We are recruiting! We invite applications from highly motivated PhD candidates interested in developmental biology, imaging, and in situ structural biology to study the biogenesis and plasticity of motile cilia in development and disease.

Big congratulations to our winners: Smilla-Maria Koy (1st), Chandrama Ghosh (2nd), and Anthony Rabaté (3rd)! Check out their breath-taking micrographs and the rest of the Top 15 entries in the stunning poster attached. The future of cilia research looks beautiful. 📸 #Cilia2027

Hello everyone, we had a great meeting yesterday @institutimagine.bsky.social , thanks again to all the speakers for their very interesting talks on primary and motile #cilia #flagella #ciliopathies! Next one is organized by Caroline Brun, Marine Laporte, Véronique Morel in Aussois in September!

Happy #FluorescenceFriday all! Checkout these beautiful basal bodies in airway #multiciliated cells expanded via U-ExM 😍 Images captured by the super talented @maneesha07.bsky.social on a #Nikon NSPARC 🔬.

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...

PhD position in my lab!

We have two funded postdoctoral positions available. Topics encompass: -Next gen light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instrumentation -Structured illumination microscopy and other approaches to extend the resolution limit. -Nonlinear microscopy combined with adaptive optics / phase conjugation

🔬🔦Our Imaging spotlight from @hiralshah.bsky.social & team highlights their U-ExM atlas of planktonic eukaryotes, including details on how you can explore this wonderful resource. Plus, check out Hiral’s top tips on getting started with expansion microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/20/i...

As a Christmas present, our Jove paper with @ebertiaux.bsky.social is out and available for everyone ! Check this out & thanks @centriolelab.bsky.social for the nice highlight

Help choose JCB’s cover of the year! Explore 12 breathtaking images submitted by our talented authors and vote for your favorite. Voting closes on Wednesday, December 31 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/JCB2025Cov... #CellBio2025 #ScienceArt

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Calling all #Membrane enthusiasts! Our #MembraneTrafficking online seminar series is back for the 2025-26 season: 8 fantastic speakers from Nov'25 to Feb'26. The first talks are already next Thursday (Nov 6, 5pm CET) with @agatawitkowska.bsky.social and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social !

#GEF25 Concluding Plenary Lecture with the wonderful Virginie Hamel.

The ExM gang @jvermot.bsky.social @mahjoublab.bsky.social @marinelap.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @simonemortal.bsky.social et al #GEF25

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

Check the live stream of the Göttingen Expansion Forum 2025 if you're interested! I think the link changes every day will try to update. Program is here (pdf link): www.rizzoli-lab.de/wp-content/u...

#ExM turned 10 this year - just like #NanoTag! 🎉 Join us & the super-resolution community in Göttingen for the ExM Forum! 🔬Hear from our founder Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social and CSO Steffen Frey on how NanoTag’s sdAb solutions empower nanoscopy & #multiplex imaging. See you in Göttingen! #GEF25

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

🚨 New Preprint! Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons. ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With a combination of FIB-SEM, super-resolution & expansion #microscopy, Araujo Alves, Bastin et al @bastinlab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr reveal how IFT trains are progressively restricted to a limited number of #microtubule doublets in the flagellum of T. brucei. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cilia

⏰ One week countdown- 19/08/2025 15:00 BST we kick off our 52nd BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium with 6 stellar talks from the field's rising stars 🌠 on the latest breaking science 🧪!! FOMO? Join the fun: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso...

Discover the new publications from the Club Exo-Endo teams! exoendo.org/en/publis-sc...

🎉Excited to see my master’s work contributed to this amazing paper! 🎥 🧠 Congrats to all co-authors 👏 Grateful for my time in Dr. Isabelle Caillé & Pr. Alain Trembleau’s lab #IBPS. Isabelle’s passion for science will keep inspiring me ✨ doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Save the date! March 2027 on beautiful lake Maggiore right outside #Milan, are you ready for #Cilia2027? 🥳 Stay tuned for more info!

Attention #microtubule and #centrosome fans!!! Here's another fantastic #openaccess #research #article in #CYTOSKELETON. LZTS2 Negatively Regulates Centrosomal CEP135 Levels and Microtubule Nucleation. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's #WorldOceanDay – this year’s theme is: ‘Wonder: sustain what sustains us’. One key force sustaining ocean life is microbes. With @embl.org TREC we explored this hidden universe along Europe's coasts, across water, sediment and soil to see how microbial life connects across ecosystems and biomes

During #mitosis, before assembling the mitotic spindle, the early mouse embryo lacking #centrosomes uses #actin rather than #microtubules for chromosome congression 👀👇🏼

New online: Mesoscale regulation of microtubule-organizing centers by the E3 ligase TRIM37

Nice cool study, @syncellbiolab, @anubhav_dhar, @SuchetaDey69384, @MullickSan22454, @Nishaant_PB, @deepak_iisc and Angana. Wonderful to be collaborating with you on this work and looking at #actin #isoforms in #yeast and #mammalian_cells using #UExM.

On my way to the #NeuroFrance2025 in Montpellier ! Looking forward to see exciting science and present my recent work to the community

Join me May 20 @ 11 AM ET for a webinar with Bio-protocol! I'll walk through our single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy (20ExM) method + share the full protocol so you can try it too.

We dedicated this paper to Michel Bornens who passed away 3 years ago. He would have enjoyed this movie so much!

A Morpho-Proteomic Atlas of Mitosis at Sub-Minute Resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647158v1

📣Application deadline for #EMBLFluorescenceLifetime is approaching ⏰ Do you have experience in fluorescence microscopy and want to enhance your skills in confocal fluorescence microscopy and in lifetime-based readouts? Then apply for this hands-on course by 21 April: ➡️s.embl.org/lef25-01-bl

📣 New issue online! www.embopress.org/toc/17574684... The cover highlights the study by M. Pavlou, @tomreh.bsky.social et al. @uwmedicine.bsky.social 👉 Vector-mediated expression of proneural genes in retinal #MüllerGlia drives #neurogenesis in adult mammalian retina Scientific image: M. Pavlou

But… we couldn’t easily find more tubes in tomograms 🤔 We turned to expansion microscopy (ExM)! Thanks to an amazing intro from @centriolelab.bsky.social & @marinelap.bsky.social, we learned how to do ExM 🔬💥. After many gels, we finally observed Atub filaments in a small subpopulation of cells. 4/6

I’m honored to receive this award for my research achievements in cell biology ! Many thanks to the @sbcf.bsky.social !

We are hiring! As part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action training network "Cilia-AI" we have two fully funded PhD positions available in our group in Paris @institutimagine.bsky.social For more information: www.cilia-ai.eu www.institutimagine.org/en/sophie-sa...

The CCI facility at the University of Gothenburg, part of Swedish NMI Node, will host the #BNMI2025 conference. Many microscopy topics will be covered, from CMI to smart microscopy! Join us in 🇸🇪 from 🗓️ Aug 19-22 Abstract submission by: April 25 📸Dmitrii Eliuseev, Unsplash bnmi2025.gu.se/home/

😱📣 BlueSky-ers: WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🙏 All of you who ever liked a lecture of mine... All of you who liked one of the courses I teach in... All of you I work(ed) with in one way or another... All of you who see my desperation! 😜 PLEASE re-post! 🙏 careers.humantechnopole.it/o/postdoc-in...

Thanks for this fantastic #spaom2024 meeting. Very happy to connect with Spanish and Portuguese microscopy community and to get the chance to highlight how ‘cool’ #ExM can be