Carsten Schulte

Jane Goodall, one of my inspirations to study biology. What a big loss for humanity! RIP

@delphe.bsky.social @dylanjfowler.bsky.social Shaima Riha, Ke Wang, Faiza Abdul Salam, Dora Rogkoti 👆

Glasgow representation is strong @cellmech2025.bsky.social with @unistrathclyde.bsky.social & @uofglasgow.bsky.social @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social cell mechanobiologists united 😊!

🧵A thread of threads of our invited speakers 👇

On my way to CellMech25 in Leuven! I'm really looking forward to catching up with the Mechanobiology community! First time as Lecturer @unistrathclyde.bsky.social&PI @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social with parts of my group (Extra) Cellular Mechanobiology in Health and Disease @dylanjfowler.bsky.social 🤩!

Congratulations Carmelo and team, brilliant work showing that mechanostimuli (through sound waves) can provoke nuclear chromatin responses in mesenchymal stem cells which directs the cells towards osteogenic lineage🤩!

@dylanjfowler.bsky.social 👆

The core team of the Tenovus Scotland-funded Small Pilot Grant project "Leveraging mechanobiology for the optimisation of in vitro muscle-related disease models" is on the case😊, with a strong 4th&5th year students-driven component! @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social

Strathclyde named Scottish University of the Year and Runner-Up UK University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

Very interesting story on the nuclear mechanoresponse to sono-stimulation!

Sonoepigenetic Modification Mechanoprimes Early Osteogenic Commitment in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cells effectively balance and integrate numerous pathways to adapt to external signals in an attempt to regain homeostasis, although the complex nuclear mechanotransduction mechanism through which thi...

EpiSci - 🧬 - 🧪 - 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
We just submitted an updated version of the previous preprint.

Sonoepigenetic Modification Mechanoprimes Early Osteogenic Commitment in Mesenchymal Stem Cells

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@dylanjfowler.bsky.social & Felizitas Stiehler are doing experiments 👆, currently in @carstenschulte4.bsky.social's lab at the Department of Biomedical Engineering @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, then in Hans-Peter Wollscheid's lab at @imbmainz.bsky.social studying myosin VI in mechanotransduction.

We are very happy 😄 that our Rheinland-Pfalz & Scotland exchange project started, jointly awarded by @sulsa.bsky.social and JGU Scotland Hub, sponsored by the governments of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & Rheinland-Pfalz. 1/2
@unistrathclyde.bsky.social @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social @imbmainz.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

BioMedEng25 is over! I really enjoyed my talk&the opportunity present my research. I also talked about unpublished work from a collaboration with @carmeloferrai.bsky.social that is getting closer&closer to being deposited on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. Stay tuned 😀!
@biomedeng25.bsky.social

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

Our study on the mechanosensitive behavior of cell adhesion, showing the existence of a force-transmission mechanism that behaves very differently from the well-known 'load-and-fail' mechanism, was published in Nature Physics:

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

The same to you, let's hope it will be appreciated 😊

A little more than a year that @carmeloferrai.bsky.social and I published our review "Mechanotransduction in stem cells"🤯! I'm happy that it was received well 😃! Stay tuned, more to come in this direction in a not too far future😎.

The interaction between uPAR and vitronectin triggers ligand‐independent adhesion signalling by integrins | The EMBO Journal image image Cell adhesion mediated by uPAR and other adhesion receptors triggers non‐canonical integrin activation independent of integrin–ligand interactions. The cross‐talk between adhesion recepto...

A paper that I published as a co-first author in 2014 (with G.M. Ferraris and V. Buttiglione, supervised by N. Sidenius, not on bluesky) reached 100 citations.

Science social media weren't that big yet back then, so I seize this occasion to make a 🧵 about it now:
👉 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Getting something done at work

Screenshot der Website des BMFTR: „Chancen • Die speziellen Befristungsregelungen des WissZeitVG eröffnen jeder Generation junger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler vergleichbare Chancen auf wissenschaftliche Qualifizierung und langfristige Karriere-perspektiven in der Wissenschaft.“

So ist es, liebes BMFTR: Die Chancen sind für jede Generation ✨vergleichbar schlecht✨! 12 Jahre prekäre Beschäftigung & anschließend fliegen die nicht mehr ganz so jungen Wissenschaftler_innen ins Weltall 🚀 … ah Moment … doch nicht … sie fliegen: RAUS! Das sind Chancen!

#RundumSorglos #IchBinHanna

If you already have some names that would be highly appreciated (you can also send me a direct message).

We don't have the website up yet, but should come online soon.

We are interested in anyone who does great research in mechanobiology. If you have some names to share, we'll have a look at them. Thanks a lot!

Hi, that would be nice if you can share some names and we"ll have a look.

Thanks for your comment. So far we were thinking mostly of Latin America and Africa, but we are interested in having a look at anyone from resource-constrained regions who does mechanobiology.

📜 A comprehensive strategy to strengthen bioimaging in Africa through the Africa Microscopy Initiative

🧑‍🔬 Michael Anton Reiche, Teng-Leong Chew, et al.

📔 Nature Cell Biology

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #Microscopy #CellBiology #AfricaMicroscopyInitiative

Please RT and/or give me a name if you think someone from underrepresented countries deserves a forum:

#Science Bluesky, do your thing:
We're organising the International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB) 2026 in #Glasgow & we're looking for research groups in Latin America & Africa who are doing great work in #Mechanobiology or adjacent areas.
Can you indicate some names to me?

A brilliant idea that become a fantastic approach🤯: