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

What a view for #biologists100 the drinks reception

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

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.

4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection! institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...

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/...

The BSCB is on Bluesky! Follow us for all your favourite cell biology content

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...

A cardiac myocyte (heart muscle cell) going through cell division surrounded by cardiac myocytes not going through cell division. DNA (yellow), myosin II (cyan) and actin filaments (magenta) are shown. #FluorescenceFriday #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

LIDo is open for PhD applications www.lido-dtp.ac.uk Deadline soon: Dec 11. Please share with colleagues and ‘retweet’? @lido-dtp.bsky.social

LIDo is open for PhD applications www.lido-dtp.ac.uk Deadline soon: Dec 11. Please share with colleagues and ‘retweet’? @lido-dtp.bsky.social