Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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!

WOSM-TIRF up running! Awesome #Tirf imaging of microtubules and EB comets in #Xenopus egg extract. The WOSM-TIRF is the big brother of the eduWOSM (doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104046.1). So grateful to @irobcross.bsky.social & Nick Carter for this collaboration & @agencerecherche.bsky.social for funding.

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Yean Ming Chew and I wrote doi.org/10.1042/BST2... about MT lattice switching. We discuss evidence that protofilament-level structural switching is ancient and fundamental and conserved; and that tubulation creates new allosteric interfaces that operate on essentially the same structural switch.

Congratulations! It was fun to help a little bit on this great story!

Hot (and cold) microtubules👇🏼