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I research how spatial patterns of energy fuel the development of organs. BeziaLemma.com , listen to the Lemma Journal Club! https://www.youtube.com/@TheLemmaJournalClub

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Latest posts by bezbez.bsky.social on Bluesky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviors in the chick embryo" by Manli Chuai, Guillermo Serrano NΓ‘jera, Mattia Serra, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Cornelis J. Weijer

24.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Experimental Chicken Attractors // Non-AI Podcasters [8]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Experimental Chicken Attractors // Non-AI Podcasters [8]

We finally picked a Chicken paper for the Lemma Journal Club!πŸ” "I demand that there is a picture of a chicken in every single one of these subfigures." πŸ” youtu.be/1wz49Hmaeck?...

24.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Neuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes We identify specific neuropeptides mediating worker division of labor in the leafcutting ant A. cephalotes, finding two neuropeptides associated with characteristic behaviors of leafcutting and of bro...

Paper is "Neuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes" by Michael B. Gilbert, Karl M. Glastad, Maxxum Fioriti, and many others! Seemingly none of whom are on bluesky except maybe @josuebaeza.com

Check out the paper here: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

22.11.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Neuropeptides specify journal club topics in scientists. // Journal PUB [4]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Neuropeptides specify journal club topics in scientists. // Journal PUB [4]

Our 4th attempt at a video format! Journal PUB!

youtu.be/jcuVJJEuiYM

Still not in a pub, and the audio is worse then ever! The audio doesn't get better until about 20 minutes in when I realize the microphones aren't on -__-. This is why we have'nt made it to a pub yet. πŸ—‘οΈπŸ”₯

22.11.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The (in vitro) Pearl // No-Uh Dinners [7]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club The (in vitro) Pearl // No-Uh Dinners [7]

Lemma Journal Club Episode (6?) #7.

Paper: "Pearling of Lipid Vesicles Induced by Nanoparticles" by Yan Yu and Steve Granick. (video unrelated)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_B...

Vote for which paper we cover for episode #10 here: www.patreon.com/posts/vote-f...

17.11.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
brightfield images of three lizard embryos of approximately the same developmental stage. Below each embryo image is an immunofluorescence image labeling E-cadherin (green) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (magenta) of their developing lungs

brightfield images of three lizard embryos of approximately the same developmental stage. Below each embryo image is an immunofluorescence image labeling E-cadherin (green) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (magenta) of their developing lungs

New paper out in @devdynamics.bsky.social on lizard lung development!

Project co-led w/ Kaleb Hill and also w/ @tonygamble.bsky.social @shylonatasha.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social @bezbez.bsky.social @celestemnelson.bsky.social

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

14.11.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Tiny Bow Bach
YouTube video by Bez Lemma Tiny Bow Bach

I bought a tiny bow for my daughter. But I can use it too! Sort of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3Q...

13.11.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paper is "Mechanisms of skin vascular maturation and maintenance captured by longitudinal imaging of live mice" by @chenyuankam.bsky.social @juliabonjoch.bsky.social @valentatormenta.bsky.social among others.

10.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Pictures of Vascular Aging in Gray // Plasmalemmal Journal Club [6]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club The Pictures of Vascular Aging in Gray // Plasmalemmal Journal Club [6]

The Lemma Journal Club Ep. #6
🐁The Pictures of Vascular Aging in Gray🩸

youtu.be/kh6zz1s7GlU

Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
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New episodes Mondays.

Do you hate this? Do you like this? Recording it is the best part of our week every week.

10.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Hotty Haughty Totty Planarians // Journal PUB [2]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Hotty Haughty Totty Planarians // Journal PUB [2]

Come read a paper with us!πŸ“– Lemma Journal Pub, where we read a paper for the first time in realtime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZcN...

Paper "Inhibition of ATM kinase rescues planarian regeneration after lethal radiation" by @carrieadler.bsky.social 's lab.

And by read, I mean look at theπŸͺ±pictures .

08.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are hiring!

Interested? Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

04.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ”œOnly one week to go πŸŽ‰! Looking forward to hosting the inaugural talks of our β€œMetabolism in Development & Physiology” seminar series. Join us by registering here: forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...

03.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In new study from Ryken, Bezanilla et al., analysis of PIIB-type calcium pump localization and function elucidates one of the molecular mechanisms that maintains the strength of the calcium gradient during polarized growth. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#PlantBiology #Cytoskeleton #Trafficking

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An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell assembling sarcomeres videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, Emma Koory. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. Colors denote Z slices (red-bottom; green-middle; blue-top). Movie length- 40 hours.

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Wisdom from @alextayar.bsky.social that I think about almost every week.

04.11.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paper is: "Volumetric imaging of the 3D orientation of cellular structures with a polarized fluorescence light-sheet microscope" by Talon Chandler ... @mattersoflight.bsky.social , ... @tobiasisaac.bsky.social , @jaumouillelab.bsky.social, Hari Shroff and a bunch of people who don't have bluesky.

03.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Something Polarized This Way Comes // PolSheet Swan Song? [5]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club Something Polarized This Way Comes // PolSheet Swan Song? [5]

The Lemma Journal Club Ep. #5
πŸŽƒSomething Polarized This Way ComesπŸ”¬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPjT...

Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
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New episodes Mondays, Journal Pubs every other Friday.

Give us feedback!

03.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club

πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ We finally have a website! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

Did you miss a thread?
Want to know who our delegates are?
Do you want to join our big club?
Check it out:
epithelialmechanics.github.io

Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!

23.10.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Accidental data art is my favorite surprise in this job.

28.10.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paper: "Dramatic changes in mitochondrial subcellular location and morphology accompany activation of the CO2 concentrating mechanism" by Justin Findinier, Lydia-Marie Joubert, Neda Fakhimi, Michael F. Schmid, Andrey V. Malkovskiy, Wah Chiu, @aburlacot.bsky.social , and Arthur R. Grossman

27.10.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
When algal CO2 goes low, mitochondria go bye // Sparging [4]
YouTube video by The Lemma Journal Club When algal CO2 goes low, mitochondria go bye // Sparging [4]

The Lemma Journal Club Ep. #4 πŸ”₯πŸ“‘
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo6...
Available wherever you listen to podcasts, Youtube and Patreon!

Give us feedback if you have ideas on how this could be better, either here, or email or if you see us in person, whatever!

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯Do people like these emojii's?πŸ“‘πŸ”¬

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Algal pyrenoidsβ€”condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixationβ€”change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! β˜€οΈπŸŒπŸ”¬πŸ’§ #Biophysics #Photosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mitochondria with a Pearling // What does the laser do? [3] | The Lemma Journal Club Get more from The Lemma Journal Club on Patreon

Ep. #3 of The Lemma Journal Club!
www.patreon.com/posts/mitoch...

Paper: "The biophysical mechanism of mitochondrial pearling" by G. Sturm, @kayleyhake.bsky.social, ... @amsikking.bsky.social ... @sulianamanley.bsky.social @jclandoni.bsky.social @wallaceucsf.bsky.social

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Of Apicoplasts and Mitochondria in Malaria // Ball attached to a Banana [2] | The Lemma Journal Club Get more from The Lemma Journal Club on Patreon

Hello Void! @linnealemma.bsky.social and I have started The Lemma Journal Club podcast, and after many failed recordings we put our first episode up. We should be up on all podcast venues, and here is one of many possible links: www.patreon.com/posts/141074...

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Patterns of Mitochondrial ATP Predict Tissue Folding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673364v1

01.09.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Patterns of Mitochondrial ATP Predict Tissue Folding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673364v1

01.09.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Direct measurements of active forces and material properties unveil the active mechanics of early embryogenesis Despite progress in probing tissue mechanics, direct long-term measurements in live embryonic epithelia are lacking. This limits our understanding of amniote embryonic morphogenesis, which takes place...

πŸš¨πŸ“£ New preprint alert!
Excited to share my new postdoc work on direct force and mechanical properties measurements in live embryos!
A great team effort with A. Chamolly (theory), under the supervision of F. Corson and @jeromegros.bsky.social
πŸ“„ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#devbio #mechanics

12.05.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.

I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.

If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

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Epithelial polarization by the planar cell polarity complex is exclusively non–cell autonomous For cells to polarize collectively along a tissue plane, asymmetrically localized planar cell polarity (PCP) complexes must form intercellular contacts between neighboring cells. Yet, it is unknown wh...

How many cells do you need to establish PCP? The magic number is 3! Beautiful work by Lena Basta in Danelle Devenport's lab. Happy to have contributed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

22.03.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

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