Now isn't this just the best reason to accept to review JCS papers as well as our sister journals Development, Biology Open, DMM and J Experimental Biology!

Our ‘First Person’ series was launched in 2017 to highlight the first authors of our Research Articles. In this ‘First Persons through the decades’ article, Amelia Glazier highlights some notable scientists who have published first-author papers in JCS. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Din Baruch, Maya Schuldiner, Ofir Klein and colleagues create and validate a proteome-wide yeast library for protein detection and analysis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

Join us this Thursday for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

Guglielmo Rambaldelli, Paola Bellosta and colleagues identify a conserved role for CEBPZ, NOC2L and NOC3L in rRNA processing and tumorigenesis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Big thanks to Amelia Glazier and @jcellsci.bsky.social for including me in ‘First Persons’ through the decades – 100 years of notable scientists in Journal of Cell Science journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Happy to be in such great company!

Am I oddly excited to learn about the tree that @jcellsci.bsky.social protected in the Forest of Biologists in recognition of my peer review? Yes. 🤓 forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Check out our latest review on Basement Membranes! Including scaled representation of protein & glycan components 😊 @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social

In their Cell Science at a Glance article, Rachel Lennon @rachellennon.bsky.social and David Sherwood review basement membrane composition, formation and function, and discuss how BMs change in health and disease. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social for this research highlight "Microtubules help macrophages navigate the epidermal maze" as a companion to our manuscript from @errricpeterman.bsky.social ! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Lovely to see David Stephens highlighted in 100 years of cell biologists at J. Cell Sci., alongside Linda Amos, Peter Medawar, Juan Bonifacino, and others journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social on leading our latest paper now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social ! Eric found multiple roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophage homeostasis and function -- including in helping macrophages navigate around epithelial obstacles during wound repair👇

now online! check out our work describing roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophages during directed cell migration. thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for a stress-free publication process journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Alessia Del Chiaro, Nenad Grujic, Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social and colleagues dissect autophagy in Arabidopsis with a nine-fold ATG8 knockout. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Check out our latest led by desmo-team Collin and Krishna who did lots and lots of dSTORM imaging to understand how different DP isoforms are arranged in our favorite cell-cell junctions 🔬

Collin Ainslie, Krishna Patel, Alexa Mattheyses @mattheyseslab.bsky.social and colleagues discover that the desmoplakin tail domain position in the desmosomal plaque is isoform dependent. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Issue 17 is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows a collection of individual desmosomes imaged using dSTORM. Each subimage represents a DP isoform tail domain. See article by Ainslie, Patel et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Did you know that you can submit a translation of your abstract in an additional language in Journal of Cell Science? We also enable the display of non-Western character names for our authors. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/jo...

In their Perspective article, Nadav Scher and Ori Avinoam revisit the role of vesicular pseudopodia in exocytosis of secretory granules. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

When you had quals & published your first paper!✨behind✨SO PROUD to share we published our first piece of the CasL story!! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists

Registration is open for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting. Organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social, @drmichaelway.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti, the meeting will focus on the interface between cell biology and imaging. For more info: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Aika Toyama, Yuhei Goto, Kazuhiro Aoki and colleagues quantify cyclin–CDK dissociation constants using FCCS with green and near-infrared fluorescent proteins. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Juan-José Saez, Claire Hivroz, Laurence Bataille and colleagues use APEX2-based proteomics to interrogate the LAT and CD3ζ interactomes in Jurkat T cells and identify new interactors. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Did you know... We plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish 🌳 Find out more about The Forest of Biologists, our ongoing biodiversity initiative: forest.biologists.com/about/ #notforprofit

Just planted in @jcellsci.bsky.social 🌳 😍 An A. thaliana mutant lacking all nine #ATG8 isoforms provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of #ATG8 in plants forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Sebastiaan Zijl, Fiona Watt and colleagues discover that cell volume regulates terminal differentiation of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

New JCS snapshot - Cytotoxic T lymphocytes adapt to the loss of Cdc42 @adamrochussen.bsky.social presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Claire Ma and Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Jorel Padilla, Eric Folker and colleagues find that Dystrophin interacts with Msp300 to regulate myonuclear positioning and microtubule organisation. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #cellbio #cytoskeleton

Feeding Frenzy: Protein syntaxin-2 regulates phagocytosis (gobbling up & ingesting waste material) by macrophages 📷 Suman Samanta et al, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata in @jcellsci.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas

Angelica Zamudio-Ochoa, Aldo García-Guerrero, Xochitl Pérez-Martínez & colleagues interrogate the translational activation mechanisms of the COX1 mRNA in yeast mitochondria. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

[email protected], @sarawickstrom.bsky.social & team discover that Piezo1 balances membrane & cortex tension to stabilize intercellular junctions & maintain the epithelial barrier. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Issue 16 is complete Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image is a scanning electron micrograph of macrophages after engulfing IgG-coated beads to their maximal capacity, from Fountain et al. @botelholabcanada.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Saie Mogre, Adam Glick and colleagues find that somatic mutations in IRE1α regulate keratinocyte migration and survival by differentially activating Rho GTPases. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

preLighters go live! A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar. 4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST Tune in!

Laura Ruland, Wolfgang Voos and colleagues find that mitochondrial protein aggregates recruit key chaperones and are sequestered in a fission- and fusion-dependent process. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

While not new, I'm excited to share the official publication of Fountain, Mansat et al. on phagocytic appetite exhaustion, which was selected as a highlighted paper and used as the cover page. Woohoo. journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

📢Last few days to apply for this round of our #microscopy training grants with @jcellsci.bsky.social Available to ECRs working on #cellbio to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course. Apply by 5 September www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

😺 to see this one out @jcellsci.bsky.social & have a 🌲 planted for it): journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... am sure more creative people will make better use of this resource 1/2

Aaron Fountain, Mélanie Mansat, Roberto Botelho @botelholabcanada.bsky.social and colleagues discover that depletion of endomembrane reservoirs drives phagocytic appetite exhaustion in macrophages. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Our latest is now available @jcellsci.bsky.social. The final research article from Bethany Campbell's thesis work. Endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

These are great - and could support your attendance to the 2025 CBIAS napari workshop for example! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social alongside JCS Editor Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 November journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

In this Cell Science at a Glance article, Tatsat Banerjee, Pablo Iglesias, Peter Devreotes and team @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social summarise the origin, mathematical basis, & function of signalling & actin waves from systems biology & biophysics perspectives. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor, @focalplane.bsky.social Scientific Advisory Board member and plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #biologists100 #100biologists

In this Hypothesis article, Michael Stern discusses the differing causes of energy deprivation in youth and old age, and the consequences of aberrant activation of the fasting response in old age. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Anna Roza Dimogkioka, Anni Elias and Doron Rapaport discover that the mammalian protein MTCH1 can function as an insertase. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Emma Lorentzon, Markus Tamás and colleagues find that arsenic binds to nuclear transport factors and disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We are featuring David Stephens, a former @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist this week. The JCS-David Stephens Prize for the best JCS paper is also named after him. #100biologists

Did you know that JCS publishes Short Reports? These articles (of up to 3000 words and 4 display items) report a significant finding that furthers our understanding of cell biology and provides the foundation for further studies. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ar...

In their Review, Shalom Borst Pauwels, Jacques Neefjes and Birol Cabukusta @birolcabukusta.bsky.social discuss the emerging roles of lipid transfer protein dimerisation in defining organelle lipid landscapes and cellular fate. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...