After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.

We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/warpem/miss-... 🧶 Thread:

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

Great to be here in Reading for Dynamic Cell VI, organised jointly by our friends at the Biochemical Society and the British Society for Cell Biology 🙂 Come and chat with us about the benefits of RMS membership and our range of activities in support of #microscopy 🔬

aPKC substrate targeting mechanisms - Shona Ellison from @crick.ac.uk presented their role in cell polarity at the #DynamicCellVI meeting of @bscb-official.bsky.social and @biochemsoc.bsky.social

@bscb-official.bsky.social Beautiful Cryo-ET talk by Kashish Singh on cytoplasmic lattices in mammalian embryos from @mrclmb.ac.uk at the #DynamicCellVI conference

Fantastic keynote talk by David Barford @mrclmb.ac.uk on kinetochore structure at #DynamicCellVI

The abstract deadline has been extended to 16 March 2026 for Dynamic Cell VI, the annual meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, with the Biochemical Society. biochemistry.org/events-and-training/events-calendar/dynamic-cell-vi/ Travel grants are available for BSCB members.

If you are at #CellBio25 @ascbiology.bsky.social and would like to hear our work on kinetochore and centromeric truncating variants, join the session on organelle dynamics (Room108 Monday 4pm).

It was an awesome day of Aurora and MPS1 discussion! Good luck with the fabulous discoveries!

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team. Congratulations on the publication! We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!

FRAP-SR (60 nm) reveals subcompartments within DNA damage repair foci in live cells. FRAP in the Super-resolution regime is likely to transform many other fields of cell biology: www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Thanks to @rappopto.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social and @ukri.org for support.

Join us at hashtag#mmc2025 on the 3rd of July at our community meeting with the Royal Microscopical Society on 'Optogenetics in the SR regime'. Details here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

With the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, we are hosting a community meeting: "Optogenetics in the Super-resolution regime" at the Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc2025) on the 3rd of July (Manchester, UK). More here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6

Still thinking about my great experience at #Biologists100 — from my flash talk and poster, to the ECR session and insightful main talks, and all the chats in between! Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social & @bscb-official.bsky.social for the opportunity! 📸 Full post and photos on my LinkedIn

A noncanonical role for dynein in controlling microtubule growth in mitosis, as shown previously in interphase. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Dynein synergises with EB1 to facilitate cortex-microtubule encounter and proper spindle positioning in metaphase. Thanks to the funder @ukri.org

'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!

FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are sponsoring the Scottish Cell Biology Meeting on 18th Sept. Save the date!

Maria Leptin @erc.europa.eu discussing the importance of large infrastructures for biology @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings with Jim Murray and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Nick Hopwood.

Helen Skaer wins the Waddington medal 2025 at the @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social annual meetings.

Beautiful talk on Centriole and Centrosome assembly principles by Jordan Raff at the @bscb-official.bsky.social annual meeting

Helen receiving her medal at #biologists100 from @viji-draviam.bsky.social

#biologists100 conference is underway celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social

What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception

Happy that Jon Chen @jonchenjk.bsky.social's cryo-ET and confocal study of RPE-1 chromatin in situ is online www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00407-2 Congrats also to coauthors Tingsheng Liu, @shujuncai.bsky.social, Cai Tong Ng, Jian Shi and collaborators Weimei Ruan Uttam Surana.

Don’t forget about the available incentives for travel to our Biologists @ 100 conference: Up to £150 for international train journeys and a prize of £700 in our sustainable travel blog competition. Find out more at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability #biologists100

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

Our spindle and kinetochore tracker paper is out! The code is available on @github.com - for those who don't like dealing with code SpinX is available via @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social. More on expanding SpinX to multicellular environments: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

Raven, the latest contributor to our Sticky Wicket column, asks, ‘Where will my shiny new tools come from?’ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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In case you're wondering, our beautiful microscopy banner image is by @anhhle2702.bsky.social from our 2021 image competition

It's not too late to submit your abstract for our Spring @biologists.bsky.social meeting. Join us in Liverpool this March! 100yearsconference.biologists.com

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Many congratulations Dr Dorothee Kommer! Proud supervisor😊 Thanks to the external examiners Prof @viji-draviam.bsky.social, Dr Sally Wheatley and internal Dr Michell Sahai.

Laura Bel Borja, Federico Pelisch and colleagues find that CENP-C-targeted PLK-1 regulates kinetochore function in C. elegans embryos. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

Very happy to receive a Wellcome CDA! The award will fund my lab for a whopping 8 years, allowing us to dissect force-sensing at the kinetochore-microtubule interface in depth using structural methods. We are currently looking for a postdoc: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate... Please apply or repost

The beating heart of a zebrafish embryo videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology #CardioSky

Great “tools of the trade” piece by Xiaofu Cao in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol about her recent paper exploiting cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation to make a conditional protein relocalization tool! ToT piece: rdcu.be/d0Utp Original paper (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 Do you want more #SciComm experience? Is your research related to #DevBio & #StemCell biology or #microscopy? The Node bit.ly/3YIyElw & FocalPlane bit.ly/3O1BlK1 are looking for 1 reporter each to report from the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool, UK. 📆 Apply by 29 November 2024.

Are you an #ECR who would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next ~6 months but don't have sufficient funding, check to see if you are eligible for our JCS-FocalPlane Training Grant. Next deadline: 22 November 2024 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...