🎉 Congrats to Louise Fougère, winner of the #SBCF PhD Award 2025! Her work using Arabidopsis, in Yohann Boutté’s lab (Univ. Bordeaux / CNRS) identified a novel ER–Golgi intermediate network, advancing our understanding of Golgi maturation, with key results published in Nature Cell Biology.

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

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I like this movie, but a friend of mine likes to complain about the obvious stitching artifacts. I'll try harder next time, Michael. Vimentin (orange) and ER (blue) in an overnight acquisition.

Calling all bio-theory lovers! If you are into mathematical modeling in life science, quantitative and computational biology come collaborate with us! The Theoretical Biophysics channel is looking for contributors! Check it out: sites.google.com/view/theoret... DM if interested!

📢 Deadline approaching fast 📢 to submit an abstract for the great cytoskeleton extravaganza!

🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐛, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐁 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝! 🚨 We’re thrilled to share our new study revealing how the chromatin regulator SP140 preserves protective T cell immunity during #tuberculosis infection by restraining harmful type I IFN responses. 📖 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁: shorturl.at/r5jd9

🚨Job Opportunity for #Postdocs! We’re searching for a talented postdoctoral scientist to join our team, and explore meiotic spindle self-organization at the crossroads of biology and physics 🔬👩‍🔬 🔗 Curious? Apply now: tud.link/7fmgeg 🗓️ Deadline: January 14, 2026 Please share with your network!

Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

Last day to submit your abstract for the EMBO Workshop "Intracellular mechanics and organelle #mechanobiology" in #Barcelona, ES, 16–20 Feb 2026. Registration (in person/virtual) by 20 Dec 2025/1 Feb 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-mechanobiology#mechanobiology#Barcelona#EMBOmechanobio #EMBOevents 🧪

So called microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) are not "organizing centers". They don't control their position (network center), nor MT orientation, length and shape (network shape). The actual organizers are MTs, molecular motors and regulators of MT +ends. MTOCs nucleate MTs. Let's rename MTOCs.

is there a direct crosstalk between actin and vimentin intermediate filaments? Our work shows that vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-subunits at the barbed end. Fantastic work done by @lilianpaty.bsky.social with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reliable actin labelling in expansion #microscopy 🔬 Beautiful #preprint from Olivier Mercey, @lreymond.bsky.social & team @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social Read the latest #preLight from @kanishka03.bsky.social ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...

Last-minute advert for the Convpaint workshop at I2K by Roman Schwob! Interactive segmentation in @napari.org. Today 2:00 PM CET. Free registration: www.i2kconference.org/workshops

Microfluidic pumping with active nematics! Self-organized and self-sustained. No external pumps. @pnas.org @ub.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ActiveMatter #Microfluidics #SoftMatter

🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉 Did you miss a thread? Want to know who our delegates are? Do you want to join our big club? Check it out: epithelialmechanics.github.io Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026. Deadline: 20 December 2025 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton#cytoskeleton#research#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

#Mifobio2025 Focus on the module 5: 👉 Physical measurements, control and handling -Mechanobiology We are delighted to welcome Daria BONAZZI @pasteur.fr @ijmonod.bsky.social Lecture : “How Mechanical Forces Shape Bacterial Infections?” 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRimabio #microscopy #biological_imaging

#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Comment la pression des tissus voisins déclenche-t-elle la mort cellulaire pour former les articulations de la patte de la drosophile ? 🪰 ✍️ Magali Suzanne 📕 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social | buff.ly/XzsDfr3

Journal of Cell Science is published by a not-for-profit charitable organisation (@biologists.bsky.social) that exists to benefit science, not shareholders. We provide Travelling Fellowships, Training Grants, support for ECRs and more. For details, visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Final call to register and submit abstracts for the @faseborg.bsky.social conference on the Mechanobiology of the Cell Nucleus (#MBNSRC) to be considered for platform presentations. The conference takes place in Melbourne, FL, Oct. 26-30, 2025. See more info at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...

I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪

Up to 9-channel (3x3 colors) imaging using engineering fluorescent proteins (mTurquoise, mNeonGreen, mScarlet) with distinct lifetimes 🌈😎 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

🔔🧪 Call for Papers – #Mechanobiology of the #ExtracellularMatrix 🧬🛠️ Excited to serve as Guest Editor — together with Jacopo di Russo and Jennifer Young — of a new 𝐧𝐩𝐣 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 Collection on “Mechanobiology of the ECM”. Deadline: 14 May 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...

Excited to share Wendy Le Mouëllic’s PhD work, now published in @pnas.org! It reveals that M. tuberculosis depends on inorganic sulfate import to survive inside host cells—fueling essential processes such as redox balance and stress resistance. Huge congrats to Wendy & colleagues! shorturl.at/WbFQC

Forces at Play: emerging themes in Mechanobiology - In memoriam of Pr. Michael Sheetz, In Paris,  at the Institut Jacques Monod,  from January 19th to January 21st 2026. The registration is now open, and the rates are quite low. Dead line: end of November mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

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

In another exciting development our new preprint is online: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

And now for something completely different @tianyang22.bsky.social & #YanCao uncover of how SPIN90 dimers activate Arp2/3 to nucleate bidirectional linear actin filaments. Great collaboration with @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social & @carolynmoores1.bsky.social #Cryo-EM #Arp2/3 rdcu.be/eGoH4

📢 Save the date! 🗓 Feb 3, 2026 • Institut Pasteur, Paris SBCF Symposium – The Cell Biology of Eukaryogenesis (and beyond!) Speakers: Buzz Baum, Thibaut Brunet, Yohan Decelle, Morgan Gaïa, Sven Gould, Purificación López-García, Andela Šarić. Register: shorturl.at/IGEAY

📣 Paris Cytoskeleton day 2025 - Registrations are open! 📆 November 14th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod 🔗 pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Abstract submission closes on 19 October Registration closes on 7 November @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social

Our paper on podosome regulation by myosins 1e/f is now online. We introduce the concept of the podosome base, a region of plasma membrane-associated components 🔬 Cool collaboration with @renaudpoincloux.bsky.social‬ and Krendel labs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧵 🧪 1/ Hi! I’m excited to share our latest work, now on arXiv: Repulsive particle interactions at cellular interfaces enable selective information processing (arxiv.org/abs/2506.14739) Where we explore how the physical properties of living systems can help cells process spatial information.

🔬 #MiFoBio2025 🔬 💥We've reached the site's capacity limit, so there will be a selection phase again this year 💥 ❗This also means that there will be no extension of the deadline for pre-registration, which remains fixed at June 10. 👉So there are only a few days left to act if you want to apply

50 Years of Cell Biology: German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, October 26 – 29, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany Early bird registration deadline: June 15, 2025

🔔 Rappel – AG de la SBCF, 5 juin 13h–16h30, Institut Cochin & en ligne 🔬 ✨ Prix Jeune Chercheur 2025 – Marine Laporte ✨ Présentations jeunes chercheurs ✨ Bilan & approbation des comptes 🔗 Zoom : ID 966 7570 3089 | Code 547574 tinyurl.com/2my3e9fv #SBCF #biologiecellulaire #jeuneschercheurs

⏰ We've just passed the 250 pre-registration mark for #Mifobio2025 ! There's only one week left before the deadline, which won't be extended given the current numbers ! 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr/mifobio-2025... @cnrsingenierie.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs-inist.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

New paper out! Would you like to fluorescently label the plasma membrane in live, fixed or permeabilized cells? I tested different lipid structures and labelling approaches to decide what makes a good membrane labelling probe for such imaging experiments! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...

Our preprint on podosome regulation by unconventional myosins in now on BioRxiv. Great collaboration with the @renaudpoincloux.bsky.social and Krendel labs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We introduce the concept of the "podosome base", a region of plasma membrane-associated podosome components.

Thanks to all co-authors from our team, the reviewers, and all great collaborators, including Eva Kiermaier, Magdalena Götz, @meissnerlab.bsky.social, @bocklab.bsky.social & @baumjohannlab.bsky.social & to the fantastic core facilities at @bmc-lmu.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social (6/6)

We are hiring! The DFG-funded RTG2771 training group is offering PhD positions in molecular infection biology for 3-4 years For more information, see grk2771.de (our lab is project 4) 👨‍🎓

Genetically encoded reporters of actin filament organization in living cells and tissues: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🥳 Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint, led by our talented postdoc Justine Creff! 👩🏻‍🔬 We tackled a fundamental question: how the epithelium withstands mechanical stress at the interface of cells with distinct geometries and mechanics, such as enterocytes (E) and goblet cells (G) (1/9)

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new publication in @naturematerials.bsky.social on mechanical cell competition! Great collaboration between our CAM team, Chavrier's and Doostmohammadi's. Special congrats @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social, Siavash Monfared! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bladoux.bsky.social lab on mechanical cell competition @naturematerials.bsky.social @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social, Siavash Monfared! www.nature.com/articles/s41...