📣 The Journal of Microscopy is pleased to announce a new special issue dedicated to 40 years of Atomic Force Microscopy! With this special issue we aim to look forward to how the technique will grow over the next forty years, where new capabilities are emerging and where future challenges lie.

Our new work is out! HS-AFM × MD -->> new insights into multivalent TF–ribosome interactions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The CENTURI PhD Call 2026 is still ongoing. Applications are open until the end of the month, on January 28th! Visit centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/ to apply. #PHD #CENTURI

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

🔬 #Mifobio2025 @felixrico.bsky.social's lecture is online ! 🎤 "Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues" 📹 👉 youtu.be/4X8LiAKMsKg #AtomicForceMicroscopy

This week, we had a wonderful consortium meeting of the XXL project @agencerecherche.bsky.social in the iconic Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier in Marseille, thanks to our awesome coordinator Mauro Modesti.

🦠 A new study reveals how poroelasticity—fluid flow through interstitial spaces—bridges tissue architecture and mechanics, offering new insight into organ behavior and disease progression. 🔗 Journal of Biosciences: bit.ly/3WJWsF1. @yogiboi.bsky.social @felixrico.bsky.social

DyNaMo was at the Fête de la Science this October... Thanks to all the participants ( @ismahene-mes.bsky.social @yfok.bsky.social @yogiboi.bsky.social ). @insermpacacorse.bsky.social #FDSSUD #FDS2025

Happy to share our commentary "Length and time scales bridge poroelasticity and tissue architecture" in collaboration with Ramray Bhat from IISC Bangalore rdcu.be/eMJp1 @yogiboi.bsky.social @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

What's behind that dune? #mifobio2025

The next generation of microscopists gets organised around the Young scientist network GDR Imabio @gdr-imabio-ysn.bsky.social #mifobio2025 @gdrimabio.bsky.social

Just arrived in Bayonne! Excited to meet the crowd of #Mifobio2025 @gdrimabio.bsky.social

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Let's explore the #Mifobio2025 programme ! 👉 "Focus On” : “Molecular interaction and Mechanosensing using Atomic Force Microscopy” ✨ We are delighted to welcome @felixrico.bsky.social 🎤 Lecture : Mechanical mapping by atomic force microscopy. From cells and tissues. 👉 imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRimabio

🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school. 🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects. 👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr #GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025

I am very sad after learning that Jochen Guck passed away. We have lost a giant. Jochen, I will really miss you.

Crossing the beautiful British countryside on my way to Sheffield for the 15th #AFMBioMed summer school organised by @alicepyne.bsky.social and Jamie Hobbs. All the way by train from Marseille 🤓🚂 @dynamo-lab.bsky.social afmbiomed.org/summer-schoo...

The #25EngLife conference is over and it was great, including the talks by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @bladoux.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and the other organizers🙏🏻

Excellent talks and excellent discussions at #25EngLife with @ismahene-mes.bsky.social 😊

Congratulations to the poster prize winners of the #25EngLife Thank you again for the organisation. It's been a fantastic meeting!

Closing #25EngLife with the beautiful work on Shaping organs through plant tissue mechanics by @routierlab.bsky.social Very smart image/data analysis!

Great work by @bernaozkale.bsky.social on nano robotic microgels for mechanically guiding stem cells differentiation #25EngLife

Fantastic work presented by Lucia Baldauf from @gcharras.bsky.social on force sensors for living tissues 🤯 Looking forward to the upcoming ... #25EngLife

Last day of #25EngLife starts with a beautiful story by Sergi Garcia-Manyes

We close the day at #25EngLife with an inspiring talk by @frankschnorrer.bsky.social Titin rules!

Continuing with an injustement talk by @bladoux.bsky.social on scribe nematics of muscle cells #25EngLife

Nice ouverture of the afternoon session by @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social on "Living tensions" #25EngLife

The second day of #24EngLife starts with Matthias Rief on the RNA/Roquin and integrin/talon/kindlin interactions

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

Save the Date: Engineering Life 2025 #Symposium: Origin and Function of Mechanical Forces in Biology ⚙️🧬 📆 September 1-3, 2025 📍 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden Register now ➡️ eveeno.com/106937286

Excited to start Engineering life 2025 in beautiful Dresden @bcube-tud.bsky.social Thank you for setting up this great meeting! #engineeringlife2025

The curious case of streptavidin–biotin: a non-covalent bond. Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: “SA-b bond breaks in 1s at equilibrium” SA-b at equilibrium: “Not really, More like 1-10 Days.” (Answer: nobody—we were just pulling way too fast (far from equilibrium)) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on our (and other's) efforts towards open microscopy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yixv.... Thanks for the invite @makertobey.bsky.social and LibreHub!

We first had a dynamic logo for @dynamo-lab.bsky.social that was quite cool...

Our work on Modulation of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding to ACE2 through conformational selection is finally out rdcu.be/eqjgb . Work led by Prithwidip Saha, Claire Valotteau, Fidan Sumbul and Ignacio Fernandez. Thank you for 5 years of work @virusfusion007.bsky.social @trs90.bsky.social Charlie Gosse

1/14 “Epithelial” & “Mesenchymal” aren’t binary categories—they form a spectrum, or better yet, a multidimensional space. This becomes especially clear in collective cell migration, which often depends on a finely tuned degree of “mesenchymal-ness”. #cellbio #devbio #cellmigration

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

Laia Pasquina @laia-pasquina.bsky.social presents impressive quantitative analysis on the cell wall of bacteria with high resolution AFM. ImageJ plugin included github.com/Laia-Pasquin...

Yulia Fok @yfok.bsky.social presents her data analysis pipeline to extract the mechanics of supported lips bilayers. Code implemented on the dynamo fork of PyFMLab github.com/DyNaMo-INSER... @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

Yogesh Saravanan presents part of his PhD work on viscoelasticity of isolated and clusters of circulating tumour cells #afmbiomed @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

The last day of the #afmbiomed opens with @georgerheath.bsky.social telling us about the greatness of Gaussian filters and image analysis for HS-AFAM. Great NanoLocz 👌🏽 github.com/George-R-Hea...

Lorena @lorenaredondo.bsky.social presenting her last results on nanomechanics of lipid membranes #afmbiomed @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

Ignacio Casuso revealing how regions of increased fluidity emerge in bacterial membranes #afmbiomed @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

Dynamic membrane repair mechanisms by Adai Colom @biofisikaScienc #AFMBioMed

Eider Nuñez Viadero presents her beautiful HS-AFM movies of full ribosomes interacting with the trigger factor @dynamo-lab.bsky.social @biofisikaScienc #AFMBioMed

Kanaoka Kui uses HS-AFM to show the dynamics of P-gkycopriteins on nanodiscs #AFMBioMed

Fernando Moreno-Herrero revealing the structural flexibility of RNA Sourav Maity explores the mechanism of action of antibiotics in real time #AFMBioMed

Lorenzo Villanueva @dynamo-lab.bsky.social presents his last algorithms for high-speed mapping of large biological samples #AFMBioMed

Filomena Carvalho and Andra Dumitru open the day revealing mechanical changes of cells and tissues in diseases (restenosis and diabetes) #AFMbIoMed @andradumitru.bsky.social

Looking for insights into mechanical proteins? Check out MechanoProDB, a database with force spectroscopy data, structural and functional info. Discover manual annotations of unfolding pathways and the regions involved. Explore now! mechanoprodb.ibdm.univ-amu.fr