🏆 Sara Wickström erhält den Körber-Preis für die Europäische #Wissenschaft 2026! Wickström gilt als eine der Begründerinnen der Zellkern-Mechanobiologie, die den Einfluss physischer Kräfte auf Zellen untersucht. @mpi-muenster.bsky.social 👉 Jetzt mehr zur Preisträgerin erfahren: shorturl.at/3cEdw

The plasmids from Karapidaki et al. are on Addgene! Grab them here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

The first time the camera was on me not my slides. Coincidentally, We both suggest that dynamic interactions among cells shapes diverse epithelial organisations from an initial similar state. Great support from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social and Ashoka University.

Check out our new publication @dev-journal.bsky.social! If you thought that cell divisions challenge tissue boundaries ... you got half of the story! Using in vivo quantitative microscopy and math. modelling we show that divisions fluidize tissues and facilitate boundary refinement. 🧪 #drosophila

The cell cortex behaves like a sorting hat: it groups membrane proteins by how tightly they bind to dynamic actin. 🪄🎩 Insightful post from Teodora Piskova covering recent work of the #MayorLab & team @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social #CellBio #preprint #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

Bhaval discusses our work to give an exploratory view on the forces driving epithelial diversity. Check it out!

This image here shows a 3D-rendered cristae from the mouse's inner ear. In red ♥️ is F-actin marking cell junctions and the 💙 is beta-Spectrin 2 marking the mechano-sensory hair cells. These are important for the sense of balance and linear acceleration.

Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪

My favourite gene, Vangl2 in action

Excited to embark on this scientific journey with Ewa Paluch and Daniel StJohnston to understand fundamentals of epithelial tissue and cell shapes! Thank you to @erc.europa.eu for the support!

Ever wondered how tissues have diverse organisations? We did with some experiments on sensory epithelia of 🐣 🐟 and 🐁. We found that these epithelia are initially very similar. As they develop, cell types acquire a solid/fluid-like mechanical state driving the cellular organisation. Comments welcome!

#authorinterview Anubhav Prakash @prakash-patterns.bsky.social from Prof Raj Ladher lab earlab.bsky.social at NCBS, Bangalore talks about his work on "Kompartment Konnection: How the Cochlea Coordinates for a Perfect Design" PLOS Biology biopatrika.com/academia/res... @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social

link.growkudos.com/1efpeb7d8n4 A short article is now available at Kudos on our work @earlab.bsky.social at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social about how the cochlea generates its pattern.

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Editor's insightful commentary on our work in cochlear morphogenesis.

Our September issue is online! www.embopress.org/toc/17574684... On the cover: AAV-mediated delivery of Clic5 restores inner ear structure & function in a model of hereditary hearing and balance loss 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s443... Scientific image: R. Hahn & K. Avraham, at Tel Aviv University

We show the Organ of Corti is composed of adhesion-molecule based compartments and the interaction between these compartments (compartment coupling) drives pattern and polarity. This seems like a fundamental design principle of developing tissues.

#LatestPublication In a latest study published in PLOS Genetics, Ramankaushik and team from Dr Raj Ladher's lab describe a new role for protocadherin-15 in patterning the hair cell. 🎉Congratulations to the team! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

preprint: Using a combination of experiments and theory, we show that force patterning at apical junctions drives three-dimensional spatial organisation in multi-cell-type epithelia. Give us your comments!

#authorinterview Anubhav Prakash @prakash-patterns.bsky.social from Prof Raj Ladher lab @earlab.bsky.social, NCBS @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talks about his work on "Pushing and pulling cells from chaos to order" biopatrika.com/academia/res... @natcomms.nature.com

#LatestPublication in @natcomms.nature.com by Dr Raj Ladher & team show that fine-tuned junctional mechanics are vital for aligning polarity in chicken cochlea. 🎉Congratulations to the team! @prakash-patterns.bsky.social @earlab.bsky.social Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My PhD work on the development of spatial organisation and planar polarity in avian auditory epithelia is now published @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...