CellComM Lab

Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful

Postdocs wanted - Please spread the word! We are looking for one bioinformatician and 1-2 cell biologists with different expertise! See the job ad below for more information and links to the job descriptions!

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Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,

Want to learn state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for microscopy image analysis? Apply by Jan. 15 to join us for a bootcamp at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Gain hands-on experience with tools & frameworks you can use in your own research: bit.ly/4sqejiG 🧪

DendroTweaks Graphical User Interface

Our paper on the #DendroTweaks toolbox is now out as a Version of Record in @elife.bsky.social . doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Find out more and try the toolbox online at dendrotweaks.dendrites.gr

Happy modeling!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky

#FluorescenceFriday

Proud of our the last paper @cellcommlab.bsky.social & 1st one of @jboixcampos.bsky.social

We continue to study #CellMigration & how cells decide where to go: ↖️↗️⬇️?

(movie of the actin #cytoskeleton)

Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@focalplane.bsky.social @science.org 🧪🔬

#HappyNewYear !
Let's start 2026 with a @cellcommlab.bsky.social paper

How many branches is OK during #CellMigration?
It depends on the #cell: for ex. immune cells are just fine.

In collab. w. #NirGov @hfspo.bsky.social

Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@focalplane.bsky.social @science.org 🧪🔬

How do migrating cell groups balance force and flexibility?

Our new preprint shows that RhoGAP15B downregulates RhoA–Myosin activity to stabilise protrusions and enable efficient collective migration in vivo.

Happy New Year!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social CellTrap: A Microfluidic Platform Enabling Cell-Cell Interactions at Variable Effector to Target Ratios
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Malina Iwanski @mkiwanski.bsky.social, Lukas Kapitein and colleagues discover that stable microtubules reverse their polarity during neuronal development.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish

Do your samples move out of view? Tired of manually adjusting the stage? Introducing DySTrack developed by @zimengwu33.bsky.social and Jonas Hartmann from UCL, a tool that can be integrated into modern microscopes to automate the tracking of moving samples. #MicroscopyMonday doi.org/10.64898/202...

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?

My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa

If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky

Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur

Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies

📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD

Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...

#JobOpportunity #Research

Torque-based immune cell chemotaxis in complex environments Directed migration in chemical gradients is crucial to the immune response, yet how immune cells navigate complex tissues remains incompletely understood. Using in vitro migration assays and theoretic...

Hot from the #preprint

Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool

Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration.

Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils.

Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Still posting cytoskeleton videos, it seems. Actin this time.

Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells.
Modality: Airyscan confocal

Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.

It’s time to talk about epithelial geometry and cancer. How can the architecture of an epithelium affect how tumors will grow and spread? In this thread, @jorgealmagro.bsky.social

Synchronized development of zebrafish embryos immobilized by snake venom (alpha-bungarotoxin). Credit to Dr. Ian Swinburne. #ZebrafishZunday

Even if "provisionally" accepted, those are the best words/news I've heard for quite a while...

Here some #blebs to "provisionally" cellebrate.
Let's see this #cell dance under the microscope.

@focalplane.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday #microscopy 🧪🔬

I'm back at regulardly doing some live imaging so I have new little videos of actin in the immune synapse.

The law of the jungle.
Interactions of cells in a collective lead to global rotation.
In 80% of the case HUVEC cells turn clockwise.
How many cells does it take for this to happen?

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH

Do you want to do some frontier of knowledge research? There's still time to register for the next webinar of @hfspo.bsky.social

By far one of the best agencies I've worked with for my beloved HFSP project, even if it's a bumpy road...no risk no glory...

www.hfsp.org/hfsp-events/...

What a crazy cool paper! First author @pierreucla.bsky.social with a large crew knocked it out of the park. (GIF below from @the.3i.social LLS) Quantifying cell traction forces at the single-fiber scale in 3D: An approach based on deformable photopolymerized fiber arrays www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I won't talk about NMeth @natmethods.nature.com forever (probably), but I do want to brag a bit about the November focus issue on cell segmentation and tracking, which is many ways is my last hurrah (and final editorial) for the journal. I am so proud of these papers!! www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...

This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard

I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange).

Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.

It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
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