The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!

Global Bioimaging are running a survey on Authorship and Acknowledgements for imaging core facility staff. If you work in a core, please take five minutes to fill out the survey and help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly around this topic. Thanks! Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...

'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

In their Opinion article, Samantha Webster @llssam.bsky.social, Remi Brynn and Kate Poole @katepoole.bsky.social consider how perspectives from both cell biologists and biophysicists will be crucial for characterising mechanosensitive ion channels in vivo. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🎵 Every move you make, every telomere you shake, every strand you break, we’ll be watchin’ you...🎵 Advanced-imaging guru needed to keep a close eye on plant synthetic chromosomes in our ARIA research project at UWA in Perth & ‪@plants4space.bsky.social‬. Apply now: bit.ly/3GKSRSA

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

Journal of Cell Science is published by a not-for-profit charitable organisation (@biologists.bsky.social) that exists to benefit science, not shareholders. We provide Travelling Fellowships, Training Grants, support for ECRs and more. For details, visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Alexia Hawkey-Noble, Cameron Tobin, Curtis French and colleagues find that the P4-phospholipid flippase Atp11a is required for maintenance of eye and ear structure in #zebrafish. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Are you eligible for fee-free #OpenAccess publishing? Does your institution have a Read & Publish agreement with us? Check if your institution is one of over 1,000 participating. www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Research

Thanks @mitodynamics.bsky.social for the fun interview and for saying it like it is: “…JCS and other community journals are being crushed by the mega profit-making journals, which just seem to proliferate and spit out new journals by the day…we must all make an effort to move away from this…”

I cannot wait for this meeting, it's going to be awesome

In their Cell Science at a Glance article, Antigoni Diokmetzidou and Luca Scorrano summarise the mitochondrial contacts characterised in mammals, the molecular mechanisms underlying their formation, and their principal functions. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #JCSMitoSI #OpenAccess

Great to see this issue out! Huge thanks to our Guest Editors, Ana Garcia-Saez and Heidi McBride (@mitodynamics.bsky.social), for coordinating it! #mitochondria

If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social. Next deadline: 6 June 2025 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... #Training

Delighted to share this new review article discussing the potential bidirectional communication between the liver and the central circadian clock. The systemic relationship is likely more complex than we thought! rdcu.be/egZWQ

Issue 8 is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image is an A. flagrans trap with cell-end marker proteins in green & cell walls in blue. These traps are adhesive and attract nematodes. See article by Kriegler et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Had fun writing this review with Pete Cullen @peterjcullen1.bsky.social

Stehbens, S. J., Scarpa, E., & White, M. D. (2024). Perspectives in collective cell migration - moving forward. Journal of cell science, 137(12), jcs261549. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/qBZgwkr

Also in Issue 7: - Research Highlights on ATG9A INVs, airway epithelia & Formin 3 - JCS–David Stephens Prize - Emmanuel Derivery @deriverylab.bsky.social Interview - Regulation of cell migration by ECM mechanics - Data exploration in quantitative #cellbio journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

We support the scientific community - basically we're the good publisher who gives back which is why you should submit papers to our journals rather than supporting share holders!

Did you know… It’s free to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no submission charges, page charges or colour fees. We also plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish🌳 For details, visit our website: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Time change season is here! While most Australian states fall back from DST, QLD, WA & NT don't practice it. @benweger.bsky.social and I break down why this might be a win in our latest piece for The Conversation. ⏰☀️ @emcra-imb.bsky.social theconversation.com/daylight-sav...

Our paper on the regulation of the tight junction leak pathway by Arhgap12/N-Wasp is out ! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

We are looking for a PhD candidate starting on the 01-10-2025. The project aims to understand how the host cells use copper and oxidative species to fight Salmonella infection and how this pathogen evades this antimicrobial response. SHORT DEADLINE ! 20-04-2025 jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25517

Our Guest Editor @lottepedersen.bsky.social is attending our Biologists @ 100 conference. Reach out to Lotte if you have questions about submitting your research to our special issue on cilia and flagella biology: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci... Submission deadline: 31 March #biologists100

Our Guest Editor Pleasantine Mill @cilialab.bsky.social is attending #biologists100. Reach out to Pleasantine if you have questions about submitting your research to our special issue on cilia and flagella biology: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci... Submission deadline: 31 March

Our Associate Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social is attending our Biologists @ 100 conference. Reach out to Guillaume at the conference if you have questions about submitting your research to JCS or visit our website to find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #biologists100

Our Associate Editor @ckirchhelle.bsky.social is attending the Biologists @ 100 conference. Reach out to Charlotte at the conference if you have questions about submitting your research to JCS or visit our website to find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #biologists100

We’ve launched Etch A Cell – ImmunoExplorers, a citizen science project focused on identifying immune cells to advance understanding of kidney transplant rejection Learn more: www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-s... #CitizenScience #KidneyHealth

In their Review, Julien Morival, Anna Hazelwood and Jan Lammerding @lammerdinglab.bsky.social discuss new insights and technological advances in understanding nuclear mechanotransduction. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Only a few days left to submit your latest research to @jcellsci.bsky.social‬ 's upcoming Special Issue on #cilia and #flagella, coordinated by Pleasantine Mill @cilialab.bsky.social & Lotte Pedersen @lottepedersen.bsky.social . 📆 Deadline: 1 March https://bit.ly/4ed1Re7 #CallforPapers #CellBio

We are featuring Michael Way, current Editor-in-Chief of @jcellsci.bsky.social and Principal Group Leader at @crick.ac.uk, as our next extraordinary biologist this week. To know more about JCS and Michael's role, read this Editorial: bit.ly/3CUARU1. #100biologists @drmichaelway.bsky.social

In @elife.bsky.social: Vascular mural cells protect the adult brain from haemorrhage but do not control the blood-brain barrier in developing zebrafish doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Here’s our new review on: LRRK2, Lysosome Damage and Parkinson’s Disease By knowing when, where and how LRRK2 kinase activity is turned on, we can better understand the relationship between excessive LRRK2 activity and Parkinson’s disease! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Did you know… It’s free to publish in JCS – there are no submission charges, membership fees, page charges, or colour charges. For details on this and other reasons to choose JCS, visit our website: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Submit your best microscopy images for @the-node.bsky.social- @focalplane.bsky.social image competition.

Our next extraordinary biologist is Craig Franklin, current Editor-in-Chief of @jexpbiol.bsky.social and former President of the @sebiology.bsky.social. Craig is a comparative and ecological physiologist at the University of Queensland, Australia. #100biologists @craigefranklin.bsky.social

Looking for a PostDoc? Exciting science and great city! Join us @albertpol.bsky.social @albertherms.bsky.social in @idibaps.bsky.social Barcelona to work in an @ercresearch.bsky.social funded project to study how lipid droplets attract and kill bacteria. www.clinicbarcelona.org/uploads/medi...

What are 26 different Rab GTPases doing on Lipid Droplets? Are lipids transferred by membrane contact sites? Moving the FAT: Emerging roles of Rab GTPases in the regulation of lipid droplet contact sites M Alonso @albertpol.bsky.social and Harriet P Lo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JCS Editor-in-Chief @drmichaelway.bsky.social introduces our new Associate Editors. We are delighted to welcome Sophie Acton @actonlab.bsky.social, Pedro Carvalho, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @ckirchhelle.bsky.social and Aryeh Warmflash to the JCS team. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Zebrafish Ph.D scholarships available in Brisbane, Australia #zebrafish 2 PhD positions are available under the supervision of Dr Thomas Hall and Dr Harriet Lo at the IMB, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia with negotiable start time during 2025 Further details in the thread below

🧪The deadline to submit an abstract for oral and poster presentations at our Biologists @ 100 conference has been extended to Friday 17 January 2025. View the abstract topics and submit yours at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/abstracts/ #biologists100

The submission deadline for our upcoming special issue ‘Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease’ is 1 March 2025. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...

Great news - now UK and everyone else needs to do the same and start supporting society and not for profit publishers.

Issue 23 is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... On the cover: a killifish retina labelled with nine markers of different retinal cell types using the IBEX technique. See article by Kothurkar et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Are you attending #CellBio2024? Visit our booth to pick up some @focalplane.bsky.social goodies and find out about joining the FocalPlane Network, an international directory for researchers with microscopy expertise. bit.ly/41zT7Md

You know it makes sense!

Happy to chat about this 👇 and the many other reasons to choose @jcellsci.bsky.social! I’ll be at the @biologists.bsky.social booth (517) during the poster sessions (…when I’m not whizzing around between the hundreds of sessions)! #CellBio2024