We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)! GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging. Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations. 👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/

🥳 Our new paper on C2CD3 is out in @plosbiology.org With the labs of @cellarchlab.com , @chgenoud.bsky.social , and @stearnslab.bsky.social , we revealed the mammalian centriole Distal Ring architecture by combining #UExM and in situ #CryoET. Big congrats to @ebertiaux.bsky.social and all involved.

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

So called microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) are not "organizing centers". They don't control their position (network center), nor MT orientation, length and shape (network shape). The actual organizers are MTs, molecular motors and regulators of MT +ends. MTOCs nucleate MTs. Let's rename MTOCs.

Last call! Applications for the @crg.eu International PhD Programme 2025 in beautiful Barcelona close next week! Join us and our inspiring colleagues at the CRG - an exceptional environment for discovery, creativity, and scientific growth. Apply here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Reliable actin labelling in expansion #microscopy 🔬 Beautiful #preprint from Olivier Mercey, @lreymond.bsky.social & team @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social Read the latest #preLight from @kanishka03.bsky.social ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Our paper on PCMD-1 and centrosome stability is finally online! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 to Alina and the entire team! Very proud and grateful - it was an incredible teamwork @zaninlab.bsky.social! @lifescimunich.bsky.social. If you want to read more check it out on JCB! rupress.org/jcb/article-...

Schreiner, Mikeladze-Dvali et al. @lifescimunich.bsky.social show that CDK-1 primes PCMD-1 for PLK-1 phosphorylation. Mutations in PLK-1 docking sites impair SPD-5 binding, destabilize the PCM, and delay #centriole separation. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Centrosome #PCMstability #Celegans

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

Beril and Sophia, great job at the #DGZ50!!! Sophia, congratulations to the Poster prize 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @zaninlab.bsky.social

Sophia won the poster prize at the @dgz.bsky.social meeting in Heidelberg. Congratulations! 🎉 🥳 😀 If you want to know more about this work check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Also thanks to the organizers for this great meeting!

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

It's this time again! We had a lot of fun together with the Mokranjac and Guse labs!!!

📢 Hiring 2 Postdocs (CNRS Research Engineer) @ IRCAN (Université Côte d’Azur), Nice 🇫🇷. Spread the word, please. Focus: intestine aging & immunity in fish 🐟 Start Nov–Dec 2025 • ~€3,175/mo Apply: ImmunoGUT (zebrafish) → tinyurl.com/3jx9a4ks GUTPOWER (reef fish) → tinyurl.com/mt2ekpks

We have PhD and Postdoc positions open in our group. Join us in Lausanne to explore how cells pull off extreme shape changes and how cilia drive biological flows. You can find more details on the projects available and how to apply in our website: www.epfl.ch/labs/lpl/joi...

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course! 🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights. 📍 EMBL Heidelberg 📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026 👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl

Biocenter is THE BEST!

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar! Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @plantevolution.bsky.social

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

My fabulous colleague (and ex-postdoc) @inechipurenko.bsky.social and I (mostly Inna!) wrote a review extolling the many virtues of C. elegans for the study of cilia biology. A really interactive and collaborative community of people working in this field too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our 7th Cellbio Minisymposium was super fun (as always)!

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

little reminder: a few days left to apply for one of the #DGZ awards!

Promising #cellbiology & related science to be seen & discussed in October in Heidelberg - join us! Registration still possible until Sept 15.

Wish I could be at #Evol2025 this year! I’ll be starting a new lab at NYU this fall, and will be recruiting at all levels. Please spread the word if you know anyone who wants to work on evo. genomics, phylogenies, and comparative development of inverts (like Hawaiian Drosophila!) shchurch.github.io

We're thrilled to announce that our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) has been renewed for a second funding phase (2026-2032) by @dfg.de ! Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🎉👏 We'll continue our cutting-edge research towards understanding what brings matter to life! #biophysics #dfg

Actin sun.

Anillin links up with RhoA to break the symmetry of cytokinetic ring closure. Guillaume Chambaud, Vlad Martin, and Gilles Hickson @chusaintejustine.bsky.social discuss work from Lebedev et al. @zaninlab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....) in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytokinesis

Muñoz-Hernández, Xu, et al. @mike-wieczorek.bsky.social @ethz.ch report #cryoEM structures revealing how NEDD1’s C terminus forms an α-helical tetramer that docks onto the γ-TuRC without inducing major conformational changes in the complex during its recruitment to MTOCs rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Pachinger, Dammermann et al. @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social‬ present a model for centriolar satellites not as transport modules but as sites of translation specifically of centrosomal and ciliary proteins. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #centrosomes #cilia

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to learn more about our work on Anillin during cytokinesis? Check out the Spotlight from the Hickson Lab!

A bit late… but was a nice dinner!

our latest work summary: cohesin is preferentially loaded at/near active enhancers and loop extrudes in both directions, forming loops that create the dna contacts that appear as the newly defined "fountains" in hic maps pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40210441/

A cortical pool of LIN-5 (NuMA) controls cytokinetic furrow formation and #cytokinesis completion. New study from Kuheli Adhikary, Sukriti Kapoor, and Sachin Kotak (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore): rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #CellDivision #Celegans

A PhD position is available in my lab at the University of Geneva to explore the interaction between gut microbes and behavior in social bees. Please share with potential candidates. Application deadline: May 25th. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/PhDmgbee

Happy to transition to this platform to discuss science and share our fascination. The movie below shows a dendritic cell, highlighting the remarkable ability of immune cells to navigate their cell body and to organise their intracellular cargo (nucleus in cyan). (Kroll et al, EMBO J 2023)

We are excited to share our latest work on the role of anillin during unilateral cytokinesis. Congratulations to Mikhail, the leading author, for his excellent work. Big thanks to the @tdvalilab.bsky.social lab for their tremendous support.

Congratulations to Mikhail, Esther, and the whole team @zaninlab.bsky.social ! - Check it out! rupress.org/jcb/article-...

We are excited to announce the details for this year’s #DGZ International Meeting, a very special one as we are celebrating 50 years of DGZ! Join us in October in Heidelberg, where the DGZ was founded in 1975. Check the speakers line-up etc. at the poster. Registration: shorturl.at/EHUzb #DGZ50

Sign!

NC friends of science. Join me tomorrow in Raleigh on Halifax Mall by the State Capitol for the Stand Up For Science Rally--talks begin at 12:30. Let's remind our neighbors and our politicians that science solves societal problems, develops disease treatments and creates jobs! 🧪 Please share

A plug that my lab is currently recruiting a postdoc. 5 years of funding, the lab has steady funding for the next 8 years, and no active attempts to burn down the scientific enterprise in your potential new home.. Plus the occasional bagpipe player rocking a kilt on the street.

I have one open PhD position. Maybe one of the last PhD positions in the lab as I'm planning changes in what we do and how we will do it some five years from now. I'm offering freedom (pun intended), respect, an interesting project, and a good full time contract w. health insurance.

6 more weeks to apply ! Become our new colleague at the Cell Biology Dpt and join the growing group of junior teams of @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social shaping the scientific environment of the institute. Apply if you are looking for a place to start a lab or forward to any potential candidates.

Join @amatrudalab.bsky.social, @tanner-lab.bsky.social & David Langenau for the #zebrafish webinar! 🤩 For more info on how to register, visit: events.cancer.gov/dcb/beyond-m... #ZebrafishMeeting