All you've ever wanted to know about FLIM analysis (and its application in Flipper-TR)!😱🤩🔬

An incredibly comprehensive and meticulous study of Flipper-TR lifetime analysis to make your membrane tension measurements using Flipper-TR more robust and reliable. Thanks to @juanmagararc.bsky.social and @rouxlab.bsky.social for this very valuable resource!

Fluorescence lifetime estimation: a practical approach using Flipper-TR FLIM by Juan Manuel Garcia-Arcos and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🚨 New preprint out! “Fluorescence lifetime estimation: a practical approach using Flipper-TR FLIM” with Tithi Mandal and @rouxlab.bsky.social We benchmark and describe step-by-step Flipper-TR FLIM measurements across different set-ups and and strategies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢New Actin Probe available at Spirochrome! Introducing SPY650-FastAct_X our latest actin probe with highly improved kinetics and no toxicity! spirochrome.com/product/spy6... The product is now available from our distributors Preprint from the @kjohnsson.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How cells decide where to go? #CellMigration Last year we published our 1st paper @cellcommlab.bsky.social, showing how actin-based membrane oscillations define a new direction ( #cancer & non-cancer #cells ) Full www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturephysics.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

#CellMigration happens all the time in our bodies. This may (or not) rely on adhesion molecules #Cancer cells switch strategies during metastasis to invade other tissues Naomi Wee (naomiwee.com) did this neat movie to explain it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9aD... #SciSky 🧪🔬 @cellcommlab.bsky.social

New preprint! When and how do active flows become turbulent? We found that, in unconfined active nematics, the transition to turbulence is discontinuous! With @the-chaotician.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.060...

I mostly see the protein sculptures I build in the lighting of my workshop. It’s fairly static and dull lighting. When they are close to being finished, I bring them into the house and enjoy watching how they change under different natural lighting throughout the day. They are so much more dynamic!

Would you prefer to lead a lab alone or together with a science buddy? How interesting would be a research institute where joint labs are the standard?!

i might be biased, but this place is amazing: great colleagues, vibrant campus, brilliant students/postdocs - and Vienna! perfect for starting an ambitious project. apply now for a GL position at the IMP … www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados! Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍 go.bsky.app/AEeXh86

I started a list of people working broadly on cell adhesion and cell migration. I likely missed many, please drop me a message if you want to be added go.bsky.app/5Gzo7oZ

I have created a starter pack of scientists in der Schweiz so we can all hopefully find each other 🇨🇭🧪 go.bsky.app/8rF765Z

Sunday #NewPI thoughts

This is a movie of actin filaments in a cultured cell. I like watching it and I hope you do to.

Cell and developmental biologists--Join us at the 2025 Cell Contact and Adhesion Gordon Conference. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Adoro Mastodon, pero no he podido contenerme: cc @irreductible.bsky.social

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

Ever wondered how eukaryotic cells got their nucleus? If so, check out Anja and my new hypothesis article - which builds on the ‘inside-out model of eukaryogenesis’: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Now out in NSMB for those who missed our biorxiv back in 2023.. bacterial ESCRT-III-like #Vipp1 forms dynamic spiral filaments on membrane! Spirals are springs that drive 3D ring formation in the spiral centre! 😵‍💫 wonderful collaboration with Adai Colom’s lab and @rouxlab.bsky.social rdcu.be/dZSPQ

What are #theory and concepts in #biology? Come to our EMBL Heidelberg symposium (edition II) next May to find out more! Featuring such exciting topics as active matter, information processing, learning and computation, Physics of morphogenesis and much more! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN

A couple of recent multi-author perspectives on the present and future of physical biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Popard Henri PhD defense. Group of Matthieu Piel “Cell size homeostasis under mechanical constraints” Thursday, November 14th, at 2:00 PM in Amphithéâtre Marie Curie, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris. u-paris.zoom.us/j/8390737615...

Hello BlueSky! Just arrived 😁

The best reason for quitting X came after announcing it.