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Very excited that our discovery of Sms1 as the #MAPK #scaffold of fission yeast mating has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! @biology-unige.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us this week for Eric Dufresne's (Cornell) talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Please join us tomorrow for another session of Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm. We are excited to have Dr. Nicolas Minc giving us a talk on "Cytoplasm Mechanics in the Regulation of Cell Division and Early Embryo Development". For more info, visit cytophys.org

We are delighted to announce that Paola Picotti has been awarded the Otto Naegeli prize for biomedical research! otto-naegeli-preis.ch

We offer a PostDoc position for a fully funded project on lipid-encoded #lipidtime protein quality-control checkpoints at the Golgi: great collaborators, excellent working & living conditions & benchspace with a view ;) Please share and repost!

Join us today to hear Matthias Peter in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Series to learn what happens when the cytoplasm turns sour.

Happening tomorrow!

Please join us this Wed for Sara Wickström's talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series! For more info, visit cytophys.org

Join us tomorrow for an exciting talk from Dr. Shahar Sukenik (Syracuse University) in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Join us this Wednesday for an exciting talk from Dr. Daniel Starr in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Join us this Wednesday for an exciting talk from Dr. Daniel Starr in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

We are also highlighting Clotilde Cadart, who was part of @dev-journal.bsky.social's inaugural Pathway to Independence Programme cohort and a co-organiser of the Company Workshop on cell size and growth, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @clotilde-cadart.bsky.social

Please join us for an exciting talk from Thomas Quail (EMBL) on “Biophysical Principles of Self-Organising Genomes” in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar starting soon:

Join us this Wednesday for an exciting talk from Dr. Matthias Heinemann (University of Groningen) in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Thanks Gabriel!! Also, that paper I mentioned in Ascona, looking at surface chemistry of proteins in desiccation, came out like, 30 minutes ago (literally)! www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇

This Wed, we'll have Dr. Allan Drummond (U Chicago) giving a talk on "Rethinking stress granules" in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm series. Join us. More info, visit cytophys.org

Next week, we have Ulises Diaz from UCSF giving us a talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org. Join us. @wallaceucsf.bsky.social

🧵Does the nucleus set the cell cycle clock? 🕒 In frog egg extract “mini-cells” we see that as nuclei grow, cycles slow down. The period scales with the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, across Xenopus species, and even when DNA replication or transcription are blocked. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Starting now: Dr. Rikki Garner's (Harvard) talk on "Tissue fluidity: a double-edged sword for multicellular patterning". For more info, visit cytophys.org

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...

Speakers include: @luskinglab.bsky.social @renkawitzteam.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social @gabrielneurohr.bsky.social @simonereber.bsky.social @zierlab.bsky.social @katemiro.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @stroudlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social & many more!

Please join us for a talk from Dr. Aurélien Roux (University of Geneva) in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Excited to share the first paper of my PhD with @marcofumasoni.bsky.social ‬, now published in @molsystbiol.org 🥳! We explored how nutrient levels influence adaptation to perturbed DNA replication. Here’s what we learned 🧵👇 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Please join us this Wednesday for a Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Seminar from Dr. Alan Kay (U of Iowa). For more details, visit cytophys.org

Please join us next week for Dr. Manu Derivery’s (MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology) talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org

Looking forward to an intense meeting with many exciting discussions! #EMBOCELLULARMATTERS meetings.embo.org/event/25-cel...

Join us today/tomorrow for Dr. Morgan Delarue's talk. For more info, visit cytophys.org

6 more days until the Cellular Matters Conference! Looking forward to great discussions, inspiring talks and posters! One more day to sign up for virtual participation.

Come and join us for a Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm seminar by Dr. Morgan Delarue (LAAS - CNRS). For more info, visit cytophys.org

Congratulations to all involved! Glad to see it finally out!

I am very much looking forward to the visit!

starting now

Please come and join us this Wednesday for a "Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm" talk from Dr. Mike Rosen (UT Southwestern). For more info, visit cytophys.org

starting now

Join us today for Tim MItchison's seminar! For meeting details and more, visit cytophys.org

Come and join us next week for what looks to be an exciting seminar! Dr. Tim Mitchison from Harvard Medical School will present in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For meeting details and more, visit cytophys.org

starting now

We are excited to have Dr. Seungeun Oh from UCSD with us tomorrow in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm Series. Come and join us. Mind the daylight savings.. For details, visit cytophys.org

The abstrac submission deadline has been extended until next Sunday February 23.

@SeungeunOh @PaolaPicotti @MatthieuPiel @DoraTang @AlexandraTayar @JulieTheriot

@CharlotteAumeier @barrallab.bsky.social @bosste.bsky.social y.social @gcelora.bsky.social lora.bsky.social @FredChang @AshutoshChilkoti @softliv.bsky.social @JimFerrel @gladfelterlab.bsky.social @alexholehouse.bsky.social @FrankJülicher @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social @Tim Mitchison @DianaMitrea

We already have an amazing speaker line up and it will be even better if you join! Only few days left to submit an abstract meetings.embo.org/event/25-cel...

Starting in 15 minutes: Online Seminar by Liam Holt talking about RNA condensation and cytoplasm fluidity. Come and join us! cytophys.org