Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

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...

How do cells keep their #actin “highways” stable?🚦 Our paper @PLOS Genetics reveals surprising teamwork (and backup plans!) between tropomyosin isoforms in yeast. #imaging #cytoskeleton #celldivision This work was brilliantly led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social @bagyasree.bsky.social t.co/RvUrzad5tL

Our latest preprint on the role of the Arp2/3 complex in mitotic entry is now available @biorxiv. This work was done by Dhanya Kalathil, a very talented postdoc in my lab. The story started in 2019 when we were investigating the role of branched actin in cytokinesis. 1/

Just started our @bcube-tud.bsky.social - organized Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife conference in #Dresden! Excited to have everybody around!

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected]. More info: www.shekharlab.org

Last week I was privileged to join the Board of the Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social . They publish five journals across diverse fields of biology, including two of my favorites, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @dev-journal.bsky.social. 1/n www.biologists.com

Hi I’m @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social , a postdoc interested in the mechanical induction of topological defect-mediated morphogenesis. I use different organisms to study the role of topological defects shaping development & regeneration. Below is an insight to the field!

Presenting our lab's first PhD graduate, Dr. Heidi Ulrichs! 🎉🎓 Congratulations Heidi on such a successful PhD!

A must read for young scientists! A career in science requires a thick skin. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Excited to share our new preprint on HLp—a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii that forms stable tetramers and wraps ~60 bp of DNA: "DNA Wrapping by a Tetrameric Bacterial Histone" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧫 A gentle reminder that your gut is an actual work of art. #FluorescenceFriday #BeneathTheScope

even if this 🧵 has already made its way to #ProtistsOnSky, it's a joy to repeat – so beautiful "rosettes" *) ...and the biophysics: stunning! 👏

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Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!

for a little back-story on how this project started in the Physiology course at the @mblscience.bsky.social , including how two of the authors become involved in the project after emerging from the water at "garbage beach" carrying lasers, check this out: wayback.archive-it.org/12248/201508...

wonderful! great clip 👏 had never before seen 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 competing with 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 for rosette formation. no clear winner 🤩 #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

A new study originating from the #MBL proposes that physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life! 🦠 Follow the link to read more about Stentor, a single-celled organism that could offer an early model for multicellularity. 📲 More: bit.ly/4cilZvV

Our story is in the news!

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?

📢Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s41...?

Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

We had lots of fun today in our BCDB Grad class- doing a Kahoot on non coding RNAs! Note the winners- one of Anita’s favorite words- Steady-state! Shout out to our winners who were rewarded with chocolate! A fun class taught with Gary Bassell! Small wins these days..

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...

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attention structural biologists!!! #CYTOSKELETON has a #specialissue that we are putting together on the "Structures of #microtubule and microtubule-related proteins". Submission deadline is April 1, 2025. Submit today. It is #FREE to publish in CYTOSKELETON.

Some good news: @hannahhrncir.bsky.social ‘s primary PhD paper is finally online! This study lays the groundwork for a lot of technical and conceptual things the lab is currently working on, including light sheet microscopy for imaging entire biliary trees in mouse liver: rdcu.be/d90Br 1/4

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org 🥳😃 🐣 Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

We are excited to be hosting Erika Holzbaur tomorrow at Emory Cell Biology for a colloquium!

To all my #cebtriole/#flagella/#cilia colleagues ! Anyone seen a protein localizing only to one of two flagella ?

Asked similar question before but I try again. Anyone knows proteins that localize like this? This protein is present in diplonemids/bodonids/euglenids/Naegleria, which have two flagella, but not in trypanosomatids that have just one flagellum. Potentially interesting for flagella/cilia community?

Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My first post on this forum! 😄 I am happy to share that our #openaccess review on the #molecular mechanisms of #actin filament polymerization and dissasembly is now online @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cell-... Big thanks to my amazing colleagues in Dortmund

Ooohhh-that's our paper! Check it out! @noahgurley.bsky.social @emily-mcparland.bsky.social

Happy New Year from #CYTOSKELETON

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! These are polarized epithelial cells with microvilli on their apical surface! Captured using the #Nikon NSPARC, and color-coded by depth #actin #microscopy @tyskalabactual.bsky.social

🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅 Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀 We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YEARLY RECAP. Here is the April-May 2024. Issue of #CYTOSKELETON. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592.... This issue featured our first Author Profile, primary research articles and a Review on the "Regulation of mitochondrial structure by the #actin cytoskeleton".

Honored to give the Keynote Lecture at 35th BioFrontier Symposium of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) Bioengineering Division, at Yokohama National University: www.jsme.or.jp/event/24-232/ I had a fantastic visit to Japan!! 😀 🚅 🇯🇵 🏯 Many thanks to Prof. Koichiro Maki for inviting me!

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#CYTOSKELETON YEARLY RECAP. If you haven't seen our first issue of 2024, here it is. The #Specialissue on the 50 YEARS OF #TAU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592.... Have a look at the many #openaccess articles in the issue!

24 years later and still the annual ASCB meeting is some of the best science and best reunions of the year. @ascbiology.bsky.social @applewhitederek.bsky.social @omqu.bsky.social @klukasik.bsky.social @chrisho.bsky.social @channyskye.bsky.social

Not sure who, but someone needs to cover this!!

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

Hey Bluesky, please welcome the @socdevbio.bsky.social President-Elect @rrbehringer.bsky.social!