Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Happy to share that our paper on Tau- Microtubule interaction is now published in Nature Physics!🥳 We show that Tau isn’t just a microtubule stabiliser - it promotes removal of defects in the microtubule lattice. Congratulations @subhambiswas.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r... Thanks to all interviewees🎤

📣 Paris Cytoskeleton day 2025 - Registrations are open! 📆 November 14th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod 🔗 pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Abstract submission closes on 19 October Registration closes on 7 November @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

The LMB recently hosted a symposium to mark 50 years since Richard Henderson and Nigel Unwin published the structure of bacteriorhodopsin, the first 3D structure of a protein determined by #cryoEM. Read about the event and find more photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-structur... #LMBNews 🧪🔬

Thrilled to see our study on how kinesin-2 motors are switched on and off published in @natsmb.nature.com ⚛️ ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to all authors from me and Anthony 🎉 @dunnschool.bsky.social Check out this animation made by talented PhD student @matthew-batisio.bsky.social 😆

Check out our recent review discussing the merits of tilt series vs single micrographs for in situ cryo-EM! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

Our paper on Lymphostatin is now out (rdcu.be/etk2v). It shows #cryoEM structures of this huge virulence factor revealing amazing domain reorganisations. Very enjoyable collaborating with the Stevens Lab in Edinburgh and the Boersch Lab in Jena to see how it gets into cells. @uni-wuerzburg.de 🧪❄️

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

it never gets old...... #microtubule dynamics - the fireworks of EB comets #microscopy

Beautiful 😍

Dual-axis cryo-ET on cryo-FIB milled lamella 🙂 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6... #CryoEM

🎉 Congratulations to Wolfgang Baumeister @maxplanck.de, awarded the 2025 #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine for pioneering work in cryo-ET! Learn more 👉 europa.eu/!JBXDBG #FrontierResearch #ERCSyG #CryoET #StructuralBiology #shawprize2025

Zoom into a human cell infected by Shigella, the bacteria behind dysentery. Using cryo-EM, @leaswistak.bsky.social and team revealed how it pierces cells with molecular syringes. Stunning science at the nanoscale. @enningalab.bsky.social @jytinevez.bsky.social @nanoimaging.bsky.social #CryoEM

Hey #TeamTomo, Ever been in need of a tutorial about the fundamentals of cryo-electron tomography? From preprocessing raw frames to high-res subtomogram averaging? That's why @florentwaltz.bsky.social and I made this website! tomoguide.github.io Follow the thread 1 /🧵 #CryoET #CryoEM 🔬🧪

It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a peek into the 🔬 This movie was taken by Shinya Inuoe, who built the polarizing microscope that allowed scientists to see mitotic spindle fibers live for the first time. Dr. Inuoe premiered his research at MBL.

Choose Europe (France) for Science #ESR (credit : Jérôme Sié)

WOSM-TIRF up running! Awesome #Tirf imaging of microtubules and EB comets in #Xenopus egg extract. The WOSM-TIRF is the big brother of the eduWOSM (doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104046.1). So grateful to @irobcross.bsky.social & Nick Carter for this collaboration & @agencerecherche.bsky.social for funding.

#JEOL CRYO ARM™ 200 #CryoEM installed at the Institute Genetics & Development of Rennes. First installation of this type of instrument in France and incorporates the latest technologies in cryo contrast enhancement and dual-axis #tomography. We wish IGDR success with their future research projects.

First images coming soon 🤩

So beautiful 😍

The third and final chapter of our webinar series “Cryo-EM: Back to Basics” is on demand. Hear from Giovanna about challenges in #cryoEM, how to overcome them. Catch all three chapters: Chapter 1: youtu.be/e8GyDe4_BAQ Chapter 2: youtu.be/2dBnPVkaoFs Chapter 3: youtu.be/kUGNSTGc8II

regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

Revivez les dernières secondes de l'alunissage de la sonde Blue Ghost dimanche dernier!

This is just wonderful

📢 Are you planning to do a #PhD in #Biology? Do not miss our call for #IGDR PhD Program Apply before April 21st, 1:00 pm 4 to 8 positions available ℹ️https://igdr.univ-rennes.fr/en/application-igdr-phd-program cc @cnrs-bretagneloire.bsky.social @insermgrandouest.bsky.social @rennesuniv.bsky.social

IGDR Keynote Lectures | Pr. Gabriel Waksman #Science #Biology #Health Structural and Molecular Biology of Bacterial Conjugation 📅 Thursday, April 3 🕒 11:00 AM 📍 Amphi A ℹ️ openagenda.com/fr/igdr-inst... cc @cnrs-bretagneloire.bsky.social @insermgrandouest.bsky.social @rennesuniv.bsky.social

Scrat (JEOL ARM 200) is now installed in Rennes with a Direct Electron Apollo camera. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need nice SPA or cryo-electron tomography (single and dual axis) data 😍 biosit.univ-rennes.fr/en/tem2c #CryoEM

I think it's important to reach out to your own community and explain what the funding cuts mean in practice.

Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required. Please Repost 🙏 thanks !

Je pense qu’ici je prêche des convaincus, mais ce rappel est toujours bon, parce que je ne comprends toujours pas pourquoi nos politiques et officiels utilisent encore cette plate-forme de propagande hostile à la France pour leur communication… ça me dépasse.

the cryo-clipping-box for JEOL cryoARM... easy! #cryoEM

Ces gens se battent contre les faits, contre les connaissances... Et ils sont puissants. Il va falloir qu'on se batte aussi, et qu'on continue le travail de diffusion et de vulgarisation des sciences. Ce monde devient fou...

See also Pearce et al., 2018, Bull Math Biol 80, 3002ff. -- doi.org/10.1007/s115... Ziebert et al., 2015, Phys Rev Lett 114, 148101ff. -- doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

happy valentine's #FluorescenceFriday 💙❤️💚 #microscopy #SciArt

Microtubules still doing their thing in an early ascidian embryo (Phallusia). Thanks to the Ascidian BioCell Team

The N-SIM scope got its annual visit at @ncis-marseille.bsky.social and it's ready to deliver! Projected 3D-SIM stack of a COS cell labeled for actin ⚪ microtubules 🔵 and clathrin 🟠

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed

⚫ So long Marianne Figure emblématique de la pop britannique, Marianne Faithfull est morte à l’âge de 78 ans C'est la une de @liberation.fr ce vendredi

🙌 www.aefinfo.fr/depeche/7248...

Creepy crawlies! But not worms or snakes—microtubules! @zaniclab.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #microtubules #cytoskeleton

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've always been inspired by the intersection of art and science. This microscopy image collage, inspired by Andy Warhol, highlights the beauty of cells 🔬