Presenting a talk the ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 meant a lot to me, a new guy in the field. Thanks to everyone whom came for the session, and special thanks to the ones whom dropped me kind encouragements before my talk! 😊

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

Hey everyone and fellow #actin people! Here's a preview video for my upcoming talk at #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social next Wednesday at 10am! Because it's gonna happen on the last day, so I promise to be a little funny, and I might even throw in a song and dance! And some nice data too.

Realized this morning that my submission got selected for Yale's Beauty in Science 2025 exhibition! Seeing the live-assembly of filopodia projections by formin mDia3 in mast cells got me really stoked back then! #FluorescenceFriday

🧵5/6 — The Big Picture EndoNB works on endogenous proteins. No rare antibodies. No overexpression. It’s scalable and ready to explore the 1000+ surface proteins we’ve barely studied. We’re done understanding vesicular trafficking by looking at a handful of model surface proteins.

🧵1/6 — Preprint Alert! I am super proud to present the latest work of our lab. Earthlings and those just visiting, I introduce you…. EndoNB: A better, smarter and versatile way to study the dynamics of cell surface proteins. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My first post on Bluesky! Very excited to share our work just published in @science.org. We find that “Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis” - in angiogenesis and other tissues! www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We show that under low ahesion conditions Tensin 1 forms endogenous condensates to store inactive adhesion components. These can be released upon stress-mediated Tensin 1 phosphorylation to regulate adhesion dynamics.

Happy to share our Tensin 1 phase separation project is now on bioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This wouldn't be possible without @johannaivaska.bsky.social @ivaskalab.bsky.social #VattulainenLab #MSCA by @ec.europa.eu @turkubioscience.bsky.social @inflames-flagship.bsky.social

New preprint alert!📣 @midibu.bsky.social and team take a deep dive into Tensin1 liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and the mechanisms of how it regulates adhesion dynamics! Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @johannaivaska.bsky.social

Unlike eggs & mitotic cells, in adherent interphasic cells the centrosome is NOT positioned by a balance of forces along #microtubules, but by cell shape organization around the #centrosome: rupress.org/jcb/article/... @lblanchoin.bsky.social @manuelthery.bsky.social @gelinmatthieu.bsky.social

Progress on the quest for a red mStayGold! Just out: mScarlet3-S2, a new photostable red FP derived from mScarlet3: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

Incredible 4Pi and pan-expansion imaging of the Golgi 👇

Thanks for selecting my entry. This is one of my favorite movies captured. I’m very flattered 🙂

Hi everyone, because it's my first time winning any contest, I ain't gonna lose this wave of opportunity to talk about it 👀. I got tweeted, but I feel the need to publicize this here too. I won the @ascbiology.bsky.social ASCB 2024 Image Contest! Thanks for selecting my entry!

It was a humbling experience being able to talk to people about our works at the ASCB. I’m flattered that I had plenty audience for me to keep going without break for ~6 h straight and going overtime! Thanks, everyone 🥹 #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday An old video of a cute mast cell (RBL-2H3) exhibiting cortical waves of active Cdc42 after getting treated with cytochalasin-D overnight. Sorry not sorry to kill #actin hehe. #TIRF 4 s per frame acquisition, 8 fps, 32× real time.

Look at these distinct clusters exhibited by N-WASP and Arp2/3 ! Is branched #actin polymerization the sole driving force for nucleating cortical actin waves? Cross-talks within the actin network can be messy, so how can we study such complexities? #CellBio2024 @ascbiology.bsky.social

Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space ! Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns. #morphogenesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)

Before I start posting about newer results on this platform, here is a video from our most recent paper -- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're searching for the Mechanobiology community and starter pack, here it is: Thought this would be a great opportunity to gather the #mechanobiology community. Please feel free to spread the word. go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT

here's the starter pack for cytoskeleton go.bsky.app/TF83cpi

Who needs immunofluorescence? Focal adhesions (or cell feet as they were known then) were first observed in this 1975 paper by Abercombie and Dunn doi.org/10.1016/0014... This gem comes from the obituary of Graham Dunn published in J Cell Sci today. doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... 🧪

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