Want to image cells protecting the embryo during early development? We're hiring! 1 Postdoc, 1 PhD student, and 1 Research Technician. Come to Barcelona! www.embryobioimaging.com

Our joint experimental research with Gary Ying Wai Chan's group from HKU, dedicated to the first of its kind mechanosensitive endonuclease activated by DNA mechanical stress, was published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Fei He and Long Jie from our lab! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Met Yan Jie at Changi Airport while waiting for my connecting flight to Shenzhen. Life is full of surprises.

Having a good time at the ASB 2025 conference.

Hearty congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Matthew Baker @phatmattbaker.bsky.social who was awarded the MacAulay-Hope Prize for originality and innovation in #biophysics at the @aus-soc-biophys.bsky.social meeting #ASB2025 at Griffith University Gold Coast campus.

🧠 Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship 🧠 Please repost BBSRC NWD project with @parikki.bsky.social and @iamabyron.bsky.social Come join us to look at how mechanical and oxidative stress signalling pathways converge on the synaptic scaffold protein talin. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

*Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship available* This MRC DiMeN DTP funded project will look at the direct interactions between talin and the hypoxic response machinery to define the protective mechanisms at play in cells that protect against oxygen depletion www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Want to make focal adhesions with light? Wonder what role phase separation plays in focal adhesions and what is required to create one? Check out our preprint! Thanks to @artemefremov.bsky.social and everyone involved. Stay tuned for more on this topic in the not so distant future!

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

These were amazing several days at the conference organized by MBI and Max Planck Society. One of the best mechanobiology conferences I have ever seen, with three hundred researchers from all over the world, including some of the most famous ones.

It is nice to see people you know all over the world. Go MBI team!

Our study on the mechanosensitive behavior of cell adhesion, showing the existence of a force-transmission mechanism that behaves very differently from the well-known 'load-and-fail' mechanism, was published in Nature Physics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experimental measurements show that the size of the cell nucleus has highly nonlinear dependence on the cell volume: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...