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How can structures at the vertex of 3 cells have effects at the tissue level?

Join me, @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social, to explore how tricellular junctions (TCJs) act as local tension sensors and regulators of global tissue organization. 🧵⤵️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The visual proteome is becoming a “THING” thanks to the open access work of a lot of dedicated researchers! I hope they embrace EFTEM/ESI one day to add atomic content as another colour palette 🎨

ADAM17 Sheddase #Atherosclerosis

Myh11+ Smooth Muscle Cell Adam17 KO🐭+HFD➡️
⏫Lesion burden
⏫Aortic valve dysfunction
⏫Foamy SMCs

Adam17-deficient aortic SMCs➡️
⏫Lipid uptake (CD36 SRA1 LAL)
⏬Lipid efflux (ABCA1)

@zamkassiri.bsky.social #Atherosclerosis 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Regulation of the #formin #INF2 by #actin monomers and calcium-#calmodulin. New study from Miriam Lee, Aiman Jalmukhambetova, T. Emme Burgin, and Henry N. Higgs (Geisel School of Medicine): rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Biochemistry #CellBiology #ActinDynamics

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.

Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive

Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.

For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!

Prado-Mantilla, @terrylechler.bsky.social et al. develop a mouse line to allow cell type–specific, rapid, and reversible degradation of GFP-tagged proteins. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Technology #ProteinHomeostasis

Mitophagy in the pathogenesis and management of disease - Cell Research Cell Research - Mitophagy in the pathogenesis and management of disease

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Close-up of a small fly with red eyes perched on a green blade of grass against a blurred green background.

Following CanFly 2025 in Montreal, Genome Journal is inviting submissions for the #CanFly2025 collection. Showcase your research using Drosophila to advance genetics, neuroscience, development, and evolutionary biology.

Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/qVV650XBEwE

#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Mechanical control of the insect extracellular matrix nanostructure
#Drosophila

A take on "The Upside Down" with "The Up-FLIED Down", in the red Stranger Things font, with a photo of a red upside down fiery scene. With a red-eyed fruit fly Demogorgon (Demosphila???) ... I'll stop now.

I slay me. Drosophila puns for days. Getting ready for Evolution Winter 2026. Should be doing ACTUAL work for it, not punny pop culture slides. Would you call it a Demofly? Or, Drosophilogorgon?

congrats- stunning!

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄

image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

The cover of a scentific journal "Current Biology, a Cell Press Journal" from December 2025, showing a yellowish weevil with an insanely long snout standing atop a brown, spiky, open chestnut seed pod, on a pure white background.

Honored to have a photo on the cover of Current Biology!

Gut metabolism links precision nutrition, exercise, and healthspan in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila

Hangover regulates gene expression by limiting NSL-mediated H4K16 acetylation
#Drosophila

Can I just do a new policy? When Multi-Factor-Authentication logs me out in the middle of my work, that means I'm done for the day.

Sequenced genomes and chromosome mapping illuminate key aspects of satellite DNA biology in Drosophila gouveai and D. borborema (buzzatii cluster, repleta group)
#Drosophila

#musclebiology #autophagy #mitophagy #bnip3l #mitochondria #metabolismresearch #calciumsignaling #skeletalmuscle #muscleregeneration #organellequalitycontrol #celldeath #cellstress #mitomedicine… | Sa... New Study Reveals BNIP3L as a Central Guardian of Muscle Identity, Metabolism, and Calcium Signaling I am pleased to share the publication of a study I had the privilege to co-author alongside Profess...

www.linkedin.com/posts/saeid-...

An image of a whole frog eye that has been labelled with a photoreceptor marker (cyan) and a nuclear marker (orange). The retinal is the striped tissue and the lens is the large round tissue with the orange interior. You can also see the optic nerve at the top middle of the picture (12:00).

Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸

#LncRNA #Autophagy #Atherosclerosis

ASO against CARMN, Smooth Muscle Cell-specific LncRNA, in Apoe-/-🐭
⏫Lesion burden
⏫BODIPY+ foam cell-like SMCs
⏬Lesion #Autophagy

Casein Kinase 1α, directly bound to CARMN⏩
AKT-ATG7-Lipophagy-Cholesterol efflux

#CellDeathDis 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Vitamin D Receptor Ortholog Hr96 Modulates Neuronal and Mitochondrial Dynamics in a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer's Disease
#Drosophila

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Our annual collection highlights 13 of the year's most impactful papers that have garnered exceptional interest from our readership. Explore cutting-edge findings spanning the diverse spectrum of cell biology 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#CellBio2025
@ascbiology.bsky.social

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...

Very cool radioactive fungus news

From @chelleraiser.bsky.social

www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...

Are students burned out?

TLDR : yes

#HigherEd

An open webinar on our reproducibility project 'WHAT 400 DROSOPHILA PAPERS Teach Us about Doing Better Science' on December 9th 2PM EEST time (1PM Swiss time). Registration below