function, and structure? 🙌 #EESMicrotubules will bring together researchers who share an interest in microtubule biology and its relevance to health and disease 🩺 💻 s.embl.org/ees26-09-bl#EESMicrotubules✒️ Submit your abstract by 11 March

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

The FMI just opened a position for a junior group leader in structural biology. Check it out. Join us!

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! bit.ly/47mmiFF

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

20 years of the EMBO Lab Leadership course - an amazing achievement! Thank you so much to everyone who has been part of the course over the years 🙏 Come and find out for yourself why this incredible training has stood the test of time: www.embolableadership.org #lifescience #EMBOLabLead

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme. ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... 🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob

Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek... @asapbio.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social

The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

If you want to discover Vienna, Austria in general (and @istaresearch.bsky.social groups in particular) now have 4-year fellowships for postdocs coming from a US institution (up to 500,000 EUR)! Contact me if interested!

📢 Abstract submission deadline reminder for 'Cell biology of the nucleus'! Before packing your bags and leaving for your summer vacation, there is one important task left to do: submit your abstract for #EESNucleus ✍️ Deadline is 26 August: https://s.embl.org/ees25-07-bl

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course! Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬 📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social 💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens: 🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Before summer kicks in, register to one of our online courses in September: @embo.org Lab Leadership for Group Leaders (03-05.09) + for Postdocs (10-12.09), Project Management (17-19.09) and Negotiation for Scientists (18-19.09). Apply through the website now: www.embolableadership.org/our-courses/

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... #plantscience

We're looking for creative engineers/tinkerers/tool builders that want to engage with cutting-edge research questions in our lab at the @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social Please help me share the word!

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!

How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very sad, but my sabbatical at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is coming to an end.... matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/my-sabbati...

Congrats Jenna!!!

Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2

EMBO is #hiring a Scientific Editor (Absence cover) to join @emboreports.org. Apply by 8 June: buff.ly/seVUgYW 🧪

Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social in collaboration with Sudarshan and Deepak Nair. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A dream come true: the first expansion microscopy images of C. flexa 🤩 Generated by Mylan & Uzuki who learned from the best (@hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social). We will learn so much from these!

Looking for a student or postdoc! Want to combine evolutionary analysis + structural modeling with in vitro biochemistry & fluorescence microscopy? Help us uncover new protein-protein interactions — from in silico to in vitro. Join us at @istaresearch.bsky.social 👉 looselab.org 🧬💡🔬🎡

Ever wondered how organs take shape? Join us to find out! The Organ Mechanobiology Lab @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social is recruiting Graduate Trainees. Perfect for final-year students curious about tissue mechanics, development & cell biology. Check out the ad below 👇 Please RT! Thanks🙏

🧠🦠🚨 New preprint alert! We’ve built the first trait database for Amoebozoa, and showcase ecological insights and evolutionary patterns. If you're into protists, soil ecology, or functional biodiversity - this is for you! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky 🧵👇

My postdoctoral work on the non-canonical role of an autophagy-related protein at the spindle pole body (SPB) is now out in @plosbiology.org (doi.org/10.1371/jour...).

State of the art cellular structural biology! Congrats Sven 👏👏👏 With a small contribution of the @embl.org EMCF

Mamata Bangera, iitmadras shows cryoEM of structures of microtubules from Plasmodium. Protofilaments in Plasmodium microtubules are stiffer. Properties may lead to the observed innate variation in protofilament number in microtubules. #M2T22025

First Post! Thrilled to share our lab's first evolutionary cytoskeleton study! We uncover two distinct FtsZ paralogs in Odinarchaeota OdinFtsZ1 forms curved filaments, while OdinFtsZ2 assembles into spiral rings. A glimpse into tubulin evolution! threads👇 #Eukaryogenesis #AsgardArchaea #cytoskeleton

Very excited that the lab's first paper is out! We showed that in stem cells, Aurora B controls abscission dynamics by regulating microtubules stability and MCAK recruitment. Very happy with this streamlined version of our 2024 preprint. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch! Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint 🥳 doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633479 🧵(1/8)

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

Lots of excitement at the #MCBM workshop as participants image #UExM gels! NCBS pond is packed with biodiversity! Thanks @thattai.bsky.social, Sonia Sen & Anshika Singh for putting together a fantastic workshop. It has been a blast interacting with all the fantastic participants & TAs!

Our workshop has kicked off! Amazing instructors Aditya Nayak, @hiralshah.bsky.social and @stpalli.bsky.social will teach participants from all over India how to use expansion microscopy, holography and a flatbed scanner to study the shapes and structures of protists! www.ncbs.res.in/events/marin...

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)

FocalPlane, the microscopy community site hosted by @jcellsci.bsky.social, is open for contributions from anyone in the imaging community. Once registered, you can freely share your blog post, job advert or event notice. And drop us a msg if you'd like to contribute to our 'Featured image' series!

Super excited to see all this activity on BlueSky! 👋 I'm a cell biologist/biophysicist interested in how the cell interior is organised by stochastic interactions between the cytoskeleton, motor proteins and organelles. I also care deeply about equity and inclusion in academia. 1/2

Discussed in my fungal biology MSc course today if the public image of fungi is generally rather positive or negative. Probably rather negative. Or is the tide turning? This is important, because we can only conserve what we appreciate. So how can we change this? What do you think?

I just want to #welcome all the new members with a beautiful multinucleated #Ichthyosporean just before undergoing #cellularization to form a transient #multicellular stage. Imaged using #Expansion #Microscopy ( #UExM ) Species: Sphaeroforma arctica Blue: Nuclei Magenta: Tubulin

The next GRC on volume Electron Microscopy is coming soon. Don't miss this opportunity and apply now as the number of seats is limited. #volumeEM www.grc.org/volume-elect... As I am new to bsky, please share widely (do we still say retweet?). 🙏